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Carpenter — Baltic Amber Snake-flies 
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The specimen, a male, is well preserved, with all wings com- 
plete and the body structure showing in detail. 
This species appears to have some features of both the 
raphidiids and inoeelliids, and I have placed it in Inocellia 
only in preference to making a new genus for it. The ocelli 
are absent and the antennae are inserted well anterior to 
the compound eyes, as in the Inocelliidae ; also, its pteros- 
tigma is without a transverse veinlet and the genital struc- 
tures are inocelliid. On the other hand, the head is not so 
quadrate as that in living inoeelliids, MP2 is unbranched, 
and the vein labeled be is transverse, as in the raphidiids. 
Furthermore, the small size of the insect, with a wing 
expanse of 13 mm., is more like that of the raphidiids than 
of the inoeelliids. However, I prefer not to erect a new 
genus for this one species, and since the more obvious char- 
acteristics, such as lack of ocelli and pterostigmal cross- 
vein, are inocelliid in nature, I have tentatively placed it 
in Inocellia. 
Although the number of snake-flies known to us in the 
Baltic amber is still very small, it is interesting to note 
that the genus Agulla is not represented and that the genus 
Inocellia is represented by only a very peculiar species, 
which may, in fact, not belong there at all. This lends some 
weight to my previous suggestion (1936) that Agulla and 
Inocellia have evolved more recently than Raphidia and 
Fibla, which are well represented in the Tertiary of both 
the New World (Colorado) and the Old (Baltic amber). 
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