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The wing may easily be one of the Tipulinz, but is too poorly 
engraved to be certain, and it looks just as much like one of 
the Neuroptera common in the British Lias. Only examination of 
the specimen can possibly determine it. 
In the same year Brodie, in his Moss¢/ Zmsects, givesin one of the 
lists of fossils from Purbeck strata: ‘‘ Tipulidae; there are several 
unfigured specimens which belong to this family ’’; further details 
are lacking. ‘‘ Tipulide’’ is given in a similar list in his Désér. 
Correl. Foss. Ins., p. 15 (1873), while on p. 17 of the same is listed 
a ‘‘ Tipula’’ from the lower Lias of Strensham. 
In 1854, Westwood (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond., x) makes 
three references to Tipulidz. One, which is figured on Pl. xv, fig. 1, 
is merely an abdomen marked ‘‘ Tipulideous.’’ It is also men- 
tioned on p. 386, and briefly described later by Giebel (Jus. d. 
Vorw., 242) asa Tipula. By accident it has been twice inserted 
in my /udex to Described Fossil Insects as Nos. 1625 and 1666. 
A second from the same place is briefly mentioned (pp. 387, 390) 
as the ‘‘ wing of a Tipulideous insect,’’ and is figured on the same 
plate (fig. 2), in the explanation to which it is named Corethrium 
pertinax. ‘This is described by Giebel under the same name. The 
name will indicate the wide range then given by Westwood to the 
term Tipulidz. I have reproduced this figure in Zittel’s Handbuch 
der Paleontologie (fig, 1082), placing it under the Chironomide, 
but it now seems to me that it may equally, if not more probably, 
be referred to the Limnobinez. The original would repay study. 
A third form is figured by Westwood (PI. xviii, fig. 20) and briefly 
mentioned as the ‘‘ wing of a Tipulideous insect’’ (p. 390) from 
the Purbecks of Durdlestone Bay. This, however, is certainly not 
one of the Tipulidz, but more probably one of the Rhyphide or 
possibly Bibionide ; a careful study of the original should be suffi- 
cient to decide in this case. 
The only other English reference I find is the statement by Theo- 
bald (rit. Fites, p. 4, 1891) that he has found in the Wealdena 
specimen belonging to the Tipulidae, but in a very imperfect con- 
dition. 
Outside of England there have been only two references to 
mesozoic Tipulidz. The first is that of Weyenbergh, who figured 
(Arch. Mus. Teyl., ii, pl. xxxiv, fig. 6) an exceedingly obscure fossil 
from the Jura of Solenhofen under the name of Zipularia ? teylert. 
The author himself says that no trace of neuration can be seen in 
