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clouded with brown, the latter more darkly coloured than the former 

 as is also an oblique brown streak proceeding outwardly towards the 

 disk from the tip of the fork of the cubitus : hind-wings narrower 

 and a little longer than the forewings, without marks except a brown 

 dot near the hind border at three-fourths of the length. Length of 

 the body 10? lines ; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



65. MYRMELEON GRAVIS. 



Testaceus, gracilis ; caput nigro bifasciatum ; vertex piceo macu- 

 latus ; palpi albidi, labiales apice piceo maculati ; antenna 

 subannulatce ; prothorax longior quam latior, piceo quadrivit- 

 tatus ; mesothorax et metathorax maculis piceis ; abdomen 

 piceum cano-testacei maculatum ; tarsi nigro annulati ; alee, 

 limpidte, longce, perangustce y subacuminatce, anticce apice fusco 

 notatcB. 



Testaceous, slender: head black about part of the eyes, and 

 with two black bands, one above, the other below the base of the 

 antennaB ; vertex with two bands of pitchy spots : palpi whitish ; 

 third joint of the labial palpi with a pitchy spot : antennaB testa- 

 ceous, clavate ; each joint darker at the base : prothorax linear, 

 longer than broad, with four irregular and interrupted pitchy stripes : 

 mesothorax and metathorax grayish, testaceous, with pitchy spots : 

 abdomen pitchy, much shorter than the wings; each segment with 

 a large, oblong, hoary-testaceous spot, and a small one on each side 

 by the hind border: legs testaceous, with some pitchy or black 

 marks ; joints of the tarsi from the first to the fourth black at the 

 base ; fifth black at the tip : wings limpid, long, very narrow, slightly 

 pointed ; stigma white, with an adjoining very dark brown spot in 

 the fore-wings; veins white, with black bands, ciliated, here and 

 there wholly white : subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked 

 between the base and the stigma ; a small brown spot near the stig- 

 ma, a larger one near the tip of the fork of the cubitus, and an 

 oblique one on some of the gradate veinlets towards the tip ; others 

 of the gradate veinlets, and some of the forks of the marginal vein- 

 lets along part of the hind border from the tip clouded with brown : 

 hind-wings a little narrower and shorter than the fore-wings, with- 

 out marks, except a dot near the hind border at three-fourths of the 

 length from the base. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 

 28 lines, 

 a. Ceylon. Presented by B. Templeton, Esq. 



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