AiiT. X. — On a Xevj Sp('cie^< of GraptoUHdw 

 (Tern aograptus magnificui^). 



(With Plate \I.) 



^y G. B. PlUTCHAKD. 



[Read Sept. 10, 1891.] 



This oraptolite came from the same localit}', namely about 

 five miles to the north-east of Lancelield, as Dictyonema 

 gnmde, a new species described by Mr. T. S. Hall M.A., at 

 the beginning- ot this year. It was on the occasion of my 

 second visit to this locality that I had the good fortune to 

 procure an almost perfect specimen. This, however, was not 

 the first collected, as on the previous trip, Mr. T. iS. Hall 

 obtained two slabs ot slate showing the centre of the stock, 

 and a few bifurcations of the stipes, also numerous smaller 

 fragments apparently referable to the same species. 



Genus Temnograptus (Nicholson). 



Order — Hydrozoa. Sub-order —Gra/jfoUfiihc. Family — 

 JJiclKH/rapfidid (Lapworth). Zittel gi\-es the following terse 

 definition of this genus: — "Like Tetiugraptux, but the four 

 chief branches. repeatedly forked in a dichotonious maimer — 

 T. uiidfiplex, Nicholson.'' 



T. Magxifk'Us, sp. nov. 



Polyp-stock multibrachiate, consisting of nunu-i'ous strong 

 bifurcating stijjes which are symmetriL^dly arranged on the 

 two sides of their origin. Funicle very short, length l.') mm., 

 breadth 1 mm., sicula not visible. Both extremities of the 

 funicle divide into two noii-celluliferous stipes, which 

 diverge at an angle of 9(f, and vaiy in length from about 



