o('» THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Mr. Taschenberg (Zeitschr. Giebel., vol. 52, p. 213) describes the types 

 of Burmeister in the Halle Museum of M. irroratus, from S. Carolina, 

 Zimmermann. The two females belong evidently to M. longicaudus. 

 Though I have no female of this species before me, the identity is proved 

 by Taschenberg's description and by the mention of the three obsolete 

 dots along the submediana of the front wings. There can be no doubt 

 that these females are the types of M. irroratus, as in the Halle coll., and 

 in Burm. Hdl, No. 11 ; but I repeat that the male described by me has 

 on the pin the label " irroratus Burm." in his handwriting. As the 

 name irroratus is pre-occupied, no change is needed. 



2. Brachynemurus iiebulosus Ramb. 



Myrmeleon ncbulosus Ramb., 387, 4 ; Walk., 33c, 48. 



Very slender, villous ; head small, blackish ; face dull yellowish, with 

 a fine transversal line before labrum and a longitudinal line, black ; below 

 the antennae an incurvate black line ; vertex elevated, not cut sharply in 

 front, more rounded, grayish-fuscous, as well as the occiput, with some 

 blackish not well defined spots ; antennae as long as head and thorax, 

 strong, cylindrical, rather enlarged to tips, rufo-fuscous, articulations faint 

 yellowish ; palpi dull yellowish, the labials about as long as the maxillary, 

 last joint longer, cylindrical, its basal half a little thicker and darker. 

 Prothorax narrow, blackish, with three ill defined yellowish bands, begin- 

 ning on the front margin ; the median very short, split, the two others 

 running together before the wings ; meso- and meta-thorax blackish, each 

 above with a yellow geminate spot and some marks near the wings ; on 

 each side above the legs some yellow stripes. Abdomen of the male very 

 slender, much longer than the wings, villous, blackish ; basal half above 

 with a pale longitudinal band, interrupted on tip of segments : apical half 

 black with a pale basal dot, and sometimes another one in the middle ; 

 appendages about half the length of last segment, with long black hairs, 

 compressed, the base enlarged to reach the dorsum ; below and between 

 them a very short and small triangular whitish plate. Abdomen of the 

 female as long as the wings, compressed on the more enlarged apical 

 third ; colored as the male ; genital parts in the last segment above yel- 

 low, split, surrounded with strong black bristles ; below two short thick 

 black appendages. Legs short, pale yellow, much sprinkled with black, 

 with white and black hairs ; tip of tibiae and of all joints of tarsi (the 

 fourth entirely) black ; spurs brown, as long as the two basal joints ; 





