THE ANNALS 



AND 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL EISTOKY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



" per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo teneros hie carpite flores: 

 Floribue et pictum, divse, replete eanistrum. 

 At vos, o NyrnphsB Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Deae pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.Parthenii Giannettusi, Eel. 1. 



No. 7. JULY 1908. 



I. — On some Jurassic Mollusca from Arabia. By R. 

 Bullen Newton, F.G.S., and G. C. Crick, Assoc.R.S.M., 

 F.G.S. 



[Plates L-1IL] 



Preliminary Statement. 



The fossils described in this communication, and which have 

 been presented to the British Museum, were collected by 

 Major H. S. Hazelgrove, of the Indian Army, from localities 

 situated in South-western Arabia — Nobat Dakim and Dihala 

 districts, the former about 50 miles north of Aden and 

 the latter about double that distance also north of Aden. 

 According to the letter and sketch-map accompanying the 

 specimens, those from "Nobat" were obtained about 7 miles 

 from that place in a basaltic region and are in a very dark 

 grey limestone ; the " Dihala " fossils, found in a light fawn- 

 coloured rock, were discovered about 15 miles to the north- 

 east of that locality, " at the tops of the small cultivated 

 valleys which run up between the low spurs on which the 

 Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 8. Vol. ii. 1 



