some British Fossil Crustacea. 411 



out the course of the eye-Hne in this genus, which separates it 

 at once from Trinucleus, and renders it probable that the small 

 tubercle in the middle of the cheeks in the T. seticornis, T. fim- 

 briatus, &c. are true eyes. The furrows at the base of the gla- 

 bella also are distinctive for the genus*. 



Trinucleus ffibbi/rons (M'Coy). 



Sp. Char. Cephalic shield nearly semicircular, length rather more 

 than one- third of the width ; glabella pyriform, rounded in 

 front, gradually narrowing towards the base, compressed, ex- 

 ceedingly gibbous, its height above the cheeks nearly equaling 

 its width ; on each side of the neck-furrow (in casts) there is 

 a deep puncture and another similar a little in front of it, a 

 small spine on the middle of the neck-furrow ; cheeks sphe- 

 rical triangles, height and width about equal, moderately con- 

 vex; border of moderate width, three rows of punctures in 

 front of the glabella, and five rows in front of the cheeks, more 

 numerous at the sides, generally connected in front by radia- 

 ting furrows, forming an imperfect fimbriation. Usual length 

 of cephalic shield 3 lines. Surface very minutely granulated. 



This very common species is figured without a name by Col. 

 Portlock (Geol. Rep. pi. 1 B. f. 13 & 14) . The fine granulation of 

 the lobes of the head, and the extreme prominence of the gradually 

 narrowing, pyriform, compressed glabella, separate this at once 

 from either the T. Caractaci or T. latus, with which it seems to 

 have been confounded ; it is wider than the former, less so than 

 the latter. From the two little punctures on each side of the 

 base of the glabella, this strongly approximates the T. scyllarus 

 (His.) as distinguished from T. seticornis; but although with 

 abundance of specimens I cannot find an ocular tubercle or eye- 

 line in the midst of the cheeks as in Tretaspis, to which those 

 species belong ; those punctures indicate no doubt the existence 

 of the muscles of the jaws and their appropriate rings, but are 

 not extended into transverse segmental furrows as in those last- 

 named species ; in the radiation of the border and number of 

 rows of pores in front it approaches slightly the T. radiatus 

 (Murch.), but is distinguished by the head being rounded, the 



* The statement of Mr. Salter (Mem. of the Geol. Siirv. vol. ii. pt. 1. 

 p. 335), speaking of Hawle and Corda's work, that " Tetrapsellium is distin- 

 guished from Trinucleus solely by a swelling in the axal furrow of the head ; 

 it is almost identical else with T. seticornis " — might mislead the English 

 reader with the idea that the present genus was identical with Tetrapsellium ; 

 the fact is however, in his stricture on the Bohemian authors, Mr. Salter 

 seems to have overlooked the grand character of their genus, namely its 

 having but four body-rings (" vier Leibringe," H. & C. Monog. p. 42. 

 8lh line) ; it agrees otherwise with the common type of Trinuclem. 



