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paleogama Guenée. 
“var. annida Fager. 
id ‘ phalanga Grote. 
antinympha Hiibner. 
badia Grote and Robinson. 
habilis Grote. 
basalis Grote. 
pretiosa Lintner. 
amasia Smith and Abbot (=sancta Hulst. 
 cordelia Hy. Edwards. 
similis Edwards. 
fratercula Grote and Robinson. 
micronympha Guenée. 
preclara Grote and Robinson. 
grynea Cramer. 
gracilis Edwards. 
r = var. sordida Grote. 
‘¢ (linear band on secondaries). 
amica Hiibner (= “ineella Grote). 
ok és var. androphila Guenée. 
“  suffusa Beutenmiiller. 
“ce sé 
“ce “ec 
nubitlis Hiibner. 
The Panorpidae (Scorpion-flies) of North Carolina, 
with Notes on the Species. 
By FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR. 
Entomologist, State Department of Agriculture, Raleigh, N. C. 
This group of Neuropteroid insects has received very little 
attention from entomologists, mainly due, no doubt, to the 
fact that they do not make themselves conspicuous and are of 
relatively little economic importance. ‘The number of species 
to be found in any one locality seems to be small, though not 
so small as the ordinary collector might at first suppose. At 
Raleigh we have seven species recorded, while Mr. Manee has 
thus far located four at Southern Pines. Our complete list 
for the entire State includes fifteen species. 
Our limited records to present indicate that the species are, 
at least in the majority of cases, single-brooded, a given species 
occurring only at a certain season for one, two, or three con- 
secutive months. The exceptions to this are Panorpa rujicens, 
