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94. MYRMELEON INFESTUS. 



Testaceus, gracillimus^ piceo varius ; caput apud antennas nigri- 

 cans, facie flava ; antenna* graciles, thoracis longitudine^ piceo 

 annulate et terminate ; prothorax piceo guadrivittatus ; ab- 

 domen piceum, lateribus testaceo maculatis ; pedes longi, 

 graciles, tibiis apice piceis , alee limpida, amplce, non acumi- 

 nate, anticce apice signo ovato fusco bifasciate. 



Testaceous, very slender: head blackish around the base of 

 the antennae ; face yellow, shining ; vertex pitchy behind, and with 

 a slender pitchy band in front : antennae testaceous, slender, as long 

 as the thorax; joints pitchy towards the base; club pitchy: pro- 

 thorax nearly linear, a little longer than broad, with four imperfect 

 pitchy stripes : dorsal segments of the mesothorax and of the me- 

 tathorax pitchy, with testaceous borders and with some testaceous 

 marks on their disks : abdomen pitchy, much shorter than the 

 wings ; segments testaceous towards the base on each side : legs 

 pale testaceous, long and slender ; tips of the tibiae pitchy: wings 

 limpid, ample, very iridescent, not pointed ; stigma whitish, small 

 in the hind-wings; veins white with black bands, ciliated; subcostal 

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

 stigma ; gradate veinlets near the tip and forks of the marginal 

 veinlets at the tip of the wing clouded with pale brown, which forms 

 an irregular and imperfect transverse oval figure on the wing : hind- 

 wings very little narrower and shorter than the fore-wings, with two 

 pale brown marks on the forks of the marginal veinlets, one near 

 the tip, the other near the hind border at three fourths of the length. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



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



95. MYRMELEON NEFANDUS. 



Testaceus ; caput ferrugineo guttatum ; antennce ferruginece, tho- 

 race paullo breviores ; prothorax ferrugineo bivittatus etquad- 

 rimaculatus ; mesothorax et metathorax lateribus guttisque 

 ferrugineis ; abdomen ferrugineum, basi testacewn ; alee 

 hyalince, acuminate, apice fusco notate. 



Testaceous : head shining in front ; vertex with some ferruginous 

 dots : antennae ferruginous, clavate, a little shorter than the thorax ; 

 fore borders of the joints testaceous : prothorax very little narrower 



