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Pyke TB CCL 
PANORPA COMMUNIS. 
NEUROPTERA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Beak horny, cylindrical. Palpi 2. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings, equal length, fpotted with black. 
PANORPA COMMUNIS: alis zqualibus nigro maculatis. Lez. Sy. 
Wari 2.) O05.) Ti. 
Fn. Sv. 15. 16. 
Geoff. Inf. 2. 260. 1. tab. tA. fig. 2. 
Degrer. Inf.2. 2, 80. tab. 24. fiz. 2. die 
Reaum. Inf. 4, tab. 8. fig. 9. 
Sulz. Fiift. Inf. tab. 25. fig. 5, 6. 
Scheff. Icon. tab. 88. fig. 7. 
‘The Panorpa communis is very common in fields in the fummer. 
Its metamorphofis is entirely unknown. 
The tail of the male is armed with a weapon, fomewhat refem- 
bling the fting of a {corpion. ‘The tail of the female has an appen- 
dage, but very diferent in its ftru@ure. Thofe parts of both fexes 
are reprefented in our plate, of the natural fize, and magnified. 
G PLATE 
