244 ME. E. M^LACHI-AlSr ON NTfiW gPECIES ETC. OF NETJEOPTEEA. 



nearly approaches the South American Dimares, Hagen, and is 

 altogether aberrant in the Asiatic fauna. The palpi are broken 

 off in the single example I have seen. 



-j- EcHTHROMYRMEX PLATYPTERUS, n. s. Pallide flavcscens. Antennae 

 rufo-ochracege, indistincte pallido annulatse. Caput pallide flavum ; 

 fronte eircum antennas fusco, clypeo flavo ; occipite antice vitta 

 transversa angustata fusca, postice fusco signato. Protliorax elongatus, 

 lateribus fere parallelis ; flavus, fusco signatus. Alae hyalinse : anticse 

 dimidio apicali flavo tincto ; nebula magna pone medium maculisque 

 in area subcostali, inter venas 4™ et 5", pone pterostigma, et ad mar- 

 ginem apicalem dorsalemque fuscis; venis longitudinalibus fuscis, flavo 

 striatis : posticse h3'alin8e ; fascia lata apicali fusca, albo maculata, 

 intus albo marginata. Pedes pallide flavi, nigro spinosi. Abdomen 

 flavidum, fusco annulatum; segmento ultimo spinis brevibus numerosis 

 nigris instructo. ( $ ?) Long. corp. 1" 5'" ; exp. alar. 3" 11'". 



Hab. Baghdad. In Mus. Brit. 



Antennce reddish ocbreous, with very indistinct pale rings. Head pale 

 yellow ; occiput with a naiTOw transverse fuscous line in front, and 

 fuscous markings behind; face pale fuscous about the base of the 

 antennae ; clypeus yellow, with two impressed fuscous dots ; mandibles 

 tipped with black (palpi broken ofi"). Prothorax longer than broad, 

 narrower than the bead, the sides nearly parallel, with a few long hairs, 

 the anterior angles rounded ; yellow, with two fuscous connected lines 

 in the middle, and fuscous at the sides. Meso- and metathorax yellow, 

 spotted with fuscous. Wings hyaline : anterior wings slightly excised 

 below the extreme apex ; the apical half tinged with yellowish ; a 

 very broad indistinct fuscous blotch beyond the middle, reaching half- 

 way to the dorsal margin ; the subcostal area and the space between 

 the 4th and 5th principal veins spotted with fuscous ; a fuscous blotch 

 on the costa beyond the pterostigma, and another in the apex ; the 

 apical margin and apical portion of the dorsal with regular rounded 

 fuscous spots ; besides these markings there are numerous minute 

 fuscous dots ; pterostigma yellowish ; veins and veinlets fuscous, the 

 principal longitudinal veins streaked with whitish yellow, and many 

 of the transverse veinlets wholly whitish yellow ; the row of minute 

 gradate veinlets bordering the apical marginal region conspicuously 

 white : posterior wings with a very broad fuscous fascia occupying the 

 apical half, broadly margined with milkj' white internally, and with 

 several white spaces, viz. a large apical spot in which are two or three 

 fuscous dots on the margin, a small spot at the pterostigmatical 

 region, a larger spot on the dorsal margin towards the basal side of 

 the fascia, and one or two smaller ones in the middle on this margin ; 

 basal veins and veinlets for the most part fuscous, the longitudinal 

 veins with whitish streaks ; the row of minute gradate veinlets border- 

 ing the apical marginal region very conspicuously white from being 



