Netu Fossils from the Bokkeveld Beds. 385 



GASTEROPODA. 



Genus METOPTOMA Phillips, 1836. 



METOPTOMA CAPENSE sp. nov. 



(PI. XLVII., figs. 1, 2.) 



Shell oval to elliptical in shape, about two-thirds as wide as long ; 

 anterior and posterior ends rounded and subequal ; surface more or 

 less convex and obtusely conical, rising gradually in convex curve 

 from anterior end to apex, which is situated at about one-quarter 

 the length of shell from posterior end ; height of shell about one- 

 third the length ; apex simple, small, acute, slightly curved backward 

 and overhanging the steeply inclined and gently concave short 

 posterior slope of the shell. Surface marked by concentric striae, 

 strongest near margin ; faint traces of delicate radial ornamentation. 



Dimensions: — I. II. III. 



Length 150 mm. 16"0 mm. 12-5 mm. 



Height G-0 5-0 4-5 



Width 11-5 120 9-0 



Locality. — Zwartberg Pass. 



Bemarks. — There are three specimens of this shell in the collec- 

 tion. A species which appears to resemble it is Platyceras patelli- 

 forme, Holzapfel,'-' from the Upper Middle Devonian of the Ehenish 

 area. 



Genus BELLEEOPHON Montfort, 1808. 



BELLEKOPHON (TEOPIDOCYCLUS) cf. GILLETIANUS 

 Hartt and Eathbun. 



One somewhat crushed specimen from Garaka Poort, measuring 

 13 mm. in height, 10 mm. in width, and 4-5 mm. in thickness, 

 appears to resemble Tropidocyclas (jillctianus, Hartt and Eathbun, I 



* Holzapfel, Das obere Mitteldevon (Abh. kiin. preu^s. geol. Landesanst., N.F., 

 xvi, 1895), p. 180, t. iv., tigs. 8, 9. 



t Hartt and Eathbun, Ann. New York Lyceum Nat. Hist., vol. xi., 1875, 

 p. 118. 



