364 MYRMELEONITES. 



Myrmeleon variegatus, King, Syml. Phys. dec. 4, pi. 30, f. 4. 

 Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 400, 24. 



a. South France. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. Marseilles. 



107. MYRMELEON TAPPA. 



Piceus ; caputjlavo varium; antenna fuscce, fulvo annulatce ; pro- 

 thorax linearis, paulto longior quam latior, flavo trivittatus , 

 pedes testacei ; alee longce, angustce, subhyalince, subacuminatce, 

 stigmate roseo, anticarum apicibus marginibusque posticis 

 fusco guttatis. 



Male. Pitchy : head yellow towards the mouth ; vertex yellow 

 with pitchy spots : antennae brown, clavate, a little longer than the 

 head and the thorax, with a tawny ring on each joint except at the 

 tip : prothorax linear, a little longer than broad, with three yellow 

 stripes which extend over part of the mesothorax : abdomen shorter 

 than the wings, with a tuft of black hairs at the tip : legs testaceous : 

 wings long and narrow, subhyaline, slightly pointed : hind-wings a 

 little longer and narrower than the fore-wings ; stigma rosy, indis- 

 tinct ; veins pale yellow, with numerous black bands which are 

 chiefly on the junctions or forks of the veins ; all the subcostal areo- 

 lets simple ; a brown dot on the base of the fork of each marginal 

 veinlet towards the tip of the wing. Length of the body 16 lines; 

 of the wings 38 lines. , 



a d. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



108. MYRMELEON MALEFIDUS. 



Niger, gracilis ; caput flavo notalum ; palpi pallidi ; antenna 

 graciles^fere capitatce, testaceo annulatce, thoracis longitudine ; 

 thorax testaceo marginatus ; prothorax testaceo trivittatus; 

 abdominis segmenta testaceo marginata ; pedes testacei, nigro 

 varii ; alee subcinerece, longce, angustce, striga postica obliqua 

 fusca signatce, apice fusco notatce. 



Black, slender : head with a yellow ring around the base of 

 each antenna, and with a yellow spot on each side between the eye 

 and the face, which is testaceous : palpi testaceous, partly ferrugi- 

 nous : antenna slender, as long as the thorax, almost capitate ; fore 

 borders of the joints testaceous ; club broad : prothorax hardly 

 narrower in front, broader than long, with a dull testaceous border 



