THE 
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 
NEW “SERIES: (7 DECADE Hat VOR. x 
No. IL—JANUARY, 1883. 
Orig ew EAN yAby  WNdsh} eh IO aS 
T.—On a New Genus or Fosstn “CALAMARY,” FROM THE ORETA- 
ceous ForMATION OF SaHEL ALMA, NEAR Berrit, LEBANON, 
SYRIA. 
By Henry Woopwarp, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., ete. 
(PLATE I.) 
OME years ago my friend Mr. Robert Damon, F.G.S., of Wey- 
mouth, visited the Cretaceous deposits of the Lebanon, and 
when at that place he was so fortunate as to make the acquaintance 
of the Rev. E. R. Lewis, M.A., F.G.S., Professor in the Syrian Pro- 
testant College, Beirtt, Syria. 
Since that date Prof. Lewis has sent home many interesting collec- 
tions of fossils from the now classical localities of Hakel and Sahel- 
Alma. The choicest of these palzontological treasures are to be 
found preserved in the British Museum, Natural History Collection, 
Cromwell Road. 
Of the various organic remains met with in these Lebanon Creta- 
ceous rocks, fossil Fishes are the prevalent type. Only a very few 
genera and species from this district, so rich in ichthyological 
treasures, have at present been described ; it is to be hoped, however, 
that some expert may ere long be tempted to devote his attention to 
their fuller elucidation. 
I have given a notice of two new and remarkably interesting 
types of Crustacea from Hakel, viz. Squilla Lewisii, and Limulus 
Syriacus (see Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. 1879, vol. xxxv. pl. xxvi. 
pp. 552-556), but many more Crustaceans remain to be figured. 
I propose on the present occasion to notice the occurrence of anew 
species of decapodous Dibranchiate Cephalopod represented by a 
small but nearly entire individual preserved on a slab of limestone 
from Sahel Alma. 
“Sahel Alma,” writes Prof. E. R. Lewis, ‘‘may be visited from 
Beirtit in a single day, with an allowance of two or three hours at 
the locality. We leave Beirit early, pass by the traditional site of 
St. George’s encounter with the Dragon, canter over the sandy beach 
of St. George’s Bay, and stumble on the remains of an old Roman 
road which cuts through a cave, leaving exposed to this day a breccia 
of bone, flint flakes, etc. In specimens of this, submitted to Dr. 
Fraas, he has recognized Bos priscus, superior and inferior molar, 
Rhinoceros tichorhinus, inferior molar. We pass around the Dog 
River Promontory under the celebrated stone-cut inscriptions, ford 
Dog River, cross the next point, and reach Juneh Bay in an easy 
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