426 MYRMELEONITES. 



length of the wing and more slightly widening from thence to the 

 stigma, of the hind-wings decreasing in breadth to half the length 

 and parallel from thence to the stigma : hind-wings narrower and 

 much shorter than the fore-wings. Length of the body 12 ? lines ; 

 of the wings 29 lines. 



a. Nepaul. From the Hardwicke bequest. 



35. ASCALAPHUS ODIOSUS. 



Fulvus, fulvo-hirtus ; caput flavum, subtus albido-hirtum, vertice 

 niyro-hirto ; antenna ferruginea, clava picea ; pectus testa- 

 ceum ; abdomen piceo bivittatum ; pedes testacei ; alee lim- 

 pidcBj parvte. 



Tawny, clothed with tawny hairs : head yellow and clothed 

 with whitish hairs beneath ; a tuft of black hairs in front of the 

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

 pitchy : thorax testaceous beneath : abdomen slender, with a pitchy 

 stripe on each side, nearly as long as the hind-wings ; legs testa- 

 ceous : wings limpid, short and narrow ; stigma ferruginous, with 

 five veins ; veins black ; subcosta and radius tawny ; subcostal re- 

 gion decreasing in breadth from near the base to half the length of 

 the wing, from whence to the stigma it again, but more slightly, 

 widens : hind-wings a little narrower and much shorter than the 

 fore-wings. Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 26 lines. 



a. North Bengal. From Miss Campbell's collection. 



36. ASCALAPHUS VEKBOSUS. 



Piceus, fusco-hirtus ; caput nigrumflavo varium, antice testaceum, 

 vertice nigro fasciculate ; antenna picece, basi fulvce, clava 

 testacea apice nigra ; pectus ferrugineum, cano-hirtum ; abdo- 

 men nigrum, longifusiforme, maculis lateralibus flavis ; pedes 

 ferruginei, tarsis piceis ; alee limpidcp,, sublatce, stigmate nigro. 



Pitchy, clothed with brown hairs : head black, pitchy, with a yel- 

 low spot on each side behind, shining in front, yellow about the eyes, 

 testaceous towards the rnouth ; a tuft of black hairs on the vertex : 

 antennae pitchy, tawny at the base, much shorter than the wings ; 

 club testaceous, black towards the tip : thorax ferruginous and 

 clothed with hoary hairs beneath : abdomen black, elongate-fusi- 

 form, shorter than the hind-wings, with a row of yellow spots along 



