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advanced in size, and even then the blunted costate lamellae 

 are all closely crowded at the extreme margin of valves. 



Syknola bifasciata. 



I have in vain searched for a fossil representative of this 

 shell in my type collection, nor can I trace any in the 

 collectioD belonging to this Society. I am therefore of 

 opinion that a very distinct fossil species, named by me 

 Odostomia, has been mistaken for S. hifasciata. Odostomia 

 microlirata, mihi, somehow was omitted to be published by 

 me. I now give the description : — 



Odostomia microlirata (n.s.) — Shell minute, white, shining, 

 elongately conoid, turriculate ; spire acute ; nucleus exerted, 

 twisted sinistrally ; whorls 8|, flattened, surface finely obso- 

 letely striated concentrically, crossed by very fine wavy 

 microscopic lirse ; suture distinct ; aperture sub-auriform ; 

 outer lip thin ; columella uniplicate. Length, 8mil. ; great, 

 dia., 2 mil. 



This fossil shell somewhat resembles the living Syrnola 

 hifasciata, but it is easily distinguished from it by the twisted 

 nucleus, its greater size, and the fine obsolete lirse. Two or 

 three specimens discovered by me in the Table Cape beds. 



From the excellent figures and descriptions contained 

 in Professor Tate's monograph " On the Australian Tertiary 

 Palliobranchs," Trans. Phil. Soc, Adelaide, 1880, I have also 

 been enabled to identify a number of previously undeter- 

 mined specimens of Brachiopods in my collection originally 

 derived from the Table Cape beds. The following is a com- 

 plete list of the Brachiopods now known to me as occurring 

 at Table Cape, viz. : — 



Terehratida vitreoides — Wo ods 

 Waldheimia Garihaldiana — Davidson 



„ furcata — Tate 



„ grandis — Woods 



„ Johnstoniana — Tate 



„ T ateana— y^oodiii 



„ Corioensis — McCoy 



„ p^ctoralis (^J — Tate 



Terehratulina Scoidari (?) — Tate 



„ lenticidaris — Tate 



„ triangidaris (?) — Tate 



Terehratella Tepperi — Tate 



,, Woodsii — Tate 



Rhynchonella squamosa — Hutton. 



Those marked (?) are determined from imperfect sj^ecimens 

 and require verification. 



The result of these re-determinations, taken together with 

 those referred to in Professor Tate's communication, leave 

 only two out of nearly 300 known species in the Table Cape 



