382 MYRMELEONITES. 



middle and a few black spots on each side ; face and palpi yellow : 

 antenna? black, clavate, very mucb shorter than the thorax, with two 

 yellow rings at the base : prothorax hardly narrower in front, a little 

 longer than broad, with three black stripes, the middle one broader 

 than the other two which are interrupted : mesothorax and meta- 

 thorax with five black stripes, the middle one broad, the other four 

 interrupted, the inner pair more slender than the outer pair : abdo- 

 men almost as long as the wings, with a black stripe above, and 

 another below, and with some black streaks and dots on each side : 

 legs testaceous, with a few black dots : wings hyaline, moderately 

 broad, rather short, not pointed ; stigma whitish, with a small ad- 

 joining brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins black, with whitish bands, 

 slightly ciliated : subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked 

 from the base to the stigma ; forks of the marginal veinlets about 

 the tips of the fore-wings indistinctly clouded with brown : hind- 

 wings much shorter but hardly narrower than the fore-wings. Length 

 of the body 12J lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. China. Presented by G. T. Laye, Esq. 



142. MYRMELEON SAGAX. 



Niger, gracilis ; caput antice flavum nigro maculatum, verticeflavo 

 bimaculato ; palpi flam ; antennae graciles^ thorace paullo 

 longiores ; prothorax linearis, paullo longior quam latior,flavo 

 trivittatus ; thoracis segmenta flavo marginata ; abdomen sub- 

 tus flavum ; al& hyalince, lonyce, angustce, subacuminatce. 



Black, slender: head with two yellow spots on the vertex; 

 front and face yellow, with some black spots : palpi yellow : an- 

 tenna? black, slender, subclavate, a little longer than the thorax : 

 prothorax linear, a little longer than broad, with three yellow stripes, 

 the middle one very slender: segments of the mesothorax and of 

 the metathorax with yellow borders : abdomen yellow beneath, much 

 shorter than the thorax : legs testaceous : wings hyaline, slightly 

 pointed, long and narrow ; stigma whitish, very small in the hind- 

 wings ; veins black, slightly ciliated ; subcostal and radial veins 

 yellow with black bands ; subcostal areolets witb forked veins, and 

 divided by transverse veinlets for some distance from the stigma to- 

 wards the base : hind-wings a little narrower than the fore-wings. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. Silhet. From the Bev. J. Stainforth's collection. 



