396 MYRMELEONITES. 



long, with two oblong oblique testaceous spots on each side : meso- 

 thorax and metathorax with testaceous spots on the borders of their 

 segments : abdomen long, shorter than the wings, with a testaceous 

 stripe along each side : legs testaceous, slender ; spurs and claws 

 ferruginous, the former slightly curved and a little longer than the 

 first joint of the tarsus: wings limpid, ample, hardly angular at the 

 tips ; stigma white ; veins mostly white ; subcostal areolets simple, 

 with a few forked veins towards the stigma ; marginal region rather 

 broad at the tip of the wing : fore-wings brown on one-third of the 

 length from the tips, with brown dots at the base and along most of 

 the hind border, and in the middle with two oblique brown bands 

 which do not extend beyond half the breadth from the fore border ; 

 the brown parts contain many limpid or grayish dots, and some of 

 the gradate veinlets near the tip are bordered with white : hind- 

 wings very little shorter and hardly narrower than the fore-wings, 

 with a brown spot in the disk and some brown dots on the hind 

 border before the middle, and with three connected brown bands 

 beyond the middle, the third apical, and including with the second 

 some limpid spots. Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 38 

 lines. 



a. Lima. From Mr. Walker's collection. 



Sect. 2. 



Antennarum clava fere rotunda. Tarsorum articulus 2us vel 

 3us lo multo brevior. 



165. MYRMELEON CLAVICOKNIS. 



Pallidus, vertice thoraceque nigro punctatis ; antenna capitata, 

 thorace multo breviores ; alee anticce guttis strigisque niyris 

 confer tim notata, posticce nigro maculates etfasciatce. 



Myrmeleon clavicornis, Latr. Cuv. Regne Anim. iii. 438, 5, pi. 19, 

 f. 6. Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 410, 43. 



Senegal. 



