EUPTILON ASCALAPHUS. 237 



pointed with luteous ; feet short, yellowish, sprinkled with black ; 

 third and fourth joints of the tarsi entirely, and the apex of the 

 last joint, black ; spurs long, luteous'; abdomen fuscous, dorsum 

 of the intermediate segments with a geminate, luteous spot; wings 

 narrow, hyaline, partly milky, pterostigma whitish-yellow ; veins 

 pale, densely interrupted with fuscous ; anterior wings with two 

 oblique, fuscous streaks, the one at the middle of the posterior 

 margin, the other before the apex. 



Length to tip of wings 34 rnillhn. Alar expanse 64 millim. 



Hab. South Carolina (Zimmerman) ; Columbia ; Brazil. 



The specimens from meridional America are a little different; 

 the occiput is obscurer, less spotted, the prothorax is broader an- 

 teriorly : but it is hardly a peculiar species. 



EUPTILON WESTWOOD. 



This genus is very doubtful ; it is only based upon a figure of 

 Drury. It is a Myrmeleon with pectinated antennae. 



1. Eu. ornatum. 



Hemerobius ornatus Drury, I, 110, 2, tab. xlvi, fig. 2. Euptilon ornatum 

 Drury, ed. "Westwood, ib. Chauliodes ornatus Rainb. Neur. 445, 3. 

 Myrmeleon ornatus Walk. Catal. 410, 217. 



Green ; antenna? pectinated ; prothorax anteriorly with a black 

 point; abdomen with yellow rings, and a middle black line ; wings 

 hyaline, the anterior ones with two oblique fuscous lines, at the 

 apex and at the middle of the posterior margin. 



Length to tip of wings 44 millim. Alar expanse 77 millim. 



Hab. Dinwiddie, Virginia (Drury). 



I am inclined to believe that antennae have been affixed to this 

 species artificially, or that the wings have been glued to the body 

 of another kind of insect, by error. The green color is foreign to 

 the genera of Myrmeleons. 



ASCALAPHUS FAB. 



Antennae very long, slender, capitate ; body short ; feet short, 

 stout, tibise with spurs ; wings large, less densely veined than 

 Myrmeleon. 



