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Carpenter — Chinese Panorpidae 
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Lachlan’s account of dicer as. It is significant that the 
type of grahami was collected only a few miles from 
Tachienlu, the type locality of diceras. My failure in 
1938 to recognize the specimen of grahami as diceras 
was due to an incorrect interpretation of McLachlan’s 
description of the liypovalvae. 
Fig. 1. Panorpa diceras McLachlan. A, ventral view of $ genital 
bulb, drawn from type in the British Museum (Natural History) by D. E. 
Kimmins. B, preepiproct of same specimen. 
I have already (1938, p. 271) proposed a new name 
( tjederi ) for the species which Tjeder identified and 
described as diceras. The following is a description of 
the species which I originally identified as diceras : 
Panorpa kimminsi, n. sp. 
Panorpa diceras Carpenter, 1938, Proc. Ent. Soc. Wash., 
40: 270, fig. 2, 10, 11 (nec P. diceras McLachlan, 1894). 
The genital bulb of the male and the internal skeleton 
of the genital segment of the female have already been 
described and figured in the paper mentioned above, so I 
add here only an account of the rest of the body and the 
wings : Body yellow, with black in the region of the ocelli 
and between the antennal bases; also, a black stripe 
