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4. Maracmida Henshawi Hag. 



Body very slender, hairy, striped with yellow. Head very small \ face 

 yellow, black near antennae ; two small black dots on each side and one 

 in middle ; antenna longer than head and prothorax, stout, cylindrical, 

 tip narrowed ; black, the basal joint and the articulations yellow ; maxil- 

 lary palpi pale with a brownish tinge, apical joint brownish ; labial palpi 

 white, apical joint after basal third dark brown ; vertex elevated, black 

 anteriorly, with a thin silvery felt ; above yellow with two transversal 

 black lines and some spots near occiput ; prothorax black, a fine yellow 

 median line and a yellow dot each side of the line near the front margin j 

 sides largely yellow, with a blackish stripe ; mesothorax black, anteriorly 

 with two narrow lines, followed by a median one and two faint lines on 

 each side, all yellow ; metathorax black with a yellow cross of spots and 

 Mnes ; sides of thorax black, with two yellow lines ; abdomen very 

 slender, black, segments 2 to 6 with a dorsal yellow band, split by a faint 

 black median line ; appendages short, straight, cylindrical, brown, with a 

 brush of black hairs ; base going upward to dorsum ; below between them 

 a small black triangular plate, with yellow tip ; legs short, thin, pale, 

 femur externally black ; tibiae with white hairs, and some black bristles 

 around tip ; four anterior tibiee sprinkled with black externally ; tip of all, 

 and tip of joints of tarsi black, more on last joint; no spurs; claws incurved, 

 reddish-brown. Wings hyaline, narrow ; costal space with one series of 

 areoles and the transversals in the apical fourth of wing forked ; veins 

 brown interrupted with yellow ; pterostigma small, yellow, with a blackish 

 spot internally ; wings very little sprinkled; along the anterior longitudinal 

 veins the transversals shaded with brown ; front wings with an oblique 

 dark stripe parallel to the hind margin of the apex ; hind wings less 

 sprinkled along the anterior longitudinal veins. 



Length of body 30 m.m.; exp. al., 40 m.m. 



Habit. — Umatilla, Oregon; one male, June 24, 1882, collected by 

 Mr. S. Henshaw. 



This species is directly separated from the two foregoing by its small 

 size, and by anterior face of the vertex being black. 



5. Maracandat pygmaea Hag. 



Myrmeleon pygmaeus Hag., Syn. N. Am. Neur., p. 231, No. 13. 

 The type collected in Mexico by Mr. Deppe is in the Berlin Museum. 

 Not knowing anything more about this smallest described species than 



