from Loicer Coal-measures, Lancashire. 



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tias been truncated just where the caudal appendages would join the 

 abdominal segments. The carapace is rounded posteriorly, and the 

 cervical furrow is well-marked. There is also a median dorsal 

 furrow down the centre of the carapace. The limbs are very- 

 imperfect. Two obscurely defined scale-like bodies are present in 

 front of the head. 



We can only hope for better material from the Soapstone nodules, 

 to enable one to determine this interesting fossil. 



Locality and formation, the same as the preceding specimens. 



TRACHEATA (Air-breathers of the Coal Period). 



ARCHIPOLYPODA, Scudder. 



Fam. 2. — Euphoberid^, Scudder. 



Genus EUPHOBERIA, Meek & Worthen. 



PalaBoutology of Illinois, 1868, p. 556. 



1. EuPHOBERiA Brownii, H. Woodw., 1871. 



•Oeol. Mag., Vol. VIII, PI. Ill, Figs. Qa-c (in clay-ironstone. Coal-measures, 

 Kilmaurs, near Glasgow). 



The specimen from Mr. Peter Whalley's collection of which 

 a figure is given here (Pig. 3) is identical with Euphoberia Brownii, 

 from Kilmaurs, figured and described by me in 1871. _. 



Fig. Z.—Buphobena Brotvnii, H. "Woodw., 1871. Enlarged twice natural size. 

 From Soapstone bed, Coal - measures : Carre Heys, Colne, Lancashire. 

 ds, dorsal surface ; Is, bases of spines ; p, p, walking-feet. 



Both sides of the nodule from Colne Hill are preserved and 

 expose a coiled up Myriopod, having indications of a head and 

 -about 30 equal-sized segments, each composed of a saddle-shaped 

 plate rounded at its lower edge, covering the dorsal region and 

 having a raised rounded border before and behind ; the inter- 

 locking posterior smooth border is of equal breadth behind the 



