ACAK. 



DICTI01!^ARY 



OF 



FOSSILS FOUND IN PENNSYLYANIA 



AND ELSEWHEKE. 



Acantherpestes major. Meek & Worthen. A caterpillar 

 ,--_^ - — — ^ .4!r-->^ i^yviopod) of the Coal 



Age, found in a nodule of 

 the Mazon creek rocks in 

 Illinois ; from ZittePs Hand- 

 brick of P a 1 ae o n t o 1 o g y y 

 Leipsig, 1885, Vol. 2, p. 

 728, fig. 897, cne-half the 

 natural size ; fig. 5, of nat- 

 ural size showing the 

 breathing holes in the belly ;, 

 fig. c, two of these holes en- 

 larged Hve times. XII., 

 Note, it belongs to the Eu- 

 phoheria family of Scudder. 

 See Euphoberia armi- 

 gera. This family, includ- 

 ing thick baggy kinds, some 

 amphibious in their mode of 

 life, their leaf- like legs or 

 arms apparently adapted 

 for locomotion in water as^ 

 well on land, began in the 

 Coal age. XIIL 



