PSYCHE 
Vol. 77 March, 1970 No. 1 
REVISIONAL STUDY OF 
THE ORDER PALAEODICTYOPTERA IN 
THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS SHALES OF 
COMMENTRY, FRANCE. PART IIP 
By Jarmila Kukalova * 2 
Charles University, Prague 
The first two parts of these studies have dealt with eight families 
of the Palaeodictyoptera in the Commentry collection at the Institut 
de Paleontologie in Paris. The introductory discussion in Part I 
summarized the background of this investigation and the extent of 
the collection studied. The present part deals with the remaining 
family, the Dictyoneuridae, which is well represented in the Com- 
mentry shales. Some of the fossils of this group provide us with 
structural details that are otherwise unknown in the Palaeodictyop- 
tera. In the concluding paragraphs of this paper I have summarized 
what is known of the wing and body structures of this extinct order 
of insects. 
Family Dictyoneuridae Handlirsch 3 
Stenodictyopterida Brongniart, 1885 : 60; Brongniart, 1893: 380. 
Stenodictyopteridae Pruvost, 1919: 98; Laurentiaux, 1953: 419. 
Dictyoneuridae Handlirsch, 1906: 63; Handlirsch, 1911: 297; Lameere, 
1917: 102; Handlirsch, 1919: 3. 
Stenodictyidae Laurentiaux, 1952: 234. 
Published with the aid of a grant from the Colles Fund of the Museum 
of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College and a Grant-in-Aid of Re- 
search from the Society of the Sigma Xi. This study has also been sup- 
ported in part by grants numbered GB2038 and GB7038 (F. M. Carpenter, 
Principal Investigator) from the National Science Foundation. Part I, 
dealing with the family Spilapteridae, was published in Psyche, Vol. 76, 
pp. 163-215; part II, dealing with seven additional families, was published 
in Psyche, Vol. 76, pp. 439-486. 
Alexander Agassiz Lecturer in Zoology, Harvard University, 1969. 
3 As noted by Handlirsch (1906) the name Stenodictyopteridae, which was 
not based on a generic name, is invalid. The name Stenodictyidae, used by 
Laurentiaux and based on Stenodictya, presumably in an attempt to retain 
a name similar to the one used by Brongniart, is, of course, a synonym of 
Dictyoneuridae, which was correctly formed by Handlirsch in 1906. 
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