92 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Myrmeleon ccphalotes, Klug, Symb. Phyr., i., iv., pi. 35, f. i, fern. 



This species has been misunderstood by all entomologists, and so by 

 Rambur, Walker, McLachlan. As the latter says, " Klug n'en a cepend- 

 ant connu que la femelle," he cannot have seen the description where 

 the forceps of the male is described. Professor Ehrenberg has collected 

 a large number of specimens in Egypt and Dongola, and I have still 

 before me two typical couples, with the name written by Klug still on the 

 pins. Length of body, male, 67 m.m.; female, 58 m.m.; exp. alar., male, 

 126 m.m.; female, 140 m.m. Pale grayish, a brown dorsal band on the 

 thorax ends narrowed on vertex ; facies and mouth pale yellow ; antenna 

 black, the two basal joints yellowish brown ; palpi pale reddish brown ; 

 last joint of the labials a little incurved, fusiform on tip ; mandibles black, 

 shining, long, much more prominent than in the foregoing species ; thorax 

 white-villous ; mesothorax above on each side with an obsolete stripe ; 

 legs ferruginous, femur on tip. tibia on base less dark ; tarsi darker, of the 

 female nearly blackish. Abdomen of the male pale, basal half enlarged, 

 covered with a longer dense white villosity ; appendages yellow, 6 m.m. 

 long, curvated at the base and inward ; space between ovoid ; hairy ex- 

 ternally ; apical half inside with a black brush ending on the somewhat 

 globose tip ; each on the extreme base inside with two yellow elongated 

 papillae, with a black blunt spine as long as the papillae, articulated to the 

 tip of the papillae ; between and before the two appendages a small coni- 

 cal yellow part. Wings of the males nearly hyaline ; smaller, elongated, 

 narrower, tip less obtuse and more pointed than in the foregoing species ; 

 front wings with the ante-cubitals brownish at base ; a row of small more 

 quadrangular spots around the hind margin at the distance of 2 m.m.; 

 basal part after the 5th vem with more small dots, reaching the hind mar- 

 gin ; in the middle of the wings two small oval spots, oblique, about 6 

 m.m. long, and a more longitudinal one below on tip. Hind wings with 

 few dots on the base of the ante-cubitals ; a row of irregular, little larger 

 dots along the hind margin, some of them reaching the margin ; the row 

 begins after the basal third of the margin, and ends on the tip ; base to 

 the fifth vein without spots ; in the middle of the wing five pale brown 

 narrow bands, of irregular shape, not connected, the apical one more or 

 less divided. Wings of the female larger, broader ; spots larger and 

 darker, to blackish brown, the two penultimate bands before tip mostly 

 connected ; the pterostigma yellow. Abdomen of female brown below, 

 before and around the anus a row of black strong spines. 



