448 Transactions. 
Three Fossil. Annelids new to New Zealand. 
Ву Н. J. Fay, M.Sc., Edmond Fellow of Otago University. 
Otag ] : ў ] бет, 1928; 
ad before the 0 Institute, 10th July, 1923 ; received by Editor, 31st December, 
= du issued. separately, 30th July, 1924.] 
SoME specimens of Annelid tubes from the Moeraki boulders were lately 
the specimens, informs me that the species is “ more solid and apparently 
longer than Ditrupa cornea var. wormbetiensis McCoy, of the Janjukian of 
Victoria.” 
Ditrupa parki n. sp. (Fig. 1, a, b.) 
Tube of moderate length, slender, and apparently slowly tapering ; 
walls very solid, often nearly as thick as internal diameter of tube. Surface 
with distinct growth-lines, and 2 or 3 very indistinct, almost obsolete, broad, 
longitudinal ridgings. In one example is a single collar-like swelling. 
Length of type (largest, but still 
very imperfect example), 7-5 mm. 
Exterior diameter of a large fragment, еа 
1-75 mm. ; interior diameter, 0-65 mm. У \ 
in author's collection. \ \ 
The age of the locality is uncertain. 
Marshall (Trans. N.Z. Inst., vol. 49, : ! 
statement: “The fossiliferous [Hamp- (а 
den] beds rest directly on the strata 1 (® 
that contain the well-known Moera 
concretions. These pass downward 
into the concretionary but more sandy Fic. 1.—Ditrupa parki n. sp. а, type: 
igi beds, which in turn rest on b, cross-section of paratype. 1 
the Shag Point conglomerates that 19 2: — йи —— aperture 
contain the coal. Above the fossil- of ner d ‘ross -section through 
beds there are the volcanic t 
tuffs; these in turn lie below the Oamaru limestone.” The Hampden 
beds are thus below the Waiarekan, and contain a fauna which shows -— 
