Dr. H. Woodward — Myriapods of the Coal Period. 5 



Genus Amynilyspcs, Scudder, 1882. 



13. ,, TForfkeni, Scudder, Coal-measures, Illinois, U.S. 

 ,, Mlectieus, Scudder, 1882. 



14. ,, antkracinus, ,, ,, „ 



3, Family Archijulid^, Scudder. 



Genus TricMulus, Scudder, 1884. ) Recently shown by Scudder to be 



15. ,, villosus, Scudder, (_ founded on the circinate vernation of 



16. ,, nodulosus, Scudder, [ a fern. (See Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. 



17. ,, ammonitiformis, Scud. ) Hist. vol. iii. No. xiii. p. 438, 1886.) 

 „ ? Archiulus, Scudder {Julus, Dohrn). 



18. „ Brassii, Dohrn, Eothliegendes, Lebach. 



19. ,, xylobioides, Scudder, Coal-measures, Nova Scotia. 



20. ,, cmstans, Fric „ Bohemia. 



21. ,, costulatus, Fric ,, ,, 



22. „ pictiis, Fric ,, ,, 

 „ Anthracerpes, Meek and "Worthen. 



23. ,, typus^ Meek and Worthen, Coal-measures, Illinois, U.S. 



„ Falceojulus, Geinitz. ) Founded on the circinate 



24. ,, dyadicus, Geinitz, Dyas, Saxony. ) vernation of a fern. 

 ,, Scolecopteris. 



25. ,, elegans, Zenker, Coal-measures Germany. 

 „ Xylobius, Dawson, 1859. 



26. ,, sigillarice, Dawson ,, Nova Scotia. 



27. ,, Woodwardii, Scudder ,, AjTshire. 



28. „ similis, Scudder ,, Nova Scotia. 



29. ,, fraetus ,, ,, ,, 



30. ,, Daivsoni ,, ,, ,, 



31. ,, Chotiionotus lithanthraca, Jordan, Coal-measures, Germany. 



In a table prepared by Mr. Scudder for Prof. Dr. Zittel's Hand- 

 buch der Palasontologie,^ of the fossil Myriapods, he places all the 

 Palaeozoic forms (save one) in his suborder Arohipolypoda, namely, 

 two Devonian species, thirty-one Carboniferous," and four Dyas (?). 

 The exceptional form belongs to his suborder Protostngnatha. 



He records one Diplopod from the Chalk-formation, seventeen 

 Chilopoda, and twenty-three Diplopoda, from the Oligocene : one 

 of the latter from the Miocene and forty-nine recent. 



In the past year (1886) the British Museum (Natural History 

 Branch) acquired the well-known collection of the late Mr. Henry 

 Johnson, F.G.S., Mining Engineer, of Dudley, who had devoted the 

 best years of his life to the collection of the fossils from the Wenlock 

 Shale of his native place and those of the surrounding Coal-fields, 

 particularly the Clay-ironstone nodules of the Coal-measures of 

 Coseley, near Dudley, from the " Binds" between the " Brooch" and 

 " Thick-Coal." From these he obtained a rich collection of Crusta- 

 cean and Insect remains and also many spined Myriapods. 



I exhibited the Insects and Myriapods at the British Association 

 Meeting, Birmingham, in Section C. (Geology) ; and I was favoured 

 with an opportunity to examine the rich collection of Silurian and 

 Carboniferous fossils in the Museum of Mr. C Beale, of Lime Tree 

 House, Eowley Regis, not far from Dudley. Mr. Beale kindly placed 



1 Handbuch der Palseontologie von Karl A. Zittel, Miinchen. I. Abtheilung, II. 

 Band, V. Lieferung — Myriopoda, Arachnoidea, und Insecta. Bearbeitet von Samuel 

 H. Scudder (1885). 



2 These numbers must now be reduced by four Carboniferous and one Dyas species. 



