NEUROrTERA. 



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

 have nothing of tlie Hemiptera about them and the}'^ are ever. 

 more related to 



the Diptera." 

 While we would 

 defer to the 

 judgment of 

 these d i s t i n - 

 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- 

 tei'a, and would 

 suggest that in 

 certain charac- 



Ch 



Fig. 572. 



ters we are strongly reminded of certain more abnormal genera 

 of Hemerobidce and the Pa7ior2)idce. The wings while 

 closety 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 Boclnngi Dohrn, enlarged three diameter.s; A, a, lab- 

 rum; 6, first pair of jaws (mandibles); c, second pair (maxilla;): e, labial palpi; 

 /, fragments of antennte; m, portion of legs; n, middle tibire. C, a,b, antenna; D, 

 a, head; b, fore femora; c, prothorax; d, prostenium( ?); E, tarsus and end of tlie 

 tibia of tlie left fore leg. — After Dohrn. 



*Erichsonand Siebold have grouped the Termitidcr , Psocida , Embidcr,, 

 Ephemeridce and Libellulideewnder the name of " false " Neuroptera, and con- 

 sidered thein as Orthoptera, restricting the Xeuroptera to the Sialidce, Ilemero- 

 bidce, Panorpidm and Phryganeid(e,!it\(l this classification has been adopted 

 by most continental entomologists. Now while believing in the unit.v of tlie Neu- 

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

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

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

 veined insects, which unite more intimately the so called false and true Neuroii- 

 ters ? We would not forget the analogies shown in these fossil net-voiued insects 



