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stinct, especially in the liindwing; at the inner margin a 

 small inconspicuous dark spöt. No markings on the wings. 



Body 21 mm; forewing 22 mm; hindwing 20 mm. 



Two specimens, Kimberley district, N. W. Australia, 

 March; the one specimen very immature. 



Myrmeleon uniseriatus Gerstaecker, Mitth. naturw. 

 Ver. f. Neuvorp. u. Rugen, p. 29, 1884. — Queensland: 1 

 specimen, Atherton, January; 1 specimen, Colosseum, Octo- 

 ber; 1 specimen, Glen Lamington, November. N. W. Au- 

 stralia: 1 specimen, Kimberley district. 



Myrmeleon pictifrons Gerstaeckrr, loc. cit., p. 13, 

 1885. — Queensland : 1 specimen, Cedar creek. N. W. Au- 

 stralia: 1 specimen, Derby, October; 1 specimen, Kimberley 

 district, January. 



Myrmeleon croceus n. sp. (pl. 2, fig. 1). — Head shining 

 black. Labial and maxillary palpi black, joinings paJer. Front 

 börder of clypeus påle. Antennae löst. Eyes behind mar- 

 gined with a påle narrow line. Vertex raised and croceous, 

 with four irregular dark spöts, one at each corner, connected 

 by the dark surroundings. Across the croceous vertex an 

 interrupted longitudinal dark streak, foilowing the median 

 furrow. Collum and thorax croceous. Prothorax as long as 

 broad, with a deep transverse furrow one third from front, 

 and with a blackish longitudinal median streak. Dorsum of 

 meso- and metathorax margined with an interrupted irregular 

 blackish streak. Thorax blackish ventrally. Abdomen blackish 

 with paler pleurae; hind börder of some abdominal segments 

 narrowly margined with yellowish brown. Legs stout and 

 short, croceous, and with blackish bristles. Femora, tibiae 

 and tarsal joints with a blackish band at apex. Spurs hardly 

 as long as basal tarsal joint, which is as long as second and 

 third united, fifth joint hardly as long as second, third and 

 fourth united. Wings without markings. C and apical half 

 part of hind margin blackish. Nervures croceous; Se in fore- 

 and hindwings more or less distinctly blackish banded. Pte- 

 rostigma strongly croceous. Posterior Banksian line in the 

 hindwing distinct; two rows of cells in the basal half part 

 of the area between Ciiia and the Banksian line, three rows 



