MYRMELEONITES. 423 



a, b. Port Natal. From Mr. Gueinzius' collection, 

 c, d. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Var. ? Alas posticaB immaculatae. 



30. ASCALAPHUS RUFOPICTUS. 



Rufus, crassus ; caput magnum, apud antennas fusco-hirtum ; 



oculi magni ; antenna Icete rufi ; clava lata nigra ; thorax 



':' albido-hirtus, antice fusco-hirtus ; abdomen lateribus ventreque 



piceis ; pedes Icete rufi, tarsis nigris ; alee albo-hyalince, sub- 



angustce, stigmate rufo, venis testaceis. 



Red, stout : Lead large, bright red behind, with some brown 

 hairs about the base of the antennae : eyes large : antennae bright 

 red, very much shorter than the wings ; club broad, black : thorax 

 clothed with whitish hairs, and with a band of brown hairs in front : 

 abdomen much shorter than the wings, pitchy on each side and be- 

 neath, and with a pitchy dot near the hind border of each segment: 

 legs bright red, stout; tarsi black: wings whitish hyaline, rather 

 narrow; stigma bright red, rather large, with five veins ; veins tes- 

 taceous, red at the base ; subcostal region slightly decreasing in 

 breadth from near the base to the middle of the wing, parallel from 

 thence to the stigma: hind-wings much shorter but very little nar- 

 rower than the fore-wings. Length of the body 15 lines; of the 

 wings 38 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



31. ASCALAPHUS DICAX. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput flavum, antice flavo-hirtum, vertice 

 nigro ; antenna nigra ; thorax marginibus, scutello lateri- 

 busque flavis ; abdomen luteum, fusiforme, vitta dorsali 

 maculisque nigris ; pedes flam, tibiis posterioribus femoribus- 

 que mediis nigro strigatis, tarsis posticis ferrugineis ; alee 

 timpidce, stigmate maculaque postica fuscis. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs : head yellow, clothed with 

 yellow hairs in front ; vertex black, shining : antennas black, very 

 much shorter than the wings : thorax bordered with yellow on most 

 of the segments ; scutellum of the mesothorax and of the meta- 

 thorax and sides yellow : abdomen luteous, fusiform, much shorter 



