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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A remarkable genus of insects, type of the family Platypsyllidæ, referred by some to the order Aphaniptera, by others to the Diptera, by Westwood made type of an order Achreioptera, by Le Conte placed in the order Coleoptera among the clavicorns.
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