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THE SCIENTIST. 
But bein^ of a somewhat skeptical 
turn of mind, I investitrated further 
and found that the "winter mosqui-* 
toes" are large, beautiful, "silver- 
winged" tlies. They are about as 
large as the common green-headed 
horse-fly. 
The arachnidse, in the southwest, are 
represented by the huge, black tarantula 
and several species of spiders, but I do 
not remember seeing a scorpion, cen- 
tipede or any other representative of 
the myriapoda, although I am told 
that this order is well represenied. 
Edwin Walters. 
Kansas City, Mo., January 26. 1891. 
sions, equi-distant longitudinally and 
pi; ccd at right angles on tangential liue-^. 
Species — Pimctatumvestiyium circuli- 
formis. 
Two rows of dot-like impressions pa- 
rallel and distant laterally, six-eighths 
of an inch. Each impression is circular 
form and five-thirty -seconds of an inch 
in diameter. The longitudinal distance 
from center to center is one quarter of 
an inch; midway laterally is the impres- 
sion of an occasional dragging appen- 
daii^e. 
For The K. C. Scientist. 
Foot-prints of ^ew Species of Ainplii- 
bians in tlie Upper Coal Measure 
trronp of Kansas City, 
Missouri. 
By Edward Butts. 
The following is a continuation of the 
description of recently discovered foot- 
prints in rock number ninty one of the 
Upper Coal Measure Group of Kansas 
City, Missouri. 
Genus — Pimctatumvestigium. 
(Ety. Punctatum, dotted; vestigium, 
trail.) 
Two parallel rows of dot-like impres- 
Genus — Notampliih la . 
(Ety. no^«, m.a.rk; amphibia, amphibi'/n.) 
Foot-prints equi-dietant with five toes 
in each print; toes long and slender com- 
pared with size of foot and ramifying 
forward. 
Species — Notamphibia magna, {magna, 
large. ) 
Five long slender toes averaging seven 
eighths of an inch in length; total length 
of foot one and three-eighths inches; 
width one and one-eighth inches. The 
toes project forward with slight ramifi- 
catioms. Stride, six inches. 
Kanopolis, a town over in Kansas, is 
happy over a 240 foot vein of salt re- 
cently struck. 
