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I.—Some New British Carboniferous Cockroaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Henry Woodward
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The early appearance in geological time of terrestrial Arthropods _L has always been to me a subject of deep interest, and I have been fortunate in noticing several of these in the pages of this Magazine and elsewhere. The oldest insect at present recorded is the impression of an Orthopterous wing referred to the family Blattidæ:, obtained from the Silurian sandstone of Jurques, Calvados, France, about the horizon of the May Hill Sandstone (Middle Silurian). M. Charles Brongniart, its discoverer, observes that what is especially remarkable about this fossil, and which distinguishes it from all other Cockroach-wings, living or fossil, is the length of the anal vein, and the narrowness of the axillary area.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , February 1887 , pp. 49 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1887

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page 49 note 1 See on Eophrynus (Curculioides) Prestvici, Buckl. sp., GEOL. MAG. 1871, Vol. VIII. PI. XI. pp. 385–388.Google ScholarOn Arehitarbus subovalis, Woodw, H.. op. cit. 1872, Vol. IX. PI. IX. p. 385.Google ScholarOn Brachypyge carbonis, Woodw, H.. op. cit. 1878, Dec.II.Vol.V. PL XI. p. 434.Google Scholar [I described this form as a Crustacean; but it has since been suggested to me by Mr. S. H. Scudder that it was more probably the abdomen of an Arachnide nearly related to Eophrynus.—H. W.] On Lithomantis carbonarius, Woodw, H.. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1876, vol. xxxii. pl. ix. pp. 60–64.Google Scholar On Eoscorpus carbonarius, Woodw, H.., op. cit. 1876, pl. viii. pp. 57–59.Google Scholar On “Spined Myriapods,” GEOL. MAG. 1887, No. I. p. 1. Pl. I.

page 49 note 2 “Comptes Rendus,” Acad. des Sciences, Paris, No. 29, Deer. 26, 1884.

page 49 note 3 See MÜnster's Beiträ zur Petrefactenkunde, Stuttgart.

page 49 note 4 MrScudder, S. H. has since named it Etoblatlina tnanlidioides, Mem. Boston Soc. Kat. Hist. 1879, vol. iii. pt. i. No. 3, pp. 72–73 (woodcut).Google Scholar

page 54 note 1 Mr Scudder's, artist has successfully reproduced this wonderful and complex lacestructureinElobluttina venusta, Lesquereux (Scudder, op. cit. pl. 6, fig. 12, p.70).Google Scholar

page 55 note 1 For a full account of this area see a paper “On the Upper Beds of the Fifesliire Coal-measures,” by Binney, Edward W., F.R.S., and Kirkby, James W., Esq.Google Scholar (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Lond. 1882, vol. xxxviii. pp. 243–256, pl. vi.)Google Scholar