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glen leading down to Newtown Cove, near the Metal Man, Tramore 

 (Fig. 3). The lowest beds there exposed consist of blackish cal- 

 careous slates weathering a dark rusty-brown, and they are overlain 

 by pale grey and greenish soft calcareous shales and mudstones with 

 thin impure limestones, which decay into a very soft yellowish or 

 pale-brown rock. The uppermost beds are dark argillaceous slates. 

 The beds dip at 40° W., and in the section exposed in the road- 

 cutting in Newtown Cove, they are succeeded by an andesitic 

 dolerite, apparently intrusive. Fossils are very abundant in these 

 beds, and I have myself collected the following species : — 



(a) Lower beds (C, dark calcareous shales). 



Calymem brevica2ntata, Portl. R. platyeeps, McCoy 



Cali/mene, sp. Trinucleus concentricus, Eaton (?) 



nirus, n.sp. JPrimitia nmndula yar. producta, Jones 



Gifbele verrucosa, Dalin. Orbiculoidea, sp. 



Harpes Borani, Portl. Ortliis crispa, McCoy 



H. Flanagani, Portl. Flectambonites quuiquecostata, McCoy 



Fhacops Brongniarti, Portl. P. sericea, Sow. 



F. Jamesi, Portl. (?) Echinosphmrites arachnoideus, Forbes (?) 

 RemopUurides dorsospinifer, Portl. 



These beds, in which trilobites are by far the most abundant 

 fossils, both in species and individuals, pass up imperceptibly into 

 the still more fossiliferous overlying calcareous shales and mudstones. 

 The latter contain the following species, all of which I have per- 

 sonally collected : — 



(&) Upper beds {C, calcareous mudstones, etc.). 



Agnostus- agnostiformis, McCoy Liehas Mbernicus, Portl. (?) 



Ainpyx majmnillai'ts, Sars. Fhacops Brongniarti, Portl. 

 A. cf. nasutus, Dalm. (? = A.rostratus, F. truncato-caudatus, Portl. 



Sars.) Remopleurides Colbii, Portl. 



Asaphus gigas, De Kay. R. dorsospinifer, Portl. 



A. laticostatus, McCoy (?) R. laterisp'mifer, Portl. 



A. rectifrons, Portl. R. platyeeps, McCoy 



Barrandia Fortlocki, Salt. Trinucleus concentricus, Eaton (?) 



Barrandia, sp. T. Mbernicus, Eeed 



Calymene Blumenbachi, Brong. Frimitia, sp. 



,, ,, var. Turrilepas cf. scotica, Nich. and Eth. 



Oheirurus gelasinosus, Portl. Ortliis calligramma, Dalm. 



Cheirurus, sp. 0. crispa, McCoy 



Gybele verrucosa, Dalm. 0. elegantula, Dalm., var. parva 



Cyphoniscus, n.sp. Flectambonites quinquecostata, McCoy 



Fncrinurus sexcostatus. Salt., var. F. sericea. Sow. 



Harpes Dorani, Portl. Eelminthochiton Griffithi, Salt. 



Harpes, sp. Glyptocystites cf. Logani, Billings 



Illmnus Bowmani, Salt. Crinoid stems. 



This is a remarkable assemblage of fossils and is specially com- 

 parable with that in the Balcletchie Shales. The trilobites also in 

 beds (a) and (6) are very similar to those found in the Ordovician 

 beds at Tirnaskea, in Tyrone,^ in which the following Newtown 

 Cove fossils are said to occur : — 



1 Mem. Geol. Surv. Ireland, Sheet 34 (1878), p. 25. 



