434 MYRMELEONITES. 



48. ASCALAPHUS LOQUAX. 



Ferrugineus, nigro-hirtus ; antenna clava nigra ; thorax fusco 

 varius ; pectus fascia arcuata testacea ; abdomen rufum, sub- 

 tus testaceum, apicem versus nigro varium ; tarsi nigri ; alee 

 amplce, basi fuscce, anticce apud costain fusco-fulvce^ postica 

 fulvce. 



Ferruginous, clothed with black hairs: antennae ferruginous or 

 tawny, much shorter than the wings ; club black: thorax with some 

 brown marks on the disks of the segments ; underside with a curved 

 testaceous band : abdomen red, testaceous beneath, black on each 

 side towards the tip, much shorter than the wings : legs ferruginous, 

 stout; tarsi black: wings ample, brown at the base; stigma dark 

 brown, large, with six veins ; veins black; subcostal region decreas- 

 ing in breadth from near the base to the middle of the wing, hardly 

 widening from thence to the stigma: fore-wings brownish tawny 

 along the fore border from the base to the stigma, and with an in- 

 distinct lurid tinge over half the surface from the base: hind-wings 

 shorter but hardly narrower than the fore-wings, bright tawny except 

 at the tips. Length of the body 17 lines ; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Brazil. 



49. ASCALAPHUS ANTICUS. 



Ferrugineus, nigro-hirtus ; antennae fulvce ^ longce, clava lata nigra ; 

 thoracis segmenta testaceo notata et marginata ; pectus flavo 

 fasciatum ; abdomen grucile, subtus bnsi testaceum ; alee lim- 

 pidce, amplce, basifuscce, apice subangulatce, stigmate magno 

 sub fusco. 



Dark ferruginous, clothed with black hairs: head paler: an- 

 tennae tawny, long, snorter than the wings; club broad, black: 

 segments of the thorax with dark testaceous marks on their disks and 

 borders ; underside with a curved yellow band : abdomen ferrugi- 

 nous, slender, shorter than the wings, testaceous beneath at the 

 base: legs dark ferruginous: wings limpid, ample, dark brown at 

 the base, slightly angular at the tips ; stigma large, pale brown, 

 with five or six veins ; veins black; radius tawny; 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 



