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all probability Scliiner wonld liave considerably modified his views, bad he examined 

 these plates, of which both he and Egger appear to have had no knowledge. I have 

 very little doubt as to the specific identity of Nitzsch's and Egger's specimens, and 

 from the points of resemblance given below do not hesitate to place the genus 

 near ^[eo)leura Rond., now considered to belong to the Milichidae. 



The eyes are transverse oval, the jowls deep (about | the vertical diameter 

 of the ej'e), the antennae are sunk in two deep foveae and hardly visible from a 

 side view, these two foveae are separated by a chitinous stripe running from the 

 Innnle to the upper mouth-edge, the ocelli are very small and indistinct. The 

 frons and its chaetotaxy remind one irresistibly of Meoneura ; the vertical triangle 

 is large, reaching nearly to the front of frons, but is not sharply defined; apparently 

 only one of the three pairs of orbital bristles are incurved, the two decussate 

 bristles on the front of frons are present as in i^Ieniieura, and there are other 

 smaller bristles on the sides of the vertical triangle; the thoracic chaetotaxy as 

 far as I can trace* does not differ much from that of Meoneura, the mesopleurae 

 as well as the sternopleurae boar bristles, including the upturned bristle on the 

 lower part of the mesopleura found in Meoneura. Only a short stump of the 

 wing is present, giving one the impression of the wing having been broken off, and 

 such might well be the case, for Nitzsch called attention to, and figured, a specimen 

 with a complete, though narrow wing, on one side only. 



The specimens examined were found on May 2.j, 1907, upon the more naked 

 portions of the head of some very young Falco sacer taken from the uest at 

 Malcoci in Ronmania by A. Rettig. 



* All the specimens were preserved in spirit, consequently many of the bristles had been rubbed 

 off. 



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