Dr. H. Woodivard — TriloUtes from Shantung, N. China. 215 



Wang-tseliuang and Yen-tsy-yai, in the province of Shantung, 

 from strata which petrographically and faunistically are totally 

 different. Nothing is known about the particulars of the deposits, 

 Yen-tsy-yai not having been visited by Herr Koerfer, nor, indeed, 

 by any European ^ ; the indication of the locality rests solely 

 on the information of the Chinese, from whom the slabs were 

 purchased. In his report' Herr Koerfer makes the following 

 remark on this point: "The Paleozoic strata begin in Shantung 

 with an alternation of siliceous limestones, reddish clay -slates, and 

 red or yellow sandstones. On this complex of strata, called Middle 

 Sinic by Von Eichthofen, follows the Upper Sinic formation, which 

 is composed almost exclusively of massive beds of limestone, and 

 [p. 108] contains numerous fossils of the primordial fauna. Two 

 deposits deserve special mention. The one is situated near the 

 village Wang-tschuang (between Mong-yin-hsien and Ichui-hsien), 

 where limestone beds densely filled with Trilobites are to be found 

 at about 200 metres above the limit of the Middle Sinic formation 

 of the Valleys. The fossils correspond completely with those 

 collected at Liautung by Von Eichthofen.^ The second deposit is 

 situated one day's journey to the north-west of Waug-tschuang, near 

 the village Yen-tsy-yai, whence beautiful slabs with Trilobites 

 (styled ' petrified swallows '* by the Chinese) are put into commerce. 

 These are more recent Trilobites than those of Wang-tschuang, and 

 probably Upper Silurian^ in age." 



Finally, the Shantung Bergbau Gesellschaft at Berlin presented 

 to the Museum of the Geological Survey and Bergakademie two 

 limestone slabs exactly corresponding with those from Yen-tsy-yai, 

 and derived, according to Herr Bergassessor Krause, from the 

 mountainous district N.N.E. of Mong-yin-hsien, which agrees with 

 the information reported above. Unfortunately (owing to an assault 

 made upon him by the Chinese), Herr Krause had to leave behind 

 the majority of his geological collections. 



Herr H. Monke then proceeds to describe the Trilobite-bearing 

 limestones and shales of the Yen-tsy-yai; and he states that there 

 will be given in a later paper descriptions of the Brachiopoda of 

 Yen-tsy-yai and of the fauna of Wang-tschuang, together with the 

 general results. 



1 After the termination of the present memoir I have received the information 

 that Herr Bergassessor Axt has been commissioned by the Schantung Bergbau 

 Gesellschaft at Berlin to survey the neighbourhood of Yen-tsy-yai. The results of 

 his investigations will be reported on a future occasion. 



- " Geologische Skizze der Provinz Schantung unter Benutzung der Karte von 

 F. V. Pdchthofen," BerUn, 1891. Printed in the Imperial Typography; 4 pp. and 

 a map. (Short preliminary notice in Zeitschr. d. Deutsch. geol. Ges., vol. Ui, 1900, 

 Verb., p. 109.) 



3 This is not correct. 



* Lrepanura Fremesnili, Bergeron, and D. Ketteleri, H. Monke. 



{To be continued.) 



