262 W. D. Lang — On Sfomatoj^ora antiqua. 



Synonymy. — The only figured forms which are likely to be 

 confounded with this species are those described from the Lower 

 Lias of France by Terquem & Piette ^ ; and it may be incidentally 

 remarked here that the form mentioned as having been recorded in 

 the Survey memoir is written " Stomatopora antiqua, Terquem & 

 Piette." Unfortunately there is some confusion in the French 

 authors' paper. Two forms are recorded — S. antiqua, Haime, and 

 S. Sdimei, Terquem & Piette. The latter species is described and 

 figured. The former is not described, but Haime's description is 

 referred to, and two figures are given on PI. XIV. The figures to 

 which the direction of the text refers are obviously wrong, being 

 representations oi Neuropora. However, the legend beneath the plate 

 makes it clear which figures are meant. But the larger of these 

 (the other being a life-size representation of the whole zoarium) 

 is a reproduction, with rather larger peristomes and rather stouter 

 zooecia, of Haime's figure of S. antiqua. It looks, therefore, as if 

 Terquem & Piette had meant the figures they liave called 

 S. antiqua, Haime, to apply to their new species Hnimei. As it 

 stands, their S. Haimei must become a synonym of S. antiqua, 

 Haime, unless or until the form represented by their figure can 

 be proved to difier from Haime's -S'. antiqua. It is a great pity that 

 the name Haimei should have to be dropped ; for no one who has 

 used this author's beautifully executed plates of these forms could 

 wish otherwise than that his name should be associated with 

 this genus. 



The form recorded as S. antiqua, Haime, is described below as 

 S. Gretjoryi, sp. nov. 



Horizon and locality. — Haime records the type-specimen from " le 

 lias inferieur de Valiere (Moselle)." 



The English specimens are from the Sinemurian, mostly from beds 

 which are at the horizon of the zones of Deroceras armatum, TJptonia 

 Jamesoni, and Amaltheus ibex, but the exact zone cannot be 

 determined. 



Specimens B.M. D. 7623 and 7624 are from what is probably the 

 zone of TJptonia Jamesoni ^ at Aston Magna, north of Moreton-in-the- 

 Marsh, Gloucestershire. From the same locality is a specimen 

 B.M. D. 7622, which is labelled "junction of the Middle and Lower 

 Lias, Aston Magna." 



Specimens B.M. D. 7619 and 7620 are from probably the same zone * 

 at Fenny Compton, Warwickshire, north of Banbury, Oxfordshire. 



The specimen B.M. D. 7625 is from what is probably tlie zone of 

 Asteroceras obtusum ^ at Honeybourne, east of Evesham, Worcester- 

 shire. 



S. Haimei, Terquem & Piette, is recorded as occurring in 

 "Lumachelle ferrugineuse a B. acutus de Chilly, sur une valve 

 de I'Ostraa chillyensis." This horizon is Sinemurian. 



1 0. Terquem & E. Piette : loc. cit. 



* H. B. Woodward: loc. cit., p. 155. 

 3 H. B, Woodward: loc. cit., p. 161. 



* H. B. Woodward: loc. cit., p. 154. 



