36 MECOPTERA AND PLANIPENNIA 
Myrmeleon frontalis Burmeister. 
(Plate 3, fig. 18, 9). 
Myrmeleon frontalis Burmeister, Handb. Entom. II, p. 993 (1839), Java; 
Walker, Cat. Brit. Mus. Neur. p. 401, n°. 175 (1853); Hagen, Stett. 
Ent. Zeit. XX VII, p. 439 (1866). 
Antennae black, nearly as long as head and thorax taken 
together, the two basal joints yellow-annulated. Head 
rather broad, underside and mouthparts yellow, labialpalpi 
moderately long, fusiform, brown in the apical half. Frons 
deep shining black, vertex black, with remarkable yellow 
pattern (fig. 14). Eyes hemisphaerical, bronze, surrounded 
with a narrow yellow line. 
Fig. 14. 
Myrmeleon frontalis Burmeister. 
Head and thorax of 9, upperside. 
Thorax and abdomen luteous brown above, margined 
with yellow. Underside somewhat paler, that of the pro- 
thorax yellow. 
Notes from the Leyden Museum, Vol. XX XI. 
