[86 JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY. 



ON SOME NEW BRITISH SHELLS. 



By J. T. MARSHALL. 



Terebratuia papillosa, Marshall. PL I, figs, i — 3. 



In August last Mr. B. Sturges Dodd submitted for my opinion 

 a minute brachiopod he had recently found at Skegness on the 

 Lincolnshire coast, during a visit there of the Nottingham 

 Naturalists' Society. It was a small species, about three- 

 quarters of a line in length and half a line in breadth, shaped 

 as Terebratuia caput-serpentis, but having wider interstices 

 between the ribs, with rather prominent tubercular prominences. 

 I could not identify it with any European species, and expected 

 it to be the young of an exotic brachiopod, probably imported 

 with ballast. I advised him therefore to send it to Mr. Edgar 

 Smith, who might be able to identify it as the young of some 

 foreign species in the British Museum, and Mr. Smith returned 

 the specimen with the following note : — 



" I have been unable to identify it with any species in the 

 Museum collection. The prickly sculpture is very peculiar, 

 and of very unfrequent occurrence in Terebratuia. A small 

 form with somewhat similar ornamentation was described by 

 Jeffreys from the ' Porcupine ' dredgings. He called it T. 

 iuberaia." 



He advised Mr. Dodd to send it to the Rev. Merle 

 Norman, who replied : — 



"There is only one European species that it at all 

 resembles, and that is Terebratuia tuberata, Jeffreys. I have 

 never seen that species, but your specimen is very close to his 

 figure, except that it does not show the scaly striation of the 

 surface, but that in a larger specimen might result from the 

 breaking down of the spines. But T. tuberata is only known 

 in from 300 to 800 fathoms, and the question remains not only 



J.C, v., April, 1887. 



