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occur in the Diaphanopterodea (Carpenter, 1963) and in some of 
the orthopteroids. There is no basis, however, for regarding these 
as nygmata, a term which was used by Navas for certain clear, 
cuticular spots on the wings of some Trichoptera, Neuroptera and 
related Endopterygota (see Carpenter, 1963, p. 243, footnote). 
Family Fouqueidae Handlirsch, 1906 
This family has previously been known only from the Upper Car- 
boniferous shales of Commentry, France, in which it is represented 
by the genus Fouquea Brongniart and four species. The character- 
istics which seem to be peculiar to the family are the combination 
of a branched CuA and very numerous cross veins, which form a 
true reticulation only along the posterior portion of the wing. The 
branched CuA, which is not found in the more primitive Palaeodicty- 
optera, is a characteristic of the Spilapteridae also, but the cross 
veins in that family are very few in number and are usually aligned 
to form gradate series. 
Mr. Walter Dabasinskas of Cicero, Illinois, has recently sent me 
a specimen of a palaeodictyopteron which has the same combination 
of characteristics given above for the Fouqueidae. It cannot, how- 
ever, be referred to the genus Fouquea and is therefore taken as the 
basis of the new genus described below. 
Genus Neofouquea, new genus 
Subcosta closer to R and Ri than in Fouquea ; CuA deeply forked, 
i.e., to about the same level as the fork of M into MA and MP; 
CuA dichotomously branched ; CuP deeply forked, without ad- 
ditional branches. Wings with two slightly curved rows of macula- 
tions in the basal half; additional maculations probably present in 
the more distal part of the wing. 
Type-species: Neofouquea suzanneae , n. sp. 
In contrast to this genus, Fouquea has a pectinately branched CuA 
and a multiple branched CuP, CuPi having three or four terminal 
branches. The cross veins in Neofouquea seem as close together as 
they are in the other known species of the family Fouqueidae. 
Explanation of Plate 9 
Neofouquea suzanneae , n. sp. Photograph of holotype. Upper Carboni- 
rerous of Illinois. 
