G. C. CricJx — Strache9/'s Cephalopoda from Hunnlaija. 67 



The National collection also contains the original of pi. xiv, fig. 2 

 f;No. C. 6039] and the natural mould [No. C. 6036] from which 

 the guttapercha impression figured in pi. xv, fig. 2a was taken ; 

 both specimens belonged to the Strachey Collection, and were 

 transferred from the Museum of Practical G-eology in 1880. Their 

 exact locality is not recorded; they probably came from the Niti 

 Pass, because this is the only locality given by Salter & Blanford 

 in their " List of the Himalayan Oolitic Fossils from the Niti and 

 Spiti Passes " (p. 102). The specimen No. C. 6039 was accompanied 

 by a label bearing simply the name " Arnm. Juhar, Strachey." 



5. Ammonites umbo (E. Strachejr MS.), H. F. Blanford. 



(H. F. Blanford, in J. W. Salter & H. F. Blanford: Palccont. Niti, 1865, p. 78, 

 pi. xvii, tigs. 2a-d.) 



Professor Blanford states that " the only specimen in the 

 £Strachey] collection is a fragment of the whorl represented 

 two-thirds of the real size." The fragment is now in the British 

 Museum collection [C. 5040] ; it was transferred from the Museum 

 of Practical Geology, labelled "Oolitic. Niti Pass. Ammonites umbo 

 (Stra.). Coll. by Col. Strachey." It is numbered in ink "1690." 

 It is entii'ely septate : the suture-line is well shown, but is very 

 difficult to follow ; its details are not quite correctly represented 

 in the figure {2d). The suture-lines are not indicated in the figure 

 in the ' Indian ' set of the plates of Salter & Blanford's work, 

 but in the ' English ' set they are distinctly represented. 



The measurements of the specimen, taken at about its centi'e, are 

 -as follows : — height of whorl, 1*5 in. or 38 mm. ; width of ditto, 

 -excluding nodes, 1-9 in. or 48 mm. ; width of ditto, including nodes, 

 2*25 in. or 67 mm. The dimensions given by Blanford are : — 

 diameter [= height] of whorl, l-7in. ; thickness [or width], 2-1 in. 



On p. 106 Blanford places this species, as well as Oppel's 

 A. Seidell,^ as a synonym of the species A. HypJiaspis, which he 

 ■himself described in 1863.- 



6. Ammonites guttatus (E. Strachey MS.), H. F. Blanford. 



(H. F. Blanford, in J. W. Salter & H. F. Blanford: Pala3ont. Niti, 1865, p. 79, 



pi. xiii, fig. 2.) 



The example that was in the Strachey Collection is described by 

 Professor Blanford as " an imperfect external cast of one side of 

 a shell." This specimen is now in the British Museum collection 

 ;[No. C. 7368], having been transferred in 1880 as part of the 

 Strachey Collection from the Museum of Practical Geology. It was 

 labelled " Oolitic. Niti Pass. Ammonites guttatus. Coll. by Col. 

 Strachey." The figure given in the '•' Palaeontology of Niti" is 

 a somewhat restored, and very unsatisfactory, representation of 

 a cast taken from this natural mould ; its unsatisfactory character 

 was recognized by the author, who states that " the restoration here- 

 with given at Plate 13, fig. 2, is .... erroneous, the diameter 



1 Pal. Mittheil., 1863, p. 283, pi. Ixxx, figs. 3*, b. 



2 Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, vol. xxxii, No. 2 (1863), p. 132, pi. iv, figs. 2, 2a, 2b. 



