EUPTILON ORNATUM. 



Plate XLVI. fig. -2. 



Order : JVeuroptera. Section : Filicomes. Family : Myrmeleouidae, Leach. 



Gescs. Ecptilos, Westic. Gen. Nov. Hemerobius, Linn. Drury. 



EcpiLON Orxatum. Viride, thoracis puncto antico abdomineqae linea dorsali nigris, alis hyalinis venis numero- 



sissimU, strigisque duabus obliquis obscuris. (Expans. Alar. circ. 3 uuc.) 

 Srx. Hemerobius ematus, Dniry, App. vol. 2. 

 Habitat: Dinwiddle, in Virginia. 



Head dark green. Antennte pectinated or combed. Eyes black. Thorax dark green, with a black 

 patch next the head. Abdomen dark green, with small rings of yellow, and a small black line rumiing 

 along the upper side from the thorax to the extremit)-. Wings membranaceous and peUucid, or trans- 

 parent, of equal length ; the superior ones having two small transverse black stripes placed near their 

 posterior edges, at about half an inch distance from each other. 



Latreille, in his Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum, Vol. 3. p. 199, after describing the 

 genus Chaiiliodes belonging to the family Hemerobiidae, observes, " Congenerica videntur 

 insecta a Dom. Drury iconibus vi^ds expressa, torn. 1. PL 46. Fig. 2. 3." I have never seen 

 the present species, but from the admirable accuracy of Moses Harris (by whom the figures 

 were drawn) it is evident that the neuration of the wings of this species is identical with that 

 of Mj-rmeleon, agreeing especially with the insect represented at Fig. 4. of this plate, and 

 exhibiting the irregidar longitudinal nerve below the subcostal nerve and the strong furcate 

 nerve running along the middle of the wing ; whilst, at the same time, the neuration is quite 

 unlike that of Fig. 3. Hence I have no hesitation in placing this insect in the familv 

 MyrmeleonidaB. It however disagrees with the genera of which that family is composed, 

 viz. M}Tmeleon, Linn. (M^■^necoleon, Burm.) Ascalaphus, Fabr. and XjTnphes, Leach, 

 in having bipectinated antennae, so that I have been compelled to establish a new genus for 

 its reception. Can it be possible that, according to the not uncommon practice of the time, 

 the specimen had been mended, and that pectinated antennae had been substituted in the 

 stead of the ordinary ones of a M}Tmeleon ? 



CHAULIODES VIRGINIEXSIS. 



Plate XLVI. fig. 3. 



Order : Xeuroptera. Section : Filicomes. Family : Hemerobiidse, Leach. 



Genus. Chatliodes, Latreille, Hemerobius, Linn. Drury. 



Chauliodes Virginiensis. Capite thoraceque nigris fulvo punctatis, alis latis hyalinis venis nigro punetatis. 

 (Expans. Alar. 3 unc.) 



Syx. Hemerobius Virginiensis, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Hemerobius pectinicomis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. 911. 1. ; Pal. Bauv. Ins. Afr. et Am. Neur.pl. l.f. 2. ? 

 Habitat ; Virginia. 



Head black, with a yellowish spot in the front, and another on the top. Eyes greyish, and shining 

 like polished bell-metal. Antennae pectinated or combed, and longer than the thorax. OcelH three. 

 Thorax black, with three small yellowish spots on the posterior part. Abdomen almost black at top, 

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