THE 
GREAT MYRMELEOK 
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GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Mouth furnished with jaws and two teeth. 
Feelers four, elongated. 
Stemmata none. 
Tail (of the male) forcipated by two straitish 
filaments. 
Antennce equalling the thorax in length, and 
clavated. 
Win^s dej[le£ted. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, isle. 
MYRMELEON with slender, clavated anten¬ 
nae, and wings barred by patches of brown. 
Drury Ins. 3. t. 41. 
This elegant insed, which is sometimes regarded 
as a variety only of the Myrmeleon libelluloides, may, 
perhaps, with greater propriety be considered as con¬ 
stituting a distind species. It is a native of Africa, 
i^nd is represented in its natural siz;e. 
