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This genus is at once distinguished from Osmylus by the 
absence of ocelli, and from Hemerobius by the form of its 
palpi ; but there are other distinctions between these ge- . 
nera, which may be ziistovered by comparing their cha- 
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PAR, XL, 
NYMPHES MYRMELEONOIDES. 
N. corpore pedibusque rufescentibus ; antennis nigris 
apice rufis ; alis hyalinis apice pterigostiisque rufes- 
centibus illis macula albicante. 
Habitat in Australasia. 
Mus. Macleay, Nostr. 
‘Totum corpus, et pedes. griseo-rufescunt. Abdominis 
dorsum nigricans. Pterigostium costale totum, et 
pterigostia sub-costale et post-costale basi nigra. 
ANTLION NYMPHES. 
Body and feet reddish; antenne black, tipped with 
reddish ; wings hyaline, with reddish tips and wing-bones, 
the tips with a white spot. ¥ 
For this new and elegant insect, I am indebted to the 
kindness and liberality of my worthy friend W.J. Hooker, 
Esq. who sent it to me, together with his whole collection 
of neuropterous insects, on which I propose hereafter to 
write a dissertation. There is another specimen in the 
museum of A. Macleay, Esq. 
Body and fect griseous-reddish ; back of the abdoinen 
blackish; all the costal, and the base of the sub and post- 
costal wing-bones, black. 
