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carapaxse. According to the figure giveu by Brito Capello 

 (Jorn. Sci. Lisboa, iii. 1871, pi. ii. fig. 2), C. guerini some- 

 what resembles it in the disposition, although not in the 

 size, of these teeth. Alcock suggests (J. Asiat. Soo. Bengal, 

 Ixv. (2) 1896, p. 14-i) that C. guerini is based on a young 

 specimen of C. lophos, but the specimens here described are 

 too large for this character to be due to immaturity. 



Calappa jiiscatortwi, a^. n., cJ- Outline of carapace. Natural size. 



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June 24th, 1914.— Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following communication was read: — 



* The Paradoxidian Fauna of a part of the Stockingford Shales.' 

 By Vincent Charles Illing, B.A., F.G.S. 



This communieatioii deals mainly with a small subdivision of the 

 Stockingford Shales occurring at the base of the Oldbury division. 

 The beds have been termed the Abbey Shales, and are about 

 100 feet thick, consisting mainh' of blue laminated shales, although 

 glavconitic sandy horizons occur at freqtieitt intervals. This small 

 subdi\dsion passes down into the Purley Shales, while it is separated 

 from the overlying shales (which are probably of Lower Maent^vrog 

 age) by a calcareous conglomerate lying upon an eroded surface of 



