430 MYRMELEONITES. 



black, very broad : thorax with two pitchy spots on each side, one 

 above the base of each wing ; under side almost testaceous, pitchy 

 in the disk: abdomen slender, pitchy, shining, almost bare, ferru- 

 ginous beneath, nearly as long as the hind-wings : legs testaceous : 

 wings limpid, short, with a slight yellow tinge at the base ; stigma 

 blackish, long, with six veins ; subcostal region decreasing in 

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

 thence to the stigma : fore-wings with the hind border excavated at 

 the base . hind-wings narrower and much shorter than the fore- 

 wings. Length of the body 13 lines; of the wings 25 lines. 



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



42. ASCALAPHUS SUBTKAHENS. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus, subtus albo-hirtus ; caput apud antennas 

 nigro-hirtum, lateribus anticis, epistomate flavo ; antennae 

 nigrce, gracillimce, basifiavce, clavaflava apice nigra ; thorax 

 Jlavo bimaculatus et marginatus ; abdomen nigrum, luteo vit- 

 tatum ; pedes nigri, femoribus anterioribus flavis ; alee lim- 

 pidcB, longce, anticce margine postico basi excavato. 



Brown, clothed above with brown hairs, beneath with white 

 hairs: head with black hairs about the base of the antennae, yellow 

 behind, white on each side in front; epistoma yellow: antennas 

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

 wards the base ; club yellow with black tip : thorax with two large 

 yellow spots, one on the scutum, the other on the scutellum ; hind 

 borders of the prothorax and of the mesothorax yellow : abdomen 

 black, clothed with short hairs, shorter than the wings, with a lute- 

 ous interrupted stripe above, and one on each side beneath towards 

 the base : legs black ; anterior femora yellow : wings limpid, long ; 

 stigma dark brown, comprising four veins ; veins black, yellow at 

 the base ; radial region very slightly lurid : fore-wings with the 

 subcostal region very slightly decreasing in breadth from near the 

 base to the stigma ; hind border excavated at the base : hind-wings 

 shorter and narrower than the fore-wings ; subcostal region almost 

 parallel from the base to the stigma ; hind border ciliated at the 

 base. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. Adelaide. Presented by the Entomological Club, 



