226 Reviews—Lower Palwozoic Fossils of Burma. 
Panghsa-pye Stage, consisting of an Upper or Graptolite Band and 
a Lower or Trilobite Band (to these we shall recur). Onpovicran : 
Nyaungbaw Limestones with ‘‘Camarocrinus asiaticus” ; the Upper 
Naungkangyi Beds, comprising the Hwe Maung Purple Shales; the 
Lower Naungkangyi Beds, with the rich Cystid fauna of Sedaw, 
probably Llandeilian ; and the Ngwetaung Sandstones with a species 
of Orthis. 
The rocks of the new Panghsa-pye Stage are of interest, not 
merely from their richness in organic remains, but from the occurrence 
of graptolites in the upper beds. These, as determined by Dr. Gertrude 
Elles, indicate three horizons, two of Lower Llandovery age, and 
the third suggestive of the Wenlock Shale. From the lower Trilobite 
Band are recorded some plates assigned to Zurrilepas, but, since no 
figures are given, it is impossible to decide whether this reference 
would be correct according to more recent views. 
The Upper Naungkangyi Beds, of which the Purple Shales may 
be a local facies, are exceedingly fossiliferous and have yielded many 
new species. The trilobites on the whole indicate an horizon 
corresponding with Stage C of the Baltic Provinces, and Ashgillian 
types do not appear. In both sets of beds there occurs a new 
lamellibranch of the Family Vlastide, which Dr. Reed names 
Shanina vlastoides. The trilobite Pliomera ingsangensis Reed, has 
also been found in both facies, and is now made the type of a new 
subgenus Lncrinurella. Of this subgenus no definite diagnosis is 
given, but the main diagnostic characters appear to reside in the 
glabella, which resembles that of Hnerinurus. On p. 97 Dr. Reed 
notices ‘‘the absence of cystideans”’ from the Hwe Maung Purple 
Shales; but Mr. T. H. D. La Touche, to whom the distinction of 
these beds is due, said: ‘‘ the more argillaceous portions of the rock 
are highly fossiliferous, containing large casts of fragments of crinoid 
stems, cystidean plates, etc.” (Mem. Geol. Surv. India, xxxix, 
part 2, p. 92, 1913). 
Reference to Mr. La Touche reminds us that in the same paper 
(p. 65) he stated definitely, what those familiar with the literature 
had already assumed, namely that Camarocrinus asvaticus Reed, was 
identical with Lchinospherites kingi Noetling (see Guot. Mae., 1892, 
p- 521). The reference of Camarocrinus to Scyphocrinus was also 
made clear at least as early as 1907. From this it would appear that 
Camarocrinus asiaticus should be known as Seyphocrinus kingt. It is, 
however, very doubtful whether Noetling’s name can be accepted, so 
that we may perhaps correctly speak of Scyphocrinus asiaticus. 
Dr. Cowper Reed is to be congratulated on the enthusiastic industry 
with which he tackles these large and varied collections of fossils. ‘The 
same congratulations can hardly be extended to his would-be readers. 
It may be that, in the present case, the War has increased the natural 
difficulty of correcting proofs from a printer in Caleutta; but mis- 
spellings and misplaced commas are minor evils. What is to be 
deprecated seriously is the impression conveyed by so many of these 
large memoirs, that they are notes jotted down currente calamo and 
sent to the press without further revision. From too many sentences 
the author’s meaning can only be extracted by a prolonged process of 
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