THE PANORPA COMMUNIS. 



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a most disgusting scent, as any one that handles them will soon 



discover. 



The Scorpion Flies, Panorpa communis, are common in some 



THE METAMORPHOSES OF Fauorpa communis. 



parts of Europe, in damp places. The adults have a curiously 

 long muzzle, and rather small wings, which are transparent, and 

 spotted with brown colours ; the males have the same sort of 

 body-pincers as the dragon flies, and the females have a longish 



