130 I November, 



it remains in the larval state and retains the purple-violet colour until 

 spring of the year following, when it changes to a pupa. 



The broad-oval cocoon is covered with particles of earth, and 

 measures from 16 to 19 mm. in length and from 10 to 12 in breadth, 

 the interior being very smoothly lined with pale drab-coloured silk ; 

 the pupa is of rather a dumpy figure, from 8 to 9 mm. long, the wing- 

 covers longish, of a light yellowish-brown colour marked with dark 

 brown and having the nervur-es in high relief, the eye-pieces and 

 abdomen dai^k browm, the surface smooth and glossy, the last segment 

 of the abdomen is a little prolonged and rounded ofl: at the tip with- 

 out any points of attachment, w^hich probably would be in this 

 instance superfluous, as the tail of the pupa is brought to rest closely 

 packed against the side of the cast off larval skin, bristling wdth stiff 

 hairs, which evidently afford sufficient support and resistance for the 

 escape of the insect. 



Emsworth : Septemher 11th, 1882. 



A NEW EUEOPEAN PANORPA. 

 BY R. McLACHLAN, F.R.S., &c. 



For some years I have had in my collection one J* Fanorpa, taken 

 by Baron von Nolcken in the island of CEsel, in the Baltic, that ap- 

 peared to represent an undescribed species, in some respects interme- 

 diate between P. communis and P. germanica, but nearer the latter. 

 Afterwards I saw a ? captured in Saxony by Herr Rostock, apparently 

 of the same species. Quite recently a second ^ , from Finland, captured 

 by Herr Appelberg, has come under my notice. As the MS. name 

 under which I returned the Saxon specimen has recently found its way 

 into print ("P. hyhrida, McLach.," cf. Eostock in " Entomologische 

 ISTachrichten," vii, p. 224), it is desirable to describe the species. 



Panoepa htbrida, n. sp. 



$ . Head black above, yellowish posteriorly ; rostrum yellowish or testaceous, 

 with two longitudinal blackish or piccous streaks scarcely extending to the apex ; 

 palpi testaceous, terminal joint fuscescent ; antenna? fuscous, the basal joint yellow. 



Thorax black above : pronotum yellow ou its posterior margin ; meso- and 

 meta-nota with a yellow central lino and yellow scutellum. Sides wholly yellow or 

 testaceous. 



Legs testaceous ; terminal joint of tarsi fuscescent ; claws testaceous, with three 

 teeth internally below the apex. 



