342 MYRMELEON'ITES. 



beyond its third fork clouded with brown, as is also the outer veinlet 

 of the last of the quadrate areolets and the cubitus : hind-wings 

 narrower and much longer than the fore-wings ; forks of the margi- 

 nal veinlets at the tip of the wing clouded with brown at the base ; 

 a brown streak near the hind border like that of the preceding 

 species, but irregular and interrupted. Length of the body 14 lines; 

 of the wings 34 lines. w 



69. MYRMELEON VEEENDUS. 



Testaceus, robustus, piceo quadrivittatus ; caput nigro maculatum ; 

 antennae picece, annulatce, thorace paullo breviores ; prothorax 

 longior quam latior, antice paullo angustior -, abdomen piceo 

 univittatum ; alee limpidce, latce, apice fiasco notatce. 



Testaceous, rather stout : head blackish about the base of the 

 antennae ; vertex with several blackish spots : palpi pale testaceous ; 

 antennae pitchy, subclavate, rather long, a little snorter than the 

 thorax ; a tawny band on the fore border of each joint : prothorax 

 longer than broad, a little narrower in front, with four irregular 

 pitchy stripes, the outer pair shortened in front : mesothorax and 

 metathorax with four pitchy stripes which are much indented and 

 veiy irregular, and inclose some testaceous spots : abdomen dark 

 testaceous, shorter than the wings, with a pitchy stripe above and 

 another beneath : legs pale testaceous, with a few black dots : wings 

 limpid, broad ; stigma rosy, indistinct in the hind-wings ; veins 

 whitish; sectors of the radius and cubital vein with black bands ; 

 subcostal areolets simple, their veins with three forks before the 

 stigma ; forks of the marginal veinlets clouded with pale brown at 

 the base along the hind border to the tip of the wing ; a darker 

 brown dot by the last of the quadrate areolets by the cubitus : hind- 

 wings narrower and a little snorter than the fore-wings ; an oblong 

 brown spot formed by the clouded gradate veinlets near the hind 

 border at three-fourths of the length; forks of marginal veinlels 

 from thence to the tip of the wing clouded with brown at the base. 

 Length of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. North India. From Mr. Stevens 1 collection. 



