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Psyche 
[March 
amber and extant faunas has previously been observed in 
most other insect families. 
Family Panorpidae 
Genus Panorpodes 
Panorpodes MacLachlan, 1875, Trans. Ent. Soc. London: 
188. 
Electropanorpa Carpenter, 1931, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc., 
39:409. 
This genus, which is known extant only in Japan and 
Korea, is represented in the Baltic amber by two species. 
The generic characteristics are distinctive and can clearly 
be seen in specimens of both species: a short rostrum, un- 
modified 7th and 8th abdominal segments of the male, and 
a definite pleural membrane on the 6th abdominal segment 
of the male. The occurrence of Panorpodes in the Baltic 
amber, remote from the regions which it now occupies, is 
noteworthy, for it adds another example of the presence 
of an existing Asiatic genus in the Baltic region during 
the Tertiary. 
The genus Electropanorpa, which I erected for Panorpa 
brevicauda Hagen, now seems to me to be inseparable from 
Panorpodes. 
Panorpodes brevicauda (Hagen) 
(Figure 1) 
Panorpa brevicauda Hagen, 1856, in Berendt’s Bernstein 
befindl. organ. Reste Vorw., 2(1) :91; pi. 8, fig. 21. 
Electropanorpa brevicauda Carpenter, 1931, Journ. N. Y. 
Ent. Soc., 39:409. 
Fore wing: length, 11.5-13 mm.; width, 3.5-4 mm.; length 
of rostrum, 2 mm. Body generally dark brown ; wings 
slightly yellowish, but clear and without maculations ; 
venation as in Panorpodes, R1 being posteriorly curved 
just below the end of Sc; male genital bulb globular, not 
slender as in paradoxa; forceps also are more slender 
than those of paradoxa ; hypovalvae extending only to about 
the base of the forceps. The dorsal surface of the genital 
bulb in not visible in any of the specimens which I have 
seen. 
