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with a large testaceous dorsal spot on each segment, and with two 

 or more on each towards the tip : appendages very short, beset with 

 long curved black bristles : legs stout ; fore-coxas testaceous ; mid- 

 die femora and middle tibiae partly ferruginous beneath ; tarsi with 

 reddish tips : spurs much curved, angular, reddish towards the base, 

 dentate beneath : wings hyaline, narrow, rather short, slightly an- 

 gular at the tips ; stigma whitish with a small indistinct adjoin- 

 ing brown spot in each wing; veins black, with white bands, 

 slightly ciliated ; costal areolets simple, with a few forked veins near 

 the stigma ; marginal region narrow, most of the forks of the vein- 

 lets subdivided ; a few veins in the disk opposite the stigma clouded 

 slightly and for a very short space with brown : hind-wings a little 

 narrower and much shorter than the fore-wings, not marked. 

 Length of the body 18 lines ; of the wings 44 lines. 



a. North Africa. Presented by M. Doue. 



40. MYEMELEON FEEUS. 



Ater, Latus ; fades flava ; palpi ferruginei ; prothorax obscure 

 ferrugineus, vitta lata nigra strigisque duabus obliquis flavis 

 ornatus ; . alee subdnerece, angustce, sat breves, anticce fusco 

 strigatce. 



Deep black, very stout and broad, clothed with black and white 

 hairs: face pale yellow: palpi ferruginous: antenna? black, subcla- 

 vate, much shorter than the thorax : prothorax narrower in front, 

 dark ferruginous, with a broad black dorsal stripe, and with a yellow 

 transverse slightly oblique streak on each side near the hind 

 border ; its breadth more than twice its length ; abdomen much 

 shorter than the wings, with a tawny spot on each side of the fifth, 

 and on part of the fourth segment : legs stout, hairy ; spurs very 

 stout, much curved, as long as the three first joints of the tarsi : 

 wings grayish, narrower, rather short, very slightly angular at the 

 tips ; stigma white, with a larger adjoining black spot in each wing ; 

 veins black, except on a small space in the disk of each wing, 

 where they are white ; subcostal areolets divided by transverse vein- 

 lets and with a few forked veins from two-thirds of the length of 

 the wing to the stigma ; marginal region narrow ; second sector of 

 the radius with numerous forks, which are generally nearly parallel 

 to each other for a space, then approach very near to each other by 

 means of two very obtuse angles, from whence to their marginal 

 forks they are slightly converging : fore-wings with numerous slight 



