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STRAY NOTES ON MYRMELEONID^, Pakt 2. 



P>Y DR. H. A.'hAGEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 



I. Species figured in A. Seba Thesaurus. 



I have quoted, Synops. Hemerob., p. 457, as belonging to Pamcxis, a 

 new species figured in Seba Thesaur., vol. iv., pi. 86, f 20. The explana- 

 tion says, " Color pallide subfuscus, maculis suture fuscis." I can not 

 here compare a colored copy of Seba's work, nevertheless the figure 

 proves to be a male of a species of Pamexis without antennae! The 

 figures of insects in Seba are not good ; but as the species belongs surely 

 to Pamexis, and is larger than the other known species, and different from 

 them, I wish to draw attention to the existence of a new species of this 

 curious genus. It is, besides the figure given by Thunberg, the only 

 species figured. Seba's collection was sold in the beginning of the last 

 century to Peter the Great, but as far as I know, was destroyed entirely in 

 St. Petersburg, as well as the collection of .Madam Merian, of which only 

 a few of the large Lamellicorns are left. Seba has figured on plate 86 

 six Myrmeleonidas, five of which belong to Palpares. Fig. 17 is quoted 

 by Linne, Syst. Nat. ed. xii., in the appendix, to be his Libeiiula capensis, 

 p. 904, n. 19. This species belongs certainly to z. Palpares from Cap. b; 

 sp. Among the species known to me it is near \.Q) P. latipennis ; the quo- 

 tation in my Syn. Hemerob., p. 456, by P. latipeunis, f. 5, is a typo- 

 graphical error for f. 17, as Prof. Brauer justly remarks. 



Of the four other figures by Seba, is f. 18, a male of Palpares, perhaps 

 the unknown male of P. Caffer. The fig. 5 is, as Prof. Brauer has 

 proved, Wien. Z. B. Ges , xvii., p. 521, Myrmeleon siiiuatiim Oliv., Enc. 

 Meth., viii., p. 121, No. 4, from Cap. b. sp., which was described only 

 from Seba's figure. The figure well represents Palp, haematogastcr 

 Gerst., except that the posterior margin of the hind wings is not sub- 

 falcate, as in Gerstaecker's species. Therefore Prof. Brauer believes it to 

 be different. McLachlan, Jour. Linn. Soc , ix., 243, has established for 

 P. haematogaster the genus Cramboviorphus, and be'.ieves Olivier's M. 

 sinuatum to be the same species ; but he has apparently at the time not 

 compared Seba's figure, as he would have stated the difference of the hind 

 wings. For the species P. gigas Drury, contrarius Walk., moestus Hag., 

 and falcatus McLachlan, this author has established the genus Symma- 



