362 MYBMELEONITES. 



near their tips with two brown spots on the fore border and some 

 smaller ones on the hind border. Length of the body 9^10 lines ; 

 of the wings 2628 lines. 



a. Australia. From Mr. Milne's collection. 



b, c. ? 



102. MYBMELEON TACITUS. 



Piceus, gracilis ; caput nigrum, facie flava ; palpi fulvi ; prothorax 

 testaceo vittatus ; pedes longi, graciles, tarsis basi tibiisque 

 posticis testaceis, his apice nigris ; alee limpida, longce^ an- 

 gustce, subhamatce, vix acuminates, anticce fusco confertim 

 guttatce, postica apice fusco maculates. 



Pitchy, slender, mutilated : head black, with a yellow streak in 

 front by each eye ; face yellow : palpi tawny : prothorax narrower 

 in front, longer than broad, with a slender testaceous dorsal stripe : 

 mesothorax and metathorax with testaceous hind borders : legs long, 

 slender, pitchy; tarsi testaceous at the base; hind-tibias testaceous, 

 with pitchy tips: wings limpid, long 1 , narrow; tips very slightly 

 hooked, hardly pointed ; stigma whitish, indistinct, with a long ad- 

 joining brown spot; veins white in the colourless parts ; subcostal 

 areolets simple, with a few forked veins near the stigma : fore-wings 

 from the subcosta to the hind border covered with numerous small 

 brown spots of various form which are confluent in the disk behind 

 the stigma : hind- wings a little narrower but hardly shorter than the 

 fore-wings, without marks on three-fourths of the length except a 

 few brown dots along the radius and the cubitus ; behind the stig- 

 ma the spots are clustered together as in the fore-wings, and form 

 an irregular band which emits a branch to the tip of the wing, and 

 there are two distinct spots above this branch. Length of the wings 

 46 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Archdeacon Clerk's collection. 



cc c. 



Tibiarum calcaria fere recta, tarsorum articuli li longitudine, 

 vel articulorum li et 2i vix longitudiue. Tarsorum articulus lus 

 5o plus minusve brevior. 



