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Myrmeleon obscurus Rambur. 



Widely distributed in tropical and South Africa. Specimens 

 have been examined from Harrar, Abyssinia (Petersen coll.) ; 

 Tamatave and Vohemar, Madagascar, (Banks coll.) and 

 Erythraea; from Bagamoyo and Lindi, D. O. Afrika, Windhoek, 

 D. S. W. Afrika, Livingstone, S. Afrika, and Kamerum (Berlin 

 Mus.). 



Myrmeleon lethifer Walker. 



From White River, Transvaal, Kibwezi, Brit. O. Afrika, 

 and Kwidjwi, Ost Afrika. M. nigridorsis Kolbe is the same 

 species. 



Myrmeleon doralice n. sp. 



Face yellow, a large shining black interantennal mark, curving 

 evenly downward on the face, and above reaching to middle of vertex, 

 with a median extension on vertex, and a black streak each side ; anten- 

 nas rather long, blackish, tip paler, pronotum longer than broad, nar- 

 rowed in front, pale yellow, a median black stripe, widest in front, and 

 a curved black streak each side from behind the transverse furrow; 

 rest of thorax with middle black spot, and oblong spots over the base 

 of wings, a basal median black spot on the scutelli; pleura black through 

 the middle; abdomen shorter than wings, black, tips of segments nar- 

 rowly pale, sides pale; legs pale yellowish, tips of tibiae rather darker, tip 

 of last tarsal joint black; spurs not as long as basal tarsal joint, which 

 is much shorter than the apical joint. Wings hyaline; venation pale 

 yellowish, subcosta, radius, and cubitus marked with dark, stigma 

 hardly distinct. Wings rather slender, acute at tips; about 10 cross- 

 veins in forewings before radial sector, 6 in hind wings, 10 branches of 

 radial sector; in the forewings the first fork of radial sector is so con- 

 nected up to the radius as to appear as a distinct sector of the radius, 

 thus apparently two radial sectors. 



Expanse 60 mm. 



From Windhoek, D. S. W. Afrika. 



Myrmeleon alcestris n. sp. 



Head mostly black, margin of face yellow, a median yellow spot on 

 the clypeus, two dots between the antennae, and the orbits yellowish; a 

 pale stripe across vertex in front, a large yellow spot each side, and three 

 longitudinal submedian lines on the vertex pale, a spot each side on occiput 

 pale; basal joints of antennae pale, with dark rings, rest dark brown; 

 pronotum short, a median dark streak, a spot near each anterior comer, 

 and a larger spot in each hind corner, dark; rest of thorax dark, with 

 indistinct black marks, and the hind margins of the segments pale; 

 coxas black, femora black, except pale base, tibiae pale, heavily spotted 

 or streaked with dark; tarsi pale brownish, tip of last joint black; spurs 

 not as long as basal tarsal joint, which is about two thirds as long as the 



