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South Carolina: 1?, Rocky Bottom, Pickens Co., May 
5, 1984 (0. L. Cartwright) ; 1$, Rocky Bottom, May 31, 
1933 (0. L. C.) ; 1$, Rocky Bottom, June 1, 1933 (J. G. 
Watts) ; 1 $ , Pinacle Mt., June 19, 1934 (0. L. C.) ; Earls’ 
Ford, Pickens Co., July 8, 1933 (0. L. C.). North Caro- 
lina: 2$, 1$, Sunburst, June 30, 1935 (0. C. L.) ; 1$, 
Sunburst, June 14, 1934 (0. L. C.). 
The wing membrane of the holotype of flexa was color- 
less, but the wings in the additional specimens show a sur- 
prising variation in color, surpassed in Panorpa only by that 
in P. canadensis. In half of the specimens listed above the 
wing membrane is colorless, and the markings are much 
reduced; whereas in the rest of the specimens the mem- 
brane is yellow and the markings are strongly developed. 
The female is similar to the male in coloration and mark- 
ings. The internal skeleton within the 9th abdominal seg- 
ment is large and resembles that of sigmoides, but differs 
in the curvature of the projecting part of the axis. In the 
key to the females of Panorpa contained in my revision of 
the Nearctic Mecoptera (Bull. Mus. Comp. Zook, 72: p. 225, 
1931) , flexa will run to couplet 15, and can be distinguished 
from the other species included there only by the structure 
of the internal skeleton. The female from Sunburst, N. Caro- 
lina, June 14, 1934, is designated as the allotype and depos- 
ited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
Panorpa anomala Carp. 
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zook, 1931, 72:245. 
Since this species has previously been known only from 
the types collected in Leavenworth and Douglas Counties, 
Kansas, it is of unusual interest to have the species turn up 
in Arkansas (Washington Co., May 21, 1928). Several 
specimens of both sexes from that locality were sent to me 
by Professor R. C. Smith. This record indicates that the 
species probably also occurs in Missouri and Oklahoma, 
from both of which states I have seen almost no specimens 
of Panorpa. 
Panorpa venosa Westwood. 
Trans. Ent. Soc. London, 1846, 4:190. 
Four specimens of this species collected in Jones and 
