THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



NEW SERIES. DECADE II. VOL. VI. 



No. III.— MARCH, 1879. 



OiaiCS-mSTA-Ii AETICLES. 



I. — On a New Genus of Orthopterous" Insects of the family 

 Phasmid^e (Protophasma Dumasii), from the Upper Coal- 

 measures of Commentry, Dept. Allier, France. 1 



By M. Charles Brongniart, 

 of the Museum of Natural History, Jardin des Plantes. 



(PLATE IV.) 



WE possess only a few elements of the Insects of the Coal 

 Period — Articulata are rare in these beds, and it is only- 

 after long research that we are able to collect sufficient materials 

 for a special work on the Entomology of this epoch. 



Prof. Goldenberg has made us acquainted with the fauna of the 

 Coal-measures of Saarbriick, and has quite recently (1877) published 

 the second part of his work, entitled " Fauna Saraepontana Fossilis," 

 in which he describes fairly preserved wings of Neuroptera and 

 Orthoptera, one of which (Eugereon Boeckingii) also exhibits the 

 remains of the body. 2 



In America, Mr. Samuel H. Scudder has ardently studied the 

 Insect-remains from the Coal-measures of the United States. Lastly, 

 Dr. H. Woodward has published several works on the fossil 

 Articulata, and amongst others, in 1876, an interesting note on a 

 very complete Orthopter from the Coal-measures of Scotland 

 (Lithomantis carbonarius) . 3 



The insect-remains found in the Coal-measures belong principally 

 to the running Orthoptera, such as the Blattid^e, some species of 

 Mantid^;, and some Neuroptera, such as Termites and Hemerobius. 



Prof. Goldenberg has given the name of Fulgurina to certain 

 insects, which would indicate the presence of Hemiptera in the 

 Coal epoch. 4 



1 Translated from the " Annales des Scieuces Naturelle," 6 e Serie, 1878, Zoologie, 

 Tome vii. Art. No. 4, by A. P. Wilson, Esq. 



2 See papers by Dr. Anton Dohrn on E. Boeckingii, Paleontographica, 1866, Bd. 

 xiii. p. 333, taf. xli. and 1869, Bd. xvi. p. 129, taf. viii. 



3 See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1876, vol. xxxii. p. 60, pi. ix. fig. 1. 



4 I possess some wings of insects very like those figured and described by 

 M. Goldenberg, but more complete, and showing the reticulations of the wing, but 



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