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MY colleagues, Messrs. Joly and Vayssière, in announcing with justifiable pride (in the Comptes Rendus of the French Academy and elsewhere) the discovery of the perfect insect of Prosopistoma, attribute to me the former possession of an opinion that the insect might be an Ephemerid suited for a continuous aquatic life. I am not sensible of having published such an opinion, nor of having held it. In remarks on Oniscigaster in the Journal of the Linnean Society of London, vol. xii. (Zoology) p. 145, footnote (1873), I ask “Can there be apterous Ephemeridœ?” and “Can the imago of Prosopistoma be in that condition?” It did not occur to me that these words could be so translated as to bear the interpretation put upon them by Messrs, Joly and Vayssiére. In congratulating my colleagues upon their discovery, I remark that I make this explanation solely because certain of my correspondents ask where I have published the opinion attributed to me.
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MCLACHLAN, R. Prosopistoma punctifrons. Nature 22, 460 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022460c0
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