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the cross veins strong, dense, curved and often anastomosed. The 
fore wing with the anterior margin almost straight. Sc long, Ri 
simple; Rs with 4-6 terminal branches; MA with at least two 
branches; MP branched several times; CuA and CuP with at least 
two branches; several anal veins. The hind wings have a venation 
like that of the fore wings. Both pairs of wings are usually marked 
by clusters of rounded spots. The body structures are entirely un- 
known. 
As noted above, the family Fouqueidae is related to the Spilap- 
teridae and especially resembles those genera of spilapterids which 
have many cross veins, such as Epitethe, Tectoptilus , etc. There 
seems to be a tendency in the Fouqueidae for MA and CuA to be less 
branched than in the Spilapteridae and for CuP, on the other hand, to 
be more branched. The articular thickening near the wing base, 
which is so distinctive in some of the Spilapteridae, is only doubtfully 
present in the Fouqueidae; none of the specimens which I examined 
has the wing base clearly preserved. However, it does seem to be 
visible in Professor Carpenter’s photograph of the type of Fouquea 
needhami Lameere, one of the two fossils which I could not find in 
the Paris Museum. 
Fouquea is the only genus of the family known from the Com- 
mentry shales; the genus Neofouquea Carpenter (1967) from the 
AT estphalian of Illinois, also appears to belong here. 
Genus Fouquea Brongniart 
Fouquea Brongniart , 1893: 372 ( pro Oustaletia Brongniart, 1885: 66, nec 
Oustaletia Trovessart, 1885: 66); Handlirsch, 1906: 98; Lameere, 
1917: 154. 
Archaecompsoneura Meunier, 1909: 41; Meunier, 1909: 137. 
Type species: Fouquea lacroixi Brongniart, 1893 (SD, Handlirsch, 
1906) . 
The genus Fouquea was erected by Brongniart for lacroixi and 
sauvagei. In 1909, Meunier described Archaecompsoneura superba , 
which was synonymized by Lameere (1917: 154) with Fouquea ; in 
the same paper, Lameere added two more species to Fouquea , com- 
siocki and needhami , figures of which have never been published. In 
my opinion, comstocki is a synonym of lacroixi , but sauvagei (based 
on specimen 19-11) is herein referred to uncertain family position in 
the Palaeodict5mptera because of the very fragmental condition of 
the type specimen. The following is a diagnosis of the genus Fouquea. 
AVings with relatively strong membrane. Color markings usually 
forming clusters of rounded spots, irregularly distributed over the 
