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Psyche 
[March 
Sc terminating on Rl; Rs originating before mid-wing; MA sending 
off 3 branches; MP with 2 branches; CuA simple, CuP with 2 
branches; iA with a series of about three branches; intercalated 
sectors mostly short. Wings dark-colored, with irregular light bands 
becoming crescent in the apical area. 
Holotype: No. 24/1974; wing fragment, length 38 mm, width 
9 mm; obverse. Paleontological Institute of Charles University, 
Prague, Czechoslovakia. 
Family Hanidae, new family 
Wing: petiolate, broadened at about mid-wing, narrowed in cua 
area; posterior margin deeply undulated. Venation simplified; Sc 
terminating shortly beyond mid-wing; stems of R and M not co- 
alesced in the basal third; Rs diverging from Rl about mid-wing; 
MA and CuA simple, MP and CuP with few branches; MP 
anastomosed with CuA for a short distance; iA simple. Archedictyon 
and irregular cross veins present. Intercalated sectors absent. 
The family Hanidae differs from the related family Caulopteridae 
in the more deeply undulated posterior margin, in the short Sc, the 
simplified venation, the presence of the archedictyon and in the ab- 
sence of the intercalated sectors. 
The large, elongate, extremely narrow wings of Hanidae, with an 
intricate outline, are among the most unusual wings within the 
Paleoptera. The preservation of a primitive archedictyon, which in 
other families becomes reduced to cross veins by Westphalian time, 
is a remarkable example of mosaic evoluation in Paleozoic Paleoptera. 
Type genus : • Hana , new genus. 
Hana, new genus 
Wing: very long and narrow; posterior margin forming several 
prominent lobes in the median and cubital areas. Sc distant from 
anterior margin in the basal half of the wing; Rs with about 3 short 
branches; iA following closely the posterior margin. Wing mem- 
brane with a dense covering of tubercles. 
This genus is represented by two species: H. filia , based on the 
distal half of a wing, and H. line at a } n.sp., based on the proximal 
half of a wing. The genus is named for my daughter Hana, who has 
been very helpful to me in the field work. 
