228 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



lated with luteous ; palpi luteous, equal ; thorax fuscous, varied 

 with pale ; prothorax short ; abdomen of the male long, slender, 

 the apex forcipated, hairy, longer than the wings, luteous, with 

 two dorsal pale lines ; feet yellowish, sprinkled with black, apex 

 of the tarsal articulations, and the fourth entirely black; tibiae with 

 black spines ; spurs as long as the two basal articles of the tarsi ; 

 wings narrow, hyaline, veins fuscous, pterostigma white; subcosta, 

 median and submedian nerves white, a little sprinkled with fus- 

 cous ; posterior margin of the wings a little sprinkled with fuscous, 

 the costal space upon the basal half uniareolated. 



Length to tip of wings 32 millim. Alar expanse 46 millim. 



Hab. Washington (Osten Sacken) ; South Carolina (Zimmer- 

 man). 



M.nehulosus Ramb.! Neuropt. 387, 4; Walk. Catal. 330, 48, 

 is perhaps the female of M. salvus; I possess two specimens from 

 Pennsylvania, the one the size of our typical male, the other larger. 

 (Expanding 62 millim.) 



7. M. nebulosus. 



Myrmeleon nebulosum Oliv. Enc. Method. VIII, 127, 35 ; Walk. Catal. 

 409, 212. 



Black, marked with yellow; abdomen black, the base of the seg- 

 ments pale; feet yellow; wings hyaline, reticulated with fuscous, 

 with obscure points and spots. (From the description of Olivier.) 



Hab. New York. 



Unknown to me; does it belong to this section ? 



8. M. versutus. 



Myrmeleon versutus Walk.! Catal. 331, 51. 



Black, very slender ; front of the head shining, at the eyes and 

 around the base of the antennae, yellow; vertex with two, inter- 

 rupted on the middle, yellow bands ; face each side with an an- 

 gular, yellow stripe; palpi yellow, black at the apex; antennas 

 subfiliform, much longer than the thorax, black; prothorax short, 

 yellow, bivittated with black; a yellow point anteriorly upon the 

 vittae ; meso- and metathorax lineated and pointed with yellow ; 

 abdomen very long, slender, the apex forcipated, testaceous, the 

 base striped with piceous, the apex black ; feet testaceous ; wings 

 hyaline, short, narrow, finely dotted with fuscous ; pterostigma 



