C. W, Andreics — On Dinornis maximus. SQ^ 



in Ustherilna (Geol. Mag., May, 1897, pp. 198, etc., PI. VIII, 

 Figs. 1-11) ; bat there is wanting the flat outer extension of the 

 valve along its free margins. It may be a separate umbonal boss, 

 such as occurred with tlie Brazilian specimens, and one of them 

 also was described as being shiny (loc. cit.). 



Indeed, the specimen under notice much resembles the very 

 distinct umbonal area of Estheriina astartoides (as represented in 

 PI. VIII, Fig. 7, Geol. Mag., 1897), with its six or seven coarse 

 riblets and their smooth interstitial spaces ; the umbo itself, 

 however, is relatively much larger in the German specimen. The 

 Brazilian fossil, from a cutting on the railway 83 kilometres from 

 Bahia, was in a shale of Cretaceous age. The Stegocephalian lime- 

 stone from which Baron von Eeinach obtained the specimen here 

 described is of Permian age. 



This little fossil was communicated to us for description by 

 Professor Fried. Kinkelin, of the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt- 

 on-the-Maine. It was found by Baron A. von Eeinach ' in the 

 Stegocephalen-Kalk near that city. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV. 



Fig. 1. — Lepidurus glacialis (after Dr. A. S. Packard). (Mon. Phyllopod 



Crustacea, North America, 1883, pi. xvi, fig. 1.) Eecent : North 



America. 

 ,, 2. \ Bellinunis gmndceviis, Jones & "Woodw. Lower Carboniferous Series : 

 ,, 3. j Eiversdale, Colchester Co., Nova Scotia, x 6 times nat. size. 



,, 4. — Ribhertia orbicularis, 3 ones, &^ oodiVT . Coal-measures: Burdiehouse, near 



Edinburgh, x tmce nat. size. 

 ,, 5. — Anthrapalmmon glaber, Jones & Woodw. Coal-measures: Kilmaurs, 



Ayrshire, x 4 times nat. size. 

 ,, 6. — Echinocaris Whidbornei, Jones & Woodw. Marwood Beds (Devonian); 



Sloly, near Barnstaple, Devon, x twice nat. size. 

 ,, 7. — Estheriina extuberata, sp. nov. Permian: Frankfurt-on-the-Maine. 



x 8 times nat. size. 



III. — Note on a nearly complete Skeleton of Dmoums maximus. 



By Chas. W. Andrews, B.Sc, F.G.S.', British Museum (Nat. Hist.). 



(PLATE XVIII.) 



AN exceedingly well-preserved and nearly complete skeleton of 

 the largest species of Dinornis, D. maximus, has recently been 

 mounted and exhibited in the Palasontological Galleries of the British 

 Museum (Natural History). The finding of this fine specimen has 

 been described by its fortunate discoverer, Mr. C. A. Ewen,^ and to 

 his paper a brief account of the remains themselves was added by 

 Captain Hutton.^ It appears that the bones were found on shifting 



1 Baron von Eeinach has communicated to us other Phyllopods from the Permian 

 of the Wetterau and the valley of the Nahe ; see Eep. Brit. Assoc, for 1893 (1894), 

 pp. 465-6, pi. i, figs. 1-5. 



■■* "On the Discovery of Moa-remains on Eiverton Beach " : Trans. New Zealand 

 Institute, vol. xxviii (1895), p. 651. 



3 Tom. cit., p. 652. 



