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testaceous: prothorax very little narrower in front, broader than 

 long, with six more or less complete pitchy stripes, which are con- 

 tinued on the mesothorax and on the metathorax, but are there more 

 interrupted and irregular: abdomen pitchy, sometimes partly testa- 

 ceous on each side and on the hind borders of the segments : legs 

 testaceous, stout ; tarsi black towards the tips : wings hyaline, rather 

 long and narrow, pointed ; stigma pale testaceous, with an adjoining 

 indistinct pale brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins pale testaceous, 

 with black bands, ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, with occasion- 

 ally one or two forked veins near the stigma ; forks of the gradate 

 veinlets along the hind border towards the tip clouded with pale 

 brown ; in some cases a more distinct streak beneath the stigma at 

 one-third of the breadth from the hind border ; hind-wings narrower 

 and more pointed, but hardly shorter than the fore-wings, with a 

 brown streak towards the tip near the hind border, and forming a 

 line with the clouded forks of the marginal veinlets. Length of the 

 body 13 15 lines; of the wings 3236 lines. 



a c. Sandwich Islands. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 



68. MYRMELEON TORVUS. 



Luteus ; caput nigro quadrifasciatum, facie palpisque testaceis : 

 thorax nigro notatus ; prothorax paullo longior quam latior, 

 antice subangustior ; abdomen piceum, vitta interrupta dorsali 

 ventreque testaceis ; pedes testacei ; alee longce, perangusta, 

 acuminatce, posticce anticis angustiores et multo longiores,fusco 

 strigatce et apice notata. 



Pale luteous, slender; vertex with two irregular interrupted 

 black bands ; two more in front, one above, the other below the base 

 of the antennae; face and palpi pale testaceous: thorax with some 

 blackish marks which are most prevalent on each side, and there 

 form an irregular interrupted stripe : prothorax slightly narrower in 

 front, a little longer than broad : abdomen pitchy, shorter than the 

 wings, testaceous beneath, and with an irregular testaceous dor 

 sal stripe, which is interrupted towards the hind border of each 

 segment, and especially so near the tip : legs testaceous ; fifth 

 joint of the tarsi whitish, with a black band near the tip which is 

 testaceous: wings long, extremely narrow, pointed ; stigma narrow, 

 very pale brown, hardly visible in the hind-wings ; veins pale tes- 

 taceous, ciliated ; longitudinal veins with a few black bands ; sub- 

 costal areolets simple, their veins not forked between the base and 

 the stigma ; two transverse veinlets above the second sector and 



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