NEUROPTERA. 



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

 have nothing of tlie 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- 

 ters we are strongly reminded of certain more abnormal genera 

 of Ilemerohidoe and the Panorpidce. 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 antennffi and beak-like mouth-parts seem analogous to 

 those of Panorpa and Boreus.* 



Fig. 572. Eugereon Bockingi Dohrn, enlarged three diameters; A, o, lab- 

 nim; b, first pair of jaws (mandibles); c, second pair (maxillse); e, labial palpi; 

 /, Iragments of antenna? ; m, portion of legs; n, middle tibite. C, a, b, antennje; D, 

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

 tibia of tlie left fore leg.— JJ'ter Dohrn. 



*Erichsonand Siebold have grouped the Termit i(l(p, Psocidrr, Embidcc, 

 Ep hemeri d <z and Libellul i d ce under the name of " false " Neuroptera, and con- 

 sidered them as Orthoptera, restricting the Xeuroptera to the Slalida; Ilemero- 

 bid(B, Panorpidcp. and Phrygnneld (e,aw\ tliis classification has been adopted 

 by most continental entomologists. Now while liclieving in the unity of the Neu- 

 ropterous tyi)e, and that tiie so called " false" N^europtera (especially the May-fliea 

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

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

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

 ters ? We would uot forget the analogies shown in these fossil net-veined insecta 



