120 
The wings evenly broadened towards their tip for a di- 
stance of two third from their base; their tip rather ob- 
tuse. Apical half part of the hind border of the wings 
strongly rounded. 
Table-of European species, 
1. The nervation yellowish (sometimes the Sc is faintly 
dark banded) .u.2r nase trigrammus. 
The nervation partly blackish and partly yellowish 2. 
2. All the longitudinal nervures quite black or dark brown 
with the exception of R in both wings, 2A and 3A 
in the forewing, M7, Cui, Cu2 and IA in the hindwing, 
which nervures all are yellowish..... sob: fae eae major. 
All the longitudinal nervures yellowish with dark bands. 
Smaller species. 2. 2.0.0.0 00 02 ee eee 3: 
3. No crossveins margined or shaded with black. afrox. 
Most of the costal crossveins blackish shaded where 
they touch Sc. Some crossveins blackish shaded where 
they touch R or the stem of Cur in the forewing ... 
punctulatus. 
Myrmecaelurus trigrammus (Pl. VII, fig. 20). 
Myrmeleon trigrammus Pallas, Iter I, p. 469. 
x pictum Fabricius, Ent. Syst. Suppl., p. 206. 
$ flavus Rambur, Hist. Nat. Ins., Névropteres, 
p. 398. 
iz laetus Klug, Symb. Phys. IV, tab. 36, fig. 4. 
The species is known from the Mediterranean Region, 
from South Russia, Caucasus etc. 
Myrmecaelurus major. 
Mac Lachlan, Fedtschenko’s Voyage in Turkestan, p. 4 
(Sep) “abr fie <2) 75: 
The species is described on specimens from Kisilkum 
in Turkestan. I possess it from Berlad (Roumania) and 
from Van (Armenia). The species has much likeness to 
M. acerbus Walker (Cat. Neur. Ins. Brit. Mus., p. 366, 
1853) from India; but as far as I can see the two species 
are certainly distinct, 

