56 Messrs. Hancock & Atthey on a new Labyrinthodont 
in an incurved tooth or spine. Underside opaque, with a dull 
concolorous velvet pile. Thighs with the club large s — ; 
tibiz and tarsi clothed with a fine cinereous pubescen 
Found both at Old Calabar and other parts of the west 
beau 
2. Cordylomera €— Chevr. Rev. et Mag. d. Zool. 
1855, p. 283 
Affinis C. spinicorni, Fab. (torridum, Oliv.), sed minor, medio- 
criter et sat crebre punctata," viridis ; antennis, thorace infra, 
pectore pedibusque rufis ; thorace antice prende con- 
stricto; elytris singulatim i in sutura aculea 
Long. T} lin., lat. 1$ lin 
This is very near the cose popes (C. gratiosa of 
Dejean), but differs from it by its antenna, which, instead of 
being black, are red. The elytra are more flattened, the thighs 
more suddenly swollen, and the green colour above is more 
nder. 
In the British Museum (Chevrolat’s collection). 
3. Cordylomera suturalis, Thomson, Archiv. Ent. ii. p. 155 
(1858) ; Chevr. Archiv. Ent. ii. p. 242, pl. 14. fig. 3. 
Precedenti valde affinis; capite, VE thorace et scutello 
nigris; thorace bituberculato; elytris singulatim apice acu- 
leatis; pedibus nigris; tibiis 'anficis et tarsis pube cinerea 
vestitis ; subtus pube plumbeo- argentea vestitus. 
Long. 9-10 lin., lat. 2 lin 
Diiiiked from C. spinicornis and C. ruficornis by its 
black legs, its white silky underside, &c. 
[To be continued. | 
IV.—Description of a Labyrinthodont Amphibian, a new 
Generic Form, obtained in the Coal-shale at Newsham, near 
Newcastle-upon-Tyne. By ALBANY Hancock, F.L.S., and 
THOMAS ATTHEY. 
[Plate I.] 
THE fossil Vertebrata of the Coal-shale overlying the High- 
main seam at Newsham do not yet appear to be exhausted, 
notwithstanding the great attention that has been bestowed 
upon the subject, for many years past, by one of the authors 
of this paper. 
n proof of this we have to record the recent occurrence, in 
the above locality, of two specimens of a small Labyrinthodont 
PRT "T 
