2 Prof. Westwood on various species of the 
was terminated by a single ‘‘demi-couronne de poils 
courts un nombre de huit (pl. vi., fig. 8).” 
Reaumur (H. n. Ins., Tom. vi., p. 877, pl. 33, figs. 11 
and 12, in which he gives copies of Bonnet’s figures) 
describes some of the characters of the ordinary ant- 
lion, and of the species described by Bonnet (with whom 
he was in correspondence), especially in respect to the 
terminal segments of the body and their appendages 
(pl. vi., figs. 4—9). 
Latreille (H. n. Crust. et ins., xili., p. 26; and Nouv. 
Dict. d. h.n., T. ii., p. 581) considers it probable that 
the larve found by Bonnet belonged to a species of 
Ascalaphus rather than to Myrmeleon. 
Burmeister also (Hdb. d. Ent., bd. i., abth. ii, 
p- 1003) gives Bonnet’s larva as that of Ascalaphus 
italicus. 
Shuckard concisely described the larva of Ascalaphus 
as being considerably like that of Myrmeleon, but not 
making conical traps, and as having a forward and not 
backward progression (Cabinet Cyclop. Nat. Hist., 
Insects, p. 340. 
From the account given by the Rev. L. Guilding of 
the larva of A. Macleayanus, noticed below, and from 
more recent accounts recorded of the habits of certain 
Myrmeleonides, it appears to me that Bonnet’s larva 
was more probably that of M. libelluloides, or an allied 
species, agreeing in some respects with the larva of that 
insect described by ‘‘lonicus” in the ‘ Entomological 
Magazine’ (vol. ii., p. 461), and which he states 
generally feeds on heteromerous beetles, lurking under- 
ground in the sand, without making a pit. 
The Rey. Lansdown Guilding published a figure and 
description of a new species of Ascalaphus (A. Mac- 
leayanus) from St. Vincent’s (W. Indies) in the 14th 
volume of the ‘Transactions’ of the Linnean Society 
(p. 140), of which he observes that the eggs are 
‘oblonga, cinerascentia, gregatim posita”; but that 
the ‘‘larva pupaque latent’ (March 10th, 1823). 
On June 16th, 1826, he forwarded a further communi- 
cation to the same Society (ibid., vol. xv., p. 509), con- 
taining various additions to and corrections of several 
of his former papers, and adding to the description of 
the genus Ascalaphus the following :— 
‘Ova cute pergemenea tecta. Larva complanata, 
