226 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



posterior femora with a luteous band before the apex, tibiae luteous, 

 with the base and apex black, tarsi luteous, obscurer at the apex; 

 spurs as long as the two basal articles of the tarsi, luteous; wings 

 hyaline, beautifully spotted with fuscous; the anterior ones with an 

 ocellate spot at the middle of the posterior margin, a double spot at 

 the pterostigma, an apical interrupted series, and some points at 

 the median nervure, fuscous; posterior wings with a larger, orbicu- 

 lar spot before the pterostigma, and some apical spots, also fuscous. 



Length to tip of wings 34 millim. Alar expanse 62 millim. 



Bab. United States, not rare (Say) ; New York ; St. Louis ; 

 Carolina (Cabanis); Alabama (Gosse); Maryland (Uhler). 



Very much like M. pantherinus Fab. (ocellatus Borkhausen), 

 from Europe, but a different and most beautiful species. (Gosse 

 (Letters from Alabama) figures this species on p. 248 — Uhler.) 



f 1 1 Wings not spotted, but hyaline or sprinkled with 



fuscous. 

 * Costal space with a double series of areoles. 

 J No spurs. 



3. M. abdominalis ! 



Myrmeleon abdominalis Say, Godman's West. Quart. Report, 11,163. — Myr- 

 meleon irroratus Burm.! Handb. II, 995, 11. — Myrmeleon conspersus 

 Ramb.! Neuropt. 387, 3 ; Walk.! Catal. 329, 47.— M. talpinus King. 

 Berlin Museum. 



Euscous; face pale, with a broad, brownish-black band upon the 

 middle, which is emarginated anteriorly; vertex black, a transverse, 

 pale line above at the base of the antennae ; antennae long, stout, 

 not clavate, black; palpi equal, luteo-fuscous ; thorax fuscous, ob- 

 scurely and interruptedly lineated with pale ; prothorax short ; 

 abdomen long, slender, longer than the wings, the apex forcipated, 

 fuscous, hirsute ; two longitudinal, dorsal lines, which are some- 

 times partly confluent, pale ; feet pale, densely sprinkled with 

 black, apex of the tibiae, and apex of the tarsal articulations black; 

 tibiae armed with long, black spines, no spurs ; wings short, broader 

 before the apex, a little fumose, subhyaline, veins fuscous, inter- 

 rupted with white, the anterior wings closely sprinkled with fus- 

 cous, especially at the median and submedian nerves; abdomen of 

 the female shorter than the wings ; fuscous, the segments with mid- 

 dle and apical yellow points. 



