MYRMELEONITES. 397 



166. MYRMELEON COMPOSITUS. 



Flavus, subrobustns ; caput Jtavo tnfasciatum ; antennae 



capitate?, basiflava, capitis latitudine non longiores ; protho- 

 rax fusco fasciatus ; mesothorax et metathorax margine antico 

 lateribusque nigris ; abdomen nigro varium ; pedes ralidi, 

 tibiis tarsisque nigris^ illis basiflavis ; al& albce, apice fusco 

 marginatce et maculata. 



In the structure of the body and colouring of the wings this 

 species is allied to the first group of the genus, while it resembles 

 M. clavicornis in the form of its antennae. Yellow, rather stout: head 

 with a black band beneath, and a broader one above, the base of the 

 antenna?, and a third on the hind part: palpi pale yellow, slender: 

 antenna? capitate, black, yellow at the base, not longer than the 

 breadth of the head ; club very broad : prothorax pale yellow, nar- 

 rower in front, twice broader than long, with a short brown band 

 which is excavated on each side of the hind border : mesothorax 

 and metathorax black in front and on each side, and with a black 

 spot on each disk ; a yellow dot on each side of the metathorax : 

 abdomen slender, shorter than the wings, clothed with whitish hairs 

 towards the base in the female, and with short black hairs in the 

 male, mostly black beneath and partly so on each side : appendages 

 of the male short, tawny, curved upward, armed on the inner side 

 with short black spines, curved outward towards the base: legs 

 stout, yellow ; tibia? except at the base and tarsi black ; spurs 

 slightly curved, longer than the first joint of the tarsi ; ungues fer- 

 ruginous : wings white, moderately broad, not pointed ; tips bordered 

 with brown ; stigma bright yellow ; veins pale yellow ; marginal 

 region broad at the tips ; subcostal areolets simple, their veins not 

 forked between the base and the stigma: fore-wings with numerous 

 transverse brown dots which are variable in number, and are most 

 frequent on three separate spaces along the wing ; fork of the cubi- 

 tus descending obliquely to the hind border : hind-wings a little 

 narrower and shorter than the fore-wings, with a brown spot of 

 variable size in the disk, and with a few brown marks near the stig- 

 ma and by the opposite hind border ; a little winglet at the base ; 

 subcubitus descending obliquely towards the hind border, forming 

 an acute angle, and again returning towards the cubitus. Length 

 of the body 16 17 lines ; of the wings 38 40 lines. 



a. East Indies. Presented by J. C. Dale, Esq. 



b. North India. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



e. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



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