424 MYRMELEONITES. 



than the hind-wings, with a black dorsal stripe, black also on the 

 hind borders of the segments and with some black marks on each 

 side : legs yellow ; posterior tibia and middle femora with black 

 streaks ; hind-tarsi ferruginous : wings limpid ; stigma dark brown, 

 large, with six veins ; veins black : fore-wings with the subcostal 

 region decreasing in breadth from near the base to half the length 

 of the wing, slightly widening from thence to the stigma : hind- 

 wings a little narrower and much shorter than the fore-wings ; sub- 

 costal region decreasing in breadth from near the base to less than 

 half the length of the wing, parallel from thence to the stigma, 

 adjoining which there is a brown mark. Length of the body 12 

 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



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



32. ASCALAPHUS SINISTER. 



Ferrugineus ; caput flavum, antice albo-hirtum, vertice nigro fasci- 

 culato ; thorax vitta dorsali lateribus pectoregue flams ; abdo- 

 men luteum, longifusiforme, vittis duabus strigisque nonnullis 

 nigris ; pedes flavi, tarsis testaceis ; alee limpidce, basi sub- 

 flavescentes, apud costam mbluridce. 



Pale ferruginous, clothed with brown hairs : head yellow, 

 clothed with white hairs in front ; a tuft of black hairs on the 

 vertex : antennae ferruginous, shorter than the wings ; club wanting: 

 thorax yellow on each side and beneath and with a yellow dorsal 

 stripe : abdomen elongate-fusiform, luteous, much shorter than the 

 hind- wings, with two black dorsal stripes, and with some black 

 streaks on each side: legs yellow; tarsi testaceous: wings limpid, 

 with a yellowish tinge at the base, and a more slight lurid tinge on 

 the subcostal region ; stigma brown, with five veins ; veins black ; 

 subcostal region decreasing in breadth from near the base to the 

 middle of the wing, from thence to the stigma slightly widening in 

 the fore-wings, parallel in the hind-wings, which are a little nar- 

 rower and much shorter than the fore-wings. Length of the body 

 12 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



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



