188 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Habit. — Canada, Ontario, Mr. Saunders ; southern peninsula of 

 Michigan, Mr. Harrington ; N. Hampshire, Mr. Leonard in T. W. Harris's 

 coll. There is a very indifferent figure of Harris's specimen by F. J. 

 Sanborn (it is reproduced in Dr. Packard's Guide, f. 604), in his Rep., 

 1862, Mass. Agric, p. 160. Mr. Sanborn, who had a most general and 

 reliable knowledge of insects in this country, says : — " It is of common 

 occurrence throughout the country, and this is the only well-known ant- 

 lion in N. England." But I have to state that Harris's specimen is till 

 now the only one from N. England seen by me ; N. York, in Winthem's 

 coll. and by Mr. Akhurst ; Missouri, St. Louis, Mr. Engelmann ; Illinois, 

 Galena, Mr. Bean ; Maryland, Mr, Uhler : N. Carolina, Morganton ; S. 

 Carolina, Aiken; Virginia; Georgia, June 7 and August 21, in pine 

 woods, rare, in Abbott's figures in the Brit. Museum ; Alabama, figured 

 by Mr. Gosse in his letters from Alabama, p. 242 (I have not seen this 

 book); Liskiyon, Cala. Mr. Behrens. Mr. Th. Say states only, "this species 

 is rather common." 



The range of this species is very large, and probably a larger one to 



the south and west. The size is not very variable, except one specimen 



from South Carolina, and one from Cala., to which belong the smallest given 



dimensions Very probably the larva ascends trees as the related 



European species ; and the larva from Washington, D.C., described by me 



years ago, probably belongs to this species. (Stett. Ent. Z., 1873, p. 



271, n. 7.) 



Myrmcleon immaculatus De Geer. 



M. immaculatus De Geer hi., 564 (365), pi. 27, f. 8 — Retzius 59, No. 



202 — Walker 401, n. 174. 

 M. melanocephalum Oliv. Encycl. viii., 127, No. n. 

 M. immaculatus Hag., Syn. N. Am., 231, 14, partim. 



Face shining, black; epistom and mouth yellow; the black color 

 covers sometimes more or less the epistom, notched anteriorly ; a fine 

 yellow ring around the eyes, more or less interrupted near the antennae, 

 and enlarged below near the mouth. 



Labrum short, twice as broad as long, rounded laterally, largely 

 notched anteriorly. 



Palpi light brown, darker in more adult specimens ; maxillary moder- 

 ately long ; thin cylindrical ; three apical joints sometimes black, with a 



