Caepentek and Swain — A new Devonian Isopod from Kiltorcan. 68 



Not having ourselves removed them from the quarry, we cannot give 

 details as to their place of occurrence; but the rock in which they lie 

 belongs to the finer -grained type of the Kiltorcan sandstone. 



Oxyuropoda, gen. nov.^ 



Body onisciform. First thoracic segment small, closely connected (? fused) 

 with head (bearing a pair of chelifori ?). Succeeding thoracic segments 



Fig. 1. — OXYXJKOPODA LIGIOIUES. 



Drawing showing segmentation and appendages xl^. 1-7, thoracic segments ; i.-vi., abdominal 

 segments; o, eyes(J'); ff, portion of antenna; c, chelate (?) appendage of first thoracic segment; 

 p, thoracic leg (terminal portion) ; u, uropod. 



' From h^s^ ovpa, and nods, with reference to the acuminate tail-appendages (uropods). 



