the British Neuroptera-PJanipennia. 215 



Abdomen with the first five segments blacky the lateral 

 basal sutures yellowish. In the (^ , the second segment 

 is scarcely produced in front above ; the fifth is long, cylin- 

 drical, narrowed at the apex, truncate ; the sixth cone- 

 shaped, shorter than the fifth, very slender at the base, 

 reddish castaneous, with a large black blotch above ; the 

 seventh similar in colour to the sixth, and very similarly 

 formed, only that the apex above is somewhat obliquely 

 truncated ; the eighth (terminal) reddish testaceous, broad, 

 the two branches of the forceps crossing each other in a very 

 oblique direction ; appendices very long, hairy, cylindri- 

 cal throughout, approximating at the base and apex, but 

 somewhat distant in the middle, the tips black (PL XI. 

 figs. 6, Qa); in the Q, the three terminal segments are 

 reddish castaneous, short, the penultimate the shortest; 

 appendices black. 



Legs grayish yellow ; tihim with a few black spines ; 

 spurs testaceous ; tarsi blackish or fuscous ; ungues with 

 long and strong teeth internally. 



Wings hyaline, with coloux"less membrane, and blackish 

 fuscous markings ; ordinarily with two spots near the 

 base, forming an incomplete fascia, a complete irregular 

 fascia beyond the middle, the apex broadly margined ; 

 detached dots between the fasciae ; these markings all 

 vary much, and some of them are often absent; pterostig- 

 ma indistinctly yellowish ; neuration black, some of the 

 transverse veinlets paler. 



The largest British species. Length of body, ($ , 7 lines, 

 $ , 6 lines ; expanse of wings 12-15 lines. 



Abundant everywhere. 



2. Panorpa germanica, Linne. 



Panorpa germanica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 915 (1767); 

 Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. dcxcvi ; Eamb. Nevrop. 329; Hag 

 Ent. Ann. 1858, p. 32 ; Eaton, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist 

 1867, p. 397. P. affinis, Leach, Zool. Miscell. ii. 98, pi 

 xciv. fig. 2 (1815); Steph. 111. vi. 52; Curt. Brit. Ent 

 pi. dcxcvi, text 2. P. ajncalis, Steph. HI. vi. 52 (1836) 

 Hag. Ent. Ann. 1858, p. 33. P. borealis, Steph. 111. vi 

 53 (1836) ?. P. montana, Brauer, Neurop. Aust.36(1857) 



Head : vertex castaneous, blackish in the middle ; the 

 back of the head yellow ; front and rostrum testaceous, 

 black below the basal joints of the antennae, with two 



