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and with some ferruginous dots in front ; front face and palpi tes- 

 taceous ; labial palpi brown towards the tips: antennae subclavate, 

 much shorter than the thorax, with a brown and a white band on each 

 joint : prothorux a little narrower iu front, rather broader than long, 

 with six black slender stripes, the innermost pair almost contiguous, 

 forked towards the hind border : mesothorax and metathorax also 

 with six stripes which are more irregular than those of the pro- 

 thorax : abdomen ferruginous, much shorter than the wings ; hind 

 borders of the segments occasionally brown, a pitchy and a testa- 

 ceous stripe on each side : legs testaceous, stout, with a few black 

 marks ; tarsi black ; spurs stout, much bent, angular, reddish, with 

 a tooth beneath before the flexure, black towards the tips : wings 

 hyaline, rather short and narrow, slightly angular at the tips ; stigma 

 yellowish ; veins alternately black and white, slightly ciliated, a few 

 of them slightly clouded in the disks towards the tips ; subcostal 

 areolets simple, with the exception of a few of them near the stigma 

 which are divided by transverse veinlets, and are forked in front ; 

 marginal region very narrow : hind-wings shorter and narrower than 

 the fore-wings, most of the veins white. Length of the body 16 

 17 lines ; of the wings 4246 lines. 

 a. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 

 b d. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



31. MYRMELEON AMERICANUS. 



Cinereo-fuscus, f route mttisque duabus dorsi roseo-cinereis ; pedes 

 carneo-annulati ; alee hyalince maculis fuscis et rnargaritaceis, 

 venis mine roseis nunc fuscis. Long. 18 21 lin. 



Myrmeleon Americanus, Drury, Ins. Exot. i. pi. 46, f. 4. 

 Myrmecoleon amerioanus, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii 996, 17. 

 Acanthaclisis Americana, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins, Neur. 380, 4. 



United States. 



32. MYRMELEON EDAX. 



Ferrugineus, robustus ; caput testacewn, supra piceum ; palpi tes- 

 tacei ; antennae subclavatce, apice supra piceae ; thorax nigro 

 quinquevittatus ; abdomen nigrum, tnaculis lateralibus ventre- 

 que testaceis ; pedes validi, femoribus supra nigricantibus^ 

 tarsis nigro bifascialis ; alee subhyalince, angustce, breves, apice 

 angulata, anticce nonnunquam nigro notatce. 



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