354 MYBMELEONITES. 



89. MYRMELEON PERVIGIL. 



Piceus ; caputflavum, nigro varium; palpi flaw, labialium arti- 

 culo 3o nigro; antennae ferruginece, annulatce, thorace paullo 

 breviores ; pectus testaceum; prothorax testaceo quinqutvitta- 

 tus ; mesothorax et metathorax testaceo varius ; abdomen ni- 

 grum ; pedes testacei, tibiis tarsisque apice nigris ; alee hi/- 

 alince, lanceolate, acuminates, subhamatce. 



Pitchy : head pale testaceous, yellow in front, with a black 

 band about the base of the antennae ; another in front of the vertex, 

 and above the latter two bands of black spots : palpi yellow ; third 

 joint of the labial palpi black, with a tawny tip : antennae ferrugi- 

 nous, clavate, a little shorter than the thorax, with a testaceous 

 band on the fore border of each joint : thorax testaceous beneath : 

 prothorax narrower in front, rather broader than long, with five pale 

 testaceous stripes : segments of the mesothorax and of the meta- 

 thorax with testaceous streaks in their disks and with testaceous 

 borders: abdomen black, shorter than the wings: legs testaceous, 

 rather stout, with black dots ; tips of the tibiae and of the joints of 

 the tarsi black : wings hyaline, moderately broad, rather long, lan- 

 ceolate and slightly hooked towards the tips which are pointed ; 

 stigma whitish, with an adjoining brown spot in the fore-wings ; 

 veins white with black bands, ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, 

 only one of their veins forked between the base and the stigma ; 

 gradate veinlels, forks of the marginal veinlets towards the tip of 

 the wing, and some forks of the cubitus and a few transverse vein- 

 lets in the disk clouded with brown : hind-wings unspotted, nar- 

 rower and a little longer than the fore-wings. 



Var. Veins more clouded, especially the gradate veinlets, where 

 the brown hue forms two oblique streaks on each wing. 



Length of the body 1213 lines ; of the wings 2830 

 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



b. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



