230 NEUROPTERA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Length to tip of wings 30 millim. Alar expanse 13 millim. 



Hab. California (Hartweg). 



Female? Does it belong to this section? 



11. M. inscriptus ! 



Myrmeleon inscriptus Hagen ! 



Black; face yellow, black above; vertex black, with an inter- 

 rupted line each side, and two points behind, yellow ; antennas 

 black, a little annulated with yellow (apex destroyed); palpi fus- 

 cous, articulated withpale; prothorax short, black, a middle line, 

 a lateral one each side and a point anteriorly, yellow; meso- and 

 metathorax black, pointed with yellow; abdomen short, black; 

 feet black, clothed with white hair, base exteriorly of the posterior 

 tibiae yellow; spurs luteous, of the length of the first tarsal articu- 

 lation ; wings narrow, long, acuminate, subcinereous; anterior ones 

 with the veins fuscous, slightly banded with fuscous, rarely inter- 

 rupted with white ; pterostigma small, white, exteriorly fuscous ; 

 at the posterior margin is a fuscous, flexuous, bi-incurved line, 

 reaching the apex ; at the median nervure are some hyaline nebula?, 

 whitish ; posterior wings hyaline, veins fuscous, sometimes inter- 

 rupted with white ; the whole of the costal space of the anterior 

 wings biareolated. 



Length to tip of wings. 34 millim. Alar expanse 60 millim. 



Hab. Pecos River, Western Texas (Capt. Pope). 



12. M. pumilis ! 



Myrmeleon pumilis Burm. ! Handb. II, 995, 10 ; Walk. Catal. 401, 173. 



Black ; face luteous, black above ; vertex black, in front with a 

 pale band, clothed with white hairs, transverse ; basal article of 

 the antennae whitish (destroyed in my specimen), "pale, annulated 

 with black, club abrupt, black, Burm.," palpi pale, annulated with 

 fuscous; prothorax narrow, with a triangular, white spot each side 

 anteriorly; meso- and metathorax with some pale points ; abdomen 

 black, segments with a pale band upon the middle; feet pale, with 

 white and black spines, femora black above, the apex white, tibise 

 white, with a broad basal and apical black ring ; articles of the 

 tarsi black at the apex ; spurs as long as the two basal articles of 

 the tarsi ; wings hyaline, broad ; veins white, interrupted with fus- 

 cous ; anterior wings sprinkled with rare, but sufficiently distinct 



