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New Near die Mecoptera 
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Panorpa isolata Carp. 
Bull. Mus. Comp Zool., 72 : 241 ; 1931. 
One male from Waukegan, Illinois, July 7, 1932 (T. H. 
Frison) is in the Illinois State Museum. Since this species 
has not previously been found outside of Georgia, the Caro- 
linas and Tennessee, the Illinois record is most interesting 
and unexpected ; it probably signifies that the species occurs 
in Kentucky and Ohio. 
Panorpa speciosa Carp. (Figure 4.) . 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 72 : 243, 1931. 
During the summer of 1934 I was fortunate enough to 
secure two males and a female of this rare species, which 
has previously been known only from four males. Both were 
taken at Vandalia, Illinois, June 28, 1934. The female is 
similar to the male in coloration and wing markings. The 
internal skeleton (figure 4) is small but has a very deep 
“U”-shaped cleft; the axis is small, projecting only a short 
distance beyond the plate itself ; there is a small chitinous 
envelope covering a part of the axis and surrounding part 
of the plate. This female, now in the Museum of Compara- 
tive Zoology, is designated as the allotype. 
Panorpa bifida, n. sp. (Figures 1, 3.) 
Body brown to yellow; anal horn present. Fore wing: 
length 11-13 mm.; width, 3-4 mm.; membrane faintly yel- 
low, markings dark-brown or black ; apical band entire ; pte- 
rostigmal band broken at middle; basal band interrupted; 
first basal and first and second marginal spots present; sec- 
ond basal spot absent ; cross veins margined. $ genitalia : 
genital bulb rounded; forceps of moderate size, the distal 
half quite slender; hypovalves long, extending very nearly 
to the base of the forceps; ventral valves elaborate, each 
consisting of a single semi-circular basal piece which forks 
distally into two long branches ; the outer one of these is the 
longer, is slightly curved, and bears a number of barbs ; the 
inner branch is nearly straight and is also barbed. $ geni- 
talia : internal skeleton small ; the posterior part of plate in 
the form of a half-moon; the anterior part with a deep, 
broad “U”-shaped incision. 
