NEUROPTEEA. 



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

 have nothing of tlie Heniiptera about them and they are evei; 

 more rehited 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- 

 tera, and would 

 suggest that in 

 certain charac- 

 ters we are strongly reminded of certain more abnormal genera 

 of Ilemerobidai and the Pa^iorpidm. 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 Pauorpa and Boreus.* 



Fig. 573. Eugereon Bockingi Dolirn, enlarged three diameters; A, a, lab- 

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

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

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

 tibia of the left fore leg. — After Dolirn. 



*Erichson and Siebold have grouped the Termifidcp, Psocidce, Emhidcc, 

 Ephemeridee and Lib ellulidcc under the name of "false" Neuroptera, and con- 

 sidered tliem ay Orthoptera, restricting the Neuroptera to the Sialidce, Hcmcro- 

 bidce, Panorpidfc and Phryganeidre,an(\ this classification has been adopted 

 by most continental entomologists. Now while believing iu the unity of the Xeu- 

 ropteroHS type, and that the so called "false" Neuroptera (especially the May-Hies 

 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 tliese ^lalfeozoic net- 

 veined insects, which unite more intimately the so cillc^il false and true Neurop- 

 ters ? We would not forget the analogies shown iu these fossil net-veined insects 



