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first of the normal form of the order, when it lives in the cocoons of 

 spiders; before the first moult it loses the use of its feet, aud begins 



Fig. 80. 



Fig. 80a. 



Fig. 79.— Mantispa interrupta Say; and side view of the same without wings. 



Natural size. — Emerton del. 

 Fig. 80. — Freshly-hatched larva of Mantispa styriaca, enlarged. 

 Fig. 80«.— Larva of the same, but older, before the first moult. Enlarged. — 



After Brauer. 



to change its form, until when fully grown it is cylindrical, with 

 small feet and a small round head, much as in caterpillars. 



Order X. Mecaptera* (Scorpion -flies). 



We have given this name to the Panorpidae, which have 

 features separating them from the true Neuroptera. The 

 front of the head is greatly elongated into a sort of beak, 

 the clypeus being very long, and the minute mandibles are 

 situated at the end of the snout. The prothorax is very 

 small; and in the shape of the thorax as a whole, and in 



* Selected Works. 



Brauer, F. See Neuroptera. 



Hagen, H. A. Synopsis of N. A. Neuroptera. 



Packard, A. S. (External anatomy, in third report U. S. Entom. Com- 

 mission, 1883, 342, PI. LIX, LX). 



Westwood, J. 0. Monograph of the genus Panorpa (Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Loudon, iv., 184(3). 



