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Specimens of the inserts were caugln on the Ephedra bushes, aiul 

 on being sent to I'hihulelphia, were reported with a cpiery as 

 Myrmeleon blandus Hagen. 



Upon careful comparison, however, with Hagen's description 

 of M. blandus, given in his Synopsis of Neuroptera, p. 235, I am 

 convinced that it is tiuite distinct from it. Neither does it beU)ng 

 to any other of the 25 species of Myrmeleon described in that 

 work. It differs as follows from Hagen's description of AI . 

 blandus: 



Myrmeleon, n. sp. Length, from head to tip of wing, 20 mm. I'ale 

 yellowish, varied with blackish or brownish. The last joint of the palpi is fuscous 

 or blackish, and so are the other joints more or less. No trifid black spot between 

 the antennre; instead there is at base of each antenna, anteriorly and a little 

 inwardly, an elongate somewhat cresentic blackish spot, tlie two converging poster- 

 iorly between the antennae but not coalescing. The verti-x (or rather the front) 

 bears a blackish marking anteriorly on the median portion; immediately behind and 

 more or less coalescent with this is a narrow transverse blackish marking ; pos- 

 terior to the latter is a heavier transverse blackish marking broadly interrupted 

 in the middle, and immediately behind the inner end of each lateral section 

 of this is a blackish spot more or less coalescent with it, and posteriorly elong- 

 ated in one specimen. 'Ihe antennte are almost entirely blackish, very narrowly 

 and almost unnoticeably annnlated with yellowish, 'ilie median pair of pro- 

 thoracic stripes is exteriorly e.\cised at anterior end, as described for J/, hlaudiis; 

 the lateral stripes are shorter tlian the median, and below each lateral stripe there 

 is another narrower blackish one, all the above on proscutum, with a short blackish 

 one still lower on ventral aspect posteriorly. Mesoscutum with blackish lines and 

 markings, and six small round black spots, two spots on each side just inside base 

 of anterior wings, and two on posterior median scleiite. ,\bdomen is clothed with 

 blackish hairs, appearing wliiiish in some lighis; color is blackish, with about nine 

 yellowish transverse spots on tergum more or less interrupted in middle, not in- 

 cluding two narrow less noticeable bands on basp of abdomen; the third, and less 

 broadly the fifth, sometimes also narrowly the seventh, of these yellowish spots 

 are continued uninterruptedly on venter, which is otherwise blackish, but for two 

 basal bands which also show ventrally. The third, fifth, and seventh yellowish 

 spots just mentioned maik the posterior margins of consecutive abdominal seg- 

 ments. The next to the last abdominal segment bears also a pair of faint yellowish 

 median spots. Femora are brownish, shading into yellowish; tibire yellowish, 

 more or less distinctly twice banded with brownish. ^Ving veins yellow and black 

 interrupted. 



Described from two specimens. M. blandus was described 

 from the Pecos river, in western Texas. Since writing the fore- 

 going, I notice that Mr. Nathan I'.anks refers M. blandus to the 

 genus Brachyncmurus Hagen. (See i'rans. Am. Ent. Soc, \'ol. 

 XIX, p. 361). If this reference is sustained, tile present species 

 should be referred to that genus. 



