14 SJOSTEDTS KILIMANDJARO-MERU EXPEDITION. 13: 2. 



formicaleo L. in the long and acute wings, short club-shaped antennae and straight 

 tibialspurs, which are not longer than the metatarsus. 



* Myrmeleon obscurus RAMBUE. 



RAMBUR, Hist. nat. Ins. Nevr., p. 403 (1842). - - v. n. WEELE, Bull, sclent. France 

 et Belgique, XLI, p. 275, pi. IX, fig. 13 (1907). - Myrmeleon inconspicuns HAGEN, nee 

 RAMBUR, in PETERS' Reise nach Mossambique, p. 104 (1862). 



This species is also described under several names by WALKER and it seems to be 

 distributed throughout the islands and the continent of Africa. An incomplete specimen 

 (the antennae are broken off) is indicated: Mombo, Usambara, 1905. 



Myrmeleon qiiinquemaculatns H.UIEN. 



HAGEN, PETERS' Reise nach Mossambique, p. 103, tab. 5, fig. 5 (1862). - - Myrme- 

 leon polyzoni'S GERSTAECKER, Mitt. Neu-Vorpomin. Riigen, XVI, p. 21 (1884). - M. rapax 

 KOLBE, 1. c. p. 20 (1897); v. D. WEELE, 1. c. p. 273 (1907). 



This common species has the same distribution as the foregoing. There are four 

 females indicated: Kilimanjaro, Kibonolo, 13001900 m., 26 April, 27 April, 9 May 

 and 11 May 1906. In this species the males are much rarer than the females. 



* Myrmeleon sjostedti, u. sp. 



Fig. 1. - Remembring by the lanceolate wings and black, plumbeous body some- 

 what the species of Creagris, but the abdomen of the tf is shorter than the hindwing 

 and the postcosta is united with the ramus obliquus. 



Head black, mouthparls and labrum orange-yellow. The face with a shining black 

 patch between the bases of the antennae. Vertex black with a yellow arched line at 



each side. Antennae short, black, clubbed, the basal joints with 

 yellow annulations. Prosternum yellow, pronotum plumbeous in the 

 middle, margined and spotted with yellow in a characteristic way 

 (Fig. 1). Meso- and metanotum black, with yellow hind- and side- 

 borders. Rreast blackish with a grey exudation. Legs short and slender, 

 yellow, with spare black spines, tibiae at the innerside and apical 

 half of the femora brown. Tarsi yellow, with narrow black annu- 

 lalions and black claws. 



Abdomen black, the gonopoda yellow. The a 71 with a narrow 

 tongue-shaped genitalvalve and short unciform appendices superiores. 

 Wings lanceolate, nearly equal in length and shape, with acute, 

 Fig. i. Myrmeleon sjostedti. somewhat curved tips and moderately dense brownish-yellow nerva- 



Head and thorax. Upper side. ture Thg radius ig a l ways black. PelottC Of the cf redbl'OWn. 



Body a 71 27, $ 27 mm., forew. a 71 27, ? 31 mm -, hindw. a 71 25, $ 28 mm. Ant. a 71 5 mm. 

 Abd. tf 20, $ 20 , gr. br. tf 6, $ 7 , gr. br. a 71 5, $ 6 > . $ 5 



Five specimens, one a 71 and four $, from Meni low lands, 22 Nov., 27 Nov. and 

 2 Dec. 



