1879. 171 



Continental Europe. 

 Of the Neuropterous insects,* ten have recently been placed by 

 Dr. Goldenberg in the extinct Order PaJaodlcfyoptera, before 

 mentioned. The Neuroptera from these coal measures include 

 several species belonging to the Termitidce, and one to the EpJiemeridcB. 

 The last named specimen was discovered by M. Persinaire,t in the 

 neighbourhood of Mons, in the Belgian coal fields. It was originally 

 described by M. Preudbomme de Borre, as belonging to the Orthoptera, 

 and was named by him Pacliytylopsis Borinensis ; but, after Dr. Brey er 

 bad examined it and expressed an opinion that it belonged to the 

 Lepidoptera, its name was changed to Breyeria Borinensis. This 

 fossil was subsequently submitted to Mr. McLachlan,| wben in 

 Brussels, in July, 1877, and be decided, after a careful examination 

 of the wing, in which he detected abundant traces of transversal re- 

 ticulation, that it could not possibly bave belonged to tbe Lepidoptera, 

 and that it was the wing of a Neuropterous insect of the family 

 E2)liemeridae. 



The fossil Orthoptera from these coal measures belong, with 

 few exceptions, to the Blattidcs, of which family upwards of thirty§ 

 species have been identified, including Blattina Jielvetica,\\ from 

 Erbignon, Valais, which, according to Professor Heer, is the most 

 ancient Swiss fossil animal known. 



AVith one exception — Poly zoster if es granostis — all the Blattidcd 

 from these coal measures are referred to the extinct genus Blattina. 



The other Orthoptera from the European coal measures, include a 

 few species of Gryllidcs and Acridiidce, and a supposed species of 

 Phasmidce ? — Protophasma Bitmasi.^ 



The first insect belonging to the Semiptera which was discovered 

 in the coal measures, was obtained from the neighbourhood of Cassel, 

 and has been described by Dr. Dohrn** as FiiIyora(Fulyorina) Ehersi. 

 Two other species, belonging to this order, were subsequently dis- 

 covered in the coal measures of Saarbriick, viz., FuJgorina KliveriW 

 and F. lehacliensis. The only specimen of Coleoptera from European 



* Dicfi/oneura libelluloiiles, D. anthracophila, D.formosa, D. Decheni, D. elegans, D. dongata, 

 D. Sckmiizi, D obfoleta, D Humboldtiana, and Ouialia macroptera. For descriptions of these, see 

 Favina Sar. Fossilis, 1S77, antea cit., and Bull. Acad. Belg., ind series, vol. xxviii, pp 384 — 4mO. 



t " Notes sur des empreintes d'insectea fossiles," &c., by A. Preudhomme de Borre, in the 

 Ann. Soc, Ent. Beige, vol. x\'iii. 1875. 



X See Covnpte-Rendu of the Meeting of the Soc. Ent. Beige, in August, 1877. 



§ Die Versteinerungen des Steinkohlengebirges, &c , Halle, 1844 Palasontographica, vol. Iv, 

 1834 Viertelj. der naturf Gesellsch in Zurich, vol. ix, 1864. Neue Jahrb., 1869 and 1870. 

 Faima Sar. fossilis, 1873 and 1877, antea cit., &e. 



II Vierteljahrsschr. naturf. Gesellsch., antea cit., p. 273, &c. 



"IT Compte-Rendu Soc. Ent. Beige, January, 1878, pp. 9—12; and Ann. des Sciences Nat., 6 

 series. Tome 7, Art No. 4. 



** Palasontographica, vol. xvi, 1869. 



tt Neue Jahrb. fiir Min., Sec, 18(39 ; and Fauna Sar. Fos.?., 2nd part, 1877, antea cit. 



