394 MYBMELEONITES. 



Pitchy black, very slender, like a Chrysopa : head yellow on 

 each side of the front by the eye ; face testaceous ; vertex partly 

 ferruginous ; hind part with two testaceous stripes, and a testaceous 

 spot by each eye: palpi pale, with pitchy tips: antennae pitchy 

 black, slender, clavate, longer than the thorax, linear from the base 

 to the club; joints with white bands which diminish in breadth 

 from the base to the club: prothorax narrower in front, a little 

 longer than broad, with some indistinct testaceous marks on each 

 side: segments of the mesothorax and of the metathorax with 

 partly testaceous borders : abdomen slender, subcylindrical, shorter 

 than the wings ; tip testaceous : legs testaceous, long, slender, with 

 some slight pitchy marks ; femora at the base and trochanters paler ; 

 tarsi and tips of the tibia? pitchy, the former testaceous at the base : 

 wings hyaline, long, narrow, hardly pointed ; stigma brownish, in- 

 distinct, hardly visible in the hind-wings ; veins black, with white 

 bands, slightly ciliated ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not 

 forked between the base and the stigma : hind-wings a little nar- 

 rower and longer than the fore-wings, with a brown streak near and 

 Cllel to the hind border, at two-thirds of the length from the 

 . Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



a. New Holland. Presented by Captain Grey. 



a a. 



Prothorax rufus. Alse guttis magnis. 



161. MYRMELEON ERYTHROCEPHALUS. 



Niger ; caput rufum ; antenna nigra ; prothorax transversus, 

 rufus ; thorax interrupts rufo vittatus ; femora posteriora basi 

 et antica omnino rufa ; alee alba, antica e maculis nigris bi- 

 vittatte, posticce maculis 1 4 apicalibus. 



Myrmeleon erythrocephalus, Leach, ZooL Miscell. 1, 70, pi. 30. 



Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 409, 40. 

 a. Australia. From Mr. Strange's collection. 

 6. Australia. 



