122 G. C. Cricl; — Sinic/tc//s Cej^halopoda from Himalaya. 



Var. a ( = Ammonites mtmdus, E. Strachey MS.). 



In his description (p. 88) of this variety Professor Blanford states 

 that " the two fragments in the [Strachey] collection are those of 

 larger shells than any of the normal form." Amongst the examples 

 forming part of the Strachey Collection which was transferred from 

 the Museum of Practical Geology, this variety is represented by 

 a single imperfect specimen [No. C. 5035] enclosed in a portion of 

 a nodule in association witli a part of the phragraocone of a Belemnite 

 (probably the form which Blanford referred to Miller's B. sulcatus), 

 and a fragment of a thick-whorled biplicated Ammonite (like 

 A. torquatus) ; it is labelled with a Jermyn Street Museum label 

 "Oolitic: Niti Pass. Ammonites acucinctus (Stra.), Ammonites 

 biplex (Sow.), Belemnites sulcatus (Mill.)." The specimen com- 

 prises only about the last third of the outer whorl ; this seems to 

 have formed part of the body-chamber, as no septa are visible ; of 

 the rest of this whorl and of the earlier whorls there is an 

 impression on the nodule that shows clearly the character of the 

 ornaments of the test. This fossil is most probably the figured 

 example, the figure having been reversed and very much restored.. 

 The direction of the striaj has been indicated on the fossil in pencil, 

 probably to assist the artist. The dimensions of the specimen 

 appear to have been: — diameter of shell, about 53 mm. ; radius of 

 shell, 31 mm. ; height of outer whorl, 245 mm. ; thickness of outer 

 whorl, 14 mm. ; width of umbilicus, 12 mm. 



The following are figured among the Jurassic Cephalopoda, but 

 are not referred to in the text of the work : — 



20. Ammonites Batteni (K. Strachey MS.), H. F. Blanford. 



(H. F. Blanford, iu J. W. Salter & H. F. Blanford : Pakfont. Niti, 1865, pi. xi, 



figs. 2a-c.) 



These figures are placed among the illustrations of Jurassic 

 Ammonites, and ai'e named at the foot of the plate "Am. Batteni,'^ 

 but the species appears not to be referred to in the text. The 

 original of the figures is in the British Museum collection 

 [No. C. 4867] ; it was transferred from the Museum of Practical 

 Geology labelled with one of that Museum's labels "Oolitic: 

 Niti Pass. Ammonites Batteni. Coll. by Col. Strachey " ; but 

 I think there can be no doubt about its being, as has already 

 been pointed out, a Triassic species referable to the genus Gijmnites} 

 It will therefore be more fully dealt with among the Triassic 

 species belonging to the Strachey Collection. 



21. Ammonites, sp. 



(H. F. Blanford, iu J. W. Salter & H. F. Blanford: Paliuont. Niti, 1865, pi. xix,. 



figs. 3a-f.) 



The original of these figures — fig. 3a representing the specimen 

 of the natural size — is in the British Museum collection [No. C. 7677]. 

 It is not referred to iu the text. The specimen was transferred 



' See C. Diener: Mem. Geol. Surv. India, Pal. Indica, ser. xv, vol. ii, pt. 2" 

 (1895), p. 53 et seq. 



