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mysteriosus, the hind femora dark on outer side, and tibia with a black line 

 within; 11 or 12 cross-veins before radial sector in each wing, ii branches of 

 radial sector. It differs from N. mysteriosus not only in lacking the pale spot 

 below antennae, but from this and all other species of the genus I have seen 

 in the greatly swollen vertex, fully twice as high as in A^ mysteriosus. 

 Expanse 74 mm. 



From Harrar, Abyssinia (Kristensen). 



Explanation of Plate. 



Fig. I. Cyinotliales eccentros, wings. 



Fig. 2. Cymothales johnstoni, wings. 



Fig. 3. Nesoleon pallens, abdomen. 



Fig. 4. Myrmeleon pulveriilentus, pronotum. 



Fig. 5. Myrmeleon ochroneurus, pronotum. 



Fig. 6. Phanoclisis longicollis, pronotum. 



Fig. 7. Acanthaclisis distincta, pronotum. 



Fig. 8. Creagris mortifer, pronotal marks. 



Fig. 9. Creagris cinerascens, pronotal marks. 



Fig. 10. Nesoleon lepidus, abdomen. 



Fig. II. Acanthaclisis longicornis, pronotum. 



Fig. 12. Myrmeleon cinereus, pronotinn. 



Fig. 13. Myrmeleon infidus, pronotum. 



Fig. 14. Myrmeleon fasciatus, pronotum. 



Fig. 15. Myrmeccrluriis latus, pronotum. 



Fig. 16. Formicaleon diver sus, pronotum. 



Fig. 17. Myrmeleon lethifer, pronotum. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Note on Phanseus Torrens Lee- — In 1847, in the Journ. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila., Ser. 2, Vol. i, p. 85, Dr. Leconte described as new 

 Phancrus torrens in the following words : " Cupreus, stibnitidus, sub- 

 tiliter rugosus, clypeo J* postice breviter cornuto, thoracis disco tri- 

 angulariter planato; elytris obsolete punctatis, profunde striatis, striis 

 basi dilatatis. J* Long. .59; lat. .42. J Long. .74; lat. .46. 



" Varietatibus quibusdam P. nigrocyanei (McLeay) similis, at inter- 

 stitiis elytrorum convexioribus, vix conspicue punctatis, necnon colore 

 cupreo distinctus. Habitat ad urbem St. Louis, a Dom. Engelman 

 datus. 



" Supra laete cupreus, subtus nigro-?eneus. Clypeus rotundatus. 



