NEUEOPTERA. 



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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 





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v\r^. 



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 



certain charac- 

 ters we are strongly reminded of certain more abnormal genera 

 of Ilemerobidce and the Panorjpidm. 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. 572. Eugereon Bockingi Dolirn, enlarged three diameters; A, a, IsCb- 

 riim; h, first pair of jaws (mandibles); c, second pair (maxilte) ; e, labial palpi; 

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

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

 tibia of the left fore leg. — After Dolirn. 



*Ericlison and Siebold have grouped the Termitidcp., Psocidce, Embidw, 

 Ephemeridce and L lb ellulidcexmCiev the name of " false " Neuroptera, and con- 

 sidered them as O.thoptera, restricting tlie Neiiroptera to the Sialidfe, Hemero- 

 bid ce, Pano rp i d re and Phryganeid ce, and this classification has been adopted 

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

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

 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 these palreozoic 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 insects 



