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shorter than the following ones; posterolateral angles of tergites only 
slightly projecting; posterior half of tergites darkly pigmented. 
This species is related to the group joannae-ornata but differs 
in the presence of many short branches on the main veins and in the 
less pronounced enlargement of the hind wing, which is more similar 
to that of the elegans-bonnieri-dabasinskasi group. Within the genus 
this species has the most .specialized prothoracic lobes, which are the 
smallest and most sclerotized and which, in contrast to those of 
other species, do not show any traces of venation. 
Homaloneura bucklandi Brongniart 
Figure 9 
Homaloneura bucklandi Brongniart, 1893: 320, pi. 17, fig. 14; pi. 18, fig. 2; 
Handlirsch, 1906: 108, pi. 12, fig. 3; Handlirsch, 1919: 20; Lameere, 
1917: 147. 
This species is based by Brongniart upon specimen 17-14 (also 
figured on pi. 18, fig. 2), which represents a fore wing lacking the 
base. The insect seems to be rather remote from all others in the 
genus, showing more numerous and less irregular cross veins. Un- 
fortunately, I could not locate the type specimen in the Paris Museum. 
The following account is based upon the photograph made by Dr. 
Carpenter in 1938 and upon Brongniart’s original description and 
Lameere’s revisional study. At present, I prefer to leave bucklandi 
with the genus Homaloneura, but feel that this classification is du- 
bious, and that this species might turn out to represent a distinct 
genus. 
Wings probably dark; cuticular thickening unknown; supporting 
m-r cross vein running obliquely from the stem of M to R. Fore 
wing: length 29 mm, width 9 mm (according to Brongniart, p. 320) ; 
almost uniformly broad in the proximal half; anterior margin slightly 
concave beyond the basal third ; posterior margin slightly undulated 
in the region of CuP and CuA; Rs with about six branches; MA 
with one short branch; MP with about five branches; CuA with 
three branches; CuP with a. short fork; anal area with about 6-8 
veins, mostly forked ; cross veins numerous, irregular, sometimes prob- 
ably with anastomoses. 
H. bucklandi differs from all other species of the genus by the 
numerous and irregular cross veins; MA has fewer branches than 
punctata and joannae , and CuP has a simple fork as in bonnieri. 
Genus Spilaptera Brongniart 
Spilaptera Brongniart, 1885 : 63 ; Brongniart, 1893: 337; Brauer, 1886: 110; 
Handlirsch, 1906: 102; Bolton, 1917: 53; Handlirsch, 1919: 20. 
