344 MYEMELEONITES. 



hind part with some testaceous spots : palpi whitish : antennae 

 pitchy, subclavate, a little shorter than the thorax ; fore borders of 

 the joints and club beneath luteous: thorax with three yellow 

 stripes ; prothorax narrower in front, not longer than broad : seg- 

 ments of the mesothorax and of the metathorax with yellow bor- 

 ders: abdomen pitchy, a little shorter than the wings, with two in- 

 distinct tawny stripes ; tip yellow : legs testaceous : wings hyaline, 

 moderately broad, slightly pointed ; stigma slightly rosy, indistinct 

 in the hind-wings ; veins whitish, slightly ciliated towards the tips 

 of the wings, with blackish bands towards the base ; gradate vein- 

 lets darker towards the tips ; subcostal areolets simple and with 

 veins not forked from the base to the stigma ; five dark brown dots, 

 one at the junction of the radius and the subcosta, the second on 

 the anterior fork of the sector, the third on its thirteenth fork, the 

 fourth by the last quadrate areolet by the cubitus, and the fifth at 

 the end of the fork of the cubitus ; marginal veinlets along the 

 hind border and from the stigma to the tips clouded with brown at 

 the base ; hind-wings shorter and a little narrower than the fore- 

 wings, marked in like manner, but very indistinctly. Length of the 

 body 18 lines ; of the wings 34 lines. 



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



72. MYRMELEON PUGNAX. 



Niger, gracilis ; caput flavo fas datum, facie palpisque flams ; an- 

 tenncB thoracis longitudine, clava subtus testacea; prothorax 

 antice pautlo angnstior, multo longior quam latior, flavo tri- 

 vittatus ; mesothoracis et metathoracis segmenta flavo margi- 

 riata ; abdomen vittis duabus et segmentorum marginibus pos- 

 ticis fulvis ; pedes testacei, femoribus nigro strigatis ; alee 

 limpidce, perangustce, acuminate, apice fusco notatce. 



Black, slender : head with an interrupted yellow band on the 

 vertex ; face and palpi yellow : antenna? black, clavate, as long as 

 the thorax ; club testaceous beneath : prothorax a little narrower in 

 front, much longer than broad, with three very slender yellow 

 stripes; underside yellow: segments of the mesothorax and of the 

 metathorax with yellow borders : abdomen nearly as long as the 

 wings, with a tawny stripe on each side ; hind borders of the seg- 

 ments tawny: legs testaceous ; femora streaked with black: wings 

 limpid, very narrow, pointed ; stigma slightly gray, very indistinct 



