<5b MYRMELEONITES. 



subcostal areolets short, simple, with one or two forked veins by the 

 stigma ; fore-wings with many of the transverse veinlets clouded 

 with pale brown : hind-wings a little shorter and narrower than 

 the fore-wings, not marked. Length of the body 10? lines; of 

 the wings 27 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



148. MYBMELEON OCCULTUS. 



Testaceus, gracillimus ; caput piceo varium, antice nigro fascia- 

 turn, facie palpisque flaws ; antenna nigrce, graciles, thorace 

 multo Ireviores; prothorax subcylindricus, antice angustior, 

 piceo trivittatus, duplo longior quam latior ; thoracis segmenta 

 dorsalia picea, testaceo guttata et marginata; abdomen piceo 

 bivittatum ; pedes longi, gradles, tibiis anticis tarsisque albo 

 nigris ; alee subhyalinte, sublongcB^ perangustce, non acuminate, 

 apicefusco notatce. 



Testaceous, very slender, like Chrysopa : head with a black 

 band above the eyes ; vertex with a short pitchy band ; hind part 

 mostly pitchy ; face and palpi pale yellow: antenna? black, slender, 

 subclavate, much shorter than the thorax : prothorax subcylindrical, 

 narrower in front, with three pitchy stripes ; its length about twice 

 its breadth : mesothorax and metathorax pitchy above ; their seg- 

 ments with testaceous dots and borders : abdomen with two pitchy 

 stripes, very much shorter than the wings : legs testaceous, long 

 and slender ; tarsi black, whitish at the base ; fore-tibiae with black 

 tips, and with a black band between two whitish bands near the 

 base : wings subhyaline, rather long, very narrow, not pointed, cili- 

 ated along the hind borders ; stigma whitish, with a small adjoining 

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

 ated ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked between the 

 base and the stigma ; gradate veinlets and forks of marginal veinlets 

 from the end of the fork of the cubitus to the tip of the wing clouded 

 with brown : hind-wings narrower and a little shorter than the fore- 

 wings ; clouds on their veinlets very few and indistinct. Length of 

 the body 6 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 

 a. Adelaide. Presented by the Earl of Derby. 



