crustacean on the sandstone slabs in tlie large quarry at Puddlestone ; 

 yet by the kindness of Mr. Salwet, and Mr. Lightbodt, and 

 Mr. Banks, as well as of out late President, the Eev. William 

 Symonds, I am enabled to announce to you the discovery of several 

 interesting fossils in different localities of this County, or its 

 immediate neighbourhood. 



In the Ludlow district, the lower Ludlow beds at Churchill, near 

 Do^vnton, have yielded to the persevering researches of the two 

 former gentlemen, Mr. Cocking, and other local observers, at least 

 eleven different species of Asterias, or Starfish, which have been 

 named Protaster ; a new genus intermediate between the Trilobite 

 and the Limulus, and named Limuloides ; three or four species of 

 Phyllopod, a crustacean resembling the Shrimp, vnth. a beautiful 

 tail, and a new species of Cornularia. 



In the same neighbourhood, at Forge Bridge, though in the upper 

 Ludlow Bed, several imperfect specimens of the Pterygotus were 

 found. In a similar situation, namely, at the top of the upper 

 Ludlow Eocks, in Stoke Edith Pai-k, Mr. Banks reminds me that 

 the Members found a layer of carbonised fucoid plants, as Avell as a 

 small species of the Trilobite family, which has been named Lichas 

 Bucklandi (or Hirsutus). At Ludford, the same beds — those im- 

 mediately below the Downton Sandstone — have yielded remains of 

 Pteraspis, Cephalaspis, Eurypterus, and Pterygotus, also some 

 pustulated curved plates, having teeth on the outside of the curve ; 

 they are supposed to belong to a fish. The railway cuttings of the 

 same neighbourhood, through the beds at the bottom of the " Old 

 Eed," have furnished an immense quantity of remains of the 

 Pterygotus, of two diBferent species, Pterygotus Anglicus and 

 Pterygotus Acuminatus ; also two species of Euiyptenis, and a 

 Cephalaspis, named by Sir P. Egerton, " Ornatus," besides a 

 smaller specimen which he considers to be genericaUy distinct, and 

 names Anchenropis Lateri The same beds have also supplied 

 specimens of the spines and skin of Plectrodus Mirabilis, and two 

 species of bivalve Crustaceans. The lower strata of the "Old Eed" 



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