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oblong with the sides shghtly convex and the corners somewhat 

 rounded, also slightly wider distad. 



First legs of male enlarged in the usual degree but longer than 

 usual. The penult article exceptionally long, becoming distally 

 much more slender than the preceding article. 



Anterior division of the first gonopods conspicuously clavate; 

 the broad distal end bent caudad, the caudal edge setiegerous; 

 posterior division much longer than the anterior, its base broad 

 but above this narrowing rather abruptly to a blade which curves 

 ventromesad nearly to the middle line, with the posterior angle 

 of the tip extended caudad in a short, slender and very acute 

 process. 



The posterior gonopods are broad plates each of which curves 

 first cephaloventrad and then ventrocaudad, the distal portion 

 of the blade narrower but still conspicuously broader than usual, 

 the blade with its broad surface sub vertical; the distal end charac- 

 teristically bifid, the two lobes or teeth short. 



The types are broken and as a result the number of segments 

 cannot be accurately determined. 



Two broken males form the basis of the description. 



In the character of the anterior gonopods this species suggests 

 P. zahiwanus Chamberlin, known from New Mexico, but the pos- 

 terior gonopods are conspicuously different. 



THE PUPA OF BOREUS BRUMALIS FITCH. 



By Francis X. Williams, 

 Melrose Highlands, Mass. 



In the August number of Psyche Dohanian describes and 

 figures Boreus brumalis^ and states that the life-history has not 

 been fully worked out in any species of the genus. The order to 

 which this insect belongs, the Panorpatse, comprises a small 

 group of neuropteroid forms, among which are the genera Panorpa, 

 commonly known as scorpion-flies, Bittacus and Merope, and whose 

 mouth-parts are borne at the end of a snout-like extension of the 



• Notes on the External Anatomy of Boreus brumalis Fitch, Psyche, XXII, pp. 120-123, 

 pi. IX, 1915. 



