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I's LMMOLEl »\ P m;\ I LI 8, sp. no\ . 



Type. M C. Z. 10,648. Brazil: Chapada (H. H. Smith). 



Face pale, dark mark from eye to eye over antenna] bases, a gray band above 

 antennae, vertex dark, without definite marks; palpi i > .■ » l < ■ , lasl joinl dark; 

 antennae dark, narrowly annulate with pale; pronotum dark, with a Bhorl 

 pale -i ripe each side, not reaching either end; rest of thorax dark, some sutures 



pale; abdomen dark; legs pale, front femora mostly dark, a pale Stripe on 

 Upper front Bide, middle and liind femora dark at tip and near base, tibia dark 

 at tips, middle and front tibiae also dark near middle and toward base, and 

 with some small spots, tarsal joints dark at tips. \\ in<is hyaline, veins alter- 

 nately dark and pale,' hut more dark than pale, fore w m^s with oblique dark 

 line up from (Mid of anal vein, and another at end of cubitus as usual, stigma 

 hardly distinct; wings slender, acute; seven cross- veins before radial sector 

 in fore wings, nine branches of radial sector. Legs not much thickened, with 

 very Long black bristles and short white hairs; spurs as long as two to more 

 than three joints. 



Length of fore wings 21 mm. 



Myrmeleon incompletes, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. X. 10,651. Ecuador: Posorja (F. Campos). 



Face shining black, only lower part of clypeus, and the sides near eyes pale; 

 vertex dark, four submedian spots and one each side darker, a pale spot each 

 Bide also; palpi with last joint black; antennae dark, tips darker; pronotum 

 dark, indistinctly marked with pale, the anterior sides, a median stripe in 

 front, and a submedian stripe each side pale; rest of thorax dark, sides with 

 pale sutures; abdomen dark, tips of some segments pale above; legs pale, 

 femora shining, with black streak above and below, tibia black beneath and 

 lined each, side, tarsi mostly black. Wings hyaline; veins pale, with dark 

 -t naks, cross-veins more dotted with dark; stigma pale, scarcely distinct; 

 in fore wings seven cross-veins before radial sector, four in hind wings, ten 

 branches to radial sector; wings moderately slender, acute at tips. Pronotum 

 much broader than long, tarsus of front legs scarcely longer than the tibia, 

 spurs a little shorter than first tarsal joint. 



Length of fore wing 29 mm. 



Myrmeleon pallidum-:*, sp. nov. 



Type.— M. C. Z. 10,649. Brazil: Chapada (H. H. Smith). 



Bead mostly reddish to red-brown, clypeus and lower face pale, above the 



antennae rather more black, vertex without definite marks, palpi pale; an- 



