NEUROPTERA. 



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

 have nothing oi' the Hemiptera about them and they are even 

 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- i. 

 tera, and would 

 suggest that in 

 certain charac- 



Fig. 572. 



ters we are strongly reminded of certain more abnormal genera 

 of Hemerobidce 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 antennae and beak-like mouth-parts seem analogous to 

 those of Panorpa and Boreus.* 



FIG. 572. Eugereon Bockingi Dohrn, enlarged three diameters; A, a, lab- 

 rum; b, first pair of jaws (mandibles); c, second pair (maxillae); e, labial palpi; 

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

 a, head; 6, fore femora; c, prothorax; d, prosternum ( ?); B, tarsus and end of the. 

 tibia of the left fore leg. After Dohrn. 



*Erichson and Siebold have grouped the Termitidce,, Psocidce, Embidce, 

 Ephemeridce and Lib elluli dee under the name of "false" Neuroptera, and con- 

 sidered them as Orthoptera, restricting the Neuroptera to the Sialidce, H enter o- 

 bid<e, Panorpidce and Phryganeid(e,&n(\ this classification has been adopted 

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

 ropterous type, and that the so called " false " Nenroptera (especially the May-flies 

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

 unlike other insects, do not \ve have many characters in these palaeozoic net- 

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

 ters ? We would not forget the analogies shown in these fossil net-veined insecta 



