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spot on each side ; palpi short : antennae clavate, ahout half the 

 length of the thorax : prothorax tawny in front and behind, nar- 

 rower in front ; its length about half its breadth : abdomen of the 

 female about twice the length of the thorax ; that of the male a 

 little longer and witb two short, subclavate, slightly curved appen- 

 dages at the tip : legs short, stout ; spurs not longer than the first 

 joint of the tarsi ; wings of the female broader than those of the 

 male ; fore-wings luteous, thickly covered with brown dots ; veins 

 very slightly ciliated: hind-wiugs of the male yellow, of the female 

 whitish, with numerous brown spots towards the base and towards 

 the tip, and in the middle with two irregular and incomplete brown 

 bands which are united towards the hind border in the female. 

 Length of the body 1214 lines ; of the wings 2836 lines. 



a. Cape. Presented by B. W. Townsend, Esq. 

 b. ? From Mr. Milne's collection. 



Sect. 3. 



Antennarum clava elongata. Tarsorum articulus lus 2o vel 

 3o brevior. 



169. MYRMELEON BISIGNATUS. 



Rufo-fuscus, flavo maculatus ; fades flaw ; antenna rufo-fuscce, 

 subtus clava basique flava ; abdomen flavum, segmentis antice 

 nigro cinctis ; pedes testacei ; alee hyalines, breves, sat latce, an- 

 ticcefusco notatce et unimaculatce. 



Megistopus bisignatus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 411, 1. 

 South France ? 



Div. 11. Alse excisae. 



170. MYRMELEON SINGULAEIS. 



Albidus, fusco variegatus ; capite parvo, fusco irrorato ; antennis 

 sensim incrassatis ; prothorace elongate, postice fusco maculato, 

 thoracis dorso fusco maculato, maculis duabus obscurioribus 

 inter basin alarum posticarum; abdominis segmentis albido 

 oblique vittatis ; pedibus albidis, calcaribus elongatis curvatis ; 

 alls elongatis, anticis apice dilatatis subfalcatis ; posticis apice 

 acutis ; omnibus fusco maculatis ; alis infaminanitidissimis. 

 Long. alar. 48 lin. 



