380 MYRMELEONITES. 



138. MYBMELEON MALIGNUS. 



Piceus, gracilis; caput nigrum, facie lestacea ; palpi labiales tes- 

 tacei, longi, apice picei ; prothorax testaceo marginatus ; 

 mesothorax et metathorax marginibus posticis testaceis ; pedes 

 picei, tibiis nisi ad apices femoribus basi coxisque testaceis ; 

 alee limpidce, angustce, apice subangulatcB. 



Pitchy, slender: head black, shining in front, with a yellow 

 circle round each eye and round the base of each antenna ; vertex 

 with a slight longitudinal furrow; face testaceous: maxillary palpi 

 pitchy; labial palpi long, testaceous; third joint pitchy: antennae 

 mutilated, testaceous at the base : prothorax linear, broader than 

 long, with testaceous borders : mesothorax and metathorax with 

 testaceous hind borders : legs pitchy, slender ; tibia? except at the 

 tips, femora at the base and coxae testaceous: wings limpid, narrow, 

 slightly angular and pointed at the tips ; stigma white ; veins black, 

 with white bands, ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, with an occa- 

 sional forked vein by the stigma ; marginal region very narrow : 

 hind -wings shorter, narrower and more lanceolate than the fore- 

 wings. Length of the wings 26 lines. 



139. MVRMELEON FICTUS. 



Piceus ; caput nigrum, vertice facieque fulvis, illo nigro sexmacu- 

 lato ; palpi maxillares fulvi, labiales flavi^ apice nigri / 

 prothorax fulvus, nigro trivittatus ; thoracis segmenta fulvo 

 marginata ; abdomen fulvo varium ; pedes testacei, longi, gra- 

 ciles, nigro varii ; alee hyalince, angusta, subacuminatce. 



Pitchy : head black, shining in front ; vertex tawny, with two 

 bands of incomplete black spots, three in each row ; face and max- 

 illary palpi tawny: labial palpi yellow; third joint black : prothorax 

 tawny, a little broader than long, hardly narrower in front, with 

 three blackish interrupted stripes : segments of the mesothorax and 

 of the metathorax with tawny borders : abdomen with some tawny 

 marks, mutilated ; hind borders of the segments tawny : legs testa- 

 ceous, rather long and slender; femora striped with black above ; 

 tibiae black beneath ; fifth joint of the tarsi with a black tip : wings 

 hyaline, narrow, slightly pointed ; stigma whitish, with a small ad- 

 joining pale brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins white with black 



