400 MYRMKLEONITES. 



Myrmeleon singulare, Westw. Orient. Ent. 70, pi. 34, f. 4. 

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



171. MYRMELEON CIBCUITER. 



Ater, nitens, subglaber, gracillimus, antice ferrugineus ; antennce 

 flava, filiformes ; prothorax multo longior quam latior ; abdo- 

 men fasciis duabus apiceque testaceis ; pedes testacei, longis- 

 simi, gracillimi) intermedii niyro varii ; alee limpidissimce, 

 angustce, iridescentes, apice opalince, fusco maculate et bifas- 

 ciatce, margine postico apicem versus excavato. 



Deep black, shining, very slender, almost bare : head and pro- 

 thorax ferruginous: palpi short; maxillary palpi testaceous ; labial 

 palpi pitchy : antennae yellow, filiform, a little darker at the tips, 

 much shorter than the thorax: prothorax linear, with two transverse 

 furrows, much longer than broad : second and third segments of the 

 abdomen testaceous at the base ; tip testaceous : legs testaceous, 

 very long and slender ; spurs slender, curved towards the tips, 

 nearly as long as the two first joints of the tarsi ; fore-legs shorter 

 and darker than the hind-legs ; middle femora black with testace- 

 ous tips ; middle tibiae with three black bands : wings narrow, 

 quite limpid, very iridescent, with opaline lustre towards their tips, 

 excavated along their hind borders near the tips which are rounded ; 

 stigma white, small ; veins ciliated, white, excepting the brown parts 

 and a few black bands ; subcostal areolets simple, a few of them 

 narrower towards the base, very few of them forked before the stig- 

 ma ; marginal region very broad about the tips of the wings : fore- 

 wings with some brown spots and dots, and with two dark brown 

 interrupted bands, one before the middle, the other near the tip, 

 which has a brown border varied with limpid marks : hind-wings 

 narrower and a little shorter than the fore- wings ; excavation on the 

 hind border less deep ; none of the subcostal areolets narrower to- 

 wards the base ; two brown bands, one beyond the middle and occa- 

 sionally interrupted, the other apical and including some limpid 

 marks ; radius with some brown dots which vary much in size and 

 number. This species is allied to Chrysopa, and forms with M.' sin- 

 gularis a distinct group of the genus. Length of the body 12 13 

 lines ; of the wings 36 40 lines, 

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



