236 ME. R. m'lachlan o]s' new species etc. or neuropteka. 



and the discal transverse veinlets towards the base, yellow. Legs pale 

 yellowish brown, the tarsi and tips of the tibiae more obscure. Abdo- 

 men pale fuscous ; appendices long, yellowish, slightly pilose ; superior 

 appendices sinuated, bisarticulate, the tips bent under ; inferior 

 appendices genieulated, the apices directed upwards and slightly 

 dilated. 

 This species is closely allied to C. crassicornis, and has the same 

 antenual structure ; it differs in its apparently smaller size, an- 

 nulated palpi, and a slightly different formation of the appendices. 

 In the genus Gorydalis the character of size, when taken from a 

 single individual of a species, is not of much importance, as these 

 insects vary greatly in this respect, not only sexually, hut also in 

 different examples of the same sex. 



MYEMELEONID^. 



Genus Palpabes, Samhur. 



Palpares falcatus, n. sp. Rufo-fulvus. Antennae rufescentes. 

 Caput rufo-fulvum ; occipite postice niaculis tribus, autice vitta trans- 

 versa quadrimaculata, maculis nigris. Palpi nitentes, piceo-brunnei. 

 Thorax vitta media, et utrinque, fuscus. Ala; latae, albido-hyalinae : 

 anticae ad apicem obtusae, dente parvo instructa;, puncto ad mar- 

 ginem dorsalem prope basin nigro-fusco; maculis costalibus nume- 

 rosis, obliquis, alteris ad apicem, duabus magnis plus minusve conflu- 

 eutibus basin versus, fasciis duabus trausversis, obliquis, quarum una an- 

 gusta, ante medium, altera lata pone medium, uebulaque magna apicali, 

 fuscis : posticse apicibus sursum productis, valde falcatis, margine 

 sinuato ; maculis nonnullis costalibus et ante apicem fasciisque tribus 

 latis, quarum una media fere interrupta ad marginem dorsalem apicem 

 versus producta, altera completa pone medium, tertia ad apicem, 

 fuscis: venis venulisque rufescentibus. Pedes rufo-fusci, albido pi- 

 losi, nigro spinosi. Abdomen fuscum, vix rufescens ; S appendici- 

 bus brevibus, curvatis, fere clavatis, intus spinis brevibus nigris dense 

 instructis. Long. corp. 2 " ; exp. alar. 5" '6'". 



Hab. Birmah. In collect. Mus. Brit. ( d*) et auct. ( 5 ). 



Antennce reddish. Head pale reddish-fulvous, darker about the basal 

 joints of the antennae; front yellowish; occiput in front with a trans- 

 verse vitta composed of four black spots, the two middle ones some- 

 what united, behind or above with three black spots placed in a tri- 

 angle, and a short line on each side of the upper ones. Thorax 

 reddish fulvous, a median narrow fuscous stripe, and the sides broadly 

 fuscous ; prothorax narrowly transverse, and, with the mesothorax, 

 clothed with reddish hairs ; metathorax clothed more thickly with 

 whitish bail's ; the breast reddish brown. Wings much dilated beyond 

 the middle, hyaline : anterior tvings obtuse at the end, but the ex- 



