G. C. Crick — Strachet/'s Cephalopoda from Himalaya. 119 



Museum contains six specimens which were transferred from the 

 Museum of Practical Geology. Five of these [Nos. C. 7675a-e] 

 belonged to the Strachey Collection, and were labelled with one of 

 that Museum's labels "Oolitic: Niti Pass. Ammonites Wallichii. 

 Coll. by Col. Strachey," but on one [No. C. 7Q75d] there has beeu 

 written in ink the locality " nr. Chirchun." The sixth specimen 

 [No. C. 7684] was labelled " A. Wallichii, var. 7. Spiti shales," but 

 though there is no record as to its having formed part of the 

 Strachey Collection, there is good reason to believe that it did, since 

 it is numbered " 11 " in white paint exactly like the specimen 

 No. 7675(1.1 



Professor Blanford's figures of this species represent several 

 individuals. His pi. xv, figs, la, b represent Gray's type-specimen, 

 to which also belongs the suture-line lettered in the published copies 

 of the plate 2b,' evidently a mistake for Ic. 



The specimen in the British Museum numbered C. 7675a is the 

 original of pi. xix, figs, la and b ; the figures, besides being reversed, 

 have been very much restored, the first third of the outer whorl 

 being very imperfect in the oi'iginal. As it does not exhibit the 

 suture-line, fig. Ic must have been drawn from another specimen; 

 this we have not yet been able to identify in the collection. 



The example in the same collection numbered C. 76756 is the 

 original of pi. xix, figs. 2a, b ; both figures have been reversed and 

 restored ; part of the matrix has been omitted, the first part of the 

 outer whorl is now absent, and the peripheral terminations of the 

 ribs are represented much too strong. The suture-line has been 

 painted in and was evidently copied in fig. 2c, but this specimen 

 does not exhibit the portion of the suture-line on the inner area 

 of the whorl at all clearly ;, this portion of the line, however, is 

 well shown and has been marked on the example No. C. 7684. 

 It is concluded, therefore, that figs. 2a, b were drawn from the 

 example No. C. 76756, and that fig. 2c was taken chiefly from 

 the same specimen, but partly also from the fossil No. C. 7684, 

 Although there is no record that this specimen originally belonged 

 to the Strachey Collection, there is, as we have already stated, good 

 evidence for believing that sucli was the case. 



Blanford (p. 106) regards Oppel's A. Moriheanus ^ as a synonym 

 of this species. 



16. Ammonites robustus (E. Strachey MS.), H. F. Blanford. 



(H. F. Blanford, in J. W. Salter & H. F. Blanford: Pala3ont. Niti, 1865, p. 85, 

 pi. xvi, figs, la-c.) 

 Professor Blanford figured two specimens which he referred to 

 this species ; they are both in the British Museum collection 



^ Other specimens are similarly numbered. Thus, A. medea [C. 5047], pi- xix, 

 figs. 5ff, b, is marked " 18 " ; A. Wallichii [C. 7675a], pi. xix, figs. 1«, b, is marked 

 ♦' 12" ; and A. WalUclui [C. 5041], pi. xv, figs, la-c (which is also one of Gray's 

 type -specimens), is marked " 10." 



2 G. C. Crick: op. cit., p. 288. 



3 A. Oppel, " Ueber ostindische Fossih-este aus den secimdareu Ablagerungen von 

 Spiti und Gnari-Khorsum in Tibet" : Pal. Mittheil., iv (1863), p. 281, pi. Ixxx, 

 figs. 2rt, b. 



