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I.—On a New Genus of Orthopterous Insects of the Family Phasmidæ (Protophasma Dumasii), from the Upper Coalmeasures of Commentry, Dept. Allier, France1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

M. Charles Brongniart
M. Charles Brongniart
Affiliation:
of the Museum of Natural History, Jardin des Plantes.
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We possess only a few elements of the Insects of the Coal Period—Articulata are rare in these beds, and it is only after long research that we are able to collect sufficient materials for a special work on the Entomology of this epoch.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , March 1879 , pp. 97 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1879

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References

page 97 note 2 See papers by Dr. Anton Dohrn on E. Boeckingii, Paleontographica, 1866, Bd. xiii. p. 333, taf. xli. and 1869, Bd. xvi. p. 129, taf. viii.

page 97 note 3 See Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1876, vol. xxxii. p. 60, pi. ix. fig. 1.

page 97 note 4 I possess some wings of insects very like those figured and described by M. Goldenberg, but more complete, and showing the reticulations of the wing, but

page 98 note 1 This fossil was discovered by M. Fayol, Engineer, in a bed of compact micaceous shale of the Upper Coal-measures of Commentry (Allier), in the Forestpit, at 5 metres 50 from the top of the great Coal.

page 98 note 2 An analogous observation has been made on fossil plants; one has noticed the impressions of leaves in the Coal-measures, in particular the leaves of Fern3 which could be detached from the surface of the shale and examined separately.

page 100 note 1 Except certain species which have very short wings.