346 MYRMELEONITES. 



74. MYBMELEON DIEUS. 



Piceus, robustus, subtus testaceus ; caput testaceum, nigro macu- 

 latum ; antenna annulatce, thorace vix breviores ; prothorax 

 sublineariS) latior quam longior, testaceo trivittatus ; thoracis 

 segmenta testaceo maryinata et maculata ; abdomen testaceo 

 vittatum ; pedes testacei, tarsis nigro annulatis ; alee limpidce, 

 longce, angusta, subacuminatce, apice fusco notata. 



Pitchy, testaceous beneath, rather stout : head testaceous, 

 black about the base of the antennae ; vertex with two rows of black 

 spots, fore row with six spots ; hind row with eleven spots ; some 

 black marks on the hind part: palpi pale testaceous: antenna? 

 pitchy, capitate, nearly as long as the thorax ; a testaceous band on 

 the lore border of each joint : prothorax almost linear, with some 

 long white bristles on each side, broader than long, with three tes- 

 taceous stripes above, the middle one slender, the other two broad, 

 irregular, and each including two pitchy spots: segments of the 

 niesothorax and of the metathorax with testaceous spots in the 

 disks and with testaceous borders : abdomen much shorter than the 

 wings, with an interrupted irregular testaceous dorsal stripe : legs 

 testaceous ; joints of the tarsi with black bands : wings limpid, 

 long, narrow, very slightly pointed ; stigma whitish, with an indis- 

 tinct adjoining brown streak in the fore-wings, almost obsolete in 

 the hind-wings ; veins whitish, ciliated, with black or pitchy bands ; 

 subcostal areolets simple ; their veins not forked between the base 

 and the stigma ; gradate veinlets and the forks of some of the mar- 

 ginal veinlets towards the tip of the wing indistinctly clouded with 

 brown ; a darker brown mark on the outer vein of the last quadrate 

 areolet by the cubitus : hind-wings almost as long as the fore-wings, 

 but much narrower; the brown marks almost obsolete. Length of 

 the body 13 lines; of the wings 33 lines. 



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



75. MYRMELEON LENTUS. 



Fuscus, subtus testaceus ; caput testaceum, nigro bifasciatum, ver- 

 tice nigro maculato, facie flava ; prothorax antice angustior, 

 latior quam longior, testaceo trivittatus; thoracis segmenta 

 testaceo maculata et marginata ; abdomen testaceo maculatum ; 

 pedes testacei, tarsis flavis ; alee hyalina, longa, subangusta, 

 subacuminata, anticae apice fusco notat<B. 



