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long as the thorax; clubs ferruginous: prothorax linear, a little 

 longer than broad, with four black stripes ; the outer pair remote 

 from the inner pair : mesothorax and metathorax with three black 

 stripes above, and with two on each side beneath, all much inter- 

 rupted : abdomen pitchy, shorter than the wings ; hind borders of 

 the segments and under side yellow : legs yellow ; claws red : wings 

 limpid, rather short and narrow, not pointed ; stigma tawny; veins 

 white, slightly ciliated ; longitudinal veins with black bands; sub- 

 costal areolets simple, theif veins not forked between the base and 

 the stigma ; hind-wings a little narrower and shorter than the fore- 

 wings, with a brown streak near the tip and parallel to the hind 

 border, and extending along the base of the marginal veinlets. 

 Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by the Haslar Hospital. 



dd. 

 Tarsorum articulus lus 5o non brevior. 



101. MYRMELEON NIGROCINCTUS? 



Piceo-testaceus,gracillimus ; caput nigro fas datum ; antenna picea , 

 graciles, subfiliformes, testaceo annulate ; abdomen nigrum, 

 basi contractum ; alee limpida, angustce, subacuminatce, apicem 

 versus fusco maculate. 



Myvmeleon nigrocinctus ? Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 298, 20. 



Allied to M. pulchellus. Testaceous, very slender: head with 

 a black shining band about the base of the antennae : antennae 

 pitchy, long, slender, almost filiform, rather longer than the thorax ; 

 joints testaceous in front, those adjoining the club wholly testaceous : 

 prothorax narrower in front, longer than broad : disk of the meso- 

 thorax and of the metathorax somewhat pitchy ; abdomen black, 

 slender, contracted towards the base, much shorter than the wings : 

 legs long> slender, testaceous : wings limpid, narrow, slightly pointed ; 

 stigma whitish ; veins white with a few black bands, ciliated ; sub- 

 costal areolets simple ; many of their veins forked between one-third 

 of the length of the wing and the stigma ; transverse veinlets be- 

 tween the radius and its sector, forks of some marginal veinlets 

 above the tip, and of others near the hind border towards the 

 tip, clouded with browu; two brown spots on the fore border 

 near the tip, and some small brown spots along the hind border : 

 hind-wings a little longer and narrower than the fore-wings, adorned 



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