from Lower Coal-measures, Lancashire. 



439 



Locality and formation : ' Soapstone bed,' a little distance above 

 the Bullion Mine, Colne Hill, Lancashire. Lower Coal-measures. 

 Collection of Mr. Peter Whalley. 



2. ANTHRAPALjiiMON WooDWARDi, E. Etheridgc, jun., 1879. 



(Text-fig. 2.) 



Quart. Jouru. Geol. Soc, 1879, vol. xxxv, p. 468, pi. xxiii, figs. 4-9. 



Among a number of Lower Carboniferous Crustaceans from the 



cement-stone of the Calciferous Series near New Castleton. Eoxburgh- 



shire, Mr. Eobert Etheridge figured and described, in 1879, several 



Fig. 1. — Anthrapalcemon serratus, H. "Woodw., sp. nov. Enlarged 1| nat. size. 



Soapstone bed, LoAver Coal - measures : Carre Heys, Colne, Lancashire. 



«', antennule ; s, scale at base of antenna ; r, rostrum ; o, eye ; ab, abdomen. 

 Fig. I.—Anthrapalmmon Woodivardi, R. Etheridge, jun., 1879. Formation and 



loc. same as Fig. 1. a', antennule; a", antenna; o, stalked eye; cf, cervical 



furrow ; e, cephalothorax ; ab, abdomen ; t, telson or caudal segment. 



examples which he referred to this species (originally figured from 

 a less perfect example. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1877, vol. xxxiii, 

 p. 872, pi. xxvii). 



The following is Mr. Etheridge's description : — 



"Sp. char. Carapace oblong, narrowing towards the anterior 

 part, and divided into two unequal portions by the cervical groove, 

 thQ posterior being the largest ; relative convexity unknown. 

 Anterior lateral margins^ not spinous and without serrations ; posterior 

 lateral angles rounded ; posterior margin concave. Cervical groove 

 strongly marked and widely V-shaped. Middle line of the carapace 



1 Produced at antero -lateral angles into a spine (see Fig. 2 above). 



