Eemarks on some Remains op Insects occurring in Car- 

 boniferous Shale at Cape Breton. 



They were all found upon a single small fragment of stone, and 

 consist of wings of cockroaches (not very uncommon in carbon- 

 iferous strata) and the well preserved remains of the abdomen of a 

 larval dragon-fly. 



Heretofore the earliest indubitable remains of dragon-flies have 

 come from the Lias, several fragments of wings, as well as perfect 

 wings, a head and part of an abdomen having been figured by Rev. 

 Mr. Brodie in his work on the fossil insects of the secondary rocks 

 of England. Goldenberg, however, figures ^ an obscure insect (of 

 which he only says it is possibly a Termes, but to which, in a subse- 

 quent work he gives the name Tefines Hagenii), which also is per- 

 haps the larva of a dragon-fly ; this was found in the carboniferous 

 beds of the neighborhood of Saarbriicken in the valley of the Rhine. 

 Further I exhibited to this Society some years ago, from the Carbon- 

 iferous of CajDC Breton, a photograph of a curious insect's wing, 

 which I called Haplophlehium Barnesii, and which had the general 

 aspect of a dragon-fly's wing, but differed from it in several essential 

 features ; it is not impossible that the body now exhibited may prove 



' Duiiker and Meyer's Palasontogr., IV, pi. vl, fig. 8. 



