THE AXNALS 



AND 



}AZL\E OF NAT[JRAL HISTORY. 



[EIGHTH SERIES.] 



"...,, per litora spargite museum, 



Naiades, et circiun vitreos considite fontea : 

 PoUice virgineo teneros h'lo carpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divee, replete canistrum. 

 At vos, o NympliK Craterides, ite sub undas ; 

 Ite, recurvato variata corallia truneo 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et niihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dea? pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.Farthenii Gianneflasi, Eel. 1. 



No. 7. JULY 1908. 



n some Jurassic MoUusca from Arahia. By R. 



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



I.S. 



[Plates I.-III.] 



"VPreliminary Statement. 



fossils described in this communication, and which nave 

 presented to the British IVIusenm, were collected by 

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

 ^d in South-western Arabia — Nobat Dakim and Dihala 

 ^ts. the former about 50 miles north of Aden and 

 \ '">out double that distance also north of Aden. 



■*^t. ^ , the letter and sketch-map accompanying the 

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

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

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

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

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

 ^9, which run up between the low spuis on which the 

 m. & Mag. N. Hist, Ser. 8. Vol. ii. 1 



