Panorpa

Panorpa, P. rufescens (Fig. 257), is found in bushy fields and shrubbery.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

We can only answer this indirectly by pointing to the Panorpa and Caddis flies, with their nearly perfect metamorphosis, though more nearly allied otherwise to those Neuroptera with an incomplete metamorphosis, as the lace-winged fly, than the insects of any other suborder.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872

Tails (Panorpa, Fig. 200) and Caddis flies, in which, especially the latter, the metamorphosis is complete, the pupa being inactive and enclosed in a cocoon.

Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses 1872