58 
Psyche 
[June-Sept. 
Madison counties, Iowa (June 9, July 7, 1932), were sent, to 
me by Professor H. E. Jaques. These are the first speci- 
mens which I have seen from that state, though Ebsen- 
Petersen recorded it many years ago from there. 
Panorpa banksi Hine 
Figure 2 
Trans. Ent. Soc. Amer., 1895, 72:315 ( affinis Banks, nec 
Leach) . 
This rare species has previously been known only by the 
male type, which was collected in New York State, and two 
males from Pickens County, S. Carolina, recorded in my 
revision (1931). In the material recently sent by Profes- 
sor Cartwright, there are 7 males and 1 female, all from 
Rocky Bottom, Pickens Co., S. Carolina : 4 $ , 1 $ , May 22, 
1934 ; 1 $ , June 21, 1933 ; 1 $ , May 31, 1933 ; all collected by 
0. L. Cartwright and J. G. Watts. These new specimens 
are most interesting because all have the first marginal 
spot on the fore wings. This was a characteristic that I 
was unable to discern definitely in the type, which is a badly 
damaged specimen. Strangely enough, the two additional 
specimens which I saw from South Carolina in 1931 lacked 
the first marginal spot. The new material indicates that 
the absence of this spot is not a constant specific character- 
istic in banksi, although in all other Nearctic species of 
Panorpa so far known the presence or absence of the mar- 
ginal spots is perfectly constant in at least 99% of the speci- 
mens. 
The female of banksi, which is now known for the first 
time, is like the male in coloring. The internal skeleton of 
the 9th abdominal segment is large, but is unusual in pos- 
sessing a very short axis, which does not project beyond 
the plate. The female collected at Rocky Bottom, Pickens 
Co., May 22, 1934, is here designated as the allotype and is 
deposited in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. In my 
key to the females of Panorpa (1931, p. 225), this specimen 
runs to couplet 18, where it is readily separated from rufes- 
cens and interrupta by the structure of the internal skele- 
ton ; but females lacking the first marginal spot, should any 
