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Carpenter — Eomerope and Dinopanorpa 
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number of cellules being about half that in N otiothauma. 
Type species: Eomerope tortriciformis Cockerell. 
Eomerope tortriciformis Cockerell 
Figs, i and 5 
Eomerope tortriciformis Cockerell, 1909, p. 381 
Length of fore wing, 14 mm.; length of body, 13 mm. The wing 
expanse of the insect was about 32 mm., some 10 mm. less than 
N. reedi. 
Type: No. 26176, Peabody Museum, Yale University; collected 
at Florissant, Colorado, in 1907. 
The specimen shows the whole insect (see figure 5). The wings 
are almost symmetrically arranged, with a pair on each side slightly 
overlapped; the veins in the apical and posterior regions of both 
pairs are not discernible. The legs are long and unusually spinose, 
as in N otiothauma. The specimen, obviously a male, has the 10th 
abdominal segment forming a characteristic genital bulb, comparable 
to that in N otiothauma (see Crampton, 1931). 
The preserved part of the venation of the fore wing is shown in 
figure 1. At the base of the wing is a cluster of heavy setae, as in 
N otiothauma. The costal area is abruptly narrowed basally. Sc is 
a distinct vein, as in N otiothauma, with a series of irregular veinlets 
arising anteriorly from its basal branch. Ri arises from Rs, as in 
N otiothauma , by diverging anteriorly, Rs continuing the straight 
line of R ; only a few of the basal branches of Rs are preserved ; 
1 A and 2 A are represented only by their curved basal portions that 
strongly resemble the curved bases of N otiothauma. The venation 
of the anterior-basal part of the hind wing is like that of the fore 
wing. 
The similiarity of the venation of Eomerope to that of IS! otio- 
thauma is at once obvious by comparing figure 1 with figure 2, which 
shows the basal part of the wing of N otiothauma. The venational 
pattern is essentially the same, the only notable difference being the 
smaller number of cross veins and cellules in Eomerope. The differ- 
Figure 1 . Eomerope tortriciformis Cockerell; drawing of preserved part 
of fore wing, based on holotype (original). 
Figure 2. N otiothauma reedi MacLachlan; drawing of proximal part 
of fore wing (after Crampton, 1930). 
Figure 3. Merope tuber Newman; drawing of proximal part of fore 
wing (original). 
Figure 4. Austromcrope poultoni Killington; drawing of proximal part 
of fore wing (after Killington, 1933). 
