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I Rene Malaise, Riksmuseum (Stockholm) ; Dr. C. E. Mickel and 

 \ E. F. Cook, University of Minnesota (St. Paul, Minn.) ; Dr. E. S. 

 :5s, California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco, Calif.) (CAS) ; 

 5. L. K. Gloyd and Dr. H. H. Ross, Illinois State Natural History 

 Uy (Urbana, 111.) (INHS); Dr. Erich Schulz (Zoologisches In- 

 ut (Kiel, Germany); Dr. M. E. Smith and Dr. C. P. Alexander, 



diversity of Massachusetts (Amherst, Mass.); Dr. R. C. Smith, 

 insas State College (Manhattan, Kans.) (KS) ; Dr. R. E. Snodgrass, 

 IS. National Museiun (Washington, D. C.) (USNM); Dr. P. J. 

 ;,ingler. University of Missouri (Columbia, Mo.) ; Dr. H. K. Townes, 

 srth Carolina State College (Raleigh, N. C.) ; Dr. S. L. Tuxen, 

 l.iversitetets Zoologiske Museum (Copenhagen) ; Dr. R. L. Wenzel, 

 Jicago Natural History Museum (Chicago, 111.) (CNHM), 



HISTORY 



Vhen the family "Hemerobida" was proposed by Leach (1815, 

 1.138) it was not restricted to the Hemerobiidae as defined today, 

 I'' even included some Chrysopidae. Banks (1905, p. 23) sub- 

 lided the Nearctic Hemerobiidae into three subfamilies, one of 

 ?ich was the Sisyrinae; this included genera now placed in three 

 L'jinct families, Polystoechotes (Polystoechotidae), Lomamyia 

 I'rothidae) and Sisyra and Clirnacia (Sisyridae). Handlu'sch 

 106, p. 42) established the family Sisyridae without mentioning any 

 J'era; later (1907, p. 908) he included the fossil genus Sisyra 

 i^phalis). Banks (1913, p. 211), disregarding Handlirsch's famii}^, 

 Huded Sisyra and Cliinacia in the tribe Sisjaini of the subfamil}^ 



