MYEMELEONITES. 321 



occasionally obsolete : hind-wings shorter and narrower than the 

 fore-wings, without marks ; veins mostly white. Length of the 

 body 14 20 lines ; of the wings 40 52 lines. 



a. Australia. From the voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. " Found 



on board, December 25th, 1847, off Port Curtis." 



b. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



c. Van Dieman's Land. From Mr. A. J. Smith's collection. 

 d. ? 



37. MYRMELEON SUBTENDENS. 



Ferruyineus, subrobustus ; caput flavum, supra nigrwn ; palpi 

 labiales articulo 3o piceo ; thorax nigro sexvittatus ; protho- 

 rax antice angustior ; abdomen nigrum, segmentis apice tes- 

 taceis ; pedes nigri, testaceo varii ; ala albidce, perangustce, 

 lanceolatce, sat breves, cinereo subnebulosce, antica nigro 

 notata. 



Ferruginous, clothed with white hairs, rather stout : head black 

 above, slightly produced in front, yellow in front and beneath : palpi 

 yellow ; third joint of the labial palpi pitchy except at the base and 

 at the tip : thorax with six slight indistinct black stripes : prothorax 

 much narrower in front, broader than long on the hind border : ab- 

 domen black, very much shorter than the wings ; hind borders of 

 the segments ferruginous : legs black, rather stout ; femora at the 

 base, hind-femora also above, hind-tibiae and coxae testaceous ; tarsi 

 and anterior tibiae with two testaceous bands; spurs ferruginous, 

 curved, longer than the first joint of the tarsus : wings whitish, very 

 narrow, rather short, lanceolate, rounded at the tips, slightly mot- 

 tled with gray; stigma whitish, slight, with a small adjoining black 

 spot; veins alternately black and white; forks of marginal region 

 very narrow : structure of the forks of the radial sector like that of 

 M. rapax and fundatus : fore-wings with the subcostal areolets re- 

 gularly divided by oblique transverse veinlets, but with no forked 

 veins from near the base to the stigma ; some little blackish marks 

 along the cubitus and on the tip of its fork, and on two veinlets in 

 the disk opposite the stigma: hind-wings less mottled, narrower 

 and much shorter than the fore-wings ; subcostal areolets upright 

 from the base to one-third of the length where they decrease in 

 size, from thence to the stigma they are larger and successively 

 more and more oblique ; all of them simple and with no forked 

 veins. Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 40 lines. 



a. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



