based on the principle of Cephalization—Insects. 21 
rostrate, the Wings narrow, and the legs and body slender, as in 
the Tipule 
. An coreg —The Amplipenniform Neuropters are 
related to the A Amplipens in having the wings amplificate; but, 
as follows naturally from the fact of the inferior grade of Neu- 
ters, these wings resemble rather the narrower forms of the 
Lepidoptera 
ieaesti sees although not without exceptions: 
pair is sometimes a little aba than the anterior. Thes 
are either Poe or semiaquatic, and either péiamtareeiee 
or prematurati 
ackard, Jr., in his memoir already mentioned remarks as follows on the 
Termite, ee the Panor rpids. 
“The — ide among a ee cog oye in the Neuroptera their well-known 
analogues, the Zermites or White Like the true fosrsit: these otnreayng in- 
sects rear eis of sand or clay, or ey colonies are concealed beneath various ob- 
jects, or in decayed trees and roots. There are als soa differentiation of the inividoa, 
iti r. Those characters hich 
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occupies the largest part of the head, and i n he gene eral reange 
mouth-parts, this family differs widely from other Neuroptera. Thor ough the pro- 
thorax is large, yet the middle region net the body is massed together more than 
usual. Like the ants, the costal ges es of the wings are well-developed, while 
those occupying the hinder Bet ns 0 Indeed, bated: the true 
amily Panorpide assume s dipterous denen Bittacus has its som leasitate 
2 he 
Striking. In both the mouth parts are greatly elongated, and the head much pro- 
dueed i m that direction, leaving a very short vertex; and the antenne are much the 
d sh i fe 
and side pieces, wherein it simulates Tipula ; but the resemblance is still greater in 
the elongated ees a and al g slende re 
fully into a comparison of the notum of both insects, we shall find the large meso- 
um, the short neg and the longer-than-broad | nag : 
of the metathorax of Panorpa closely resembling those piec Tipula. There is 
the same — of the first pair of wings. os = h the srnight actin e778 gradually 
around at the a apex, as the inner r edge cur up just as apidly to meet the costa 
at the apex which is situated in the Siddle i of the wi so in the di 
of the main nervures, their relative distances a apart, ¢ and their termination, even to the 
of th the * of Tipu, 
genera are strict] logous. Both gene va agree, 
tations of authors, i in < Sontan thei — ay on their long sages Sil introducing 
mang’ wegen and patuted' abdomen into the earth, when about to deposit their eggs.” 
