22 MECOPTERA AND PLANIPENNIA 
Body 27—35 mm., forow. 31—38 mm., hindw. 31—38 mm., ant. 7—11 mm. 
abd. 20—25 mm., gr. br. 6—8 mm. gr. br, 5—7 mm. 
Habitat: India, Ceylon, China, Japan, Insulinde, Australia, 
van Diemensland and New Zealand. 
This species is so extremely variable, that I believe it 
impossible to distinguish subspecies with certainty. All 
variations occur in the different localities from which I 
saw materials. 
After the localities the following subspecies are probably 
to be distinguished: 
Formicaleo audax audax (Walker). 
This is synonymous with lentus Wlk. and the form of 
Continental India. 
Formicaleo audax gravis (Walker). 
Synonymous with dirus Wlk. and the form of Ceylon. 
Formicaleo audax vafer (Walker). 
Synonymous with desperatus W1k. and the form of Aus- 
tralia. Probably perniciosus Wlk. and insomnis WlIk., of 
which no fatherland is known, belong also to this form. 
Formicaleo audax malefidus (Walker). 
This is the form of van Diemensland, the specimens from 
New Holland belong to vafer Wlk. 
Formicaleo audax acutus (Walker). 
Is the more aberrant form of New Zealand. 
Formicaleo audax morpheus Kirby. 
Can probably be separated as the form of Christmas 
Island, south from Java. 
I examined a pretty series from Insulinde from the 
following. localities : 
Banka, two females collected by Teysman and Budding. 
Java, one specimen collected by S. Müller, one male 
collected by Mr. M. C. Piepers, one male from Ambarawa, 
Central Java, collected by Ludeking and one small male 
collected in Semarang by Edw. Jacobson. 
Flores, one small incomplete specimen collected by Ludeking. 
Wetter, one very small ditto specimen collected by Schädler 
in 1898. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XXXI. 
