446 MYRMELEONITES. 



Eyes not quite spherical : antennae very short, hardly half the 

 length of the wings ; club oblong : spurs of hind-tibiae hardly as 

 long as the first joint of the tarsi : wings broad ; reticulation very 

 clear ; fore-wings having the basilar branch of the fifth vein anas- 

 tomosed with the transverse branch before the hind border, and 

 forming a large areolet ; the branch of the corresponding vein in 

 the hind-wings has the like structure. 



68. ASCALAPHUS MICROCERUS. 



Magnus, rufescens, fusco maculatus ; antenna flava, clava ob- 

 scuriore ; pedesflavi, tarsis nigricantibus ; al& latce, hyalines, 

 venis rufo-fuscis, stigmale flavescente lineis obscurioribus. 



Byas microcerus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 363. 

 West Indies. 



Sect. 2. 

 Alae basi incisae et appendiculatae. 



Haploglenius, Burnt. Handb. Ent. ii. 

 Ptynx et Aincea, Lefebvre, Mag. Zool. 1842. 



69. ASCALAPHUS APPENDICULATUS. 



Fuseus ; thoracis lateribus vittatis, venire pedibusque testaceis ; 

 alarum omnium limbo antico fusco , anticarum basi subden- 

 tato. 



Ascalaphus appendiculatus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. ii. 96, 4. 

 Ascalaphus costatus, Winth.; Burm. Handb. Ent. ii 1000, 1. 



Ascalaphus subcostatus ? Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1000, 2. Fuscus, 

 pallide maculatus ; alarum omnium limbo antico injuscato, stig- 

 matibus obscurioribus, anticarum basi integra. 



Haploglenius appendiculatus, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 363. 



North America? Bahia, Brazil. 



