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ENTOMOLOGY. 



first of the normal form of the order, when it lives in the cocoons of 

 spiders; before the first moult it loses the use of its feet, and begins 



Fig. 7U. 



Fig. 80. 



FIG. 79. Mantispa interrupta Say; and side view of the same without wings. 



Natural size. Emerton del. 



FIG. 80. Freshly-hatched larva of Mantispa styriaca, enlarged. 

 FIG. 80o. Larva of the same, but older, before the first moult. Enlarged. 



After Brauer. 



to change its form, until when fully grown it is cylindrical, with 

 small feet and a small round head, much as in caterpillars. 







ORDER X. MECAPTERA* (Scorpion-flies). 



We have given this name to the Panorpidas, which have 

 features separating them from the true Neuroptera. The 

 front of the head is greatly elongated into a sort of beak, 

 the clypeus being very long, and the minute mandibles are 

 situated at the end of the snout. The prothorax is very 

 small; and in the shape of the thorax as a whole, and in 



* SELECTED WORKS. 



Brauer, F. See Neuroptera. 



Hagen, H. A. Synopsis of N. A. Neuroptera. 



Packard, A. S. (External anatomy, in third report U. S. Entom. Com- 

 mission, 1883, 342, PI. LIX, LX). 



Westwood, J. 0. Monograph of the genus Panorpa (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. London, iv., 1846). 



