1911] Notes on African Myrmeleonida 11 



apical joint. Wings hyaline; venation black and white, the crossveins 

 with black dots, the longitudinal veins with longer black streaks, a 

 black spot at the base of the stigma, an oblique blackish cloud up from 

 the end of the anal vein, and a spot over cubitus and median at the 

 usual point for such spot. Wings slender, acute at tips; 7 cross-veins 

 before radial sector in forewings, 5 in hind wings; 10 branches of radial 

 sector in both pairs. 

 Expanse 54 min. 



From Reitfontein, D. S. W. Afrika. 



Myrmeleon medialis n. sp. 



Head with a large black interantennal mark reaching down over 

 most of the face and up to the vertex, a dark mark on clypeus, in middle 

 connected upward to the interantennal mark; vertex with a double 

 median spot in front, a small median one behind, and a long one each 

 side, black; antennas dark brown, short; pronotum but little longer than 

 wide, pale, with a broad median brown stripe; thorax pale, with some 

 large median black spots, and one over base of each wing, pleura with 

 a broad broken black streak; abdomen black, with short white hairs, 

 not as long as wings; legs pale, rather more brownish toward tips, with 

 black bristles, tarsi quite long, first joint hardly as long as second and 

 third together, fifth one and a half times as long as the first, spurs not 

 as long as the first joint. Wings hyaline, venation pale yellowish, 

 subcosta slightly marked with black, stigma barely distinct. Wings 

 long and slender, forewings sub-falcate at tip, about 9 crossveins before 

 radial sector in forewings, and (i in hindwings; 10 branches of radial 

 sector in both wings. 



Expanse (30-08 mm. 



From Natal and Georgetown, Cape Colony. 



Myrmeleon furcatus n. sp. 



Head pale yellow, a black mark at base of each antennas, and a 

 median vertical line; a broad, dark band above antennae; vertex with a 

 pair of broken submedian stripes, a broader short stripe each side 

 behind, with lateral projections toward eyes, and a lateral spot in front; 

 antennae with a brown mark on basal joint; a narrow brown ring 

 on second joint, beyond that brown; pronotum pale, with a broad med- 

 ian dark stripe, furcate in front; a short dark stripe on each hind corner; 

 rest of thorax dark, with hind margin of meso- and meta-thorax pale, 

 a narrow pale line on each lateral lobe of the mesothorax, a spot on each 

 lateral lobe of the metathorax, and the scutelli with a pale dot each side, 

 and sometimes other spots; abdomen dark, pale at tip; legs pale, a dark 

 line on the tibiae, and a streak near tip of femora; spurs as long as the 

 first tarsal joint, which is not as long as the next three together, and 

 shorter than the last joint. Wings hyaline; venation pale, subcosta, 

 radius and cubitus interrupted with dark, also slightly on the radial sec- 

 tor, stigma dark, with a darker spot at base. Wings long, acute at 



