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Fore wing: length of fragment 61 mm, width 22 mm; light spots 
elongate, arranged into irregular bands, more dense in the apical part ; 
the anterior margin slightly convex in the distal half; apical part 
of wing not elongate, the apex moderately pointed, arranged on wing 
axis. Subcostal area narrow in the distal two-thirds of wing; Ri 
with two long terminal branches; r-rs area broad, with a series of 
thin, very oblique cross veins; Rs with six oblique simple veins; MA 
with four long branches; MP forked about three times; CuA with 
a series of four branches; CuP forked three times; cross veins nu- 
merous, simple, but slightly irregular. 
Palaeoptilus brullei is similar to Becquerelia superba in having 
terminal branches on Ri, in the broadened r-rs area with its oblique 
cross veins, and in the color pattern and venation, but differs in the 
absence of a fusion of MA with Rs. 
Genus Epitethe Handlirsch 
Epitethe Handlirsch, 1906: 103; Lameere, 1917: 150; Handlirsch, 1919: 20. 
Type species: Spilaptera meunieri Brongniart (OD). 
This genus was erected for meunieri on the basis of its more 
numerous branches of the main veins; the genus was accepted by 
Lameere. 
Wing membrane dark; cuticular thickening unknown; the anterior 
margin almost straight ; posterior margin slightly undulated ; branches 
of main veins numerous, markedly parallel ; Sc long, terminating 
shortly before apex (not terminating before midwing, as described 
by Handlirsch) ; Ri without terminal branches; MA free from Rs; 
Rs with seven branches; MA pectinate; MP forked several times; 
CuA pectinate; CuP forked several times. Anal area with many 
forked branches. Cross veins numerous, mostly irregular. 
This genus differs from all others in the family by the pattern 
of dense and parallel branches of the veins; this trait and the pattern 
of cross veins recalls the genus Tectoptilus and Palaeoptilus. How- 
ever, with the absence of other details, such as the nature of the 
cuticular thickening at the base of the wing, the relationship of this 
genus is uncertain. 
Only the type species is known from the Commentry shales. 
Epitethe meunieri (Brongniart) 
Figure 15 
Spilaptera meunieri Brongniart, 1893: 343, pi. 19, fig. 5. 
Epitethe meunieri, Handlirsch, 1906: 103, pi. 21, fig. 19; Lameere, 1917: 
150. 
