440 MYBMELEONITES. 



border, the fourth united in the disk to the third, and extending to 

 the stigma ; hind border dilated before one-third of the length, ex- 

 cavated towards the base near which there is a tuft of hairs. Length 

 of the body 9 lines ; of the wings 27 lines. 



a. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 



b. Guatimala. From Mr. J. Deby's collection. 



Subdiv. 2. 



Alae posticae et nonnunquam anticag margine postico inciso. 



Orphne, Lefebvre, Mag. Zool. 1842. 

 Colobopterus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 360. 



Head small : third joint of the maxillary palpi almost as long 

 as the last, longer than the others ; second joint of labial palpi 

 tkicker at the tip; last joint more slender: labium somewhat heart- 

 shaped, with its lateral borders broadly folded within, fringed 

 with little short bristles which are very numerous and thick-set; 

 upper border deeply declining and forming a large excavation whose 

 angles bear a tuft of thick rather long bristles like spines: an- 

 tennae very slender, as long as the wings, with verticillate hairs at 

 the base : legs slender, fringed with very long hairs ; the two bristles 

 as long as the claws between which they are placed : spurs of hind- 

 tibiae at least as long as the three first joints of the tarsi ; wings 

 long and narrow; hind-wings with a broad notch on the hind bor- 

 der near the base which is rather prominent. 



59. ASCALAPHUS LEPTOCERUS. 



Niger, flavo varius ; caput parvum; antennae longissimce,jlavce, 

 nigro annulatce, basi verlicillato-pilosce, clava elongata subtus 

 alba ; pedes fusco-Jlavi ; alec hyalines, angustce, vents rufis^ 

 stigmate fusco. 



Colobopterus leptocerus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 361, 4. 



a. ? From Mr. Birch's collection. 



b. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



Brazil ? 



