New Genera of Batrachian Footprints. 99 



X. HELVELL.^— CUP-FUNGI. 



Spathularia velutipes Cooke and Farloic. On the ground, 

 Cap-a-L'aigle, August. 



Leotia lubrica Pers. On rotting stump, Bagg's woods* 

 August. 



Sarcoscypha floccosa. On high bank of St. Lawrence 

 river, Cap-a-L'aigle, August. 



New Genera of Batrachian Footprints of the 

 Carboniferous System in Eastern Canada. 



By G. F. Matthew, LL.D., F.R.S.C. 



The following article is based chiefly on material in the 

 Bedpath Museum of McGfll University that was collected 

 by the late Sir J. W. Dawson, mostly at the Joggins 

 Mines and shore in Nova Scotia, and which remained 

 undescribed at the time of his death. 



The collection contains a number of types which have 

 not heretofore been described, chiefly among the smaller 

 forms. They will serve to give greater fullness and variety 

 to the series which have been described by other authors, 

 and which are mostly of medium or larger size. 



Aspeeipes n. gen. 



This genus is characterized by having five toes on the 

 supposed hind foot but only three on the supposed fore 

 foot. The latter is usually placed behind the hind foot, 

 sometimes midway between two prints of the latter. 



In the hind foot the fifth toe sets off from the rest and 

 is near the back of the footprint ; the other toes also are 

 widely spread and are progressively shorter to the first 

 digit. The sole was large and rather deeply impressed. 



The fore foot had three toes, of which the outer sets off 

 from the other two, and the middle projects forward 



