26 Meek and Worthen on a Scorpion and other fossils 
bears apparently three or four short, pointed, rigid spines, d- 
rected obliquely backward, and arranged so as to form a 
many longitudinal rows along the back and dorso-lateral parts 
of the animal. Some of these spines are seen to give off a 
small, short, lateral fork, or branch, on the anterior or poste 
rior side. - : 
On the under side of the body there are, as already stated, ‘ 
two segments, or rather two half rings of the dermal integt- 
der jointed legs, about 0°20 inch in length, in the specimen 
nearly 4 inches long. So fur as can be made out, there are at 
least five gradually tapering joints to each leg. In some of the 
imens these lower segments show appearances of something — 
like spiracles, though we are not sure that they aresuch. Fora — 
long time we failed to detect joints in the legs, but in some of t 
the specimens now before us they can be clearly seen. 
nder a magnifier, the impressions of the body rings 0 the 
matrix show a minutely granular kind of marking, that must — 
have been produced by minute pitting of the surface. No — 
pow however, have been seen projecting from any part of the 
ossil. 
For this uncouth looking creature, we would propose the 
generic name Huphoberia, in allusion to the formidable | 
appearance a living example, more than a foot in length, 
must have presen when alive and moving about, wl 
its back bristling with forked spines, and its 150 legs 
motion. Some fragments in the collection are much large 
than the most complete specimen from which our measure 
ments are given, and if of the same proportions, the individu- 
als to which they belonged must have been from 12 to 15 
inches in mags _ near + of an inch in diameter. Bag 
ecimens seem ong to two ies, one comparatively 
small, and one large. For the seudlied tigi! one, from which 
the foregoing description was made out, we would propose the 
me H. armigera, and for the larger EB. major.* : 
On comparing our specimens with a curious jointed, spinifer- 
ous fossil, figured and described by Mr. Salter in the Quarterly 
Journal of the Geological Society of London, vol. xix., p- 
fig. 8, from the Staffordshire Coal-measures, under the name 
Eurypterus ? (Arthropleura) ferox, we can scarcely entertain 
ordan and von Meyer have proposed the nam tonotus : 
—, Ha Pe: pl. te. 3) for @ mg ey 
armiger, and C. major. 
