00 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Schneider, Breslau ; and two females from Zanzibar, collected by Mr. C. 

 Cooke, Salem, and a female from Zanzibar Island, from Mr. Thorey, 

 Hamburg. It belongs to this species, P. latipomis, Gerstaecker, Insects 

 from Zanzibar, 1873, p. 55 ; a female from the Galla land, 2' latit., which 

 is compared with the male described by myself in Peters' Voyage, p. 99. 

 But this last male is from Loanda (west coast), and not, as stated by 

 Gerstaecker, from Mozambique. Dr. Krauss has collected from 1839 ^o 

 1840 on Cap. b. sp. and Natal. Therefore, as far as known to me, the 

 range of this species goes from the Cape along the east coast to the 

 equator. There does not yet exist a description of this species except 

 Walker's, which is correct. I have compared (1857) my specimens with 

 the types of M. indemeiis, females, so that I have no doubt about the 

 identity. The spots of the wings are sufficiently well described, but there 

 is a character not mentioned which is important. The large transverse 

 band of the hind wing, following the somewhat incomplete basal band, has 

 always in its lower half a large horseshoe-like incision looking with the 

 open side to the base of the wing. This incision is wanting in P. lati- 

 pennis Gerst. The appendages of the male are short, 3 m.m. long, black, 

 with dense black hairs, cylindrical, straight, very little curvated internally 

 and at base ; tip rounded, a little inflated, covered with short spines. 

 Below at the base between the appendages is a short, dark, spoon-shaped 

 plate, with a yellow spot on tip. 



McLachlan unites M. sollicitus Walk, and M. subduccns Walk., both 

 nearly related to each other, with M. cephalotes Klug , as I believe, 

 erroneously. Both are presented by Lord Byron from the Voyage of the 

 Blonde, locaUty unknown. I have carefully compared the Voyage of the 

 Blonde, because both insects are nearly related to M. incletnens, and 

 supposed to be from Africa. The Blonde stopped at Madeira, October 

 18-23, going then to Rio. On the way home she came from Talcahuana, 

 Coquimbo, to St. Helena Isl., staying there from January 23 to 28. All the 

 time between these dates the Blonde was in the Pacific Ocean. In 

 Madeira certainly these Myrmeleons have never been observed, and from 

 St, Helena Island they have not been mentioned by any collectors since 

 that time. We find it noted that many insects have been observed and 

 collected during the stoppmg of the Blonde on the Society and Sandwich 

 Islands. If my supposition is erroneous for the locality of the species, I 

 am at least not able to understand how these Myrmeleons could have 

 been brought home by the ships, except by a purchase in other harbors. 



