J. E. Lee — On an English Cupressocrinus. 387 



From the foregoing description, and also by a comparison of tlie 

 figures (1 and 2 on PI. IX.), it will be seen how closely the American 

 and English forms of this small Arachnide agree with one another. 

 There is sufficient distinction, however, to prevent their being 

 placed under the same specific appellation. I have therefore named 

 Mr. Birtwell's Arcliitarhus subovalis. 



It is interesting to observe how many of these old forms of life 

 from the Carboniferous series of North America occur also with ns, 

 under similar conditions of fossilization, in the Clay -ironstone nodules 

 of our English Coal-measures. 



We already possessed, in common with North America, a small 

 King-crab (Belliniiriis), occurring in Clay-ironstone nodules ; three 

 Myriapods,. namely, Xylobius sigillarice, Euphoherta ferox, and E. 

 Broionii ; now we may add an Arachnide almost identical with that 

 from Illinois. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE IX. 



Fig. 1. Architarhts subovalis, H-Woodw. In a Clay-ironstone nodule from about 

 4 feet above the "four-feet mine," or "bone-coal," Coal-M., Lancashire. 

 Iff. A. subovalis, natural size. 

 lb. „ magnified four times. 



Fig. 2. Architarbus rotundatus, Scudder. Coal-M., Grundy Co., Illinois, U.S. 

 Fig. 3. Thrynus reniformis, Oliv., (^recent), ventral aspect of body. 

 Fig. 4. Phalangium cornutum, Lin., (recent), ventral aspect of body $ . Placed for 

 comparison with Architarbus. 

 [For a complete list of the Fossil Insecta, Myriapoda, and Arachnida, see my 

 article on Eophrynus Frestvicii, Geol. Mag., 18T1, Vol. VIII., p. 386, PI. XL] 



II. — Notice of the Occuerence of Cupressocrinus in a Quarry 

 OF Devonian Ljmestone near Kingsteignton,. 

 By JoBN Edwakd Lee, F.G.S., F.S.A. 



THE genus Cupressocrinus is very characteristic of the Devonian 

 formation in Germany. In some parts of the Eifel it may be 

 called common ; and yet in England, though equally characteristic 

 of the same formation, and though it has been found in several 

 places, yet it is considered so rare that it is hardly mentioned by 

 many of the writers on the Devonian fossils. In Morris's Catalogue 

 the localities given are Plymouth and (somewhat strangely) Col^ 

 lumpton, where there is no Devonian limestone. For these reasons 

 it may be worth recording that there is one small and somewhat 

 insignificant quarry between Newton and Teignmouth, where fossils 

 of this genus occur in abundance, though unfortunately generally 

 in the state of casts. 



The quarry is about a hundred yards north of the road which 

 connects these two towns, near a farm called the Lower Wear. This 

 farm is between Kingsteignton and Bishopsteignton. 



A bed of trap here cuts off a small portion of what is usually 

 considered as Middle Devonian limestone, and has so altered it near 

 the junction, that the stone has become a reddish-coloured cinder. 

 The crinoidal remains, consisting chiefly but not entirely of Cupresso- 

 crinus, are here very abundant, though in the adjacent unaltered 



