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The family Homoiopteridae differs from the related families Lyco- 
cercidae, Breyeriidae, and Graphiptilidae in having CuA always 
branched and in possessing the sclerotized strip posterior to the costa. 
Only the genus Homoioptera is known from the Commentry shales. 
The following genera occur in other deposits: Homoioptera Brong- 
niart (= Anthracetomon Handlirsch, 1904), Westphalian of Bel- 
gium; Boltopruvostia Strand, 1929 ( pro Boltonia Pruvost, 1919) 
(— Roechlingia Guthorl, 1934, and Ostrava Kukalova, i960), West- 
phalian of France, Westphalian C of Germany, Namurian C of 
Czechoslovakia. The following species appear to belong to the family 
Homoiopteridae but the status and relationship of the genera estab- 
lished for them are uncertain: Mammia alutacea Handlirsch, 1906, 
Scepasma gigas Handlirsch, 1911, Amouzus mazonus Handlirsch, 
19x1, and Ametretus laevis Handlirsch, 1911, all from the West- 
phalian of Illinois. 
Genus Homoioptera Brongniart, 1893 
Homoioptera Brongniart, 1893 : 353 ; Agnus, 1902: 259; Woodward, 1906: 
28; Handlirsch, 1906: 91 ; Lameere, 1917: 151; Handlirsch, 1919: 16. 
Homoeophlebia Handlirsch, 1906: 92; Handlirsch, 1919: 16. 
Anthracetomon Handlirsch, 1904: 6; Handlirsch, 1906: 93. 
Type species: Homoioptera woodwardi Brongniart, 1893 (OD). 
A few years after Brongniart described woodwardi , Agnus (1902) 
added another species, gigantea', this Handlirsch (1906) later made 
the type of another genus, Homoeophlebia. As pointed out by Lameere 
(1917), the generic separation of gigantea seemed totally unneces- 
sary. Meunier (1912, p. 5) added to the taxonomic confusion by 
the erection of a new species, gaullei , in another genus Archaeoptilus , 
basing it on the counterpart of Agnus’ type specimen of gigantea\ 
Handlirsch’s Anthracetomon, based on latipenne from the West- 
phalian of Belgium, is actually inseparable from Homoioptera. The 
following account is based on woodwardi and gigantea. 
Wings relatively broad, almost identical, the hind pair being only 
a little broader than the fore; color markings in the form of nu- 
merous small, rounded spots. Precostal strip present (bordering the 
costal margin) ; anterior margin convex in the basal third of the 
wing; Rs with 3-4 branches, often forking; stem of M touching 
or nearly touching R near the base; M dividing near mid-wing, 
MA being simple and convex, MP with 3-4 branches; CuA and 
CuP with short branches, often originating at the same level. Anal 
veins 6-8 in number, sometimes forked. Cross veins often connected 
by numerous anastomoses, branched or forming a loose network. 
