MYRMELEON. 227 



Length to tip of wings 32 J"; 26 ? millim. Alar expanse 50 

 millim. 



Hab. Arkansas, Rocky Mountains ; South Carolina (Zimmer- 

 man) ; Savannah, Georgia ; .Florida (Norton) ; New Jersey (Uh- 

 ler). 



Does M. abdominalis Say, perhaps belong to the following 

 species ? 



\ Spurs present. 



4. M. longicauda ! 



Myrmeleon longicaudus Burm.! Handb. II, 994, 8 ; Rarub.! Neuropt. 386, 

 2, tab. xii, fig. 3-; Walk.! Catal. 329, 46. 



Luteo-fuscous ; face luteous, fuscous at the base of the antennas ; 

 vertex obscurely varied with fuscous; antennas long, thick, clavate, 

 fuscous ; palpi equal, luteous ; thorax fuscous, obscurely varied 

 with pale ; prothorax short ; abdomen long, slender, hairy, longer 

 than the wings, the apex forcipated, fuscous; the basal half above 

 obsoletely luteous ; feet pale, sprinkled with black ; apex of the 

 tibiae, the whole of the third and fourth articulations of the tarsi 

 and the apex of the last article, black ; tibiae with black spines ; 

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

 hyaline, veins fuscous ; the median and submedian nervure inter- 

 rupted with white ; . pterostigma whitish ; anterior wings rarely 

 sprinkled with fuscous, with three obsolete, fuscous points at the 

 submedian nervure. I have not seen the female. 



Length to tip of wings 40 millim. Alar expanse 48 millim. 



Hab. Savannah, Georgia. 



5. M. contaminatus. 



Myrmeleon contaminatus Burm. Handb. II, 995, 11. Note. 



11 Most like M. irroratus, but entirely black-gray, the hind 

 wings also are densely sprinkled with black." Unknown to me. 

 (From the description of Burm.) 



Hab. South Carolina (Zimmerman). 



6. M. salvus ! 



Myrmeleon salvus Hagen ! 



Luteo-fuscous ; face luteous, above black ; vertex fuscous, obso- 

 letely variegated ; antennas long, clavate, fuscous, slightly annu- 



