PLATE XLVI.

MYRMELEON LIBELLULOIDES.

Plate [XLVI]. fig. 1.

Order: Neuroptera. Section: Filicornes. Family: Myrmeleonidæ, Leach.

Genus. Myrmeleon, Linn. &c.

Myrmeleon Libelluloides. Alis fusco punctatis maculatisque corpore nigro flavoque maculato. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 9 lin.)

Syn. Myrmeleon Libelluloides, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. 2. p. 913. 1. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2. 92. 1.? Latr. Gen. Crust. & Ins. 3. 191.

Libella turcica major alis locustæ, Pet. Gaz. 6. t. 3. f. 1.

Habitat: Smyrna (Drury). "In Europa australiori et per totam Africam" (Latreille).