Order. NEUROPTERA. Linnceus. 



MYRMELEON PARDALIS. 



Plate LV. fig. 1. 



Section. Planipennes, Latreille. (Filicornes.) 



Family. Myrmeleonid.e, Leach. 



Genus. Myrmeleon, Linn. &c. 



Species. Myrmeleon Pardalis : alis albia, maculis pluriniis nigris sparsis, pedibus nigris 

 femoribus flavis, corpore flavo nigroque vario. Expans. alar, una 3^. 

 Myrmeleon : with the wings white, with many black dots scattered over them, 

 especially in the anterior pah- ; legs black, with the thighs yellow ; body varied 

 with yellow and black. Expanse of the wings, 3| inches. 



Syn. Myrmeleon Pardalis, Fair. Eat. Sijst. 2. p. 92. 



MYRMELEON PUNCTATUM. 



Plate LV. fit,'. 2. 



Species. Myrmeleon Punctatitm : alis hyalino-albidis, venis e punctis niveis nigrisque 

 alternis reticulatis, punctoque magno niveo stigmaticali ; pedibus flavescentibus. 

 Expans. alar. unc. 2\. 

 Myrmeleon : with the wings hyaline whitish, with the veins reticulated alternately 

 with black and white, and with a large white stigmal spot, legs yellowish. Ex- 

 pase of the wings, 2^ inches. 



Sin. Myrmeleon Punctatum, Fabr. Ent. Si/st. 2. p. 94. 



Donovan observes upon the two preceding species—" Few species of the Myrme- 

 leon genus have been discovered. Linnaeus describes only five, and those are chiefly 

 natives of Europe. Fabricius adds seven more, besides three others in the genera 

 Ascalaphus, in the Entomologia Systematica, and particularly two from India, in the 

 cabinet of Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. M. Pardalis and M. Punctatum ; these are the only 

 Indian Myrmeleons hitherto ascertained ; to the Entomologist they are equally in- 

 teresting as new and unfigured species, but M. Pardalis is much superior in beauty to 

 the other. The characteristic distinction of M. Punctatum, is the alternate black and 

 white specks, or interrupted dashes in the reticulations of the wings. M. Pardalis is 



