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Myrmeleonince. Ant-lions. Recognisable by the short clubbed 
antennae ; the wings are usually large and of equal size, often very much 
marked with brown and black. 
Fig. 67.—MYRMELEONID ; LARVA, X 12; EMPTY PUPA CASE PROJECTING FROM 
COCOON AFTER EMERGENCE, X 12. PlT OF THE LARVA, X 1. 
These large and somewhat ungainly insects have a wing span of 
three inches in the larger forms, the smaller of half that length. The 
colouring is sombre, brown predominating. The head is large and dis¬ 
tinct with large compound eyes. The mouthparts are biting with long 
palps. The thorax is robust, often very hairy. The wings are long, of 
