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and three dull testaceous stripes: mesothorax and metathorax with 

 testaceous hind borders : abdomen much shorter than the wings ; 

 hind borders of the segments testaceous : legs testaceous, with black 

 bands ; tarsi black, testaceous at the base ; fore-tarsi sometimes 

 partly testaceous: wings slightly gray, long and narrow; stigma 

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

 black with white bands, ciliated; subcostal areolets simple, with 

 two or three forked veins near the stigma : a few of the gradate vein- 

 lets and of the adjoining forks of the marginal veinlet near the tip 

 of the wing clouded with brown, one of the dots on the former near 

 the hind border, and the most remote from the tip of the wing is 

 darker than the rest ; a short brown streak rising obliquely outward 

 from the tip of the fork of the cubitus : hind-wings shorter and 

 narrower than the fore-wings, without marks, excepting a short 

 streak at two-thirds of the length, near and parallel to the hind 

 border. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



a, b. Van Dieman's Land. From Dr. Hooker's collection. 

 c. New Holland. 



109. MYBMELEON INFIDUS. 



Flavus, nigro vittatus ; caput piceo trivittatum ; abdomen piceum 

 testaceo varium ; pedes flavi, longi, graciles ; alee limpidce* 

 angustce, vix acuminatce, anticce apice fusco notatce, postica 

 striga postica fusca subapicali. 



Yellow : head with a broad pitchy band about the base of the 

 antennae: an irregular interrupted pitchy band above this, and 

 another more interrupted in front of the vertex ; two pitchy dots 

 above the latter: antenna? mutilated, yellow at the base: prothorax 

 almost linear, a little longer than broad, with three black stripes, 

 the middle one very slender, the other two broad behind, shortened 

 in front; under side with two black stripes: mesothorax and meta- 

 thorax with three interrupted irregular black stripes on each side, 

 one above and two below : abdomen pitchy with testaceous marks, 

 mutilated : legs yellow, rather long and slender : wings limpid, 

 rather narrow, hardly pointed ; stigma yellowish ; veins whitish, 

 slightly ciliated : subcostal and radial veins pale yellow, the former 

 with pale brown bands ; subcostal areolets simple, their veinlets not 

 forked between the base and the stigma ; forks of the marginal 

 veinlets at the tip of the wing clouded with brown : hind- wings 

 very little shorter and narrower than the fore-wings, with a brown 

 streak about one-fourth of the length of the wing, near the tip and 



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