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are no observations on the occurrence of oregonensis over 
a period of several weeks at any one locality, the foregoing 
records suggest either a longer period of adult life than 
in carolinensis or a greater seasonal period of emergence 
from the pupae. 
A few specimens of this insect have been found outside 
the state of Oregon. One male (now in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology) was collected on the northern Cali- 
fornian coast (Patrick’s Point State Park, Humboldt Co., 
June 2, 1950, W. L. Nutting and F. Werner) ; another (in 
the California Academy of Sciences) was taken in northern 
Idaho, almost at the Canadian border (Coolin, Priest Lake, 
July 15, 1927, E. C. Van Dyke.^ The most surprising record 
is a male (in the U. S. National Museum) from eastern 
Utah (Neola, near Vernal, July 13, Harmston). A more 
extensive series of specimens of Brachypanorpa from these 
northwestern states may show that more than one species 
is involved in this population, though structural details 
of both sexes seem notably constant. 
Brachypanorpa montana Carp. 
This species was originally based on nine males from Mt. 
McLoughlin, Klamath Co., Oregon, 8000-9000 feet eleva- 
tion (July 19, 1930, H. A. Scullen). They were specifically 
separated from oregonensis chiefly on their darker color, 
since the males of Bi'achypanorpa, like those of Panorpodes 
(Japan), appear to show no marked structural differences 
between species. Subsequent examination of more speci- 
mens of Brachypanorpa from Oregon convinced me that 
the coloration was not a reliable characteristic and that 
montana was a synonym of oregonensis.^ Since then a 
female Brachypanorpa, having a very dark body and wings 
which extend beyond the abdomen (Text-fig. 1, A), has 
been collected at Lake of the Woods, Klamath Falls, Oregon 
* I am indebted to Dr. E. S. Ross for the loan of this specimen. 
5 Records and Notes of Nearctic Mecoptera and Raphidiodea, Bull. 
Brooklyn Ent. Soc., 34(3) :163 (1939). 
