18 MECOPTERA AND PLANIPENNIA 
Myrmeleon compositus Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neur. p. 397, n°. 166 (1853), 
North India, North Bengal.—Mac Lachlan, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. IX, 
p. 281 (1867), 
Antennae very short, with a broad club; black, the basal 
third rufous, 
Head moderately broad, orange, a broad shining black 
line above the antennae and a ditto spot between the an- 
tennae connected with it. Vertex unicolorous, Prothorax 
much broader than long, with three black points which 
are often connected to a black transverse band. Meso- and 
metathorax of the same colour, each with a shining black 
spot on the scutellum. Breast of the same colour as the 
dorsum, with black spots and lines between the coxae. Legs 
rather short and strong, the femora yellow with an exterior 
black line, the tibiae black, excepted the base which is 
yellow, tarsi black. Spurs black, strongly curved, as long 
as the first tarsal joint. Claws long, black. Abdomen of 
the © a little shorter than the hindwing, that of the female 
shorter, yellow, the tergits with black broad lateral stripes, 
the third tergit in the male nearly black with dense erected 
brown hairs. Venter yellow with a dark longitudinal stripe 
in the middle. The male with two slightly curved, yellow 
app. sup. which are about as long as the penultimate segment. 
Wings moderately long and broad, similar in shape, cream 
to yellowish white with white nervature. The forewings 
with mtany very irregular, more or less connected, narrow, 
black transverse lines and in the costalfield are blotches 
of the same colour. In the hindwing there is only a dark 
spot in the middle and some stripes at the apex. The pattern 
is very variable. The pterostigma is white in both wings. 
The male has a small sepiabrown pelotte. 
Body 0 36 mm., forew. 32 mm., hindw. 31 mm., ant. 4mm. 
Abd. & 27 mm., gr. br. 10 mm., gr. br. 9'/, mm. 
App. & 2!/, mm. 
Habitat: India and Java. 
The type is described from Coromandel. Walker described 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XI. 
