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a most disgusting scent, as any one that handles them will soon 
discover. 
The Scorpion Flies, Pavorpfa communis, are common in some 
THE METAMORPHOSES OF /Panorpa commits. 
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 
