143 Mr, J. F. Whiteaves on the Palaontologij of 



Genus Anomia, Linnseus. 



1. Anomia radulina, A. Adams. 



A. testa valva dorsali ovata, irregulari, convexa, alba, radiatim cos- 

 tellata, costellis squamulosis, squamulis acutis imbricatis ; regione 

 umbonali Isevi ; apice acuto, postico ; iutus alba, tnargaritacea ; 

 cicatrice musculari superiore magna, rotundata. 



Hub. Mino-Sima; 63 fathoms. 



2. Anomia pustulosa, A. Adams. 



A. testa valva dorsali ovata, regulari, planiuscula, sordide alba, liiieis 

 incrementi coiicentricis instructa, tuberculis confertis, rotundis, 

 planiusculis, areolis depressis circumcinctis oniata ; umbone parvo, 

 vix promiimlo, ad marginem posticum posito ; intus margaritacea ; 

 raargine crenulato ; cicatrice musculari superiore magna, oblonga, 

 inferne dilatata. 



Hab. Tabu-Sima; 25 fathoms. 



N.B. In a paper on new species of Mollusca from Japan, 

 forwarded by me in May last from Shang-tung, for publication 

 in the 'Annals/ I described one species under the name of 

 Agatha virgo. The generic name should have been Myonia, not 

 Agatha. 



Shanghai, China, 

 Dec. 6, 1860. 



XIV. — On the Pal(Eontology of the Coralline Oolites of the 

 Neighbourhood of Oxford. By J. F. Whiteaves, F.G.S. &c. 



[Plate IX. B.] 



The object of the following paper is to give a detailed list of the 

 fossils from the Coralline Oolite of the neighbourhood of Oxford, 

 in order that geologists may be enabled to compare the faunas 

 of the same formation in the respective counties of Oxon, Berks, 

 Yorkshire, Wilts, and Dorset. 



One of the leading features in the palaeontology of this stra- 

 tum in the neighbourhood of Oxford is the great rarity of the 

 Brachiopoda. During several years' active collecting I have not 

 met with even a fragment of a shell that belonged to this family, 

 nor do I know of a specimen in any of our local collections. 

 The Cephalopoda of the Oxfordshire Coralline Oolites appear to 

 have a somewhat limited range in time, being, generally speak- 

 ing, confined to the Middle Oolites. This seems to favour 

 D'Orbigny's well-known views on the limited vertical range of 

 that class. On the other hand, many of the Bivalves and Gas- 

 teropoda occur as low down in the series as the Great and Infe- 



