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PHILADELPHIA, PA., JANUARY, 1908. 



We have selected a fossil species as the most remarkable in- 

 sect made known during the preceding year. Halter amcri- 

 cana was described by Prof. T. D. A. Cockerell in Science, N. 

 S., vol. XXVI, No. 666, p. 446, October 4, 1907. We quote 

 from the original article as follows : A wonderfully preserved 

 example with wings spread, from the Miocene shales of Floris- 



sant, Colorado. The anterior wings are clear hyaline, with 

 venation as usual in the genus ; hind wings as in all the Ne- 

 mopteridae, to which family it belongs. The Nemopteridae 

 are to-day confined to the Old World, except a single species 

 found in Chile. This species belongs to the section of the 

 genus containing the Persian Halter extensa Oliv. 



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