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THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



P. communis. In August be sent me four Panorpas, an almost 

 immaculate male P. germanica, and three larger ones — a female 

 with wing-tips almost unspotted as in the earlier specimens, and 

 a male and a female, which I presume must all be considered P. 

 communis, us the anal appendages of the male agree with those 

 of the last-named species. All four were taken at West Wood on 

 August 13th. On the '28th of the same month Stowell sent me 

 two further females of P. communis, more or less normal in wing 

 markings. This form of P. communis in which the spots on each 

 wing lie chiefly in a single band or narrow fascia is a very distinct 

 one, and if it were not that the genital arrangements resemble 

 those of P. communis one would think it a separate species. It 

 is, however, a very interesting form of P. communis, which I pro- 



Fig. 1. — Right fore wing of fairly typical S P- comminns ( x 4). 



Fig. 2. — Right fore wing of var. unifaseiata ^ ( x 4). The specimen figured is the 



most distinct example of tliis form that I received. 



pose to call var. unifasciata. Although I have seen and taken a 

 great number of examples of P. communis, 1 can recall but one 

 like this form, though some others approach it to a certain extent. 

 The specimen referred to was taken at Castle Howard, in York- 

 shire, and is figured in the 'Entomologist' for 1910, pi. iv, 

 fig. Ic. , 



Two males of P. communis were captured at Gog Magog Hills 

 on July 9th (G. T. Lyle). On August 2nd I took a femaU: P. 

 germanica, and on August 9th another, both in the New Forest. 

 Still later in the season, August 26th, on recent sugar-patches in 

 the Forest, I found two females of P. communis and one female 

 of P. germanica : they were there to feed on the sugar, no doubt. 

 The next day, August 27th, I caught yet another P. communis, a 

 male, in the Forest. 



(1918) A female P. germanica was taken near Horsley, 



