132 RECORDS OF THE AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM. 



<|uair"8 attention to this fossil, at tlie same time expressing tlie 

 ojiinion tliat it belonged to a new genus ; in this view the latter 

 concurred. The " specimen f<»rmed part of the old collection of 

 the British ^Museum, of which there are no records, hence its 

 history as to from whom and whence it came is wanting. 

 Judging, however, from its general aspect, one might readily be 

 tempted to infer that it was of Paheozoic age."" The matrix is 

 <lescribed as a dull grey argillaceous limestone. 



In the present instance the matrix is a blue-black limestone, 

 and both this eolour and the mode of weathering are characteristic 

 of the Muri'umbiflgee Devonian limestones. If mv conception 

 of this fish buckler is the correct one, it confirms Tracjuair's 

 reference of G. n-oodwardi to the Palieozoic. The thought that 

 perhaps the latter may ha\e originally come from one or other 

 of the New South Wales limestone localities is perhaps per- 

 missible. 



The specimen was found by Mr. Siissmilch on Portion 44, 

 Parish of Taemas, Co. Cowley (Murrumbidgee Piver), and is 

 named in his honour. 



'J'r:n]uaiv (icol. Mag'., x., 1873, p. .554. 



