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mind, and a matured judgment given. Thus I have found it 

 impossible to offer a complete account of these fossils in a single 

 paper, without serious delay in the writing of it. The alterna- 

 tive is to deal with each Order separately, and to publish the 

 results in a series of shorter papers. This 1 have determined to 

 do. The present paper, dealing with the Orders Planipennia 

 and Trichoptera, and the new Order Protomecoptera, is the first 

 of this series. 



Order NEUROPTERA PLANIPENNIA. 



Family P R o h k m e r o r 1 1 d ^ Handlirsch. 



Genus Protopsychopsis, n.g, (Plate vii., fig. 3). 



Wings broad, moderately pointed, with a large number of 

 forked apical veins. Costal margin moderately broad (not as 

 broad as in Psychopsis), with numerous costal cross-veins, some 

 forked. 8c and R separated by cross-veins: di stall)-, 8c and R 

 approach close to one another some little distance before the 

 apex, and are there joined by the last of a series of cross-veins; 

 at this point, the end of Sc turns obliquely upwards as a slanting- 

 forked vein to the costal border, while R runs almost straight 

 on, to end somewhat above the apex. R and Rs more widely 

 separated than are 8c and R; numerous cross-veins traverse the 

 space between them, and continue well beyond the last cross- 

 vein from Sc to R. Rs gives off at least twelve branches (Sj- 

 Sjo), running longitudinally through the wing at a slight in- 

 clination from Rs, and subparallel to one another. The cross- 

 veins between these branches of Rs are exceedingly delicate, and 

 only discernible in strong oblique light. There are two rows of 

 gradate veins arranged into almost complete transverse lines 

 across the wing; the more distal series lies below the extreme 

 ending of Sc on the wing-margin, and runs from R down to 

 Sjo; the more proximal series lies twice as far from the apex as 

 does the former series, and runs from 8.. to Sjo. Between these 

 lies an intermediate series, forming a set of steps from S2 to 

 below Sj.,; this series starts close to the outer series, then curves 

 away from it, and ends up below 8^^ very close to the inner series. 



