60 H. WOODWARD ON AN ORTHOPTEROTJS INSECT 



7. On a remarkable fossil Orthopterous Insect from the COAL- 

 MEASURES of SCOTLAND. By HENRY WOODWARD, ESQ., E.B.S., 



F.G.S., &c, British Museum. (Eead November 3, 1875.) 



[Plate IX.] 



The clay-ironstone of Coalbrook Dale, Shropshire, has already yielded 

 the wing of one most interesting form of fossil locust, the Gri/llacris 

 (Cori/dalis) Brongniarti (PI. IX. fig. 2), figured and described in 

 Mantell's 'Medals of Creation,' in Murchison's ' Siluria,' 4th edition, 

 1867, p. 300, woodcut 80, and, lastly, in the Geol. Mag. 1874, new 

 series, Dec. ii. vol. i. pi. xiv. fig. 3 ; whilst the Coal-measures of 

 Saarbruck and of Westphalia have yielded fossil remains of a Gryl- 

 lacris and seven species of Blattince, or cockroaches, 4 Termites 

 (white ants), 1 Acridites, 3 species of the Neuropterous genus Dic- 

 tyoneura ; and from those of Grundy co., Illinois, U. S. A., 3 species 

 of the genus Miamia, 1 of Mylacris, 1 of Megathentomum, 3 species 

 of Eupheme rites, and 1 doubtful species of Mantis have been described 

 by Mr. S. H. Scudder, and from the Coal-measures of Cape Breton 

 the genus Haplophlebivm by the same author*. 



Mr. Scudder has likewise described seven genera from more or less 

 fragmentary remains in the Devonian rocks of New Brunswick f. 



Dr. Anton Dohm (Director of the Zoological Station at Naples) 

 has described a new and most remarkable Neuropterous insect 

 from the Permian (Todtliegcnde) of Birkenfeld, which he has named 

 Eugcreon BcecMngii, and regards as possibly belonging to an extinct 

 order (Dictyoptera) J. 



It has been my good fortune during the past year to have placed 

 in my hands, through the kindness of Edward Charlesworth, Esq., 

 F.G.S., a most interesting fossil insect from the Coal-measures of 

 Scotland. 



The insect in question has been preserved on the half of a clay- 

 ironstone nodule, which had been split open for the purpose of 

 examination ; the fate of the corresponding half is unknown. 



These clay-ironstone nodules have been known from the earliest 

 times to contain fossil remains, and have in consequence been dili- 

 gently examined ; but as they occur in infinite numbers, and the 

 geologists are few who devote themselves to their study, we know 

 but little, after all, of the buried treasures they contain, and they too 

 often pass into the smelting-f urn aces unnoticed and unseen. In one 

 clay-ironstone nodule larger than usual, Mr. George Maw, F.G.S., 

 of Benthall Hall, near Broseley, obtained the entire and uncrushed 

 skull of a Labyrinthodont, one of the most completely preserved 

 of such remains ever found in the Coal. I had the good fortune 

 to procure, through Mr. Hollier, of Dudley, in a small nodule, 



* Geol. Mag. 1867, vol. iv. p. 386, pi. rvii. fig. 1. 

 t Ibid. 1868, toI. v. pp. 172, 216. 



\ Dr. Dohrn in ' PaLTontographica,' 1866, Bd. xiii. p. oo3, taf. xli., and 

 op. cit 1869, Bd. xvi. p. 129, taf. viii. 



