300 MYRMELEONITES. 



Fam. 3. MYBMELEONITES. 



Os non rostriforme. Antennae plerumque clavatae. Pedes 

 similes. 



Myrmeleonides, Lair. 



Myrmeleomdae, Leach ; Steph. , Westw. 



Myrmeleonina, MacLeay. 



My rmeleon tides et Ascalaphides, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 338. 



Myrmecoleontida?, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 988. 



Myrmeleontina, Newman. 



Genus 1. MY RMELEON. 



Antennae breves, clavatse vel subclavatae, vel filiforraes. Corpus 

 Ion gum, gracile. 



Myrmeleon, Linn. ; Fabr. ; Geoffr.; GmeL; Barb.; Stew.; 



Turt. ; Wood ; Latr. ; Oliv. ; Panz. ; Ramb. 

 Hemerobius, p., Berk. 

 Formicaleo, Leach ; Guilding. 

 Myrmecoleon, Burm. 

 Myrmeleon tidae, Newman. 



\Div. 1. 



Alse integrae. 



Subdiv. 1. 

 Alae posticae anticis plus maculatae. 



Palpares, Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. Neur. 365. 



Labrum quadrilateral, slightly notched : maxilla? hardly broad 

 at the base, fringed with very thick -set hairs ; maxillary paipi with 

 the penultimate joint shorter than the last, the latter widening a 

 little towards the tip, which is abruptly truncated, slightly depressed, 

 almost notched ; labial palpi much longer, second joint slender, 

 sometimes at least as long as the preceding ; last joint slender, sub- 

 clavate : spurs at the tips of the hind-femora always longer than the 

 first joint of the tarsi, straight or slightly bent; four first joints of 

 the tarsi very short, almost equal in length, not together longer than 

 the fifth: wings almost always covered with more or less large spots 

 which are often numerous ; costal space with only one row of areo- 

 lets : hind-wings always more deeply and more largely spotted than 

 the fore-wings ; hind-wings of the male having at their articulation 



