Fauna of the Loiveir Devonian Beds of Torquay. 301 



Aviculopeden polytrichus Phill. 



Pterinea anisota Phill. 



Clidophorus ovatus Sow. ( = C. subovatus sp. nov.). 



Athyris concentrira v. Bnch. 



Leptcena laticosta Conr. ( = Trop. rhenanus Freeh). 



Orthis granulosa Phill. 



Orthis (?) hipparionyx Vanux. 



Rhynchonella cuboides Sow. 



Homalonotus Herscheli Murch. (?). 



H. armatus Burm. 



Tawney^ in 1870 gave a list of fossils from the "red grits" of 

 Smugglers' Cove. Tentaculites scalaris is said to be most abundant, 

 and the following species are also recorded : — 

 Cypricardia lamellosa (?). 

 Pterinea ventricosa (?). 



,, (like bifida or anisota). 



Orthis arcuata [t). , 



,, (like Berthoisi). 

 Streptorhynchus gigas. 

 Homalonotus (like .1 ohannis). 



Several other molluscan genera are mentioned without specific 

 names, but the whole list is characterized by uncertainty as to the 

 identifications. Davidson ^ in his monograph mentions only the 

 following brachiopods from the Lower Devonian rocks of Meadfoot, 

 nearly all his recorded and figured species coming from the North 

 Devon beds of this age. 



Spirifera undifera. 



,, ,, var. undulala. 



Rhynchonella cuboides (Sow.). 

 Leptcena laticosta Conr. 



In 1881 Woodward' published a list of fossils (determined by 

 Etheridge) from the Eed Beds of New Cut, in connexion with his 

 description of the species Homalonotus Champernownei, but only 

 three of them were specifically identified (Rhynchonella pengellyana 1 

 Streptorhynchus umhraculum, and Pleurodictyum problematicum), 

 the others having only generic names assigned to them. It is of 

 interest to note that Cyrtoceras and Orthoceras are given in the list, 

 for cephalopods seem as a rule extremely rare in this district. 



In 1882 Etheridge^ described and figured several species from New 

 Cut and Smugglers' Cove, and thus added considerably to our 

 knowledge of the fauna, though the present author is inclined to differ 

 from some of his determinations in the light of further material. 



Cypricardia Icevisulcus Ether. ( = Tellinites Icevisulcus). 



Modiolopsis sp. 



Spirifera cultrijugata Rom. (?) ( = Orthis provulraria Maur.). 



Rhynchonella laticosta Dav. (?) (? = Tropid. rhenanus Freeh). 



Orthis hipparionix vel 0. striatula ( = 0. provulnaria Maur.). 



Chonetes sordida (Phill.) ( = Ch. plebeia Schnur). 



Loxonema (?) sp. 



' Tawney, Rep. Devon Assoc., vol. iv, pt. i, 1870, p. 291. 



^ Davidson, Mon. Brit. Foss. Braeh., vol. iii, Devonian (passim). 



* Woodward, Geol. Mag., 1881, pp. 489, 528, PI. XIII. 



* Etheridge, ibid., 1882, p. 154, pi. iv. 



