NEUROPTERA. — MYRMELEONIDE. 41 
The family MyrMeLeonip% * comprises a considerable number 
of large and handsome insects, none of which are ascertained to be 
natives of this country, and which are known, in their larva state, 
under the name of ant-lions (fourmilions). The body of the perfect 
insect (fig. 63.1. Myrmeleon formicarium, natural size, fig. 63. 1—19. 
Fig. 63. 

represent details of this species) is long and slender ; the head small, 
with prominent lateral eyes, and destitute of ocelli; the antennz 
longer than the head, multiarticulate, and thickened at the tip (jig. 
63. 2.); the upper lip is rounded at the sides, and attached to the 
head by a distinct clypeus; the mandibles (jig. 63.3.) are horny, 
curved to the tip, with a strong tooth below the internal apex ; 
the maxille (fig. 63.4.) are elongated and bilobed; the inner one 
compressed and ciliated; the external lobe or galea biarticulated ; 
the maxillary palpi slender, short, and 5-jointed; the labium (jig. 
63. 5.) is large and square, arising from a narrowed mentum, and 
furnished with a pair of very long labial palpi, arising from the base 

* Bistiocr. Rerer. tro tHE MyrMetronip 2. 
Percheron. arva of Myrmeleon, in Guérin Mag. Zool., pl. 59. 
Poupart. Hist. Formicaleo, Acad. Rég. Paris, 1704. 
Latreille. Genera Crust., &c., vol. iii. p. 191. 
Westwood, in Drury, new edition. (Euptilon. ) 
Klug. Symbolz Physicee (many sp. of Myrmeleon figured). 
Guilding. Generic Char. of Formicaleo, with two new sp. in Linn. Trans., vol. xvi. 
— Ditto, on Ascalaphus, in ditto, vol. xiv. 
Schaeffer, on Ascalaphus, 4to. Regensb. 1763, and in his Abhandl., 2 band. 
A, Blanchard. Note sur V Asealaph. Italic, in Bull. d’ Hist, Nat. Soe. Linn. Bor- 
deaux, No.1. 
Argelini (in Biblioteca Ital., tom. xlvii.) Ascalafi Italiani con Nuova Specie. 
Newman, in Ent. Mag., No. 24. (Stilbopteryx. ) 
Drury, Charpentier, Fabricius, Donovan, &c. 
