374 MYRMELEONITES. 



129. MYRMELEON LETHALIS. 



Flaws ; caput nigro varium ; antenna nigrce ; thorax nigro quad- 

 rivittatus ; abdominis dorsum fuscum, flaw vittatum ; alee 

 subhyalince, angustce, acuminate, anticarum basi margineque 

 postico fusco guttatis, stigma teflavo. 



Yellow : front and face mostly black ; vertex with a black spot 

 on each side, and with three black stripes which are connected in the 

 middle by a black band : palpi yellow ". antennae black, slightly sub- 

 clavate, very much longer than the thorax, with three yellow rings 

 at the base : prothorax linear, much longer than broad, with four black 

 stripes : mesothorax and metathorax with three black stripes : abdo- 

 men brown, much shorter than the wings, with a narrow yellow 

 dorsal stripe ; under side yellow : legs yellow, with a few black dots : 

 wings subhyaline, narrow, pointed, grayish at the tips ; stigma pale 

 yellow, partly brown in the fore-wings ; veins black ; subcosta, 

 radius, and its sectors, and some other veins with numerous yellow 

 bands ; transverse veinlets of the fore-wings clouded with brown 

 towards the base and along part of the hind border ; a small transverse 

 dark brown spot by the last of the quadrate areolets adjoining the 

 cubitus; subcostal areolets simple; their veins not forked from the 

 base to the stigma : hind-wings longer and narrower than the fore- 

 wisigs , a little dark brown spot between the eighth and ninth forks 

 of the sector beneath the stigma. Length of the wings 40 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 

 6, c. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' colleciion. 



130. MYRMELEON LETHIFER. 



Niger; caput flavo quadrimaculatum ; prothorax multo lonyior 



quam latior, antice paullo angustior, dorso nigro ; scutelli 



abdominisque segmentorum margincs postici flavi ; pedes ful- 



m ; alee subhyaiince, sat latce, subacuminatce, stigmate nullo. 



Black : head with four yellow spots, two on the vertex and two 



behind: mouth and palpi ferruginous: antennae black, clavate, 



shorter than the thorax : prothorax much longer than broad, a little 



narrower in front, yellow on each side and beneath and along the 



hind border: hind border of the scutellum of the mesothorax and 



of the metathorax yellow : abdomen shorter than the wings ; hind 



borders of the segments yellowish : legs tawny : wings subhyaline, 



