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in the hind-wings ; veins whitish, slightly ciliated ; longitudinal 

 veins with black bands ; gradate veinlets black towards the tips of 

 the wings ; subcostal areolets simple, and with veins not forked from 

 the base to the stigma ; a few brown dots near the tip of the wing 

 and on the forks of the adjoining marginal veinlets in the four 

 wings : fore-wings with two brown dots at one-third of the breadth 

 from the hind border, one above the tip of the fork of the cubitus, 

 the other at the last quadrate areolet by the cubitus : hind-wings 

 narrower and a little longer than the fore- wings. Length of the 

 body 15 lines; of the wings 29 lines. 



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



73. MYBMELEON VAFER. 



Nigro-cinereus ; fades antice testacea, nigro bimaculata ; palpi 

 testacei, apice nigri ; antenna thorace longiores ; prothorax 

 antice angwtior, multo latior quam longior, testaceo bimacu- 

 latus ; thoracis et abdominis segmenta testaceo marginata ; 

 pedes postici femoribus subtus testaceis, tibiis testaceis apice 

 nigris, tarsis basi testaceis ; alee subcinerece, longce, angusta^ 

 subacuminata, apice fusco notatce. 



Black, tinged with gray : face towards the mouth testaceous, 

 with two black spots: palpi testaceous, with black tips: antennae 

 black, subclavate, longer than the thorax : prothorax a little nar- 

 rower in front, much broader than long, with a testaceous spot on 

 each side of the fore border: segments of the mesothorax and of 

 the metathorax with slightly testaceous borders: abdomen much 

 shorter than the wings, with slightly testaceous borders : legs black ; 

 hind-femora testaceous beneath; hind-tibiae testaceous with black 

 tips ; hind-tarsi testaceous at the base : wings slightly gray, long 

 and narrow, slightly pointed; stigma whitish, with an adjoining 

 brown spot in the fore-wings; veins black, with whitish bands; 

 subcostal areolets simple, three of their veins forked before the 

 stigma ; a few of the gradate veinlets towards the tip of the wing, 

 and the tip of the fork of the cubitus clouded with brown: hind- 

 wings a little shorter and narrower than the fore-wings ; last of the 

 quadrate areolets by the cubitus clouded with brown. Length of 

 the body 11 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



a. New South Wales, Presented by J. W. Evans, Esq, 



