Dr. H. Woodward — Hastiminia from Brazil and the Cape. 487 



ornamentation, drawn by Professor Jas. Hall, are given (see A and B, 

 op. cit., p. 395), from the Portage Group (Upper Erian), New York). 



Turning now to pi. xi, also from the Coal-measures of Brazil, 

 Dr. White gives on this plate ten figures, referred to Hastimima 

 TVhitei : these are mostly small fragments, and having been considered 

 when di'awn to be plants, they were nearly all figured with the 

 posterior bordex upwards ; the plate has, consequently, to be turned 

 tipside down in order to see the objects properly in their natural 

 position. It is pretty certain that figs. 1-5, 7-9 on this plate (pi. xi) 

 are referable to the same Arthropod as are figs. 1-4, pi. x, already 

 noticed. Figs. 1 and 2 may be parts of appendages, but are very 

 obscure : la shows distinct scale-markings, and traces of an obscure 

 appendage, possibly part of a swimming-foot, like fig. 1. Fig. 3 

 shows impressions of obtuse spines on one part and scale-markings 

 clearly visible on the other part. 



The surface of fig. 4 is entirely covered with very minute elongate 

 tubercles, like. those seen on £uri/pterus pimctatus, Salter, sp. ; fig. 5 is 

 no doubt of the same nature as fig. 3, having impressions of obtuse 

 spines on its surface ; figs. 6-8 are small portions of the posterior 

 borders of body-segments of Eurypterus, showing rounded (in fig. 6) 

 or pointed (in figs. 7 and 8) marginal serrations, and the surface 

 covered by scale-markings. The margin of fig. 9 resembles those in the 

 specimen from the "Witteberg Series of Cape Colony, figured on Professor 

 Seward's plate (PL XXVIII, Figs. 5 and 6), in not being so deeply and 

 strongly scalloped along the posterior border, but the surface is also 

 scale-marked and has two spots indicative of two short bluntly- 

 rounded spines. Fig. 10 is too obscure to define with accuracy, but 

 may probably be of the same Eurypterid nature as the others. 



Fig. 1. r.<irt of one of the bo(ly-f5egments of Eurijpterns hiberniciis, Baily. 

 ,, 2. Part of the margin of same (enlarged) from the Devonian of Kiltorcan, 

 Ireland.^ 



The Cape specimens — kindly sent to me to examine by Professor 

 Seward — present, like the Brazil coal-shale specimens, clear evidence 

 of being portions of segments of Eurypterids (see PL XXVIII, 

 Figs. 5 and 6). The surface anteriorly is nearly smooth, that 



' Reproduced from woodcut (Fig. 45) of Etirypterus Mbfrmcus, Baily, from the 

 Devonian rocks of Kiltorcan, Pal. Soc. Men. Brit. Foss. Crustacea, Order Merostomata, 

 by H. "Woodward, 1872, pt. iv, p. 150. 



