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island of Martinique; but does not describe any species. Compare 

 Voyage a la Martinique, p. 185. 



19. M. leachii. 



Formicaleo leachii Guilding, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. XVI, 49, 1 ; Walk. 

 Catal. 373, 127. 



Fuscescent, spotted with yellowish ; eyes coppery ; feet short, 

 pale, tarsi simple, nails moderate ; wings hyaline, subfalcate, im- 

 maculate, veins ciliated. (From the description of Walker.) 



Rob. Jamaica. Unknown to me. Does it belong to this sec- 

 tion ? 



XXX Spurs of the anterior feet as long as the two 

 basal articles of the tarsi. 



20. M. peregrhms ! 



Myrmeleon peregrinus Hagen ! 



Yellow, variegated with blackish-fuscous ; head yellow, face with 

 a black spot between the antenna? ; palpi yellow, the last article 

 fuscous; antennae clavate, black, annulated with yellow; vertex 

 yellow, with two transverse black stripes, the posterior one inter- 

 rupted in the middle, arcuated ; prothorax short, yellow, above 

 with four black lines, beneath each side with a black stripe ; meso- 

 and metathorax yellow, varied with black ; abdomen yellow, the 

 dorsum with three black lines, venter fuscous ; feet yellow, densely 

 sprinkled with black, the posterior femora sometimes black in the 

 middle ; apex of the tibiae, and tarsi annulated with black ; wings 

 long, broad, hyaline, pterostigma yellow, interiorly fuscous ; veins 

 yellow, hardly distinctly interrupted with fuscous, at the median 

 and submedian nerves pointed with fuscous ; the smaller forks and 

 the transverse veins at the posterior margin of the anterior wings 

 distinctly marked with fuscous. 



Length to tip of wings 40 millim. Alar expanse 74 millim. 



Hah. California ; Pecos River, Western Texas, July (Capt. 

 Pope). Specimens from Matamoras are smaller (expanding 54 

 millim.), but they are hardly different. 



21. M. juvencus ! 



Myrmeleon juvencus Hagen! 



Yellow, varied with black ; head and palpi yellow, a spot be- 

 tween the antennae, and two points upon the vertex, black; anten- 



