360 MYBMELEONITES. 



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

 and the forks of a few marginal veinlets about the tips of the wings, 

 and the veins at the tip of the fork of the cubitus clouded with 

 brown: hind-wings not clouded, narrower but not shorter than the 

 fore-wings. Length of the body 9 lines : of the wings 25 lines. 



a. New Holland. 



99. MYIIMELEON PF.BNICIOSUS. 



Nigro-piceus, gracilis ; fades flava ; palpi testacei ; antennae 

 flavo subannulatcc, thoracis longitudine ; prothorax testaceo 

 trivittatus ; mesothoracis et abdominis segmentorum margines 

 postici flavi ; pedes graciles, femoribus tibiisque basi testaceis, 

 tibiis posticis supra et tar sis posticis basi albidis ; alee hyalines, 

 angustce^ sublanceolatce, apice vix angulatce. 



Pitchy black, slender : face pale yellow : palpi testaceous: an- 

 tennae black, slender, clavate, as long as the thorax ; fore borders of 

 the joints to the club indistinctly yellow ; prothorax linear, broader 

 than long, with three very slight testaceous stripes : hind border of 

 the mesothorax and of the abdominal segments yellow: abdomen 

 much shorter than the wings : legs black, slender ; femora and 

 tibiae at the base and coxae testaceous; hind tibia? above and hind 

 tarsi at the base whitish : wings hyaline, narrow, slightly lanceolate 

 but hardly angular at the tips ; stigma whitish ; veins black, with 

 white bands ; subcostal areolets simple, with two or three occasional 

 forked veins near the stigma ; marginal region narrow : fore-wings 

 with the tip of the fork of the cubitus, the gradate veinlets and the 

 forks of a few marginal veinlets near the tip clouded with brown : 

 hind-wings longer and much narrower than the fore-wings. Length 

 of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 24 lines. 



100. MYRMELEON ABDITUS. 



Flavus, gracilis, nigro mttatus ; caput nigro fasciatum, verticepiceo 

 quadriguttato ; antenna fulvce, apice ferruginece, thoracis lon- 

 gitudine ; abdomen piceum, segmentorum marginibus posticis 

 ventreque flavis ; alee limpidce^parvce^ non acuminatce, posticce 

 vitta brew subapicali fusca. 



Yellow, slender: head with a black band about the base of the 

 antennae ; vertex with four pitchy spots, one in front, one behind, 

 and one on each side ; face pale yellow : antenna? tawny, clavate, as 



