428 MYRMRtEONITES. 



Brown, slender, clothed with brown hairs: head testaceous on 

 each side by the eyes in front and beneath, with black hairs about 

 the base of the antennae and with whitish hairs beneath ; antennae 

 black, very slender, much shorter than the wings, testaceous to- 

 wards the base, and with a testaceous band adjoining the club 

 which is broad : abdomen ferruginous, very slender, much shorter 

 than the wings; under side pitchy, with the hind borders of the 

 segments testaceous: legs testaceous; tarsi ferruginous; hind- 

 femora pitchy with testaceous tips: wings narrow, rather long, with 

 an indistinct lurid tinge, yellow at the base; stigma yellow, with 

 live veins: veins black; subcostal region slightly decreasing in 

 breadth from near the base unto near the stigma where it again 

 widens; hind-wings narrower and much shorter than the fore- 

 wings ; stigma partly brown ; subcostal region narrower. Length 

 of the body 12 lines; of the wings 28 lines. 



39. ASCALAPHUS PROFANUS. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput nigrum, antice albido-hirtum, lateribus 

 anticis Jtavis, facie Lestacea; antennae nig res, gracillima, clava 

 lata basi testacea ; abdomen nigro-piceum, subtus testaceo 

 bivittatum ; pedes testacei, tarsis nigris ; alee limpidce, long<e, 

 stigmate fusco, anticce margine posiico basi excavato ; posticce 

 apice sublimpidce. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs : head black, clothed in front 

 with whitish hairs, yellow about the lower part of the eyes ; face 

 testaceous: antennas black, very slender, much shorter than the 

 wings ; club broad, testaceous at the base : abdomen pitchy-black, 

 very much shorter than the wings, with an interrupted testaceous 

 stripe on each side beneath : legs testaceous ; tarsi black : wings 

 limpid, long ; stigma dark brown, with five veins ; veins black : 

 wings with a short and deep excavation on the hind border at the 

 base ; subcostal region slightly decreasing in breadth from near the 

 base to the stigma: hind-wings narrower and very much shorter 

 than the fore-wings, less limpid towards the tips ; subcostal region 

 much decreasing in breadth from near the base to the stigma. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 32 lines. 



a. East Indies. From Mr. Sowerby's collection. 



