ECHINOMYIA PILOSA. 



Plate XLV. fig. 7. 



Order : Diptera. Section : Athericera. Family : Muscidae. 



Gexus. Echinomtia, Dumeril. Taehina, Fabr. JIusca, Drury. 



EcHisoMYiA PiLosA. Atra ; setis rigidis numerosissimis obsita, alis opacis fiiscis, capite brunneo. (Echin. hirta 

 paullo minor.) 



Syx. Musca pUosa, Drury, ^jap. roi. 2. 



Taehina hvstrix, Fabr. Syst. Antl. 310. 8. Weidemann Aitss. Zw. Ins. 2. 284. 



Habitat : Jamaica. 



Head red brown. Antennae short and thick, without hairs. Thorax and abdomen entirely covered 

 with thick black hairs, or rather bristles, when compared with the size of the insect. Wings opake and 

 brown, not transparent. Breast black, covered with black bristles. Legs black, spinose. 



MYRMELEON LIBELLULOIDES. 



Plate XLVI. fig. 1. 



Order : Neuroptera. Section : Filicomes. Family : Mj-rmeleonidae, Leach. 



Genus. Myrmei.eon, Linn. ^-e. 



Mybmeleon Libelluloides. Alis fusco punctatis maculatisqne corpore nigro flavoque maculate. (Expans. 

 Alar. 4 unc.9 lin.) 



Syn. Myrmeleon Libelluloides, Linn. St/st. Nat. 1. 2.;;. 913. 1. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2. 92. 1.? Latr. Gen. 

 Crust. ^- l7u. 3. 191, 

 Libella turcica major alis locustje, Pet. Gaz. 6. t. 3./. 1 . 



Habitat : Smyrna (Drury). " In Europa australiori et per totam Africam " (Latreille). 



Head dark yellow, dinded by a black line, which nms along it from the thorax. Antennce black 

 and clubbed, small at the base, and gradually increasing to their extremities. Thorax brownish yellow : 

 having a black line running along its upper part, and two small black spots at the base of the superior 

 wings, being covered with greyish hairs. Abdomen about an inch and a quarter long, yellow, with a 

 black line on the top, and one on each side ; the male having two small horny tails issuing from the 

 extremity. Wings membranaceous and pellucid (the inferior ones being as long as the superior), and 

 elegantly adorned with a great number of dark spots of various shapes and sizes. 



Fabricius gives the Cape of Good Hope as the habitat of this species, referring not only 

 to the present figure, hut also to that given in Vol. 3. Plate 41. which is said by Drurv to 

 have been brought from Sierra Leone. This is the more inexcusable, because Drury expressly 

 observed in a note, " There is a species found near the Cape of Good Hope very much like 

 this, but distinctly diflPerent," although in the synoptical appendix to the third volume, he 

 gives the large species from Sierra Leone as a varietv of M. Libelluloides. 



