MYRMELEON1TES. 451 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs : head thickly clothed about 

 the base of the antennae with black hairs ; face testaceous : antennae 

 pitchy, very slender, much shorter than the wings ; club black, under- 

 side and the borders of the joints testaceous; abdomen black, very 

 much shorter than the hind-wings ; underside pitchy, testaceous to- 

 wards the base : legs testaceous ; tarsi black : wings limpid, very long, 

 brown at the base ; stigma very pale yellow, comprising four yellow 

 veins which generally are all forked ; veins black ; subcostal region 

 of equal breadth from near the base to the stigma, but with its 

 breadth slightly decreasing in the hind-wings; the latter much 

 shorter but not narrower than the fore-wings, their greatest breadth 

 at one-third of the length where the hind border is convex. Length 

 of the body 15 lines ; of the wings 46 lines. 



78. ASCALAPHUS CIKCUMFLEXUS. 



Fuscus, fusco-hirtus ; caput apud antennas nigro-hirtum, facie 

 testaceo-fusca ; antenna ferruginece, testaceo annulatce, clava 

 nigra subtus testacea ; abdomen piceum ; pedes testacei, tarsis 

 nigris ; alee longa, limpida, apice subangulatce, posticce apice 

 fuscce. 



Brown, clothed with brown hairs : head thickly clothed with 

 black hairs about the base of the antenna? : face testaceous brown : 

 antenna? ferruginous, very slender, much shorter than the wings ; 

 joints from about one-third of the length to the club testaceous at 

 the base ; club black, testaceous beneath, rather narrow : abdomen 

 pitchy, much shorter than the hind-wings : legs testaceous ; tarsi 

 black : wings limpid, long, indistinctly angular at the tips, these 

 with a brown tinge, which is indistinct on the fore-wings, but 

 much darker and broader on the hind-wings; stigma yellowish, 

 comprising five or six veins which are nearly all forked ; veins 

 black ; subcostal region of the fore- wings brown, slightly increas- 

 ing in breadth from the base to the stigma, near which there is 

 a forked vein : hind-wings much shorter, but very little narrower 

 than the fore-wings, their greatest breadth at one-third of the length 

 from the base ; subcostal region slightly tinged with brown towards 

 the stigma, very slightly decreasing in breadth from near the base 

 to near the stigma. Length of the body 16 lines ; of the wings 46 

 lines. 



a. Santarem, Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



