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veins near the base is much less pronounced than in the fore wing; 
anal veins only rarely forked. 
Body structures: prothoracic lobes with undulated margin, their 
veins S-shaped, about n in number. Numerous anastomoses of 
cross veins. 
Homoioptera gigantea Agnus 
Figure 30 
Homoioptera gigantea Agnus, 1902: 259, pi. 1; Lameere, 1917: 151. 
Homoeophlebia gigantea Handlirsch, 1906: 93, pi. 11, fig. 3. 
Archaeoptdus gaullei Meunier, 1910: 233, fig. 1; Meunier, 1912: 5, pi. 6, 
fig. 1. 
Homoeophlebia gaullei Handlirsch, 1919: 16, fig. 18. 
This monotypic species was based by Agnus upon a remarkably 
well preserved, large fore wing, with a single prothoracic lobe 
and vague outlines of the head, including the base of the beak, and 
suggestions of the thorax and a fragment of a fore leg. The reverse, 
as already noted, was described by Meunier (1910) as Archaeoptdus 
gaullei. 
Fore wing: length 187 mm, width 65 mm. Wing membrane 
spotted with ( 1 ) extremely dense, small, light markings, irregularly 
grouped into small clusters; (2) larger spots arranged into 4 trans- 
verse bands. Wing abruptly narrowed in the apical third, with the 
apex pointed and falcate. Anterior margin very convex in the basal 
third, the posterior margin S-shaped in the apical third. Sc, R, M 
following the convex curvature of the anterior margin. Sc somewhat 
shortened; subcostal area broad in the proximal half, then very nar- 
row; stems of R and M touching near the base; M deeply concave 
before division into MA and MP; Rs with about four very oblique 
branches, the first of them long and forked. Anal area with about 
seven branches, the first forked several times. Cross veins parallel 
and directed in different directions, with much anastomosis. Long 
hairs are clustered at the base. 
Body structures: prothoracic lobe length 27 mm, width 24 mm, 
with a complete covering of long hairs. Prothoracic lobe cordate, 
with seven radiating veins and densely arranged, simple cross veins; 
margin of lobe not undulated. 
This species differs from woodwardi by its larger size, more spe- 
cialized shape of the wing with its falcate apex, the larger rs area, the 
contact of the stems of R and M and the smoothly curved margins 
of the prothoracic lobes, as well as the color pattern of the wings. 
