F. M. Carpenter.
Neopanorpa hirsutal (Crampton).
Psyche 38(4):184-185, 1931.

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Psyche
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NEOPANORPA HIRSUTA (CRAMPTON)
BY F. M. CARPENTER
Museum of Comparative Zoology
In a recent paper dealing with the morphology of the Mecoptera, G. C. Crampton figured the genitalia of a speci- men from India and suggested that "this remarkable Panorpid should be called 'Panorpa hirsuta,' if it should prove to be new to science." At my request, Professor Crampton kindly sent the specimen to me for further study, and since he did not publish a complete description of the insect, which belongs to the small genus Neopanorpa rather than Panorpa, I have prepared the following redescription of the species.
Neopanorpa hirsuta (Crampton)
Figure 1
Panorpa hirsuta Crampton, 1931, Psyche 38, p. 10; fig. 23. Body reddish brown, except for eyes and first four ab- dominal segments, which are black; horn on third segment short, extending to about the middle of the fourth seg- ment; seventh and eighth abdominal segments subequal, a little shorter than the sixth. Fore wing: length, 14 mm.; width, 3.7 mm.; membrane hyaline, bands and spots light brown; apical band entire, pterostigmal band forked pos- teriorly ; basal band interrupted ; a single basal spot. Mark-
ings of hind wings similar to those of the fore. s geni- talia : genital bulb rather broad, reddish brown ; forceps short, with a prominent basal tooth and covered with ex- traordinarily long, black hair; hypovalves long, with a rounded basal prominence on the inner margin and a slen- der apical projection on the outer margin. Holotype ( 8 ) : Mysore, India ; in Museum of Compara- tive Zoology.




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19311 Neopanorpa hirsuta 185
This insect is readily distinguished from all described males of the genus by the remarkable development of the hairs on the genital forceps. These hairs are so prominent that they can easily be seen without the aid of a lens. Three Indian species of Neopanorpa have been described from fe- males alone (zebrata, flava, ocellaris), but even allowing FIG. 1. Neopanorpa ilirsuta (Crampton), genital bulb and fore wing of $ holotype.
for the usual variation in the markings, the differences be- tween the wings of these species and the wings of hirsuta clearly show that we are dealing with a distinct species. The wings of zebrata (Travancore) are traversed by a num- ber of narrow stripes; those of ocellaris (Sikhirn) are mostly a dark, smoky brown, with a few small hyaline spots; and those of flava (Sikhim) have a reddish yellow membrane. The wings of hirsuta are hyaline, as in zebrata, but the markings are very different, as shown in Fig. 1.



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