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The Danceites Heerii of de Zigno(l), from the Jurassic of Italy, closely resembles 
Tceniopteris crassinervis (Feist.), but I am not convinced that the two are identical. 
Fontaine(2) has also identified certain Tseniopterids from the Trias of Richmond in 
Virginia, U.S.A., as identical with the Indian plant, but the poor illustrations which 
he furnishes of these specimens do not suggest that these determinations are correct. 
Occurrence. —Mataura Falls (Middle Jurassic). 
3. Taeniopteris Daintreei McCoy. Plate VI, fig. 5. 
1850. Tceniopteris spatulata McClelland, Rep. Geol. Surv. India for 1848-49, p. 53, pi. xvi, 
fig. 1. 
1860. Tceniopteris Daintreei McCoy, Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, vol. 7, p. 97. 
1863. Stangerites spathulata Oldham and Morris, Foss. Flora Gondw. Syst. (Pal. Indica), 
vol. i, pt. i, p. 34, pi. vi, figs. 1-6. 
1863. Stangerites spathulata var. multinervis Oldham and Morris, ibid., p. 34, pi. vi, fig. 7. 
1875. Tceniopteris Daintreei McCoy, Pal. Victoria, Dec. 2, p. 15, pi. xiv, figs. 1 2. 
1877. Angiopteridium spathulatum Feistmantel, Foss. Flora Gondw. Syst. (Pal. Indica), 
vol. i, pt. ii, pp. 45-107, pi. iv, figs. 1-7. 
1877. Angiopteridium spathulatum Feistmantel, ibid., vol. i, pt. iii, pp. 10-172, pi. 1, 
figs. 66, lb. 
1878. Tceinopteris Daentreei Feistmantel, Palceontogr., Suppl. iii. Lief. 3, Heft 1, p. 110, 
pi. 14, figs. 2, 3. 
1879. Angiopteridium spathulatum Feistmantel, Foss. Flora Gondw. Syst. (Pal. Indica), 
vol. i, pt. iv, pp. 16-206, pi. i, figs. 8-13, 17, 18 ; pi. ii, figs. 3, 5, 6; pi. xv, 
fig. 11. 
1879. Angiopteridium McClellandi Feistmantel, ibid., pp. 17-207, pi. i, figs. 14-16; pi. ii, 
fig. 4. 
1890. Tceniopteris Daintreei Feistmantel, Abhandl k. bohm. Gesell. Wissen. (Math. Natur. Cl.), 
Folge vii, Bd. 3, No. 6, p. 66, pi. 2, fig. 11. 
1890. Tceniopteris Daintreei Feistmantel, Mem. Geol. Surv. N.S. Wales, Pal. No. 3, p. 114, 
pi. xxvii, figs. 4, 5; pi. xxviii, figs. 6, 6a. 
1892. Tceniopteris Daintreei McCoy, in Stirling, Rep. Victorian Coalfields, 1 and 2, p. 12, 
pi. ii, figs. 11, 12. 
1898. Angiopteridium spathulata Dun, Rep. Austral. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Sydney p. 390. 
1900. Tceniopteris Daintreei McCoy, in Stirling, Rep. Victorian Coalfields No. 7, p. 3, pi. i, 
fig. 56; pi. ii, figs. 4, 7, la; pi. ii a. 
1904. Tceniopteris Daintreei Seward, Rec. Geol. Surv. Victoria, vol. i, pt. iii, p. 168, pi. xiii, 
figs. 19, 20-22; pi. xiv, fig. 18 ; ? pi. xv, figs. 23, 24. 
Diagnosis. —McCoy -in 1875 (see above) gave the following diagnosis of this 
species : Frond very long, linear, parallel-sided; substance thick; edges straight; 
midrib thick, very strong; veins extending at right angles from the m idrib to the 
lateral margins, a few straight and simple, the greater number once forked at a 
variable distance between the midrib and lateral margin. Usual width of frond, 
4 lines; about 10 or 11 lateral veins in the space of 2 lines at the margin (both 
of ordinary specimens 4 lines wide, and one young fragment nearly 2 in. long, but 
only 1| lines wide throughout). 
Description of the Specimens. — T. Daintreei appears to be abundant in several 
localities in New Zealand. The specimen figured on Plate VI, fig. 5 (natural size), 
is from the Malvern Hills. It is a fragment of a narrow frond, 4 cm. long and 
about 1 cm. across. The midrib is stout, but the lateral nervation is not very clear. 
Remarks. —This and other specimens appear to me to be quite similar to those 
figured from the Jurassic rocks of Victoria by Seward in 1904 as T. Daintreei. 
Occurrence. —Clent Hills (Rhsetic) ; McRae’s, .Makarewa, Hokonui Hills (? Rhsetic); 
Hedgehope, Hokonui Hills (? Rhsetic) ; Owaka Creek, Gatlin’s River (? Rhsetic) ; Malvern 
Hills (? Lower Jurassic). 
(1 de Zigno (1856), p. 208, pi. xxv. 
(2) Fontaine (1883), p. 22, pi. v, fig. 5 ; pi. vi, 
figs. 1, 2. 
