318 MYEMELEONITES. 



Ferruginous, stout, mostly clothed with black hairs : head tes- 

 taceous : disk of the vertex pitchy : palpi pale testaceous : antennae 

 ferruginous, subclavate, pitchy above towards the tips, much shorter 

 than the thorax : thorax with five black stripes, the middle one 

 broad and partly subdivided, the others very slender: prothorax 

 much narrower in front, much broader than long: abdomen black, 

 much shorter than the wings, with testaceous spots along each side ; 

 under side testaceous : legs ferruginous, stout ; femora blackish 

 above ; tarsi with two black bands ; spurs reddish, bent, den ta ted 

 beneath, as long as the three first joints of the tarsi: wings subhy- 

 aline, narrow, rather short, obtusely angular at the tips; stigma 

 yellowish; veins testaceous, here and there blackish or white; sub- 

 costal region very narrow at the base of the wing, narrow and almost 

 linear from thence to the stigma, near which some of the areolets 

 are divided by transverse veinlets,and a few of the veins are forked ; 

 marginal region very narrow: fore-wings with a blackish interrupted 

 stripe along the cubitus from the base to the tip of the wing ; a 

 blackish spot within the angle formed by the cubitus and its fork; 

 some little blackish marks near the tip of the fore border, where a 

 few of the forks of the marginal veinlets are slightly clouded : hind- 

 wings shorter and narrower than the fore-wings, without marks, 

 except a single little one by the cubitus at two-thirds of the length 

 and not far from the hind border ; veins mostly white. 



Var. /3. Stripe on the fore-wing almost obsolete, but traceable 

 by some slight marks along its course, so also the spot by the fork of 

 the cubitus. 



Var. y. All the marks of the wings quite obsolete. Length of 

 the body 14 17 lines; of the wings 36 42 lines. 



a d. ' ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



e. ? 



33. MYRMELEON BRACHYGASTEK. 



Rufo-cinereus, M. formicario paullo major ; fades flava ; pro- 

 thorax fusco notatus ; abdomen breve ; pedes kirsutissimi, 

 fusco varii, tarsis nigricantibus ; alarum venae rufescentes 

 fusco varice. 



Acanthaclisis brachygaster, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 381, 5. 



34. MYRMELEON LONGICOLLIS. 



Acanthaclisis longicollis, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 381, 6. 

 Senegal. 



