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yellow at the base ; tibiae with two yellow bands : wings slightly 

 gray, long and narrow, slightly pointed ; stigma pale yellow, with a 

 brown spot on each side, indistinct in the hind-wings ; veins black, 

 with yellow bands ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked 

 from the base of the wing till near the stigma ; a row of dark brown 

 spots along the radius, and another indistinct row along the cubitus ; 

 fork of the cubitus and the adjoining veins partly clouded with 

 brown ; gradate veinlets towards the tip clouded with brown ; forks 

 of the marginal veins indistinctly clouded at the base : hind-wings 

 a little shorter and narrower than the fore-wings, not clouded. 

 Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. California. From Mr. Hartweg's collection. 



134. MYRMELEON ACUTUS. 



Nigro-cinereus ; caput Jlavo varium ; palpi fulvi ; pedes nigri, 

 femoribus basi tibiisque posticis flavis ; alee subcinerecs, longce, 

 perangustce, anticce fusco guttatce et bimaculatce,stigmate Jlavo. 



Black, slender, slightly tinged with gray : head yellow towards 

 the mouth, with a yellow spot on each side of the face and with a 

 yellow streak by the base of each antenna ; palpi tawny : antennae 

 wanting : abdomen much shorter than the wings : legs black ; fe- 

 mora beneath towards the base and hind tibiae yellow : wings slightly 

 gray, long, very narrow, slightly pointed ; stigma pale yellow ; veins 

 black, with yellow bands; subcostal areolets simple, their veins 

 forked at intervals from one-third of the length of the wing to the 

 stigma where there is a dark brown spot ; rows of dark brown spots 

 along the radius and its sector, and along the cubitus and its fork ; 

 small brown spots on the forks of the marginal veins, and on the 

 gradate veinlets towards the tip of the wing and along the hind 

 border ; a larger brown spot at the tip of the fork of the cubitus 

 and another by the last of the quadrate areolets between the first 

 sector of the radius and the cubitus : hind-wings a little shorter 

 and narrower than the fore-wings, with a few brown dots towards 

 the tips and along the hind border. Length of the body 14 lines ; 

 of the wings 34 lines. 



a. New Zealand. Presented by Dr. Sinclair. 



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