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spots, the hind one of eight spots : palpi yellow ; a black spot on 

 the last joint of the labial palpi : prothorax rather narrower in front, 

 a little longer than broad, with two pitchy stripes which are forked 

 in front : mesothorax and metathorax with pitchy spots : abdomen 

 pitchy, long, as long as the wings, with a testaceous dot on each 

 side of the second segment, and a testaceous mark on the fourth : 

 legs testaceous, with a few black dots ; tips of the tibia? and of the 

 joints of the tarsi black : wings limpid, long, pointed, very narrow ; 

 stigma whitish, with a very small adjoining brown spot in the fore- 

 wings ; veins white, ciliated, with black bands, wholly white in two 

 large spaces of the disk of each wing ; subcostal areolets simple, 

 their veinlets not forked between the base and the stigma ; a brown 

 dot on the tip of each marginal veinlet along the hind border from 

 the base to the end of the fork of the radius, about which the veins 

 are clouded with brown ; gradate veinlets black, clouded with brown 

 about the intersection of the cubitus; forks of the marginal veinlets 

 along the hind border towards the tip of the wing clouded with paler 

 brown ; hind-wings narrower but not shorter than the fore-wings ; 

 veins in the disk wholly white ; no brown marks except a very mi- 

 nute one near the tip of the cubitus. Length of the body 14 lines > 

 of the wings 28 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From M. Gueinzius' collection. 



147. MYRMELEON INSOMNIS. 



Nigro-piceus, gracilis ; caput antice subtusque testaceum, f route 

 nigro nitente, vertice fulvo e tuber culis nigris trifasciato ; 

 thorax testaceo varius ; prothorax testaceus, paulto longior 

 quam latior, nigro quadrivittatus ; pedes testacei, tibiis et tar- 

 sorum articulis apice nigris, femoribus posticis apicem versus 

 nigricantibus ; alee limpidce, angustce, apice subangulatce, an- 

 ticce fusco notatce. 



Pitchy black, slender : head black and shining about the base 

 of the antennae ; vertex tawny, with three bands of black tubercles; 

 face, underside and palpi testaceous : prothorax linear, a little 

 longer than broad, with four blackish stripes: segments of the meso- 

 thorax and of the metathorax with testaceous spots and borders : 

 legs testaceous, slender; tips of the tibiae and of the joints of the 

 tarsi black ; hind-femora blackish towards the tips : wings limpid, 

 narrow, slightly angular and pointed at the tips ; stigma white, with 

 a small accompanying black spot in each fore-wing ; veins white 

 with the exception of the clouded parts and of a few black bands ; 



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