Head large and black. Eyes brown (antennæ broken off). Thorax black, with two yellow spots next the head, and one on each side, at the base of the wings, with a yellow line crossing it next the abdomen. Scutellum chesnut-coloured. Abdomen chesnut-coloured at the base, with a yellow ring crossing the middle; at the extremity golden green. Legs and breast black. Wings transparent. {104}ECHINOMYIA PILOSA. Plate XLV. fig. 7. ORDER: Diptera. SECTION: Athericera. FAMILY: Muscidæ. GENUS. ECHINOMYIA, _Dumeril_. Tachina, _Fabr._ Musca, _Drury_. ECHINOMYIA PILOSA. Atra; setis rigidis numerosissimis obsita, alis opacis fuscis, capite brunneo. (Echin. hirtâ paullo minor.) SYN. Musca pilosa, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. Tachina hystrix, _Fabr. Syst. Antl._ 310. 8. _Weidemann Auss. Zw. Ins._ 2. 284. HABITAT: Jamaica. Head red brown. Antennæ short and thick, without hairs. Thorax and abdomen entirely covered with thick black hairs, or rather bristles, when compared with the size of the insect. Wings opake and brown, not transparent. Breast black, covered with black bristles. Legs black, spinose. PLATE XLVI. [Illustration] 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_). Head dark yellow, divided by a black line, which runs along it from the thorax. Antennæ black and clubbed, small at the base, and gradually increasing to their extremities. Thorax brownish yellow; having a black line running along its upper part, and two small black spots at the base of the superior wings, being covered with greyish hairs. Abdomen about an inch and a quarter long, yellow, with a black line on the top, and one on each side; the male having two small horny tails issuing from the extremity. Wings membranaceous and pellucid (the inferior ones being as long as the superior), and elegantly adorned with a great number of dark spots of various shapes and sizes. Fabricius gives the Cape of Good Hope as the habitat of this species, referring not only to the present figure, but also to that given in Vol. 3. Plate 41. which is said by Drury to have been brought from Sierra Leone. This is the more inexcusable, because Drury expressly observed in a note, "There is a species found near the Cape of Good Hope very much like this, but distinctly different," although in the synoptical appendix to the third volume, he gives the large species from Sierra Leone as a variety of M. Libelluloides.