NEUROPTERA 



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Family ASCALAPHID^ 

 The Ascalaphids 



The family Ascalaphidse is quite closely allied to the preceding 

 family; but the members of this family can be easily distinguished 

 from myrmeleonids by 

 the greater length of the 

 antennas (Fig. 346) and 

 by the fact that in the 

 wings there is not an 

 elongate cell behind the 

 point of fusion of veins 

 ScandRi; compare Fig- 

 ures 347 and 344. Fig. z^6.— Ululodes hyalina. (From Kellogg, after 

 McClendon.) 



The adults are pre- 

 dacious; some species fly in the daytime in bright sunshine, but it is 

 said that others fly in the twilight. Some species resemble mymieleon- 



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Fig. 347. — Wings of Ululodes hyalina. 



ids in appearance, while others resemble dragon-flies. When at rest 

 they remain motionless on some small branch or stalk, head down, 

 with the wings and antennae closely applied to the branch, and the 

 abdomen erected and often bent so as to resemble a short brown twig 

 or branch (Fig. 346). 



