Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . i;/, Iragments of antenna?; m, portion of legs; n, middle tibite. C, a, b, antennje; D,a, head; b, fore femora; c, prothorax; d, prosternum ( ?); E, tarsus and end of thetibia of tlie left fore leg.—JJter Dohrn. *Erichsonand Siebold have grouped the Termit i(l(p, Psocidrr, Embidcc,Ephemerid<z and Libellulidce under the name of false Neuroptera, and con-sidered them as Orthoptera, restricting the Xeuroptera to the Slalida; Ilemero-bid(B, Panorpi
Guide to the study of insects and a treatise on those injurious and beneficial to crops, for the use of colleges, farm-schools, and agriculturists . i;/, Iragments of antenna?; m, portion of legs; n, middle tibite. C, a, b, antennje; D,a, head; b, fore femora; c, prothorax; d, prosternum ( ?); E, tarsus and end of thetibia of tlie left fore leg.—JJter Dohrn. *Erichsonand Siebold have grouped the Termit i(l(p, Psocidrr, Embidcc,Ephemerid<z and Libellulidce under the name of false Neuroptera, and con-sidered them as Orthoptera, restricting the Xeuroptera to the Slalida; Ilemero-bid(B, Panorpidcp. and Phrygnneld(e,aw\ tliis classification has been adoptedby most continental entomologists. Now while liclieving in the unity of the Neu-ropterous tyi)e, and that tiie so called false N^europtera (especially the May-flieaand the dragon-flies) are really the most typical of tlie suborder, being the mostunlike other insects, do not we have many characters in these paleozoic net-veined insects, which unite more intimately the so called false and true Neurop-ters ? We would uot forget the analogies shown in these fossil net-veined insecta. 584 XEUKOlTEKA. It is a rather large insect, the head and mouth-parts measur-ing thirty-nine millimetres, the three thoracic rings twenty-eight millimetres, and the part preserved of the right upperwing forty-four millimetres, and of the right under wing fifty-one millimetres. The antennae are long and thread-like, as inPanorpa, and the venation of the wings are of the Neuropter-ous t3-pe, while the elongated mouth-parts are Hemipterous inappearance, though the labial palpi (Ae) are well developed,being usually absent in the Ilemiptera, It is the most puz-zling form yet brought to light, and has been compared byDr. Dohrn to the fossil Arcliseopteryx of the Solenhofen slates,referred by some natuialists to the birds, and by others to thereptiles. We have shown elsewhere * that the Neuropterous families,except the most tjpical, ^ the Ep
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