MYRMELEONITES. 



159. MYBMELEON FALSUS. 



Ater, gracillimus ; caput fascia facieque testaceis ; palpi testacei, 

 piceo annulati ; antennae gracillimce, testaceo annulate, tho- 

 race multo breviores ; pedes longi, graciles, testaceo varii ; alee 

 longissimce, perangustce, anticce cinerece apice fusco notatce^ 

 posticce subhyalince fascia latafusca. 



Deep black, very slender, clothed with short black hairs : head 

 with a pale testaceous band above the base of the antennae ; face 

 testaceous : palpi testaceous ; joints pitchy towards the base : an- 

 tennae very slender, subclavate, much shorter than the thorax ; joints 

 towards the base with testaceous fore borders : prothorax much nar- 

 rower in front; its length nearly twice its breadth: mesothorax and 

 metathorax with pitchy hind borders: abdomen very much shorter 

 than the wings: legs long and slender; femora and tarsi testaceous 

 at the base ; tibiae partly testaceous : wings very long and narrow ; 

 veins black, ciliated : fore-wings gray ; stigma black ; subcosta, 

 radius and cubitus with some white bands ; subcostal areolets sim- 

 ple, with a few forked veins towards the stigma ; a dark brown spot 

 close to the stigma, and some black dots along the hind border ; 

 gradate veinlets towards the tips and forks of marginal veinlets at 

 the tips and along part of the hind border clouded with brown : 

 hind-wings subhyaline, much shorter and a little narrower than the 

 fore-wings ; marginal region very broad at the tips ; a broad dark 

 brown band near the stigrna, narrower towards the fore border. 

 Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 2830 lines, 



a. New South Wales. Presented by J. W. Evans, Esq. 



b. Port Stephen, New Holland. Presented by the Earl of Derby, 



The following Myrmeleon is closely allied to the two preceding 

 species, but its unspotted wings do not agree with Rambur's defi- 

 nition of the group to which they belong. 



160. MYRMELEON 



Nigro-piceus, gracillimus ; caput testaceo varium ; palpi pallidi, 

 apice picei ; antennce graciles^ albo annulati^ thorace longiores ; 

 thorax testaceo varius ; abdomen subcylindricum, apice testa- 

 ceum ; pedes testacei, longi^graciles, piceo varii ; alee hyalince^ 

 longce, angustce, vix acuminates. 



