THE 



GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 



No. XCIII.— MARCH, 1872. 



OK,iC3-iisrJLnL j^i^tioijES. 



I. — On a new species of Eostellaria from the Gray Chalk, 



Folkestone. 



By Henry Woodward, F.G.S., F.Z.S., 



Of the British Museum. 



(PLATE III.) 



THEEE is perliaps no better collecting-ground in England for 

 Lower Cretaceous Fossils than Folkestone, nor any which has 

 been more industriously explored. The last fossil from this locality 

 recorded in our Journal was in 1867 (Geol. Mag., Vol. IV., p. 65, 

 PL v.), when Prof. Huxley described the remains of a new reptile 

 from the Chalk-marl east of Copt Point, Folkestone, under the 

 name of Acanthopliolis horridiis. In the same Journal will be found 

 (at p. 67) an interesting notice by Mr. Eobert Etheridge, F.E.S., 

 Paleontologist to the Geological Survey of Great Britain, of the 

 , stratigraphical position of the Cretaceous series at this locality, from 

 whence Mr. Griffiths, the intelligent collector, obtained these and the 

 many other fossils with which the cabinets of the Eev. Thomas 

 Wiltshire, M.A., F.G.S., Mr. J.Starkie Gardner, F.G.S., and those of 

 so many other private collectors as well as of our public Museums 

 are stored. 



I am indebted to Mr. F. G. Hilton Price for the opportunity of 

 calling attention to a new Bostellaria from the Gray Chalk of this 

 locality, which he recently obtained during a geological excursion 

 accompanied by Mr. Griffiths, whose services as guide are most 

 valuable upon such occasions. 



Those who, like myself, may have had occasion to consult the 

 works in which are recorded the scanty remains of Mollusca from 

 the Chalk-series in England will best be able to appreciate the 

 value of such an addition as the fine fossil figured on Plate III. 

 accompanying this notice. In Fitton's, Sowerby's, Dixon's, Wood- 

 ward's, and Mantell's works, I can find no form with which to 

 compare this interesting specimen ; nor yet do I meet with it in the 

 ' Paleontologie Frangaise' of D'Orbigny, nor ia the ' Paleeontologia 

 Indica,' with its fine series of Cretaceous Gasteropoda figured and 

 described by Dr. Ferd. Stoliczka. 



Geinitz, Eeuss, Schloenbach, and many others have equally failed 

 to aid me with information. 



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