356 Handlirsch — New Paleozoic Insects from the 



By this singular specialization of the venation Asyncritus 

 differs from all other Protoblattoidea. It is so characteristic 

 that the establishment of a new family is justified. 



Holotype in Peabody Museum, Yale University, Cat. No. 44. 



Family EPIDE1GMA.TID^, new family. 



This family is based on a slender Protoblattoid with a nearly 

 semi-elliptical disciform pronotum, long and somewhat waved 



Fig. 34. 



Fig. 34. Epideigma elegans (positive and negative combined), x 3. 



anterior wings, the subcosta not uniting with the costa but 

 with the radius as in some of the Protorthoptera. The anal 

 area strongly shortened and limited by the characteristic 



