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Black, slender, covered with whitish down : head shining in 

 front, with a yellow interrupted circle round each eye and with ano- 

 ther round the hase of each antenna ; vertex with a longitudinal 

 furrow ; face and underside yellow : labial palpi yellow ; last joint 

 black : maxillary palpi mostly black : antennae black, clavate, 

 shorter than the thorax: prothorax testaceous, almost linear, a little 

 longer than broad, pitchy about the fore border, and with a broad 

 curved pitchy band on the disk : segments of the mesothorax and 

 of the metathorax with testaceous borders : abdomen shorter than 

 the wings ; hind borders of the segments testaceous : legs pale yel- 

 low ; femora towards the tips, tibiae beneath, and tarsi black : wings 

 hyaline, narrow, not pointed ; stigma white, with an adjoining brown 

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

 subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked between the base 

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

 fore-wings. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a. Van Dieman's Land. Presented by R. Butler, Esq. 



e e. 



Palparum labialium articulus ultimus acuminatus, fusiformis 

 vel conicus; articulus 2us palpis maxillaribus multo brevior. 



115. MYBMELEON LANCEOLATUS. 



Testaceus, gracilis ; antenna picea, annulate , caput nigro varium ; 

 abdomen elongatum, apicem versus piceum ; alee hyalinw, 

 longce, angustce, venis totis pallidis. 



Myrmeleon lanceolatus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 401, 26. 

 a d. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Kev. D. F. Morgan. 



116. MYRMELEON NOTATUS. 



Testaceus, gracilis, piceo varius ; antenna picece, graciles, annulate ; 

 abdomen piceo fasciatum ; pedes testacei, longi, gracites ; 

 alee hyalince, anticce macula media postica guttaque discali 

 substigmaticali fuscis. 



Myrmeleon notatus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 402, 27. 

 Malaga ; Senegal. 



