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spots: palpi pale testaceous: antennae pitchy, clavate, long and 

 slender, as long as the thorax ; a testaceous band on the fore border 

 of each joint ; club altogether pitchy, the joints before it wholly 

 testaceous: prothorax linear, almost twice longer than broad, with 

 two irregular pitchy stripes; a transverse furrow on the fore-part: 

 mesothorax and metathorax with three irregular pitchy stripes : ab- 

 domen pitchy, much shorter than the wings ; segments generally 

 with yellow hind borders and with a yellow spot on each side : legs 

 testaceous, long and slender, with a few black marks : wings hyaline, 

 long and narrow, slightly pointed ; stigma white, with a very small 

 brown spot adjoining it in the fore-wings ; veins black, slightly cifc- 

 ated, with whitish bands ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins 

 forked from two-thirds of the length to the tip ; forks of the mar- 

 ginal veinlets beyond the stigma and along the hind border slightly 

 clouded with brown; some of the gradate veinlets near the tip and 

 at the last of the quadrate areolets by the cubitus, and the fork of 

 the cubitus near its tip, more distinctly clouded : hind-wings nar- 

 rower and a little longer than the fore-wings ; gradate veinlets near 

 the tip clouded with dark brown ; forks of the marginal veinlets 

 along the hind border from two-thirds of the length to the tip 

 clouded with pale brown. Length of the body 12 lines; of the 

 wings 28 lines. 



a, b. Ceylon. From the Rev. J. Wenham's collection. 



98. MYRMELEON DESPERATUS, 



Nigro-piceus, facie palpisque testaceis ; antennce nigrce^flavo annu- 

 late ; prothorax iatior quam longior, antice subangustior ; 

 mesothorax testaceo marginatus ; abdominis segmenta rnargi- 

 nibufi posticis testaceis ; pedes testaceo notati, postici testacei 

 nigro varii ; alee hyaline, longce, pemngnstce, non acuminates, 

 apice fusco notatce. 



Pitchy black : face and palpi testaceous : antenna; black, muti- 

 lated, with a yellow band on the fore border of each joint, and two 

 yellow rings at the base ; prothorax broader than long, slightly nar- 

 rower in front: mesothorax with a testaceous hind border: abdomen 

 much shorter than the wings ; hind borders of the segments pale 

 testaceous : anterior legs black, with a few testaceous marks ; hind- 

 legs testaceous ; femora above and tarsi except at the base black : 

 wings hyaline, moderately long, very narrow, not pointed ; stigma 

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

 black, with whitish bands, ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, their 



