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Order . NEUROPTERA, Lmnceus. 
MYRMELEON PARDALIS. 
Plate LV. fig. 1. 
Section. Planipennes, Latreille. (Filicornes.) 
Family. Myrmeleonid.*, Leach. 
Genus. Myrmeleon, Linn. &c. 
Species. Myrmeleon Pardalis : alis albis, maculis plurimis nigris sparsis, pedibus nigris 
femoribus flavis, corpore flavo nigroque vario. Expans. alar. unc. 3^. 
Myrmeleon : with the wings white, with many black dots scattered over them, 
especially in the anterior pair ; legs black, with the thighs yellow ; body varied 
with yellow and black. Expanse of the wings, inches. 
Syn. Myrmeleon Pardalis, Fabr . Ent. Syst. 2. p. 92. 
MYRMELEON PUNCTATUM. 
Plate LV. fig. 2. 
Species. Myrmeleon Punctatum : alis hyalino-albidis, venis e punctis niveis nigrisque 
alternis reticulatis, punctoque magno niveo stigmaticali ; pedibus flavescentibus. 
Expans. alar. unc. 21. 
Myrmeleon : with the wings hyaline whitish, with the veins reticulated alternately 
with black and white, and with a large white stigmal spot, legs yellowish. Expanse 
of the wings, 2£ inches. 
Syn. Myrmeleon Punctatum, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 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 
interesting 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 
