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PROCEEDINGS OP THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



[Mar. 6, 



6. Steapaeollus Permianus, King, Moil. Perm. Foss., p. 211, pi. 17. 



figs. 10, 11, 12. 



I procured five or six specimens of this species at Hampole. They 

 are as large as the Durham examples, and have three much com- 

 pressed and rapidly increasing whorls, a large body-whorl, and a 

 slightly elevated spire. In the latter respect they differ somewhat 

 from the majority of the Durham specimens, in which the spire, 

 though still low, is higher, as it also is in examples from the TJnter 

 Zechstein of Germany. All the specimens are deeply and largely 

 umbilicated, and have apparently an almost orbicular aperture. 



7. Natica minima? Brown. PI. YII. figs. 7, 8. 



Natica minima, Brown, Trans. Manch. Geol. Soc, vol. i. p. 64, 

 pi. 6. figs. 22, 23, 24. 



Three specimens of a smooth shell with three whorls have oc- 

 curred to me at Hampole. They most nearly resemble the Natica 

 minima of Brown. The whorls are ventricose, rather oblique, flat- 

 tened behind and rounded in front ; the body-whorl is very large, 

 and the spire short ; aperture apparently suboval, outer-lip convex, 

 pillar-lip nearly straight. 



The condition of these specimens is not such as will allow me to 

 speak positively in thus referring them to this species. Nor are the 

 figures and description given by Capt. Brown such as afford much aid 

 in their identification. A specimen of the shell, with which I have 

 been kindly favoured by Mr. Binney, does not look much unlike a 

 squat form of Turbo helicinus. Nevertheless there is a possibility of 

 its representing a distinct species ; and as there is also a possibility 

 of these Yorkshire individuals proving to be the same, I refer them 

 for the present to it — doing so, however, with considerable doubt. 



8. Chiton Loftusiantts, King, Mon. Perm. Foss. of England, p. 202, 



pi. 16. figs. 9-14. 



I have a posterior plate (cast) of a Chiton from Brodsworth, and 

 an intennediate one (cast) from Moorhouse, which appear to belong 

 to this species. The former is rather narrow, and has an elevated 

 and reflexed apex. The latter is obtusely angulated medianly, and 

 has its posterior and anterior margins almost at right angles to the 

 dorsal line. The shell of these plates appears to have been somewhat 

 thick ; and the posterior plate, which is the largest, must have be- 

 longed to an individual about five-eighths of an inch in length. 



Two plates of a Chiton are mentioned by Prof. King as having 

 occurred in a Permian limestone at Kirkby Woodhouse in Notting- 

 hamshire*. 



9. Dentaliem Soebyi, King, Mon. Perm. Foss. of England, 1850, 



p. 218. 



Syn. Dentalium Speyeri. Geinitz, F/eber den Zechstein der Wet- 

 terau, 1852, in the Jahres. der Wetterau. Gesell. for 1850-51. 



Not rare in the Lower Limestone at Hampole Stubbs. Specimens 

 * Mon. Perm. Foss. of England, p. 203. 



