MYRMELEONITES. 351 



Pale testaceous, very slender : antennaB ferruginous, clavate, 

 much shorter than the thorax ; club pitchy : prothorax linear, much 

 longer than broad, with two ferruginous stripes on each side, the 

 inner pair shortened in front : mesothorax and metathorax with fer- 

 ruginous dots on the disks of their segments and with an interrupted 

 ferruginous stripe on each side : abdomen shorter than the wings, 

 with a ferruginous stripe on each side: legs testaceous ; third joint 

 of the tarsi with a black tip : wings limpid, rather short and narrow, 

 not pointed; stigma whitish, indistinct; veins white with black 

 bands, slightly ciliated; subcostal areolets simple ; their veins very 

 short, not forked between the base and the stigma : hind-wings a 

 little narrower and shorter than the fore-wings. Length of the 

 body 9 lines ; of the wings 21 lines. 



n ? 



dd. 



Venae 639 ramus 1 us fere longitudinalis, venaque spatio non- 

 nullo parallelus. 



83. MYRMELEON ^GYPTIACUS. 



FitscuSjflavo varius, M. formicarii magnitudine, alls paullo lon- 

 gioribus et angustioribus ; caput nigricans^ verticeflavo varia, 

 facie fiava ; prothorax flavus, nigro quinquevittatus ; abdo- 

 men fuscum ; pedes flavi, nigro subnotati ; alee subhyalince, 

 anticcB venis fusco-nebulosis, posticce anticis paullo breviores. 



Myrmeleon ^gyptiacus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 393, 13; 

 Descript. de VEgypte, Neur. pi. 3, f. 10, 11. 



Egypt. 



84. MVRMELEON V-NIGRUM ? 



Fuscus; thorace pallide variegato, abdominis segmentis utrinque 

 puncto pallido ; alarum anticarum venis quibusdam tramversis, 

 infuscatis^fasciam obliquam ante apicem for mantibus. 



Myrmecoleon Nemansiensis ? Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 994, 9. 

 Myrmeleon V-nigrum? Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 394, 14. 



(Malaga.) 

 a,4b. Port Natal. From Dr. Krauss' collection. 



