496 MK. W. A. E. FSSHER ON THE DEVONIAN 



Grit-bed on beach in cove west of the raised beach at Hope's Nose : 

 Loxonenja. j Pleurodictyum probiematicuin. 



On surface above Hope's Cove : 



Orthis. I Honialonotus (? Champernownei). 



Spirifer (^?undiferus). | 



At small cove, 30 chains from Kilmorey : 



Natica, j Petraia. 



Spirifer. 1 Fucoids. 



At 50 cliains from Hope's Nose Quarry-well : 

 Spirifer (? speciosus). 



In slates faulted against the limestone of Hope's Nose^ Quan*y : 

 Strophoraena rhomboidalis. | Pleurodictyum problematicum. 



By wood north-east of Kilmorey : 

 Pleurodictyum. 



Before proceeding to the consideration of the Lower-Devonian 

 area of Paignton, it must be remarked that slates identical in 

 character with those of the Eifelian of Torquay occur in the area 

 occupied by the Meadfoot beds. 



Furthermore, between Kingsteignton and Bishopsteignton a strip 

 of dark-grey fossiliferous clay-slates, faulted on the south against 

 the Entomis-slates, but overlying, with inverted dip, volcanic heds, 

 which separate them from the Middle-Devonian limestones, show 

 Middle- and Lower-Devonian affinities, containing : — 



Pleurotomaria. I Aulopora. 



Phacops. I Pleurodictyum (numerous). 



[It seems possible that the traces of ^^ Flevrodictya,'' so numerous 

 in the quarry near Bishopsteignton, might be casts of portions of 

 Splufironites fesseJatus. I do not in any case think that they belong 

 to the species PI. jn'ohhmaticinn. — Jime 1890.] 



2. Paif/nton Area. — The Triassic area of Paignton is bounded by 

 red and brown sandstones and grits and red slates. The grits, con- 

 stituting the heights of Beacon Hill and Windmill Hill on the north 

 of Stoke-Gabriel, are faulted against Middle-Devonian limestones 

 and volcanic materials on the south, and against Berry-Park (Eife- 

 lian) slates on the west. These sandstones give place on their 

 borders to red slates, partly intercalated with hard grit bands, as 

 near Westerland and at the south end of Goodrington beach. They 

 are very irregularly associated with red slates, which appear to 

 underHe the sandstones, with a low dip, south of Cockington, but to 

 pass up into the Eifelian near Marldon. (See Map, Eig. 1.) 



The red slates with hard grit beds south of Goodrington beach 



* Pdraia hina and P. celtica, doubtfidly identified by Messrs. Sharman and 

 Newton, were found both here and in the quarry west of Bishopsteignton. 

 Goniatites spirah'.< was also found in the latter, and furnishes an inexplicable 

 anomaly. 



