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Upper Carboniferous of England, and Eubrodia, new genus, from 
the Upper Carboniferous of Illinois. 
Genus Brodia Scudder 
Brodia Scudder, 1881, Geol. Mag. 8: 293. 
Wings slender, broadest at about the level of mid-wing; cross 
veins of two types, a few distinct ones mostly in two irregular series, 
and an almost uniform pattern of very weak transverse cross veins, 
very close together, but not forming an archedictyon or a reticulation. 
Type-species: Brodia priscotincta Scudder 
Brodia priscotincta Scudder 
Plate 1 1 and text-fig. 4A 
Brodia priscotincta Scudder, 1881, Geol. Mag. 8: 293; Scudder 1883, Mem. 
Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 3: 213, pi. 17; Scudder, 1885, in Zittel, Handbuch 
der Palaeontologie, 2: 761, fig. 951; Handlirsch, 1906, Foss. Ins., p. 113, 
pi. 12, fig. 13; Handlirsch, 1919, Denkschr. Akad. Wissensch. Wien, 
Math.-Naturw. Klasse, 96: 73-75, figs. 83-89; Bolton, 1921, Foss. Ins. 
Brit. Coal Meas., 1: 59-63, figs; Laurentiaux, 1953, in Piveteau, Traite 
de Paleontologie, 3 : 543, fig. 39. 
Synonyms: Brodia scudderi Handlirsch, B. petiolata Handlirsch, B. pictipen- 
nis, B. fasciata Handlirsch, B. ncbulosa Handlirsch, and B. furcata 
Handlirsch (all Handlirsch 1919). 
Wing: length 50-58 mm., maximum width, 13-15 mm. Rs with 
four or five branches; MP usually with two branches, rarely three; 
a few distinct cross veins in certain areas of the wing, usually trans- 
verse or slightly oblique but not reticulate. Wing with three distinct 
dark transverse bands and a darkened area between Ri and Rs. 
Type: British Museum (Natural History), Brodie collection No. 
I.3896. Bolton recorded eleven specimens of priscotincta in the Brit- 
ish Museum and in the collection at Birmingham University; all of 
these were from Coseley, Tipton, Sedgeley, or Dudley, Staffordshire, 
England. Upper Carboniferous (Westphalian). 
Several features of this insect, briefly mentioned under the genus 
and family, require more detailed discussion: 
(1) The wing shape. Although Scudder’s original figure (1881) 
of this insect showed a distinct petiolation on the wing, the figure 
which he published in his more detailed account a few years later 
(1883) shows much less petiolation and the figure he used in Zit- 
tel’s Handbuch (1885) shows no petiolation whatsoever. Since all 
three figures were made from the holotype specimen, we can only 
conclude that Scudder was not certain of the correct interpretation of 
the margins of the wing in the specimen. Only a few of the specimens 
in the British Museum collection show the basal portion of the wing, 
