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Sp. 1. hyemalis. Fiisciix, .mhceneo fucidit.';, ?-o,iirn, ovij>osiforc pedihiisque 

 ochreis. (Long. corp. 2 — 3§ lin ) 



Pan. hyemalis. Liniic. — Bo. hyemalis. Curtis, v.\n. pi. \\9<, — Steph. Catal. 

 301. No. 3364. 



Fuscous, with a bronzed tinge; head and eyes black, the former bronzed ; 

 rostrum pale ochi-eous, Avith the tip brown; prothorax dusky; meso- and 

 meta-thorax ochreous ; abdomen with the edges of the segments palish ; the 

 ovipositor ochreous, with a dusky tip ; legs pale ochreous, with the terminal 

 joint of the tarsi black at the apex ; antennte blackish, with the base pale. 



The wings are pale ochreous-brown in the male. 



This is a very local insect : it was first taken by Dr. Leach near 

 Costessy in Norfolk, and subsequently, rather in abundance, by the 

 Messrs. Walker, near Southgate ; and last winter, in the vicinity of 

 Nottingham, by 11. Bakewell, Esq., to whom I am indebted for 

 specimens. 



Family II.— PANORPID.*], Leach. 



Wivgs four, ample, reticulated, incumbent during the repose of the animal, 

 though slightly extended in form of a long triangle ; ocelli distinct ; pro- 

 thorax short, resembling the collar of the Hymenoptera; abdomen generally 

 elongate and attenuated to the apex, sometimes furnished with a cheliform 

 appendage in the males, but never with an ovipositor in the females. 



Of this family the metamorphoses are likewise unknown ; and 

 from the Boreidae it differs in having ample wings, combined with a 

 very short prothorax, distinct ocelli, an elongate tapering abdomen ; 

 fui-nished at the base in the males (at least in the British genus) with 

 forceps, and without an exserted ovipositor in the females. 



Genus II.— PANORPA Auctorum. 



Autennce approximating at the base, long, slender, inserted between the eyes, 

 composed of numerous articulations, setaceous ; head vertical ; palpi sub- 

 equal, filiform ; ocelli three, disposed in a triangle on the front, the two 

 hinder ones largest ; bodi/ elongate, narrow ; thorax short, the anterior 

 segment small; the two posterior producing large elongate reticulated 

 equal wings, of an ovate-elliptic form, and resembling each other; abdomen 

 conic, furnished at the apex in the males with a claw-like appendage, or 

 forceps, and in the female with a simple hook ; legs long, slender ; tihice 

 with spurs at the apex ; tarsi with short denticulated claws, between which 

 is a spongy pnlvillus. 



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