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Dr. C. F. Newcombe informs the writer that in the Provincial Museum 

 at Victoria, V.I., there is a specimen collected at the north end of the 

 western limb of the main Sucia Island by H. K. Kalloch in 1894, that is 

 apparently referable to P. ramosum, and that is eighteen inches in its 

 maximum diameter. Two excellent photographs of this specimen, kindly 

 forwarded by Dr. Newcombe, certainly seem to corroborate the correct- 

 ness of this identification. They give the impression of a shell with 

 essentially the same surface markings and much the same general shape 

 as the small specimen of F. ramosum figured by Meek (which is less than 

 two inches in its maximum diameter), but with a proportionately rather 

 wider u^nbilicus. In this large specimen the umbilicus seems to occupy 

 nearly one-sixth of the entire diameter, and it clearly exposes a small 

 portion of some of the inner volutions. The sutural lines are for the 

 most part covered by the test, bat in the few places where portions 

 of them are exposed, they appear to be very like those of the typical 

 P. ramosum 



One of the Ammonites sent to Dr. Kossmat in 1896, is the specimen of 

 P ramosum from Hornby Island collected by Mr. Harvey in 1895. Its 

 test is well preserved and its maximum diameter is about two inches. 

 Judging by this specimen, Dr. Kossmat thinks that both P. ramosum and 

 P. Nera (the Ammonites Neva of Forbes) are distinct from the true P. 

 Velledce (the Ammonites YelledtE of European authors and of the Palseon- 

 tologia Indica), but that P. ramosum is the same as P. Nera, and should 

 therefore be called by the latter name. In thelHornby Island specimen of 

 P. ramosum, Dr. Kossmat writes that he sees "short radiating impressions 

 round the umbilicus," like those of P. Nera, but these appear to the 

 writer to be merely very indistinct, shallow, distant, radiating depres- 

 sions. It is quite possible that P. ramosum may be synonymous with P 

 Nera, but for the present the writer prefers to retain the former name 

 for the specimens from the Vancouver (Jretaceous. 



Phylloceras Forbesianum, d'Orbigny. (Sp.) 



Ammonites Roiuyanus (d'Orbigny) Forbes. 1845. Trans. Geol. Soc. Lond., Ser. 2, vol. 



VII, pi. 8, fig. 6. 

 Ammonites Forhesianus, d'Orbigny. 1850. Prcdr. de Paleont., vol. ii, p. 213. 

 Ammonites Rouyanus, Stoliczka. 1865. Cret. Cephal. B. India, vol. i, p. 117, pi. 59, 



figs. 5—7. 

 Phylloceras Forbesianum, Kossmat. 1894. Beitr. zur. Palfeont. Oesterreich-Ungarns, vol. 



IX, p. 109 (13) ; and pi. 15 (1), figs. 1, a—d. 



A specimen from the north-west side of Hornby Island, collected by 

 Mr. Harvey in 1895, and now in the Museum of the Survey, has been 

 identified with this species by Dr. Kossmat. It is a cast of the interior 



