1 64 ' ORDER IV. Myrmelion. 



Genus V. Myrmelion. 



Linn. Syft. Nat. page 913. 



The mouth of the Myrmelion is armed 

 with jaws, two teeth, and four long 

 palpi. 



It has no ftemmata. 



The tail, in the male fex, is furnifhed 

 with a kind of forceps, formed by two 

 ftraight filaments. 



Their antennae are club-formed, and 

 as long as the thorax. 



Their wings are deflected. 



Geoffroy, who has defcribed only one fpecies 

 of the Myrmelion, does not pbferve that the 

 tail of the male is furnifhed with a forceps. 

 The fpecies he defcribed was perhaps incom- 

 pleat, or he had met with none of the male fex ; 

 he adds that the four wings are all of equal length, 

 and has given to that infect the generical name 

 of Formkaleo^ in which he is followed by 

 Sch^effer, who obferves that the wings in that 



genus 



