398 MYRMELEONITES. 



167. MYEMELEON ASTUTUS. 



Piceus, gracilis ; fades flavo fasciata ; antenna nigrce, thorace 

 multo breviores ; thoracis segmenta postice testacea ; abdomen 

 testaceum, basi piceum ; pedes nigri, validi ; alee amplce, fla- 

 vido-albce, non acuminatce,fasciisduabus marginibusque fuscis 

 albo maculatis. 



This species is most allied to M. compositus, but will form a 

 distinct group. Pitchy, rather slender, mostly clothed with whitish 

 hairs : head shining in front ; face with a yellow band : labial palpi 

 much longer than the maxillary palpi : antenna black, clavate, much 

 shorter than the thorax : prothorax much narrower in front, much 

 broader than long : segments of the mesothorax and of the meta- 

 thorax with testaceous hind borders: abdomen dark testaceous, 

 pitchy at the base and occasionally beneath towards the tip ; legs 

 black, rather stout ; spurs as long as the first and second joints of 

 the tarsi : wings long and broad, not pointed, yellowish white, bor- 

 dered with brown except along the hind border towards the base ; 

 stigma obsolete ; veins ciliated ; marginal region broad at the tips 

 and along the hind border ; subcostal areolets simple ; their veins 

 forked at intervals between the base and the stigma : fore-wings with 

 spots along the fore border and at the tips and along part of the 

 hind border where the brown colour advances into the disk and 

 forms three broad, irregular, oblique bands ; the second and third 

 more or less connected towards the hind border : hind-wings as 

 broad and almost as long as the fore-wings, limpid towards the base, 

 with two broad undulating brown bands which are connected in the 

 middle ; spots very few ; subcubitus ascending and descending as 

 in M. composilus, but less deeply, and forming a right angle. Length 

 of the body 18 lines ; of the wings 44 lines. 



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



168. MYRMELEON TBANSLATUS. 



Niger ; antenna thorace multo breviores ; prothorax fulvo margi- 

 nalus ; alee latisdmce, anticce lutece fusco guttatce, posticce 

 pallidiores fusco fasciatce et maculates. 



This differs from all the other species of Myrmeleon by its short 

 body, and especially by the great breadth of its wings. Black, 

 shining, clothed with black hairs : face yellow, and with a yellow 



