360 e—U. Devonian in Devonshire. 
most five or 8 
partings down in 
quarry, and conseqt 
in some of the uppert 
a whole, including Oriheces 
clearly confined to the uppermost beds. 
In the rest of the quarry I have found two examples of either 
Rhynch. pugnus or Rh. acuminata var. mesogonia, of the average size 
of those which have turned up at Woolborough quarry, large 
Crinoidal stems, and a few Corals. 
The limestone dips about W. 30° S. at 20° with an undulation, 
away from a fault which throws a mass of Culm-measures against 
them on the east with a northerly dip. In an old roadway between 
Lower and Higher Dunscombe, the edges of grits and shales are seen 
for some distance steadily dipping into the hill. In the road leading 
from Chudleigh to Beggars Bush, about a furlong from the turning 
to Waddon Barton, Culm-shales and thin grits strike with the road 
and pitch N. 5° W. steeply (mean 45°). In the road from Lower 
Dunscombe to Chudleigh, under the ‘e’ of the word ‘ Biddlecombe ” 
on the map, Culm-shales dip E. 27° 8. at 25°, almost against the 
Lower Dunscombe limestone. The oval spot of the latter rock on 
the old map is somewhat out of place and shape, as its eastern half 
encroaches on ground which is occupied by Culm-measures. The 
shaly limestone fragments strewn over the field above the quarry 
are, in my opinion, derived from the outcropping top beds of the 
quarry, and are not higher beds. 
My first introduction to the locality was by Mr. Lee, who, I 
believe, discovered it, and I observed to him that I thought most of 
the specimens belonged to the genus Clymenia, which opinion I 
formed from the elliptical figure,' and the absence of proof of 
dorsal siphuncle, at least among my specimens. Subsequently I 
showed some to Mr. Etheridge with the same query, to which he 
assented. I now think that in most cases the outline was due to 
pressure and distortion, which has much flattened the body-chambers. 
I had the pleasure of accompanying Prof. Romer and Mr. Lee to 
Lower Dunscombe and the Culm-measures round Chudleigh, and 
was lucky enough to find two or three imperfect but wholly un- 
crushed specimens, which at once dispelled the notion of ellipticity. * 
One especially, about the size of Prof. Rémer’s figure of Goniatites 
intumescens in “ Lethza Paleeozoica,” has the identical sutures of that 
form, but is round-backed instead of rather keeled; this, however, 
is probably dependent on sex. It is also obviously dorso-siphuncu- 
late. There is no body-chamber remaining, the air-chambers being 
filled with crystalline calcite, so that the shell when perfect was 
considerably larger. Gfoniatites retrorsus also occurs in these beds, 
but is rare. 
‘Two or three specimens of Cardiola retrostriata, Keyserling, have 
come under my notice at the same spot. In the Oberscheld beds 
with Gon. intumescens, the little shell is as abundant as in the shales 
of Biidesheim, or the cleaved indurated marls of Saltern Cove. This 
1 As, for instance, in Clymenia sub-nautilina, Sandberger. x 
bédded red limestone with light clay 
ed limestone of the rest of the 
well have found Cephalopoda 
, but the Cephalopod fauna as 
. at least) and Cyrtoceras sp., is 
