MYKMELEONITES. 319 



Var. ? Niger, gracilis, subtus lestaceus ; caput prothorace multo 

 latins, vertice fulvo maculato, facie palpisque testaceis ; an- 

 tennce subclavatce, graciles, testaceo annulatce; thorax testaceo 

 sexvittatus ; prothorax longior quam latior, antice angustior ; 

 pedes testacei, graciles, nigro varii, tarsis basi apiceque nigris ; 

 alee hyalines, amplce, apice subangulata, anticce fusco notatce. 



Black, slender, testaceous beneath : head much broader than 

 the prothorax ; vertex with three bands of tawny spots ; face and 

 palpi testaceous : antennae black, subclavate, slender, as long as the 

 thorax ; joints with testaceous bands increasing in breadth from the 

 tips to the base of the antennae which they wholly occupy : thorax 

 with six irregular and interrupted testaceous stripes : prothorax 

 narrower in front, longer than broad, with the transverse furrow at 

 one-third of the length from the fore border: abdomen about half 

 the length of the wings : legs testaceous, slender ; tarsi pale testa- 

 ceous, black at the base and at the tips ; fore-femora and anterior 

 tibia? with some black marks ; spurs ferruginous, much curved, an- 

 gular, dentate beneath, longer than the three first joints of the tarsi: 

 wings hyaline, ample, slightly angular at the tips ; stigma whitish, 

 with a small adjoining brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins alter- 

 nately black and white ; second sector of the radius undulating, 

 emitting numerous forks ; subcostal region very narrow at the base 

 of the wing, areolets divided by transverse veinlets from near the 

 base to the stigma, veins mostly forked from one-fourth of the length 

 to the stigma ; marginal region rather broad at the tips of the wings, 

 many of the forked veinlets subdivided ; some of the neighbouring 

 gradate veinlets indistinctly clouded with brown, some of the inner 

 series much more darkly marked and forming an oblique streak in 

 the disk opposite the stigma ; hind-wings shorter, narrower and 

 more lanceolate than the fore-wings, without marks, except a very 

 little one on two transverse veinlets by the cubitus, at two-thirds of 

 the length and not far from the hind border : veins white along the 

 hind border and at the tips ; subcostal region very narrow at the 

 base, then widened and convex for a space, beyond which it is nar- 

 rower and linear; areolets simple excepting two or four by the stig- 

 ma which are divided by transverse veinlets ; a few forked veins 

 near the stigma. Length of the body 16 lines; of the wings 44 

 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



