Rev. G. F. Whidborne — Devonian Fossils, Devonshire. 533 



separate them from this American species. Possibly the fenestrules 

 may be arranged in rather more regular lines and in some parts the 

 cells may be rather more numerous, but this seems only accidental. 

 Upper Helderberg Beds. 



Fknkstella, sp. 



Several fragmentary specimens come from the " Quarry in road 

 above Crock Point, Woodabay," but they are quite unrecognizable. 



2. Lower Devonian Fossils prom Torquay. 

 (PLATE XVIII.) 



It is not often that a Museum can supply its shelves with 

 specimens dug from its actual site. Such, however, was the 

 case with the Torquay Natural History Society, when, in digging 

 the foundation of the " Pengelly Memorial " Hall, which it added to 

 its Museum in 1894, a rich fossiliferous bed, 4 feet thick, was found 

 in the soft slates on which that building stands. Hundreds of 

 fossils were carefully collected from it by the Curator, the late 

 Mr. Else, and by the kindness of the Society I have been permitted 

 to attempt their description below. The fossils are entirely moulds 

 or casts, and have suffered very greatly from squeezing and 

 distortion, but in some cases minute structure is beautifully 

 preserved. It will be seen that they may on the whole be referred 

 to the Upper Coblenzien, or to a slightly higher horizon. The 

 richness of the band is in striking contrast to the general barrenness 

 of the adjoining strata. 



Mr. A. Somervail, F.G.S., Secretary to the Society, thus writes 

 of the position of the slates : — " A slight examination of the structure 

 of the Torwood Valley would at once reveal the relations of the 

 slates to the adjoining rocks. The valley runs in a nearly E.N.E. 

 and W.S.W. direction, lying between the long ridges of the 

 Lincombe and Warberry Hills. The valley at its commencement 

 on its S.W. side traverses limestones, and a little in its N.E. 

 course the slates at the Museum, which pass below the limestones. 

 Still further on in the same direction another series of slates and 

 grits, forming the Lincombe and Warberry ridges, in their turn 

 pass below the slates exposed at the Museum ; so that, as we ascend 

 the Torwood Valley from the Strand, we walk over rocks in 

 a descending sequence, the highest being the limestones, the 

 lowest the Lincombe and Warberry grits, the fossiliferous slates 

 at the Museum holding an intermediate position." 



Phaoops Schlotheimi, Bronn, sp. ? 



1825. Calymene Schlotheimi, Bronn: Leonhard's Zeitsch., pt. i, p. 319, pi. ii, 



figs. 5-8. 

 1876. Phacops latifrons, F. Romer : Leth. Palaeoz., pt. i, pi. xxxi, fig. 2. 

 1884. ,, Schlotheimi, Kayser : Jahrb. k.p. Geol. Landes., 1883, p. 35. 



1897. ,, „ Kayser : Zeitsch. Deutsch. Geol. Gesell., p. 285. 



The head of a small trilobite occurs, which is too much covered 

 with matrix for certain identification. What can be seen of it, 

 however, points to its belonging to the small common form from 



