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PALEONTOLOGY 



America, and the Lower Permian of North America (Kansas). 

 Seven famihes are recognised by Handhrsch, and representative 

 genera include Corydaloides Brongn., Campyloptera Brongn., 

 Brodia Scud. (Fig. 46, A), Mischoptera Brongn. (Fig. 39), Kuloja 

 Mart., Protohymen Till., and Asthenohymen Till. The two last- 



FiG. 39. 



Mischoptera woodwardi Brongn., 

 (After Handlirsch.) 



restoration. 



named genera were placed by Tillyard (1924a) in a separate order 

 which he termed Protohymenoptera. This group it was claimed 

 was ancestral to the Hymenoptera. Carpenter (1930) and others 

 maintain that this conclusion is erroneous and that the 

 " Protohymenoptera " are specialised Megasecoptera without 

 direct affinity with the Hymenoptera. The presence of an 



