388 MVBMELEONITES. 



each femur, tibia and tarsus with a black band and a black tip : 

 wings limpid, rather short, slightly pointed, with gray tips ; stigma 

 whitish, with an adjoining brown spot in the fore-wings ; veins and 

 areolets comparatively few ; veins white, with black bands, wholly 

 white along the borders, a few wholly black veinlets in the disk ; 

 subcostal areolets simple, their veins not forked between the base 

 and the stigma : hind-wings shorter than the fore-wings and not 

 more than half their breadth ; veins wholly white excepting some 

 black bands on the radius, a few black veinlets between the stigma 

 and the tip ; these also appear on the fore-wings. Length of the 

 body 1 1 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. Para. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



151. MYBMELEON EXSANGUIS. 



Niger , gracillimus ; facie palpisque testaceis ; thorax ferrugineus, 

 testaceo marginatus ; prothorax linearis, longior quam latior ; 

 pedes testacei, tibiis et tarsorum articulis apice piceis ; alee 

 limpidce, angustce, apice subangulatce. 



Black, very slender : face and palpi testaceous : antennae mu- 

 tilated, testaceous at the base : thorax ferruginous, with testaceous 

 borders : prothorax linear, longer than broad : abdomen shorter 

 than the wings : legs testaceous, slender ; tips of the tibiaa and of 

 the joints of the tarsi pitchy: wings limpid, narrow, slightly angu- 

 lar at the tips : stigma whitish, very indistinct ; veins white, ciliated ; 

 some pitchy dots on the subcosta, radius and cubitus of the fore- 

 wings ; subcostal areolets simple, with a few forked veins near the 

 stigma ; marginal region narrow : hind-wings narrower and shorter 

 than the fore-wings. Length of the body 11 lines; of the wings 

 25 lines, 

 a. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



152. MVRMELEON CRUDELIS. 



Piceus, gracilis ; caput antice etsubtus testaceum, vertice ferrugineo , 

 f route nigro ; palpi lestacei ; antenna ferruginea, clavatce, 

 apice picece ; prothorax testaceus, longior quam latior^ piceo 

 trivittatus ; thoracis margines postici et pedes testacei ; ala 

 limpidcB, angusta, apice subangulatcs. 



