ADDITIONS TO THE MECOPTEROUS FAUNA OF 
FORMOSA 1 
By Fung Ying Cheng 
Harvard University 
The scorpion-flies described below are part of a collection 
secured at several localities in Formosa in 1948. 
Family Panorpidae 
Panorpa lintienshana, n. sp. 
Figures 3-5, 8-10 
Vertex black, with a median reddish brown mark pos- 
teriorly; rostrum yellowish brown with broad and slightly 
blackish brown stripe on each side ; thorax yellowish brown 
laterally, blackish brown dorsally, meso- and meta-notum 
with a broad yellowish brown median band; lst-6th ab- 
dominal segments of both male and female blackish brown 
dorsally and ventrally, last few abdominal segments yellow- 
ish brown, anal horn of male absent. Fore wing: length, 
13 mm. ; width, 3.2 mm. ; membrane hyaline, markings sooty 
brown; pterostigmal band complete, with a broad basal 
branch and a separated and reduced apical branch; basal 
band prominent; apical band broad and ill-defined, repre- 
sented by many small spots ; both basal and marginal spots 
very small ; pterostigma not prominent. Hind wing : length, 
12.3 mm. ; width, 3.2 mm. ; similar to fore wings, except 
that the basal band, basal spot and marginal spot are en- 
tirely lacking. $ genitalia: genital bulb oblong; coxopo- 
dites rather short; harpagones slender, the outer margins 
slightly concave at the middle, inner margin with a median 
angle and a large basal concave area; hypandrium short, 
branches of hypovalvae slightly divergent, never reaching 
to the base of the harpagones; parameres simple, stout, 
each consisting of a single rod, with tooth-like apex and 
bearing on its inner apical margin a number of distinct 
stiff hairs and a small dark sharp tooth-like process; pre- 
1 Published with a grant from the Museum of Comparative Zoology 
at Harvard College. 
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