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noted the similarity of this line to the transverse mark that occurs in 
the fore wings of some Homoptera, and Haupt (1941, p. 88) has 
actually established a new order, Protofulgorida, for the Blattinop- 
sidae, which he regards as closely related and ancestral to the 
Homoptera. All available evidence, however, indicates that the blat- 
tinopsids are undoubtedly orthopteroid. For example, the details 
of venation are surely like those in other Protorthoptera and the anal 
area is clearly orthopteroid, not homopterous. 
Previous accounts of the blattinopsids (Bolton, 1925, Kukalova, 
I 959) have noted the fragmentary nature of all specimens of fore 
wings. So far as I am aware only one species, Glaphyrophlebia spe- 
ciosa (Sellards), is known from a complete wing. In most specimens, 
either the apical region or the anal area has been broken away. This 
is true even of such relatively large species as Blattinopsis kukalovae, 
described below, and it is in marked contrast to the frequency of 
occurrence of undamaged wings of such small and delicate insects as 
the Homoptera and Psocoptera in the Elmo limestone. This cir- 
cumstance seems to indicate that the fore wings of the blattinopsids 
were unusually thin and delicate. 
Genus Blattinopsis Giebel 
Blattinopsis Giebel, 1867, Zeitschr. Ges. Naturw. 30:417; Kukalova, 1959, 
Rozpravy. Ceskos. Acad. Ved. 69:(1):5. 
Oryctoblattina Scudder, 1895, Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. 124:133 (jr. obj. syn.). 
Fore wing: costal area and area between Sc and Ri with numerous 
oblique veinlets, very close together and often branched ; area between 
branches of Rs, M and Cu with similar cross veins, those in the 
Text-figure 7. Blattinopsis kukalovae, n. sp. Drawing of fore wing 
(holotype). M-]-CUAl is the convex base of these coalesced veins; T is 
the transverse line. 
