340 Ayinals of the South African Museum. 



There is a portion of an example of this species which seems to 

 agree perfectly with the Indian specimens and with the figures 

 given by Forbes, Stoliczka, and Kossmat. In Southern India 

 Hamites {Anisoceras) compressus occurs in the Valudayiir Group 

 and perhaps also in the Utatur Group. A very closely alhed form 

 is figured by Whiteaves from the Nanaimo Group of Vancouver. 



Hamites (Anisoceras) indicus, Forbes. 

 Plate XLIV, fig. 2. 



1846. Hamites indicus, Forbes, Trans. Geol. Soc, ser. 2, vol. vii., 



p. 116 {noil pi. xi., fig. 4). 

 1866. Anisoceras suhcomiyressum, Stoliczka, Cret. Fauna S. India, 



vol. i., p. 179, pi. Ixxxv., fig. 7. 

 1866. Anisoceras rugatum, Stoliczka, ibid., p. 178, pi. Ixxxv., figs. 



10-13. 

 1866. Anisoceras tenuisulcatum, Stoliczka, ibid., pi. Ixxxv., fig. 14 



{7ion figs. 15, 16). 

 1871. Anisoceras rugatum, Griesbach, Q.J.G.S., xxvii., p. 63, pi. iii., 



fig. 4. 

 1895. Hamites (Anisoceras) indicus, Kossmat, Beitr. z. Paliiont u. 



Geol. OsteiT.-Ungarns, &c., ix., p. 145, pi. xix., fig. 4. 



A small portion of an example of this species was figured by 

 Griesbach as Anisoceras rugatum, and is now in the Hamburg 

 Museum. A small example of Anisoceras, which was collected by 

 the Survey, probably belongs to this species. The Indian specimens 

 occur in the Valudayur Group of Pondicherri. 



Hamites (Anisoceras), sp. 



Plate XLIV., fig. 3. 



There are two imperfect specimens of a species in which the 

 ribs are sharp and very oblique, and the section of the shell is 

 elliptical or nearly circular. This species differs from H. (Anisoceras) 

 indicus by the obliquity of the ribs and the elliptical section ; and 

 from H. (Anisoceras) tenuisulcatus, Forbes, '■■ by the fewer, stronger, 

 and more oblique ribs. 



* Trans. Geol. Soc, ser. 2, vol. vii. (1846), p. 116, pi. x., fig. 8, pi. xi., fig. 3. 

 Stoliczka, Cret. Fauna S. India, vol. i. (1866), p. 177, pi. Ixxxv., figs. 15, 10 (not 

 fig. 17). Kossmat, Beitr. z. Paliiont. u. Geol. Osterr.-Ungarns, &c., ix. (1895), 

 p. 147, pi. .xix., figs. 5, 6. 



