MYRMELEONITES. 347 



Pale brown, testaceous beneath ; head testaceous, with two 

 black bands in front, one above the other below the base of the an- 

 tenna ; vertex with two bands of black spots ; face and palpi pale 

 yellow : prothorax narrower in front, broader than long, with three 

 testaceous stripes, the middle one slender, the other two broad and 

 irregular: segments of the mesothorax and of the metathorax with 

 testaceous borders : abdomen with testaceous spots, mutilated : legs 

 testaceous, with a few slight black marks ; hind tibia? fringed with 

 long hairs ; tarsi yellow : wings limpid, long, rather narrow, slightly 

 pointed ; stigma small, whitish, with an adjoining small indistinct 

 brownish spot in the fore-wings, almost obsolete in the hind-wings ; 

 veins whitish, with a few black or pitchy bands, slightly ciliated; 

 subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked between the base 

 and the stigma; forks of the marginal veinlets about the tip of the 

 wings and the adjoining gradate veinlets more or less clouded with 

 brown : hind-wings as long as the fore-wings but much narrower, 

 the veinlets above mentioned dark testaceous but not clouded. 

 Length of the wings 32 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



76. MYRMELEON TEUCULENTUS. 



Testaceus, subrobustus ; caput piceo varium, facie flaw, ; prothorax 

 lalior quam longior, piceo quinquevittatus ; mesothorax et 

 metathorax piceo maculati ; abdomen piceum, segmentorum 

 marginibus testaceis ; pedes robusti ; alee limpidce, sublatce, 

 non acuminata, anticce apicefusco notatce. 



Testaceous, rather stout : head with a pitchy spot between the 

 eyes, and a pitchy band above the base of the antennae ; vertex with 

 three interrupted and irregular pitchy bands ; face yellow : prothorax 

 linear, broader than long, with five imperfect pitchy stripes : meso- 

 thorax and metathorax with numerous small pitchy spots : abdomen 

 pitchy, much shorter than the wings : hind borders of the segments 

 testaceous : legs testaceous, stout, with a few slight pitchy marks : 

 wings limpid, rather broad, not pointed ; stigma whitish, rather 

 large and distinct, with an adjoining very pale brown spot which is 

 hardly visible in the hind-wings ; veins white, with black bands, 

 very slightly ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple ; their veins not 

 forked between the base and the stigma ; some veinlets along the 

 cubitus and its sector, some of the gradate veinlets and of the forks 

 of the marginal veinlets near the tip very indistinctly clouded with 

 pale brown ; a more distinct mark on a veinlet by the cubitus in the 



