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tain limestone ; also Cyathocrinites goniodactylus, and several unde-' 

 termined species from the Dudley limestone. 



The sucker -footed locomotive Crinoids have the column destitute 

 of side-arms, and terminating at its inferior extremity in a blunt 

 point. Mr. Pearce subdivides them into Crinoideform and Comatu- 

 li/orm. 



The following table exhibits Mr. Pearce's vievi^s of the classification 

 of the family Crinoidea. 



" On an entirely new form of Encrinite from the Dudley Lime- 

 stone." By J. Chaning Pearce, Esq., F.G.S. 



The fossils described in this communication were discovered by 

 Mr. John Gray of Dudley. Mr. Pearce regards them as constitu- 

 ting a new genus which he proposes to name Pseudocrinites, inclu- 

 ding two species both having "the arms and fingers inserted in 

 bands, which commence just above the column and pass over the 

 plates of the head to its summit." The one form has two, the 

 other four ranges of "fingers." They resemble each other in 

 having " the columns at their superior part composed of rings, gra- 

 dually increasing in size towards the head. The plates of the head 

 are thin and broad, and marked on their outer surface by lines of 

 growth, and radiating ridges resembling the plates of the marsupite. 

 They are also furnished with four orifices of a lozenge shape, most 

 singularly inserted in the plates of the head, and their arms and 

 fingers are exceedingly short. The fingers are composed of two 

 rows of bones, each bone on the one side being inserted between 

 two of the opposite. These fingers appear to be placed in four rows 

 on each of the hands, and pass off from the head in a radiating di- 

 rection, commencing at the column and uniting at the summit." 

 Mr. Pearce names the first species Pseudocrinites bifasciutus, and the 

 second P. quadrifasciatus . 



" On a Fossil Pine-forest at Kurrur-kurran, in the inlet of 

 Awaaba, on the eastern coast of Australia," by the Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke, A.M.. F.G.S. 



Awaaba is one of those inlets which occur at frequent intervals 

 along the eastern coast of New South Wales, and which, from their 



