MYRMELEON. 227 



Length to tip of wings 32 J"; 26 9 millim. Alar expanse 50 

 millim. 



Hob. Arkansas, Rocky Mountains ; South Carolina (Zimmer- 

 man) ; Savannah, Georgia ; Florida (Norton) ; New Jersey (Uh- 

 ler). 



Does M. abdominalis Say, perhaps belong to the following 

 species? 



% Spurs present. 



4. M. longicauda ! 



Myrmeleon longicaudus Burm.l Handb. II, 994, 8; Ramb.! Neuropt. 386, 

 2, tab. xii, fig. 3 ; Walk.! Catal. 329, 46. 



Lnteo-fuscous ; face luteous, fuscous at the base of the antennae ; 

 vertex obscurely varied with fuscous; antennae long, thick, clavate, 

 fuscous; palpi equal, luteous; thorax fuscous, obscurely varied 

 with pale ; prothorax short ; abdomen long, slender, hairy, longer 

 than the wings, the apex forcipated, fuscous; the basal half above 

 obsoletely luteous ; feet pale, sprinkled with black ; apex of the 

 tibiae, the whole of the third and fourth articulations of the tarsi 

 and the apex of the last article, black ; tibiae with black spines ; 

 spurs as long as the two basal articles of the tarsi ; wings narrow, 

 hyaline, veins fuscous ; the median and submedian nervure inter- 

 rupted with white ; pterostigma whitish ; anterior wings rarely 

 sprinkled with fuscous, with three obsolete, fuscous points at the 

 submedian nervure. I have not seen the female. 



Length to tip of wings 40 millim. Alar expanse 48 millim. 



Hal. Savannah, Georgia. 



5. M. contaminatus. 



Myrmeleon contaminatus Burm. Handb. II, 995, 11. Note. 



" Most like M. irroratus, but entirely black-gray, the hind 

 wings also are densely sprinkled with black." Unknown to me. 

 (From the description of Burra.) 



Hob. South Carolina (Zimmerman). 



6. M. salvus ! 



Myrmeleon salvus Hagen ! 



Luteo-fuscous ; face luteous, above black ; vertex fuscous, obso- 

 letely variegated ; antennae long, clavate, fuscous, slightly annu- 



