412 MYRMELEONITES. 



Ascalaphus meridionalis, Charp. Hor. Ent. 57, pi. 2, f. 8. Ramb. 

 Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 344, 1. 



, b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



c, d. Italy. Presented by Dr. Dowler. 



e. ? From Mr. Birch's collection. 



/. Interlacken. Presented by F. Walker, Esq. 

 9- ? 



2. ASCALAPHUS B^ETICUS. 



A. meridional! simillimus ; abdominis appendicibus brevioribus, 

 apice obtusissimis rotundatis, postice extus spinosis. 



Ascalaphus Baeticus, Ramb. Faune de lAndalousie, ii. pi. 9, f. 3 ; 

 Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 345, 2. 



A. meridionalis var.? Hairs in front of the head and of the 

 occiput cinereous : thorax with only one yellow dot by the junction 

 of the fore-wings, the two beneath more conspicuous : yellow hue of 

 the femora and of the tibiae more extended, and also that of the 

 wings, which sometimes passes into a whitish hue : some yellow dots 

 on the space between the two spots of the fore-wings : black mark 

 at the base of the hind- wings occupying a much smaller space than 

 in A. meridionalis. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



3. ASCALAPHUS LACTEUS. 



Niger ; thorace flavo guttalo ; alis anticis hyalinis, dimidio fusco 

 venosis, vitta duplici basali lactea ; posticis in basi nigris, turn 

 late lacteis, in apice hyalinis, fusco venosis. 



Ascalaphus lacteus, Brulle, Exped. Sclent, de Moree, Zool. pi. 32, 

 f. 3. Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1004, 18. Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. 

 Neur. 345, 3. 



Ascalaphus Ottomanus, Kunze, Germ. Faun. Ins. Europ.fasc. xxi. 

 pi. 21. 



Greece ; South Russia. 



4. ASCALAPHUS ITALICUS. 



Niger ) flaw maculatus ; abdominis segmentorum marginibus ftavis ; 

 alis fusco venosiS) flavo maculatis, basi macula parva nigra. 



