384 MYRMELEONITES. 



veins black, ciliated ; subcostal and radial veins tawny ; a few of the 

 subcostal areolets towards the stigma divided by transverse veinlets 

 and having forked veins : hind-wings very little narrower and shorter 

 than the fore-wings. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 

 30 lines. 



a. Santarera, Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



145. MYRMELEON HOSTILIS. 



Piceus ; caput nigr urn , facie flaw ; palpi maxillares nigri, labiates 

 albidi apice nigri ; antenna nigrce, thorace breviores ; thoracis 

 marpines postici et prothorax omnino testacei ; pedesflam^ nigro 

 varii ; alee hyalines, angustce, non acuminates. 



Pitchy: head black, with a pale yellow circle round each eye, 

 and a pale yellow ring round the base of each antenna ; face pale 

 yellow in front : labial palpi whitish ; third joint black : maxillary 

 palpi black : antenna black, clavate, shorter than the thorax : pro- 

 thorax dark testaceous, hardly narrower in front, a little longer than 

 broad ; fore border and hind border occasionally yellow : mesothorax 

 and metathorax with testaceous hind borders : legs pale yellow ; a 

 broad black band round each femur ; tibiae black beneath ; tarsi 

 black, yellow at the base ; fore-tibiae ferruginous, with yellow 

 streaks ; wings hyaline, narrow, not pointed ; stigma white, with a 

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

 black bands, ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, their veinlets with 

 one, two or three forks near the stigma : hind-wings shorter but very 

 little narrower than the fore-wings. Length of the body 10? lines j 

 of the wings 27 lines. 



a. West Australia. From Mr. Clifton's collection. 



b. Australia. From the Voyage of H. M. S. Rattlesnake. 



146. MYRMELEON CALLTDUS. 



Testaceus, gradllimus ; caput nigro maculatum ; prothorax antice 

 subangustior, paullo longior quam latior, piceo bivittatus ; 

 thorax piceo maculatus ; abdomen piceum, testaceo guttatum ; 

 pedes nigro guttati, tibiis et tarsorum articulis apice nigris ; 

 alee limpidec, longce, perangustee, acuminatce, anticce apice fusco 

 notatce. 



Testaceous, very slender : head blackish about the base of the 

 antennae ; vertex with two bands of black spots, the fore one of four 



