378 MYRMELEONITES. 



135. MYRMELEON TECTDS. 



Nigro-cinereus, robustus, facie palpisque luteis ; oculiflavo semi- 

 cincti ; antenna thorace breviores, flavo annulate ; prothorax 

 linearis, multo latior quam longior ; thoracis segmenta testaceo 

 marginuta ; pedes nigri, femoribus tarsisque basi testaceis, 

 tibiis testaceo cinctis ; alee hyalince, longce, sat angusta, sub- 

 acuminates. 



Black, tinged with gray, rather stout : head shining, black in 

 front ; face pale luteous except at the base ; a yellow semicircle by 

 each eye : palpi luteous : antenna black, subclavate, shorter than 

 the thorax ; a yellow ring at the base of each joint excepting those 

 towards the tip ; first and second joints mostly luteous ; a yellow 

 circle round the base of the first: prothovax almost linear, with a 

 middle transverse furrow, much broader than long : segments of the 

 mesothorax and of the metatho rax with testaceous borders : abdo- 

 men mutilated : legs black ; femora and tarsi testaceous at the base ; 

 tibia? with testaceous bands which are very broad on the hind 

 pair : wings hyaline, long, rather narrow, slightly pointed ; stigma 

 white, with a small adjoining brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins 

 black with yellow bands, ciliated ; veins of a few areolets wholly 

 yellow ; subcostal areolets simple, with a few forked veins near the 

 stigma: hind-wings a little narrower and shorter than the fore-wings. 

 Length of the body 15 ? lines ; of the wings 34 lines. 



a. North America. Presented by the Entomological Club. 



b. St. John's Bluff, East Florida. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq 



136. MYRMELEON ASPER. 



Nigro- cinereus, gracilis ; caput antice subtusque testaceum, vertice 

 ruguloso ferrugineo vario, f route nigro nitente ; antennae picece, 

 testaceo annulatce ; prothoracis macula duce anticce mttceque 

 quatuor testacece ; thoracis et abdorninis segmenta marginibus 

 posticis testaceis ; pedes testacei, subvalidi, femoribus tibiis et 

 tarsorum articulis apice nigris, tibiis nigro cinctis ; alee lim- 

 pidce, angusta, sublongce, apice angulatce. 



Grayish black, slender : head black and shining in front ; vertex 

 transversely rugulose, with some ferruginous tubercles ; face, under- 

 side, and palpi testaceous: antennae pitchy, subclavate, as long as 

 the thorax, testaceous at the base and on the fore borders of most of 



