MYRMELEONITE9. 367 



Black : vertex with two yellow stripes which are united behind 

 by means of an arched band, and are connected by a short band on 

 each side with a yellow circle round each eye : palpi yellow ; first 

 joint ferruginous at the tip ; second pitchy in the middle ; third 

 ferruginous : antennae pitchy, clavate, much shorter than the thorax, 

 yellow towards the base : prothorax yellow, linear, broader than 

 long; dorsuin with four irregular black stripes which are partly con- 

 nected : mesothorax and metathorax with a yellow spot on each 

 disk ; their segments with yellow borders : abdomen shorter than 

 the hind borders of the segments, yellow: legs yellow; tibiae and 

 tarsi with pitchy tips ; hind-femora mostly pitchy : wings subhya- 

 line, narrow, hardly pointed ; stigma yellowish, with an adjoining 

 brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins pale yellow with black bands, 

 slightly ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked 

 between the base and the stigma: hind-wings almost as long as the 

 fore- wings and very little narrower. Length of the body 1 1 lines ; 

 of the wings 26 lines. 



112. MYRMELEON SOLERS. 



Nigro-cinereuS) gracilis ; caput atrum, facie palpisque maxillari- 

 bus testaceis, labialibus fulvis ; antennae clavatce, basi testacece ; 

 prothorax latior quam longior, maryine antico lateribusque 

 testaceis ; pedes picei, tibiis supra femoribus tarsisque basi 

 coxisque testaceis ; alcehyalince^ mediocres, apice subangulata. 

 Black, slender: head deep black with a yellow circle round 

 each e)e and round the base of each antenna ; face and maxillary 

 palpi testaceous; labial palpi tawny: an ten n SB black, clavate, testa- 

 ceous at the base, shorter than the thorax : prothorax broader than 

 long, rather narrower in front, testaceous along each side and on 

 the fore border: abdomen shorter than the wings; legs pitchy, 

 slender ; tibiae above, femora and tarsi towards the base and coxae 

 testaceous : wings hyaline, of moderate size, obtusely angular at the 

 tips; stigma white; veins white, some of the longitudinal veins 

 with black bands ; subcostal areolets simple, with one or two forked 

 veins by the stigma ; marginal region narrow : hind-wings a little 

 shorter and narrower than the fore-wings. Length of the body 10 

 lines; of the wings 24 lines. 



a. China. Presented by J. C. Bowring, Esq. 



