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Mr. Salter has expressed an opinion that ;S^. Poivriei is a full-grown 

 male, and S. Scoticus a young female of the same species ; but Mr. 

 "Woodward observed that if the sexes are not to be determined by 

 the thoracic plates, but by more general characters, then the tvv^o 

 forms of plates in Slimonia indicate two species of females, and the 

 two forms in Vterygotus minor ought to indicate two species of 

 males. 



5. *' On a new genus of JEurypterida from the Lower Ludlow 

 Kocks of Leintwardine, Shropshire." By Henry "Woodward, Esq., 

 r.G.S. — In this paper Mr. "Woodward described a Crustacean alluded 

 toby Mr. Salter in the * Annals and Magazine of Natural History ;' 

 for 1857, under the MS. name of Limuloides. It appears to form a 

 connecting link between the Xipliosiira and the Eurypterida, but it 

 differs from the former in not having a cephalothorax ; the cephalic, 

 thoracic, and abdominal divisions being distinct, and apparently 

 capable of separate flexure ; and from the latter in having only th.'ee 

 thoracic segments, &c. The name Limuloides not being allowable as 

 a generic appellation, the author applied it to the species, using the 

 generic term Hemiaspis. 



June 21st, 1865. 

 The following communications were read : — 

 1. " On the Carboniferous Eocks of the Valley of Kashmere/* 

 By Capt. H. Godwin- Austen. "With Notes on the Carboniferous 

 Brachiopoda, by T. Davidson, Esq., E.E.S., E.G.S. ; and an intro- 

 duction and Eesume, by E. A. C. Godwin-Austen, E.E.S., E.G.S. 

 Communicated by E. A. C. Godwin- Austen, Esq., F.E.S., F.G.S. 



This paper was a continuation of one read before the Society 

 last year, in which the Carboniferous, Jurassic, and Post-tertiary de- 

 posits and fossils were described by Capt. Godwin-Austen, Mr. 

 Davidson, and Mr. Etheridge. In this communication Capt. God- 

 win-Austen confined himself to the Carboniferous formation which 

 was shown by him to have, in the Valley of Kashmere, a thickness 

 of more than 1500 feet. The upper portion of this mass contained 

 but few fossils, except in one particular bed near the entrance of the 

 ravine above the village of Khoonmoo ; but the lowest portion, or 

 Zewan bed, is made up chiefly of the remains of Brachiopoda and 

 Bryozoas and a higher stage, though still near the base of the 

 formation, contains abundant remains of Producta. The position of 

 a limestone containing Gojiiafites is not very clearly determined, but 

 it is probably a member of the Zewan series. 



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