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Psyche 
[June-Sept. 
DESCRIPTIONS AND RECORDS OF NEARCTIC 
MECOPTERA 
By F. M. Carpenter 
Museum of Comparative Zoology 
During the past year so many unusual and interesting 
Nearctic Mecoptera have come under my observation that 
it seemed justifiable to publish an account of them at this 
time, even though another summer will probably add to the 
list. The most remarkable collection which I have yet re- 
ceived for determination was sent by Professor 0. L. Cart- 
wright, of Clemson College, South Carolina. Included in 
this lot were the females of three species ( flexa , banksi, and 
acuta) previously known only from males; a long series of 
specimens of a species (flexa) formerly known solely from 
the holotype ; another long series of a second species 
(banksi), which, although described forty years ago, has 
been known only from 3 specimens ; and 5 species not pre- 
viously recorded from the state of South Carolina. Other 
specimens forming the basis of this paper have been 
received from Professor R. C. Smith and Professor H. B. 
Hungerford of Kansas, Professor H. E. Jaques, Iowa Wes- 
leyan College, and Mr. Robert Goslin, Lancaster, Ohio. To 
these entomologists I owe many thanks for the opportunity 
of studying their material. 
Family Panorpidse 
Panorpa flexa Carp. 
Figure 3 
Psyche, 1935, 42:108, fig. 2. 
This species was described from a single male collected 
in the Smoky Mountains, N. Carolina. Among the Mecop- 
tera sent by Professor Cartwright there are 3 males and 7 
females from North and South Carolina, as follows: 
