354 PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICALr SOCIETY. [Juiie 15, 



" The teeth are called ' Lung-che ;' they are stated to he found in 

 the provinces of Shen-si and Shan-si. 



" All of these fossils are employed medicinally in China, and my 

 specimens were pm'chased in a drug warehouse in Shanghai*." 



With respect to the few mammalian remains, Mr. Waterhouse 

 states them to consist of — 



"An upper molar tooth, and a molar of the lower jaw (besides 

 some fragments of molars) of a species of Rhinoceros. 



" A series of molar teeth of both jaws, which agree perfectly with 

 the molars of the Hippotherium of Germany and France. 



" An upper molar tooth of an Hippotherium, which, being consi- 

 derably larger than any of the molars of Hippotherium which we 

 possess from Germany and France, might belong to a distinct species. 



" A portion of an upper jaw, with the four posterior molars, of a 

 small Ruminant, allied to the Sheep, but of smaller size. 



" Molar teeth of two species of Stags. 



"The molar tooth of a Bear, apparently the last of the right side 

 of the lower jaw ; it is fully as large as the corresponding tooth of 

 the great Cave Bear (Ursus spelcBus), but the crown is more simple 

 in structure." 



After having examined the collection of shells, I arrived at this 

 conclusion ; that the specimens belonged to eight Devonian species, 

 seven of which are common to several European localities, among 

 which we may mention Ferques and Nehou (France), Belgium, and the 

 Eifel, but they are not found all existing together in any one of these 

 locaUties. In external aspect they most resemble those from Ferques, 

 in which locality, however, neither the Cyrtia Mwchisoniana nor the 

 Rhynchonella Hanbu7'ii have as yet been discovered. If to these we 

 add the other two described by M. de Koninck, the total number of 

 Chinese Devonian types now known will amount to ten species : — 

 viz. 3 of Spirifer, 2 of Rhynchonella, 1 Pi'oduchis, 1 Crania, 

 1 Cornidites, 1 Spirorbis, and 1 Aulopora. 



The following descriptions and figures are from the series presented 

 to the British Museum by Mr. Hanbury. 



L Spirifer disjunctus, Sowerby. Pl. XV. fig. 1-5. 



Spirifera disjuncta, J. Sow. Geol. Trans. 2nd Series, vol. v. pl. 53. 



fig. 8, and pl. 54. figs. 12, 13 (1837). 

 Spirifer Verneuilii and Sp. Archiacil, Murchison, Bull, de la Soc. 



Geol. de France, vol. xi. pl. 2 (1840). 



Shell transverse, with a straight hinge-line exceeding the average 

 width of the shell ; beak more or less incurved ; area broad, flat, or 

 concave, divided by a triangular fissure partially closed by a pseudo- 

 deltidium in two pieces ; valves moderately convex or gibbous, with 

 the cardinal angles forming wing-shaped projections. In the ventral, 

 or dental valve a mesial sinus of variable depth extends from the beak 



* In the Chinese Collection exhibited at Hyde Park Corner, in 1847, 1 remem- 

 ber having observed several Spirifers, which most probably had been obtained 

 from the same locality. 



