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gathering were BeyHchia Klcedeni var. tubereulata 

 with big lobe, B. Klcedeni sub-var. clavsa (frequent), 

 B. Maccoyiana, B. lacunata, Bollia hicollina, PHmitia 

 utnhilicata, and ^chmina hovina. 



33. Eskam Engham, about two miles from 

 Ne"went, Gloucestershire. — The shale from this 

 locality was fine-grained and yellowish in colour, 

 with a few minute scales of white and brownish 

 mica, and some rounded quartz -grains, a few Crinoids, 

 Polyzoa, and two pearls. 



Ostracoda, 21 species, including Beyrichia Klcedeni 

 var. suhtorosa with big lobe, and Primitia fabulina. 

 Bythocypris Hollii was frequent. 



34. Prisscoed, three miles from Usk, Mon- 

 mouthshire. — Shale yellow, rather sandy, with a 

 little white and brown mica, small white calcite 

 aggregates, opaque calcite, rounded quartz-grains, 

 brownish magnetic particles (meteoric dust ?), some 

 minute fragments of black scoriaceous lava, a small 

 black coprolite, and a few Crinoid remains. The 

 larger Silurian fossils w^ere scarce in this quarry. 

 The common Silurian Brachiopod Atrypa reticularis 

 was of extra large size here. 



Osti-acoda, 9 species. 



35. Glasscoed, near Little Mill, Monmouthshire. 

 — The shale from this quarry was yellowish, and 

 rather sandy. The siliceous sand-grains were not 

 well-rounded, and measured from y^ to ^^^ of an 

 inch. The shale contained a little white and dark- 

 brown mica, some opaque and crystalline calcite, 

 and minute particles of black scoriaceous lava. A 

 small black coprolite was found in situ in a fragment 

 of shale, and a spicule of Hyalostelia gracilis, H., 

 was obtained. 



Ostracoda, 6 species, of which Thlipsura plicata 

 .was the only one commonly found. 



36. Stock Say, near Craven Arms, Shropshire. 

 — Fine yellowish Wenlock shale, with plenty of 

 small Brachiopoda, Polyzoa, Crinoids, Spiroi-bis, and 

 Tentaculites. 



