NEUROPTEEA. 



583 



Cn 





is next related to the Ephemerina. The parts of the mouth 

 have nothing of the Hemiptera about them and they are even 

 more related to 

 the Diptera." 

 While we would 

 defer to the 

 judgment of 

 these distin- 

 guished ento- 

 mologists who 

 have actually 

 studied the fos- 

 sil itself, yet 

 judging from 

 Dohrn's draw- 

 ing we would 

 refer the insect 

 to the Neurop- 

 tera, and would 

 suggest that in 

 certain charac- 



Fig. 573. 



ters we are strongly reminded of certain more abnormal genera 

 of Ilemerohidm and the Panorj^idce. The wings while 

 closely resembling the Ephemerids, as Dr. Hagen has sug- 

 gested to us, also, in our opinion, recall those of an African 

 species of Palpares, and of the fore wings of Nemoptera, and 

 the antennae and beak-like mouth-parts seem analogous to 

 those of Panorpa and Boreus.* 



Fig. 572. Eugereon Bochingi Dolivn, enlarged three diameters; A, a, lab- 

 rum; 6, flr.st pair of jaws (mandibles); c, second pair (maxillaa); e, labial palpi; 

 /, fragments of antcnua?; in, portion of legs; n, middle tibiaj. C, a,b, anteiiniu; D, 

 a, head; fi, fore femora ; c, prothorax; <?, prosternum(?); E, tarsus and end of the 

 tibia of the left fore leg. — After Dohrn. 



*Erichsonand Siebold have grouped the Termitidfe, Psocidfe, Embidce, 

 Ep h e nierid ce and Libellulidas under the name of " false " Keuroptera, and con- 

 sidered them as Orthoptera, restricting the Neuroptera to the Sialidce, Ilemero- 

 bidcB, Panorpidce and Phrygancid(B,am\ this classification has been adopted 

 by most continental entomologists. Now wliile believing in tlie unity of the Neu- 

 ropterous type, and that the so called " false " Neuroptera (especially the May-llies 

 and the dragon-flies) are really the most typical of the suborder, l)cing the most 

 unlike other insects, do not we have many characters in these palroozoic net- 

 veined insects, wliich unite more intimately tlie so called false and true Neurop- 

 tera ? We would not forget the analogies shown in these fossil uet-veiued insects 



