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black tips : wings limpid, rather long, very narrow, hardly pointed ; 

 stigma white, with a brown spot adjoining it in the fore-wings ; veins 

 black, with yellow bands ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not 

 forked between the base and the stigma : hind-wings shorter and 

 very little narrower than the fore-wings. Length of the body ? 

 lines ; of the wings 28 lines. 



a. New Holland. 



79. MYBMELEON CAUTUS. 



Piceus, subtus testaceus ; caput testaceum^nigro bifasciatum, vertice 

 piceo fasciato ; antenna fulvce^ piceo annulate, thorace bre- 

 viores, clava subtw testacea ; prothorax testaceus^ antice vix 

 angustior, paullo latior quam longior, disco ferrugineo ; tho- 

 racis segmenta testaceo guttata et marginata ; abdomen testaceo 

 notatum, apice appendiculatum ; pedes testacei, tibiis tarsisque 

 apice nigris ; alee limpidce perangustce, vix acuminatce, antica 

 apice fusco notatce. 



Pitchy, slender : head testaceous, shining in front, with two 

 black bands, one below, the other above the base of the antennae, 

 the latter with an adjoining white band; vertex tawny with a pitchy 

 band, which is inclined forward at each end : palpi pale yellow, with 

 darker tips : antennaB tawny, clavate, shorter than the thorax, with 

 a pitchy band on the fore border of each joint; club testaceous be- 

 neath : prothorax testaceous, hardly narrower in front, a little broader 

 than long ; disk mostly ferruginous : segments of the mesothorax 

 and metathorax with some testaceous marks in their disks, and with 

 testaceous borders ; under side testaceous : abdomen nearly as long 

 as the wings, with some testaceous marks above, and wholly testa- 

 ceous beneath towards the base ; two curved testaceous filaments at 

 the tip, beset with black bristles : legs testaceous, with black dots ; 

 tips of the tibia3 and of the fifth joint of the tarsi black : wings 

 limpid, very narrow, hardly pointed ; stigma whitish, with a very 

 small adjoining brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins white, slightly 

 ciliated, here and there with black bands ; subcostal areolets simple, 

 their veinlets not forked between the base and the stigma ; gradate 

 veinlets mostly black, clouded with brown near the border above the 

 cubitus and above the intersection of the first fork of the sector; an 

 oblique brown streak along two veinlets above the fork of the cubitus 

 near the tip : hind-wings not spotted, narrower but hardly shorter 

 than the fore-wings. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 

 26 lines. 

 a. Brazil. Presented by J. P. G. Smith, Esq. 



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