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Entomol. Mitteilungen 11, 1913, Nr. 7/8. 



H. Sauter's Formosa-Ausbeiite. 



Planipennia 11^), llegaloptera and 3Iecoptera. 



By Esbeii Petersen, Silkeborg. 



(With 15 figures.) 



It was with great interest, that I worked out for Deutsch. Entom. 

 Mus. a fine collection of Neuropterous insects, collected in Formosa 

 by H. Saut er. The collection contained a great number of specimens, 

 and several very interesting species were found together with twelve 

 new and undescribed ones. 



Planipennia. 



Myrmeleon klae. 



Myrmeleon formicarius Lin. 



Linne, Systema Nat. Ed. XII, pag. 914. 



A small male specimen was present. Anping, 7. VII. 1912. The 

 species is also known from Japan. 



Nesoleon sauteri nov. spec. 



5. Labrum dark brown with yellow lateral margins. Apex of 

 mandibles dark brown. Maxülary palpi yellow with the outer side 



of the apical Joint pale brown. Face yellowish; 



a brownish black band between the antennae, 



proceeding downwards below the base of them 



as a V. The vertcx with several blackish brown 



spots. Antennae as long as 



the head and prothorax to- 

 gether; the basal Joint pale 



brown, the second darker, 



the third and foliowing 



brown, becoming darker to- 



wards the club, which is 



rather broad and oblong. 



Thorax yellow ; prothorax 



dorsally with three brown longitudinal stripes 

 and with a blackish brown one below the lateral margins. Meso- and 

 metathorax with several stripes and dots at the sides and with a 

 broad, brown median stripe, enclosing a narrow, abrupted, yellowish 

 longitudinal line. Abdomen yellow with a blackish brown longitudi- 



Fig. 1. 

 Head and prothorax 

 of Nesoleon sauteri ^. 



Fig. 2 

 Nesoleon sauteri $. 



Plnnipennia I in „Entomol. Mitteil." I, 1912, p. 197. 



