LITTLE RIVER GROUP, No. III. 109 



and distorted. The posterior part of the body is flattened sidewise, as is usual with this 

 family of Myriapods when fossilized ; but the anterior third of the body and the head are 

 flattened from above, as is usual with the Chilopods. One of the antenna? appears to be 

 elubshaped, but this is due to the doubling back of its distal end ; the other antenna is 

 covered by a leaflet (pinnule) of a fern (Alethopteris discrepans). but the impression of the 

 antenna shows through the substance of the leaf 



This species is not unlike JEuphoberia spinulosa, Scudd., of the Carboniferous of Mazon 

 Creek.' 



EUPHOBBRIA, PL I., fig. 3. 



Only a few joints of the body of this species are known. 



The segments of the body were twice as wide as long, raised in the middle, depressed 

 at each end, where there is a suturai ridge. The segments are marked by a bright line 

 along the middle where the two subsegments join. Only the upper joint of the leg and a 

 portion of the second is preserved. There is a depressed band along the base of the dorsal 

 scutes, as in the preceding species. 



Sculpture. — This consists of a minute granulation and a faint striation, parallel to the 

 sides of the dorsal scutes. 



Size. — Length unknown (of the fragment 16 mm.) ; width of the body, 4| mm. 



Horizon and Locality. — Plant bed No. 2, in the Lower Cordaite shales, Fern Ledges, 

 Lancaster, N.B. Rare. 



This is evidently a difl:erent species from the preceding both by the width of its segments 

 and the apparent absence of spines. 



CHItiOPODA. 



EILETICUS, Seudder. 



ElLETICUS (?) ANTIQUUS, n. sp., PI. I., fig. 4. 



Body cylindrical, tapering to the head and the tail ; it has a thickened border and 

 thirty or more segments. 



Head subcircular, depressed at the sides. Segments of unequal length, from twice as 

 wide to one and a half times as wide as long. One pair of feet to each segment. 



Sculpture. — The surface is smooth or nearly so. 



Size. — Length of the part known 35 mm. Breadth 3 mm. 



Horizon2i\\A Locality. — Plant bed No. 2 of the Lower Cordaite shales. Lancaster, N. B., 

 Canada. Rare. 



The position in wliicli this fossil is preserved, the limited number of feet and the 

 unequal length of the segments, seems to leave no doubt that it is a Chilopod. 



ILYODES, Seudder. 



IlYODES (?) ATTBNUATA, n. Sp., PI. I., fig. 5. 



Body tenuous, extremely elongated and possessing numerous segments, probably one 

 hundred and fifty or more ; it tapers toward one end which may be the anterior. 



' New Carboniferous Myriapoda from Illinois, Bost Soc Nat. Hist, vol. iv., No. ix., p. 430. 



