MYRMELEONITES. 447 



70. ASCALAPHUS OBSCURUS. 



Fmco-niger ; oculis fuscis ; antennis apice pallidis ; thoracis dorso 

 concolori obscuro ; abdominis segmentis 2o et 30 strigis duabus 

 obliquis velutino nigris ; alls subparallelis subangustis hyalinis 

 venis stigmateque nigricantibus ; anticis versus basin maryinis 

 postici vix angulatis, margins ipso anguli parum incrassato, 

 unguibus tarsorum longioribus curvatis. Long. alar. 27 lin. 



Ascalaphus (Haplo genius) obscurus, Westw. Cab. Orient. Ent. 

 East Indies. 



71. ASCALAPHUS REMOTUS. 



Piceus, fusco-hirtus ; caput albido-hirtum, antice testaceum ; oculi 

 parvi ; antenna nigrce, articulis intus basi denticulatis, clava 

 lata ; thoracis discus flavescens ; abdomen gracile, vitta dorsali 

 rufa; alee limpidce, sublongce, basi fuscce, stigmate fusco 

 magno. 



Pitchy, clothed with brown hairs : head thickly clothed with 

 whitish hairs, testaceous in front : eyes small : antennae black, long, 

 a little shorter than the wings ; joints denticulate on the inner side 

 near the base ; club broad : disk of the thorax mostly yellow above 

 and beneath : abdomen black, slender, much shorter than the wings, 

 with a red dorsal stripe : wings limpid, rather long, dark brown at 

 the base ; stigma dark brown, large, with six veins ; veins black ; 

 subcosta and radius ferruginous ; subcostal region decreasing in 

 breadth from near the base to the middle of the wing, whence it 

 widens to tho stigma : hind-wings shorter and narrower than the 

 fore-wings, and with less variation of breadth in the subcostal re- 

 gion. Length of the body 13 lines ; of the wings 36 lines. 



a. China. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



72. ASCALAPHUS INJURIUS. 



Testaceo-fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput pilis canis et nigricantibus 

 vestitum, antice testaceum testaceoque pilosum ; antennce ni- 

 grce, basi fulvce, clava subtus testacea ; pectus testaceum^ nigro 

 maculatum ; abdomen testaceum, piceo maculatum ; pedes 

 testacei, tarsis nigris ; alee longa, limpidce. 



2 Q 2 



