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Text-figure 8. Glaphyrophlebia speciosa (Sellards). Drawing ef fore 
wing, based on neotype. 
Genus Glaphyrophlebia Handlirsch 
Glaphyrophlebia Handlirsch, 1906, Proc. U.S.N.M. 29:707. 
Sindon Sellards, 1909, Amer. Journ. Sci., 27:154. 
Pursa Sellards, 1909, ibid. 27:153. 
Fore wing: membranous or weakly tegminous; Sc terminating at 
or slightly beyond mid-wing; costal and subcostal areas with few 
cross veins; Rs arising at or slightly before mid-wing, with numerous 
branches, most of them forked distally; M and Cu as in Blattinopsis , 
but usually with fewer branches leading from CuA to the hind mar- 
gin distally; areas of Rs and M with a few, widely scattered distinct 
cross veins, not forming a reticulation; curved line across middle 
of wing, much as in Blattinopsis; space between branches of Rs and 
M with a prominent groove or grooves parallel to the veins. Hind 
wing unknown. 
Type-species: Glaphyrophlebia pusillci Handlirsch, from Grove 
County, Pennsylvania, Illinois; Upper Carboniferous. The type- 
specimen of pusilla consisted of the distal two-thirds or half of a 
fore wing ; 6 although it is well preserved, Handlirsch did not dis- 
tinguish between the actual forks of the branches of Rs and the 
grooves in the intervening membranes. Almost certainly the veins 
had two distal forks, as in the other species now known in the genus. 
6 The type and only knowm specimen of pusilla was contained in the Daniels 
Collection at the time of Handlirsch’s description. This collection was sup- 
posedly turned over to the U.S. National Museum (Handlirsch, 1906, p. 662) 
but apparently it was not; none of the specimens originally in the Daniels 
Collection are in the National Museum. 
