336 MYRMELEONITES. 



Myrmecoleon tetragrammicus, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 995, 14. 



a. ? 



France, Hungary. 



60. MYRMELEON PULVERULENT us. 



Fuscus, M. formicario paullo minor ; caput nigrum, facie lineis- 

 que duabus flavis ; antennce fuscce, clavatce, thoracis longitu- 

 dine, clava flavo maculata; abdomen fuscum; pedes flavi^ 

 tarsorum articulis apice fuscis; alee cequales, breviusculce, 

 sat latce, anticce fusco pulverulentce. 



Myrmeleon pulverulentus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 392, 12. 

 Bengal. 



61. MYRMELEON HORRIDUS. 



Testaceus, subgracilis ; thorax supra ferrugineus ; prothorax Ion- 

 gior quam latior, antice angustus, testaceo bivittatus ; abdo- 

 men longum, nigro maculatum ; tibice nigro varice; tarsi 

 nigri, apice testacei; alee amplce, subcinerece, apice subangu- 

 latce, anticce apicem versus fusco notatce. 



Testaceous, rather slender: face and palpi pale testaceous: 

 thorax ferruginous above : prothorax narrower in front, longer than 

 broad, with a pale testaceous stripe along each side, and a slight 

 short dorsal pale testaceous streak by the hind border : abdomen 

 long, but much shorter than the wings ; second and third segments 

 with large black spots which are forked behind ; fourth wholly 

 black; fifth partly black: appendages pitchy, rather long, very 

 slightly curved, beset with black bristles : legs testaceous, stout ; 

 tibia3 with black marks ; tarsi black from the first to the fourth 

 joint; spurs ferruginous, much curved, nearly as long as the four 

 first joints of the tarsus, which joints are very short: wings ample, 

 slightly gray, very obtusely angular at the tips; stigma whitish, 

 with a small adjoining brown spot in each wing ; veins black, here 

 and there with white bands which are most frequent on the subcosta 

 and on the radius; several of the subcostal areolets divided by 

 transverse veinlets towards the stigma ; many of their veins forked 

 between one-third of the length of the wing and the stigma ; mar- 

 ginal region broad at the tip of the wing : fore-wings with some 

 short brown streaks along the radius, with some brown marks on the 

 forks of the veinlets at the tip and along the hind border, with a 



