783 A. E. Verrill— The Bermuda Islands. 371 
head in front of eyes and mouth-parts red; upper side of head and 
bases of antenne greenish yellow ; eyes brown ; palpi dusky ; legs 
Figure 149.—Lace-wing Fly (Chrysopa), nat. size, with its eggs mounted on 
silken stalks; c, larva; American species. From Webster’s International 
Dictionary. In a cut not distinguishable from the Bermuda species. 
pale green; wings hyaline, strongly iridescent, the principal veins 
yellow, the cross-veins light green. Length, 10™™; to tip of folded 
wings, 15™™. 
The larva of a species of this useful genus, was observed by us, 
feeding on plant-lice. It may be rufilabris but was not identified. 
Ant-lion. (Myrmeleon, sp.) 
Ficures 150, 151. 
An Ant-lion was recorded as in the collection of J. M. Jones, 1876, 
151 
Figure 150.—American Ant-lion (Myrmeleon), nat. size, with its larva and pit- 
fall. From Webster’s International Dictionary. Figure 151.-—Larva of 
Bermuda Ant Lion; a, dorsal; 6, ventral view; x9. Phot. from nature, 
by A. H. V. 
but the species has not yet been determined. The figures on cut 
150 are from a New England species, for generic characters only. 
from the costa to the oblique line ; round spot black, point-like ; reniform spot 
large, unusual in form, broader than long, edged with black. Length of body 
.54 inch; of wings, 1.38. St. Domingo. Not North American. According to 
Mr. H. G. Dyar (in letter) the genus is a broad-winged noctuid near Anticarsia. 
