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Psyche 
[March 
cross veins; costal area with a series of straight or nearly straight 
veinlets, only very rarely branched; Ri with several branches distally; 
Rs with several main branches, each forked; M dividing well before 
origin of Rs; MP sigmoidally curved; CuA with 6 terminal branches; 
space between iA and 2 A widened distally; cross veins as shown in 
figure 
Holotype: No. 5897ab, M.C.Z., collected by F. M. Carpenter, in 
lower insect layer at Elmo, Kansas; this consists of the middle part 
of a well preserved fore wing. Several additional specimens almost 
certainly belonging to this species are as follows: No. 15757, Pea- 
body Museum, Yale University (collected by C. O. Dunbar), con- 
sisting of a distal third of a fore wing; No. I5638ab, Peabody 
Museum (collected by C. O. Dunbar) ; consisting of the basal quar- 
ter of a fore wing; No. 5900, M.C.Z. (collected by F. M. Car- 
penter), distal half of fore wing; No. 5898, M.C.Z. (collected by 
F. M. Carpenter), basal third of fore wing; No. 5899, M.C.Z. (col- 
lected by F. M. Carpenter), distal fragment of fore wing; No. 5896, 
M.C.Z. (collected by F. M. Carpenter), distal fragment of fore 
wing. 
The fragmentary nature of these specimens is strongly indicative 
of unusually delicate wings, almost certainly membraneous, rather 
than coriaceous. A composite drawing of the fore wing of recta is 
included in figure; 16; the central part of the wing is drawn from 
the holotype; the basal and distal portions are based on specimens 
numbered 15638 and 15757, respectively. 
The venation of this insect is clearly subject to much variation, 
the number and precise arrangement of branches being different to 
some degree in all specimens. 
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Text-figure 17. Paroedischia maculata, n. sp. Drawing of fore wing 
(holotype) . 
