Mr Etlicridgc on Fossils from Boivcn River Coalfield. 269 



these beds, he tells us, " ' Sections of Strata and a Description 

 of the Cretaceous Eocks of Australia/ as given in the Quar- 

 terly Journal, etc., etc." Of the fossil contents of these rocks, 

 or the information deducible from the study of them, nothing 

 is said, so that we are obliged to conclude that Mr Smyth 

 has overlooked the important papers by Mr Charles Moore, 

 F.G.S.,* and Mr E. Etheridge, F.E.S.,t which is not saying 

 much for the " First Sketch." 



Mr Jack has forwarded to me a very well-marked, and 

 what appears to be new, Crioceras, from the Tate Eiver, North 

 Queensland, which will be described further on. 



3. Description of the Fossils. 



Devonian Species — Brachiopoda. 



Genus Spifjfera — J. Sowerhy, 1816. 



(Mill. Con. ii., p. 41.) 



Spirifera curvata — Schlotheim (?). 



Anomia TerebratuUthes curvatus, Schl., Nachtrage zur Petrefact, 1822, p. 68, 



t. 19, f. 2. 



Spirif era curvata, Davidson, Mon. Brit. Dev. Brach., 1864, p. 39, t. 4, f. 29-32; 



t. 9, f. 22, 26, and 26a, 27 and 2.1 a-c {for synonomy). 



Obs. — Much doubt must of necessity attach itself to the 

 shell referred to this species, from its crushed and partly 

 decorticated condition, but on one portion of its surface there 

 are visible traces of the characteristic concentric imbrications 

 with the peculiar vertical serrations crossing them. Mr 

 Davidson considers that it strongly resembles Schlotheim's 

 species. 



Loe. and Horizon. — Fanning Eiver Limestone, North 

 Queensland. 



Collector. — E. L. Jack, Esq., F.G.S., etc. 



Spirifera, sp. ind. — PI. VII., fig. 1. 



(Compare S^j. euryglossus (Schnur), Palffiontograpbica, iii, p. 209, 

 t. 36, f. 5, a-d.) 



Ohs. — Another Spirifer occurs in the Fanning Limestone, 



* Quart. Jour. Geol. Soc, xxvi., pp. 226-261. 

 t Ibid., xxviii. pp. 37-50. 



