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Length to tip of wings 38 44 millim. Alar expanse 70 80 

 millim. 



Hob. Savannah ; Washington (Osten Sacken); Alleghany Moun- 

 tains, Virginia (Osten Sacken). 



Dr. Burmeister's specimen is pale, being a recently excluded 

 one ; a specimen from Virginia expands 70 millim.; but it is hardly 

 different ; the apices of the abdominal segments are pale ; but in 

 Burmeister's specimen and another (from Washington), the colors 

 are not distinct. 



15. M. tectus. 



Myrmeleon tectus Walk. Catal. 378, 135. 



Black-gray, robust; head shining, black; mouth luteous, the 

 eyes half encircled with yellow ; antennae black, subclavate, the 

 base annulated with yellow, shorter than the thorax ; palpi luteous; 

 prothorax short; nieso- and metathorax margined with testaceous ; 

 feet black; tibiae with testaceous bands, those of the posterior 

 ones broader ; femora and tarsi testaceous at base ; (abdomen 

 mutilated); wings hyaline, narrow subacuminate, pterostigma 

 white, the anterior ones marked with fuscous; veins black, inter- 

 rupted with yellow. (From the description of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 42 ? millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. 



Hob. St. John's Bluff, East Florida (Doubleday). 



Do the spurs correspond with this section ? 



18. M. crudelis. 



Myrmeleon crudelis Walk. Catal. 388, 152. 



Piceous, slender; head anteriorly and beneath testaceous, front 

 black ; vertex ferruginous, antennae ferruginous, clavate, the apex 

 piceous, shorter than the thorax ; prothorax long, testaceous, with 

 three piceous vittas ; meso- and metathorax margined with testa- 

 ceous ; abdomen shorter than the wings; feet testaceous; wings 

 hyaline, narrow, subacute ; pterostigma obsolete, whitish ; veins 

 whitish ; subcostal and submedian veins interrupted with fuscous. 

 (From the description of Walker.) 



Length to tip of wings 30 millim. Alar expanse 54 millim. 



Nab. St. John's Bluff, East Florida (Doubleday). 



Do the spurs correspond with this section ? 



