389 



Megap- 



ferns. Their tissues under the microscope are not distinguish- 

 able from those of ferns and Lycopods. (Dawson.) — XIIL 



Megaphytum protuberans, Lesquereux. Coal Flora, 



>page 352; Illinois Eeport, 

 Vol. 2, page 158, Plate 47, 

 figs. 1, 2. Oollett'g Indiana 

 Keport, 1883, page 75, plate 

 8. fig. 11 ; ranging (like 

 Stemmatopteris) from the 

 ' Conglomerate up to the 

 Pittsburgh Coal bed, and even into the uppermost Coal Meas- 

 ures. — XII^ up to XVL 



Megathentomum pustulatum. — Scudder. A neuropter- 



ous insect-wing of the 

 Coal age, found in the 

 Coal Measures of Mason 

 Creek, 111. Proc. Best. S. 

 N. H. Vol. 11, 1868, p. 401. 

 Zittel's Handbuch der 

 Palseontologie, Vol. 2, 

 1885, p. 762, fig. 954, to 

 show that wings of that 

 early age of insect life were 

 sometimes spotted, and 

 probably colored. — XIII, 



Megistoerinus evansii. Owen and Shumard, Geol. Wis., 



