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drawn in one plane, there would result such an intricate cross- 

 ing of lines as to render it practically incomprehensible and 

 therefore useless. 



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groups of the rank of a super-family (e. g. Muscoidea, Ich- 

 neumonoidea, etc.), Handlirsch and his followers have done 

 violence to established usage in employing the termination 

 '-oidea" to designate groups to which they would attribute 

 the rank of an order. On the other hand, the method of 

 designating the different groups by some familiar term ( which 

 immediately calls to mind the typical or well known repre- 

 sentatives of the group as a whole) is self-explanatory in a 

 diagram, and therefore has much to recommend it. On this 

 account, I have used the termination "-oides" (rather than the 



