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would generally be considered immature forms of Z. Phillipsii, the 
aged and typical form of the latter occurring most frequently in the 
upper and more rubbly portion of the quarry. These observations 
lead naturally to the inference that 7. Buckmanni will eventually 
be pronounced to be merely a young form of 7. Phillipsii, as we have 
only to produce—using the term in its technical sense—the outline 
of typical 7. Buckmanni, to obtain the perfect form of the other 
species. 
“ It is also worthy of remark, that in the TZrigonia beds at Hares- 
field, which are no longer gritty, but flaggy in structure, and from 
which the contained fossils may be disembedded without much 
difficulty, a form of Zerebratula abounds, which is generally called 
globata; but upon comparing it with its predecessors, to which the 
foregoing remarks apply, it will be seen at a glance that it quite as 
nearly resembles them, as the species to which it is generally 
assigned. 
The entomological event of the day was the capture, by the 
President and Mr. Marshall, of six individuals of the rare rhyn- 
chophorous beetle Platyrhinus latirostis, taken upon decayed ash- 
pollards, feeding on Spheria concentrica—(Berkeley), Sph: 
fraxinea—Sow., with which their trunks were embossed. 
On Thursday, 19th of May, the Club assembled at Apperley 
Court, by invitation from H. Strickland, Esq., to meet the gentle- 
men of the Malvern, Woolhope, and Worcester Nat.: Hist. : 
Field Clubs ; and were entertained in a style of genuine old 
English hospitality, which well illustrated the high esteem and 
regard in which the kind-hearted host holds the cultivators of 
those delightful sciences, from which he has himself, during a 
long life, derived so much pleasure, and with which the name of 
his family will ever be honourably associated. ; 
After dinner, by permission of our host, scientific discussion 
was invited, and the 
Rey. W. S. Symonds, of Pendock, President of the Malvern 
Field Club, proceeded to announce the discovery of a Pteraspis, 
an “ Old Red Ganoid” in the Lower Ludlow Rocks of Leint- 
wardine, by Mr. Lightbody. This is a most important discovery, 
as fish-existence is thereby carried two steps lower in the geolo- 
gical scale than it had been previously supposed to range. In 
the words of Mr. Symonds, at a recent meeting of the Malvern 
Field Club, “ this discovery greatly antedates the period during 
which fish have been proved to have existed ; for the whole thick- 
ness of the ‘Upper Ludlow Shales,’ and the ‘ Aymestry Lime- 
stone’ intervenes between the grave of the Pteraspis of the 
* Upper Ludlow Shales,’ and that of the Pteraspis ludensis (Salter) 
of the Lower Ludlow Rock of Leintwardine.” 
Mr. Jones then introduced to the notice of the meeting, the re- 
markable discovery made by Dr. Falconer, in the Cave of Maccag- 
none, near Palermo, of human implements in flint, together with 
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