442 MYRMELEONITES. 



Female of A. garrulus P Brown, very thickly clothed witli 

 bright reddish hairs, which form a tuft in front of the head, and are 

 there mixed with some brown hairs : head ferruginous towards the 

 mouth: antennae black, shorter than those of A. garrulus, much 

 shorter than the wings, tawny towards the base ; club fusiform, 

 tawny : thorax clothed with brown hairs on each side and beneath : 

 abdomen black, with two red dorsal spots, shorter than that of A. 

 garrulus : legs testaceous: wings lurid, ample, slightly angular at 

 the tips ; stigma brown, very small ; veins black ; longitudinal veins 

 testaceous ; subcostal region decreasing in length from near the 

 base to half the length of the wing, parallel from thence to the 

 stigma: hind-wings shorter but not narrower than the fore-wings, 

 dark brown on near one-third of the length from the base except 

 towards the fore border, very convex but hardly dilated on the hind 

 border at one-third of the length from the base. Length of the 

 body 15 lines ; of the wings 38 lines. 



a. ? From Mr. Children's collection. 



63. AsCALAPHUS INCUSANS. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput ferrugineum, subtus cano-hirtum ; 

 antennae picea, longce, ban ferruginece, clava nigra ; thorax 

 testaceo vittatus, subtus testaceo bifasciatus ; abdomen nigro- 

 piceum, subtus basi testaceo varium, apice dilatatum ; pedes 

 ferruginei ; alee subluridce, margine postico basi excavato et 

 in anticis dilatato acuminato. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs : head ferruginous, with some 

 hoary hairs beneath : antennae pitchy, long, ferruginous at the base, 

 a little shorter than the wings ; club black, broad: thorax with a 

 testaceous dorsal stripe ; under side with two testaceous oblique 

 bands on each side : abdomen pitchy black, much shorter than the 

 wings, partly testaceous towards the base beneath, dilated at the 

 tip; appendages very short : legs ferruginous: wings with a slight 

 lurid tinge ; hind border with a long shallow excavation at the base ; 

 stigma dark brown, with five or six veins, one of which is forked ; 

 veins black; space between the subcostal and the radius lurid : fore- 

 wings with the subcostal region very slightly increasing in breadth 

 from the base to the stigma ; hind border dilated into a long acute 

 angle near the base : hind-wings shorter and narrower than the fore- 

 wings ; subcostal region slightly decreasing in breadth from near 

 the base to half the length, parallel from thence to the stigma. 

 Length of the body 12 lines ; of the wings 30 lines. 



a. Ceylon. Presented by Dr. Hooker. 



