1965] 
Carpenter — Carboniferous Insects 
Sc 
Rs 
Figure 7. Palaeocixius antiquues Handlirsch. Drawing of holotype, in 
Laboratoire de Paleontologie, Paris, (original). Upper Carboniferous of 
Commentry, France. 
apparently coalesced at least in part with the radius or the radial 
sector, giving the impression that the radial sector occupies a very 
large area of the wing surface. 
At the present time I believe that all the evidence at hand indi- 
cates that Hadentomum is a member of the family Protoperlidae, as 
here conceived. In any event, there is no evidence at hand to justify 
the retention of the order Hadentomoidea, which is here placed in 
synonomy with the Protorthoptera. 
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