Middle Devonian Fossils, Torquay. 317 



however, is a more quadrate form than the Torquay specimens, which 

 agree with casts of S. speciosus. 



Distribution. — Lower Devonian (Coblencian) and Middle Devonian, 

 but rare above the Eifelian (Calceola Shales). 



Spiriferina insculpta, Phillips, sp. 



This species was not recorded by Mr. Whidborne, but there are three 

 pieces of slate bearing the number 15 which contain well-preserved 

 fragments of it showing details of the sculpture and also two intei'nal 

 casts which are probably of the same species. 



Distribution. — Middle Devonian to Carboniferous. 



Stropheodonta interstkialis, Phillips, sp. 



St. nodulosa, Whidborne {no7i Phillips), Dev. Fauna, Mon. Pal. Soc, vol. ii, 

 pi. xvi, figs. 8-10, 1893. Figs. 6 and 7 of the same plate may represent 

 Leptcena nodulosa of Phillips, which Davidson has regarded as synonymous 

 with L. rhomboidalis. 

 St. tceniolata, Whidborne {71071 Sandberger), Geol. Mag., 1901, p. 537, 

 PL XVIII, Figs. 8, 9. 

 The Torquay specimens cannot be identified with the St. tceniolata 

 of Sandberger, but they exhibit radial costa9 identical with those seen 

 on the shells figured as St. tiodulosa from the Middle Devonian lime- 

 stones of Lummaton and Wolborough. This form I regard as only 

 a variety of St. i^iterstrialis, Phil., the typical form of which also 

 occurs in the same limestones. Sandberger's tcBiiiolata differs from 

 i)iterstrialis of Phillips in being of more oval and semicircular 

 contour, in the length and width showing equal measurements, and 

 in its possession of a far greater number of primary costoe. 

 Distribution. — Middle Devonian only (Etheridge). 



Crustacea. 



Phacops cf. ScHLOTHEiMi, Browu, sp. 



A tail (minutely granulated), a head, and other fragments in the 

 matrix belong to a species of Phacops. There is also part of another 

 head and a large thorax. The eyes are certainly larger than the 

 typical form of Ph. latifrons, and as Mr. Whidborne pointed out they 

 contain eight lenses in a row, whereas latifrons has only five or six 

 and batracheus, Whidborne, has only four or five. His identification 

 may therefore be retained, but it makes no difference in regard to 

 comparative age, as Ph. Schlotheimi is essentially Middle Devonian, 

 occurring both in the Calceola Shales (Eifelian) and in the Stringo- 

 cephalus limestones (Givetian). 



The material forwarded from Torquay did not include any specimens 

 which could be identified with Co7iocardium cuneatmn, llcimer, or 

 Atrypa reticularis, of which Mr. Whidborne recorded single examples. 

 [Note by A. J. J.-E. : The material in my hands has again been 

 searched for anything which miglit be referable to either of these 

 species, but without success.] 



Co7iclusio7is. 

 The four fossils identified by Mr. Whidborne with species which 

 were essentially Lower Devonian or Coblencian were those regarded 

 as Orthoceras hercynicum, Spirifer priinmvus, Orthis hysterita, and 



