LION-ANT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth armed with jaws, furnished with two teeth and four 
long palpi. 
Antennae club-shaped ; as long as the thorax. 
Tail (in the male) provided with a kind of forceps. 
Wings deflected. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Myrmeleon Formicarius. M. alis fusco-nebulosis : macula 
alba marginali posteriore. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 2643. 
Wings clouded with brown j a 
white spot on each posterior mar- 
gin. 
Hemerobius Formicaleo. Syst. 
Nat. x. p. 550. no. 4. 
Formica Leo. Geoff. Ins. 2. p.258. 
pi. 14. f. 1. 
Lion- Ant. Reaum. Ins. 4. pi. 1 1. f. 6. 8. pi. 14. 
f. 18, 19. et pi. 32, 33, 34. 
Schaff. Icon. pi. 22. f. 1, 2. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. 6. p. 260. pi. 84. 
This creature in his larva state lives by rapine, 
and yet is denied the power of pursuit. He can- 
not advance in search of his prey with the least 
