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position ill the shells, while under observation on the stage of 

 the microscope, that it is by means of the adhesion and contrac- 

 tion of the pseudopodia, that the animal drags itself along a 

 fixed body. 



I hope I have not misunderstood the observation of my re- 

 spected fellow-labourer, by supposing it more absolute than he 

 intended it ; but, at all events, the facts above recorded may 

 possess an intrinsic interest sufficient to warrant their publication. 



XXXVII. — Note on the Presence of the Fossil genus Isodonta, 

 Buv., in the English Jurassic Rocks. By John Lycett, Esq. 



To James Buckman, Esq., Hon. Sec. to the Cotteswold 

 Naturalists' Club. 



Dear Sir, 



Will you have the goodness to communicate to the Club, at 

 their next meeting, that we may claim the genus Isodonta, Buv. 

 {Sowei-bya, D'Orb.), as an addition to the fauna of the English 

 Jura ? 



The sole species hitherto described is the Isodonta Deshaysea, 

 Buv., from the ferruginous Oolite of the Oxfordian beds of the 

 Department of the Meuse. llecently, my good friend ^Ir. 

 Leckenby presented me with a fine specimen of the so-called 

 Cucullcea triangularis, Phill., from the Cornbrash of Scarborough. 

 The resemblance in the general aspect of this shell to the Iso- 

 donta of Buvignier was at once apparent ; but it was only upon 

 an inspection of specimens in the British Museum, collected by 

 M. Tesson, that their identity with the Yorkshire shell became 

 a conviction to my mind. Indi\'idual specimens vary in their 

 elongation and in the degree of angularity at their infero-pos- 

 terior extremity : little difl"erences of this kind form the sole 

 distinction between the British fossil and that of the Meuse, 

 and the Normandic specimens in the Museum differ from each 

 other at least to an equal extent. The Cucullcea triangularis, 

 Phill. Geol. York. i. tab. 3. fig. 31, is from the Coralline Oolite 

 of Malton ; it is somewhat less elongated than my Cornbrash 

 specimen, and agrees more nearly with the figures of Bmdgnier, 

 'Paleont. de la ]Meuse,' Atlas, pi. 10. figs. 30-35, except that 

 the figure of Phillips is somewhat more inequilateral from the 

 shortness of the posterior slope : in the Cornbrash specimen, as 

 in those from Normandy and from the Meuse, this feature is 

 less conspicuous ; but there can be no doubt that the anterior 

 side is always somewhat more produced than the other; the 

 surface is smooth, but with two distant and strongly-marked 



