348 MYRMELEON [TES. 



disk of tbe wing and a little nearer the base than is the stigma : hind- 

 wings not marked, shorter and narrower than the fore-wings. Length 

 of the body 12 lines; of the wings 28 lines. 



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



77. MYRMELEON VIOLENTUS. 



Fulvus ; capitis vertex nigro maculatus ; antenna ferruginece ; 

 thorax fusco quadrivittatus ; prothorax linearis, multo latior 

 quam longior, fusco quadrimaculatus ; abdomen fuscum ; 

 pedes fulvi ; alte subhyalina, angusta, subacuminatce, stig- 

 mateflavo. 



Tawny : head black about the base of the antennae ; vertex 

 with two hands of black spots : antennae ferruginous, tawny at the 

 base : prothorax linear, much broader than long, with four brown 

 stripes ; inner pair approximate ; two brown spots on each side be- 

 tween them and the outer pair : mesothorax and metathorax with 

 four broad irregular brown stripes which are partly connected, and 

 occupy most of the surface : abdomen brown, shorter than the wings: 

 legs tawny ; wings subhyaline, narrow, slightly pointed ; stigma 

 yellow ; veins black, here and there with yellow bands ; subcostal 

 areolets simple, their veins not forked between the base and the 

 stigma ; a dark brown dot by the last of the quadrate areolets by 

 the cubitus on each of the four wings : hind-wings as long and as 

 narrow as the fore-wings. Length of the body 15 lines; of the 

 wings 32 lines, 

 a/. Sandwich Islands. Presented by Capt. Beechey. 



78. MYRMELEON ACER. 



Nigro-cinereus ; palpi ferruginei ; antennce thorace breviores ; 

 thorax marginibus fulvis ,- prothorax linearis, multo latior 

 quam longior ; pedes nigri, femoribus basi fulvis, tibiis fulvis 

 apice nigris ; alee limpidce, sat longce, perangustce, vix acumi- 

 natce, venis nigris flavo variis. 



Black, tinged with gray: mouth tawny: palpi ferruginous: 

 antennae black, clavate, shorter than the thorax: prothorax linear, 

 convex in front, much broader than long; fore border and hind 

 border tawny : margins of the segments of the mesothorax and of 

 the metathorax slightly tawny : abdomen wanting: legs black ; fe- 

 mora towards the base and trochanters tawny ; tibiae tawny, with 



