172 MB. E. m'lachlan on tee neueopteea or 



faint (priucipally owing to the age of the specimen), but are dis- 

 tinctly traceable. 



I have a specimen from Damara Land, S.AV. Africa, scarcely 

 separable (Rambur states that distinffuendus was known to Mm 

 from Senegal) ; and Myrmeleon ochroneurus, Eamb., also from 

 S. Africa, is clearly allied, but much larger. 



As the examples from (presumably) Portugal are the most 

 recent, I subjoin a description : — 



Antennae brownish, basal joint yellow ; short and stout, the club 

 gradually formed, broad, and much flattened. Head and tliomx 

 pale yellow. On the head the space surrounding the base of the 

 antennae is occupied by a large piceous band, descending on to the 

 face ; on the crown of the head are five raised transverse brown 

 spots, three on the posterior margin, two on the disk, and between 

 these latter a similar longitudinal twin-spot ; two faint brownish 

 spots on the clypeus. Palpi yellow ; the terminal joint of the 

 labial pair much inflated, acuminate and acute, nearly wholly 

 shining piceous. 



Pronofiim with a blackisli line on either side (only visible late- 

 rally) ; on the surface are five blackish spots, viz. four sublateral 

 (the posterior pair oblique) and one in the middle. Mesonotum 

 and metanotum with an irregular interrupted sublateral blackish 

 band on eitlier side ; some of the sutures narrowly blackish ; and 

 there are two spots on the anterior lobe of the mesothorax. 

 Pleurae and pectus with black lines and spots. 



Abdomen black, slightly clothed with short ciuerous hairs ; the 

 lateral sutures and the divisions of the segments naiTowly yellow ; 

 the apex nearly Avholly yellow ; suj^erior appendages oblique if 

 viewed laterally,' in the form of two closely applied plates, open in 

 front, furnished with long black hairs, and also witla strong short 

 black spines on the lower end ; the inferior apj)endage forms a 

 boat -shaped lobe (very concave above), not extending beyond the 

 apex of the superior, and provided with long black hairs ((^). 



Legs pale yellow, with black spines and shorter pale hairs ; apex 

 of tibiae and of each tarsal joint blackish ; first joint of tarsi equal 

 to the second and third together, terminal joint equal to the second, 

 third, and fourth united ; sj^urs testaceous, shorter than the first 

 joiut ; claws testaceous, slender, divaricate. 



Wings narrow, hyaline, only slightly dilated in the middle, 

 acute ; reticulation wholly pale (the fixintest trace of short brown 

 spaces on the sabcosta), set with short blackish hairs ; ptero- 



