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Psyche 
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Body structures: prothoracic lobes relatively small, high on pro- 
thorax, their bases relatively near to each other. Fore leg with 
strong femur, elongate tibia and narrow tarsus. 
Homoioptera differs from the related genus Boltopruvostia Strand 
by having broader and shorter wings, smaller area of the radial 
sector, bv more distal division of M (shortly before mid-wing), 
by MA being essentially simple and more convex, by CuP having 
fewer branches and by having a smaller anal area with less branching 
of the anal veins. All cross veins weak. From Thesoneura , Homoiop- 
tera differs in the more pronounced convex curvature of the ma’n 
veins in the basal third of the wing and in having fewer branches 
on CuA. 
The species included in the Commentry shales are Homoioptera 
woodwardi Brongniart and H. gigantea Agnus (= Archaemegaptilus 
gaullei Meunier, obj. syn.). One other species, latipenne , from the 
Westphalian of Belgium, appears to belong here, as noted above. 
Homoioptera woodwardi Brongniart 
Figure 29 
Homoioptera woodwardi Brongniart, 1893:354, fig. 15, pi. 20, fig. 10; 
Handlirsch, 1906: 91, pi. 11, fig. 1; Handlirsch, 1921: 134, fig. 61. 
This species was based by Brongniart on one specimen (20-10), 
showing the fore and hind wings, prothoracic lobes and a fragment 
of fore leg. The wings present a remarkable color pattern of cir- 
cular dots, a pattern which occurs repeatedly in the families related 
to the Homoiopteridae. The shape of the prothoracic lobes probably 
has little taxonomic value other than at the specific level. Great 
variability in the shape of the lobes also occurs in the Spilapteridae. 
My study of the type specimen shows that the cross venation is 
much denser and is less regular than indicated in Brongniart’s figure. 
Fore wing: length 75 mm, width 27 mm. Wing membrane 
spotted by circular markings of varying diameters; wing uniformly 
broad in the proximal half, then abruptly narrowing; apex at about 
the wing axis; Sc, R and M almost parallel and convex at the end 
of the first quarter of the wing; M notably concave before the divi- 
sion into MA and MP; Rs with 3-4 branches, each forked several 
times; Rs area very small. Cross veins more simple in the areas of 
the subcosta, sc-r and r-rs, with much less anastomosis. A cluster 
of long hairs occurs at the bases of both fore wings. Hind wing: 
length 75 mm, width 31 mm. The sigmoidal curvature of the main 
