422 MYRMELEONITES. 



28. ASCALAPHUS CANIFRONS. 



Fascus ; facie dense cano-hirto, ore sub fulvo ; capite postice fulvo 

 fusco variegato ; thorace etiam fulvo vario ; antennis fuscis, 

 apice dilatato subtriangulari ; abdomine supra fulvo vitta 

 tenui dor sali nigra ; pedibus fulvis, basi fcmorum obscuro ; 

 alis parum venosis pellucidis hyalinis, stigmate parvo sub- 

 fusco. 



Ascalaphus (Bubo) canifrons, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. pi. 34, f. 3. 

 East Indies. 



29. ASCALAPHUS INVOLVENS. 



uscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput ferrugineum* cano-hirtus, apud an- 

 tennas nigro hirtum ; antennae ferruginece, subtus teslacece, basi 

 picece et verticillato pilosce, clava testaceo notata ; thorax sub- 

 tus cano-hirtus ; abdomen latum, fusiforme; pedes nigri, 

 tibiis apud medium femoribusque ferrugineis ; alee sublim- 

 pidcE) anticce margine postico basi excavalo, posticce fusco 

 maculates et fasciatce. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs: head ferruginous, clothed 

 with hoary hairs ; a tuft of black hairs at the base of the antennae : 

 antennae shorter than the wings, ferruginous above, testaceous be- 

 neath, pitchy and verticillate pilose towards the base; club broad, 

 partly testaceous : thorax clothed beneath with hoary hairs : abdo- 

 men broad, fusiform, about half the length of the wings: legs 

 black; tibia3 about the middle and femora ferruginous: wings 

 nearly limpid ; stigma brown, with three or four veins ; subcostal 

 region slightly decreasing in breadth from near the base to near the 

 stigma where it again widens: fore-wings excavated on the hind 

 border at the base, slightly tinged with brown along the hind 

 border, and with a small brown spot behind the stigma : hind-wings 

 much shorter but very little narrower than the fore-wings, with a 

 row of brown spots along the subcostal region, and with a broad 

 oblique brown band behind the stigma from whence it extends dif- 

 fusedly along the hind border ; broadest part at little before half 

 the length. Length of the body 10 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



