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phia. To Dr. T. W. Stanton, for the opportunity of examining Califor- 

 nian specimens of the three species of Meekia described by Gabb. To 

 Professor J. C. Merriam, for kindly comparing four specimens from Skide- 

 gate Inlet with the types of Terehratella ohesa, Gabb, in the Museum of 

 the University of California, at Berkeley ; and to Dr. Franz Kossmat, for 

 critical suggestions in reference to Acanihoceras spiniferum. 



Notes on the Species fkom the Lower Shales, with descriptions op 

 A few that appear to be new. 



FISHES. 



Teleostei. 

 The only remains of fishes from the Cretaceous rocks of the Queen 

 Charlotte Islands that the writer has seen are a few well-preserved but 

 imperfect scales, collected at South Island, in Skidegate Inlet, by Dr. G. 

 M. Dawson, in 1878. The largest of these are about ten or eleven milli- 

 metres in their maximum diameter. They are very thin, cycloidal, 

 rather variable in outline, but mostly subquadvate, with an eccentric 

 nucleus. Their sculpture consists of extremely minute and densely 

 crowded concentric raised lines, and of larger and more distant radiating 

 ones inclosed in a triangular area. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Decapoda. 

 "Genus Homolopsis, Bell. 

 " Carapace longer than broad, quadrilateral ; regions of carapace very 

 distant ; branchial region large, triangular ; orbits close together, frontal 

 region rather produced ; front subrotund." Woodward. 



Homolopsis Richardsoni, Woodward. 



Homolopsis Bichardsoni, Woodward. 1896. Quart. Journ. Geol. See. Lend., vo]. Lii., 

 p. 224, iig. 3. 



Fig. 13. Homolopsis Bichardsoni. From a cliche of the original block, kindly supplied 



by T)r. Woodward. 



