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Genus 2. ASCALAPHUS. 



Corpus breve, latum. Antennae longae, eapitatae. 



Ascalaphus, Fair. ; Latr. ; Otiv. ; Pallas ; King ; Burm. ; Du- 

 meril ; Borkh. ; Charp. ; Kunze;Ramb.; Brulle ; Laxmann; 

 Westw. 



Papilio, p., Scopoli. 



Myrmeleon, p., Linn. , GmeL; Laxmann; Petagna. 



Ascalaphides, Lefebvre, Mag. ZooL 1842. Ramb. Hist. Nat. Ins. 

 Neur. 341. 



Ascalaphidae et Haplogleniidae, Newman. 



Div. 1. 



Oculi sulco bipartiti. 



Ascalaphus, Burm. 



Ascalaphi Schizophthalmi, Lefebvre. 



Subdiv. 1. 

 Alae integrae. 



Sect. 1. 



Alae anticae regio costalis basi dilatata, medio angustata. 

 Group Ascalaphus, Rambur. 



Subsect. 1. 



Alae densissime reticulatae, semper opacae, maculis flavis aut 

 albis. 



1. ASCALAPHUS MEKIDIONALIS. 



Niger ; thorace flaw guttato ; alis fusco venosis, anticis in basi 

 flavis , striga hyalina infuscata ; posticis in basi nigris, in 

 medio flaviS) turn hyalinis, guttaflava ante apicem. 



Ascalaphus Barbarus, Oliv. Enc. Meth. Ins. i. 245, 1. 

 Ascalaphus Italicus, Latr. Gen. Crust, et Ins. iii. 194, 3. Panz . 

 Faun. Ins. Germ. iii. 23, Burm. Handb. Ent. ii. 1003, 17. 



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