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Carpenter — Palaeodictyopterous Nymphs 45 
Insectorum gen. indet. latipenne Handl. 
Plate 6, figure 6. 
( Paleeodictyopteron ) latipenne Handlirsch, 1906, Foss. 
Ins.: 63, pi. 8, fig. 18; 1906, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 29; 
688, fig. 15. 
This is also preserved in an ironstone nodule of the 
Carbondale Formation, from near Braidwood, Illinois 
(Type no. 38838, U. S. National Museum). As Hand- 
lirsch shows, it consists of a poorly preserved wing, 22 
mm. long, with a distinctly enlarged anal area. There is 
no sign of the body and the only suggestion that the fos- 
sil is a nymphal wing lies in its apparent thickness. 
There is nothing, however, to show that it is pakeodic- 
tyopterous ; it could have belonged as well to a nymph of 
a Protorthopteron or a related Carboniferous order. 
Insectorum gen. indet. hageni Gold. 
Plate 6, figure 4. 
Termes hageni Goldenberg, 1873, Fauna saraep. foss., 1: 
12; pi. 2, fig. 7b. 
( Palceodictyopteron ) hageni Handlirsch, 1906, Foss. Ins. : 
62, pi. 8, fig. 15; v. Schlectendal, 1913, Nova Acta 
Leop., 98 : 99, pi. 1, fig. 7 ; pi. 8, fig. 1. 
( Dictyoneuridee ) hageni Guthorl, 1934, Preuss. Geol. 
Landes., 164: 84, fig. 48; pi. 13, fig. 6. 
This fossil, from the Saarbriicken beds of Germany, 
was originally thought by Goldenberg to be a wing of a 
termite. It has subsequently been examined and de- 
scribed by Handlirsch, v. Schlectendal, and Guthorl, who 
have considered it a palaeodictyopterous wing-pad. The 
discrepancy in the figures of the three last workers is 
astonishing. Handlirsch shows a complete wing, with 
entire margins ; v. Schlectendal, a wing fragment, the 
wing being broken posteriorly and distally; Guthorl, a 
wing fragment with all margins broken. GuthorPs and 
v. Schlectendal’s figures are alike in venation, but differ 
markedly from Handlirsch ’s. From these and the pho- 
tograph reproduced by Guthorl, the fossil appears to be 
a proximal fragment (9 mm. long) of a small wing, pos- 
