PANORPID.I::, — PAXOnPA. 51 



Sp. 1. hyemalis. Fuscus, suhoEneo lucidus, rostra, ovipositor e pedibusque 

 ochreis. (Long-, corp. 2 — 3§ lin ) 



Pan. hyemalis. Linnc. — Bo. hyemalis. Curtis, v. 'in. pi. 118. — Steph. Catal. 

 304. No. 3364. 



Fuscous, with a bronzed tinge; head and eyes black, the former bronzed ; 

 rostrum pale ochreous, with the tip brown ; prothorax dusky ; meso- and 

 meta-thorax ochreous ; abdomen with the edges of the segments palish ; the 

 ovipositor ochreous, with a dusky tip ; legs pale ochreous, with the terminal 

 joint of the tarsi black at the apex ; antennae blackish, with the base pale. 



The wings are pale ochreous-brown in the male. 



This is a very local insect : it was first taken by Dr. Leach near 

 Costessy in Norfolk, and subsequently, rather in abundance, by the 

 Messrs. Walker, near Southgate ; and last winter, in the vicinity of 

 Nottingham, by K. Bakewell, Esq., to whom I am indebted for 

 specimens. 



Family II.— PANORPID.^, Leach. 



Wings four, ample, reticulated, incumbent during the repose of the animal, 

 though slightly extended in form of a long triangle ; ocelli distinct ; 'pro- 

 thorax short, resembling the collar of the Hymenoptera ; abdomen generally 

 elongate and attenuated to the apex, sometimes furnished with a cheliform 

 appendage in the males, but never with an ovipositor in the females. 



Of this family the metamorphoses are likewise unknown ; and 

 from the Boreidas it differs in having ample wings, combined with a 

 very short prothorax, distinct ocelli, an elongate tapering abdomen ; 

 furnished at the base in the males (at least in the British genus) with 

 forceps, and without an exserted ovipositor in the females. 



Genus II. — PANORPA Auctorum. 



Antennce approximating at the base, long, slender, inserted between the eyes, 

 composed of numerous articulations, setaceous ; head vertical ; palpi sub- 

 equal, filiform ; ocelli three, disposed in a triangle on the front, the two 

 hinder ones largest; body elongate, narrow; thorax short, the anterior 

 segment small; the two posterior producing large elongate reticulated 

 equal wings, of an ovate-elliptic form, and resembling each other ; abdomen 

 conic, furnished at the apex in the males with a claw-like appendage, or 

 forceps, and in the female with a simple hook ; legs long, slender ; tihits 

 with spurs at the apex ; tarsi with short denticulated claws, between which 

 is a spongy pulvillus. 



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