PANORPID^. PAKORPA. 53 



the same, with the extreme apex alone fuscouS;, the nervures slightly 

 brownish, and the costa faintly testaceous ; legs pitchy. 

 This insect is much smaller than either of the other species, and may be 

 known by having the extreme tips alone of all the wings deep fuscous. 



I possess a pair of this species that occurred in the vicinity of 

 London ; one at Darenth wood, in June. 



Sp. 4. borealis. Nigra, rostro, abdominis apice pedihusque piceis, alls hyalinis 

 venis maculaque costalifuscescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 9k lin.) 



Pan. borealis. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. col. 112. 



Black ; rostrum, apex of the abdomen, and the legs pitchy ; thorax with some 



obscure testaceous spots; wings hyaline, with the nervures, and a spot on 



the costa, towards the apex, brownish. 

 This may probably be a variety of the following species. 



Found in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh. 



Sp. 5. gerraanica. Nigra, rostro, abdominis apice pedibusque rufis, alis hyalinis 

 subnebulosis, macula costali conspicua, fused. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 13 lin.) 



Pan. germanica. Linne. — Steph. Catal. 305. No. 3368. 



Black; rostrum, apex of the abdomen and legs red or reddish; thorax Avith a 

 dorsal row of testaceous or yellowish spots ; wings hyaline, obscurely 

 clouded with fuscous, with a conspicuous spot of the same towards the 

 apex of the costa, and some darker clouds near the hinder margin, or tip of 

 the wing. 



As in the other species of this genus, some examples are more clouded with 

 fuscous, on the wings, than others. 



Much less abundant, at least within the metropohtan district, than 

 either P. communis or P. affinis : it occurs, however, not uncom- 

 monly, especially in the New Forest, in the months of June and 

 July. 



Section II.— ANISOPTERA, Leach. 



Antennae short, subulated ; mandibles obsolete or wanting; wings erected 

 during repose, anterior generally elongated, of a somewhat triangular form, 

 with the hinder margin rounded, and considerably larger than the posterior, 

 which in some cases are totally wanting ; abdomen furnished at its apes 

 with two or three setas or filaments, variable in length, according to the 

 species ; legs various ; anterior elongated, porrected ; intermediate and 

 posterior short; ifarsz with four joints. Metamorphosis quadruple. 



The insects comprehended in this division of Neuroptera are 

 remarkable for several peculiarities, both of structure and of habit, as 



