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specimen of this species labeled “N. Mex.”. Since lugubris 
has previously been reported only from the Carolinas, 
Georgia, Florida and Alabama, a New Mexico record is most 
surprising. Dr. Ross, of the Illinois Museum, assures me, 
however, that the locality datum is almost certainly correct. 
If so, this specimen extends by some three hundred miles (to 
about longitude 103°) the westward range of Panorpa in 
the Nearctic region, for I have seen no previous records of 
the genus beyond Austin, Texas (longitude 98°). 
Panorpa insolens, n. sp. (Figure 5.) 
Body: light reddish-brown. Fore wing: length 12 mm.; 
width 3 mm., membrane faintly yellow, markings grayish- 
brown; apical and pterostigmal bands entire; basal band 
broken at the middle, but very broad, both upper and lower 
portions fusing with the first basal spot; second basal spot 
very small ; both marginal spots absent; cross veins not mar- 
gined. $ genitalia : internal skeleton small, the axis en- 
tirely confined to the plate, not projecting anteriorly as in 
most species of the genus. Male unknown. 
Holotype: Cincinnati, Ohio; May 30, 1908; in Museum of 
Comparative Zoology. 
Although in describing this species from the female alone, 
I have departed from my usual policy of not establishing a 
new species of Panorpa unless the male is known, I consider 
the wing markings of this particular insect so unusual that 
the male when found will at once be recognized. In none of 
the other Nearctic Mecoptera has the basal band been modi- 
fied to anything like the form in insolens. The internal skele- 
ton is close to that of P. carolinensis Banks, and I suspect 
that the male when found will have a genital structure also 
close to that of carolinensis. In my key to the females of 
Panorpa (1931, p. 224) insolens runs to section 9, including 
signifer, carolinensis and longicornis, from all of which it 
can be readily separated by the form of the basal band of 
the fore wing. 
Panorpa virginica Banks 
Psyche, 13 : 99; 1906. 
Two males in the Illinois State Museum are labeled “Wis- 
consin,” the first record of the species in that state. 
