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Petersen, A few new Neuroptera Planipennia. 



blackish brown with four or five yellowish brown lines. The prothorax 

 along its lateral margins and the meso- and metathorax along their 

 bind borders with long white hair. 



Abdomen greyish brown, with close and short hair. Legs 

 yellowish; fore and intermediate femora with a brown band near to 

 the apex, and fore and intermediate tibiae with two brown bands, the 

 one before the middle and the other at the tip. Hind tibiae with a 

 small band at the apex. All the tarsal joints with fine brown 

 annulations at their apices. Nervures and cross veins in the wings 

 whitish with brown bands. The penultiraate cross vein between the 

 median and V^ cubital branch in the fore wing a little more marked 

 with brown than the other veins. The pterostigma with a faint 

 reddish finge. Hind wing narrower and more pointed at the apex 

 than the fore wing. Length of body 22 mm; fore and hind wing 

 23 mm. 



One speeimen, Deutsches Entom. Museum, captured by Dr. 

 W. Hörn at Matala, Ceylon. 



Fig. 1. Head and prothorax 

 of Macronemurus Horni. 



Fig. 2. Head and prothorax 

 of Myrmeleon fusiformis. 



Myrtneleon fusifortnis nov. spec. 

 Face and mouthparts brownish yellow; the tip of the mandibles 

 and the last Joint of labial palpi dark brown; the mentioned Joint 

 strongly fusiform and terminating in a long tip. Head below and 

 above the antennae black. The reddish yellow Vertex with several 

 black Spots. Each eye with a reddish yellow circle. Pro-, meso- and 

 metathorax reddish brown; the prothorax with a yellowish white 

 front margin and the mesothorax with a yellowish white hind margin. 

 P* and 2"*^ Joint of antennae yellowish brown; the S''* black; the 

 remainder yellowish brown but darker towards the apex (the clubs 

 are lost). The abdomen light brown, with close and short hair; the 

 apical part of most of the segments darker, to blackish brown. 

 Wings unspotted. The subcosta and radius yellowish with darker 



