PEOBOSCINA.. 73 



Berenicea Edwardsi, Terquem, 1855, Pal. dep. Moselle, p. 26. 



,, ,, Terquem, 1868, in Jacquot, Descr. geol. min. dep. Moselle, 



p. 290. 

 Proboscina Terquem and Piette, 1865, Lias inf. Est France : Mem. Soc. 



geol. France, ser. 2, t. viii. p. 125, pi. xiv. figs. 21-2 



(non 25-6, as in text). 

 ,, prorepens, "Waagen, 1868, Zone Amm. sowerbyi : Geogn. Pal. Beitr. 



Bd. i. pp. 535, 647, pi. xxxiii. fig. 3. 

 ,, cf. ,, "Walford, 1883, Kelation Northptn. Sd. : Quart. Journ. 



Geol. Soc. vol. xxxix. p. 239. 

 ,, ,, Friren, 1893, Bry. inf. ool. Metz: Bull. Soc. Hist. nat. 



Metz, sdr. 2, t. vii. p. 45. 



DIAGNOSIS : 



Zoarium of narrow branching bands, composed of from three to 

 five zooecia in width. 



Zooscia cylindrical, of medium length; fine transverse lines 

 traverse the walls. 



Peristomes slightly raised ; orifices somewhat elliptical. 



Formula -p, c, I, r 1, 0, 1, 3-5. 



DISTEIBUTIOK 



ENGLAND : 



Inferior Oolite : Coombe Hill, Oxfordshire (fide Walford). 

 Middle Lias spinatus zone and transition bed: Appletree, near Banbury (fide 

 Walford) ; Northamptonshire (fide Thompson). 



FOREIGN : 

 Bajocian : Montvaux and Plappeville, near Metz (fide Friren). 



Zone of Sonninia sowerbyi : Gingen, Wiirtemberg. 



Lytoceras jurensis Marl: Silzbrunnen, Elsass (fide Lepsius). 

 Lias : Heiningen. 

 Middle Lias : Ohmenhausen (fide Oppel). 



Affinities. The formula for this species, as far as the figure 

 given by Terquem and Piette enables one to judge, is p, c, I, r 

 = 1, 0, 1, 3-5. It is distinct from either of the species pre- 

 viously described. The authors of the species compare it with 

 Haime's P. alfredi, with which it may be identical. This latter 

 species, however, was founded on such a very imperfectly preserved 

 specimen that I cannot be sure of its affinities. The whole 

 zoarium appears to have been eroded, and all the superficial 

 characters have been destroyed. Thus it is impossible to say 

 whether the peristomes were raised or flush. Its formula is 



