500 MU. W. A.. E. USSHER 0^' THE DEVONIAN 



thrusts ; and east of AVildwood the bluish slates seem to dip under the 

 CockingtOLi beds. The Bliynchouella cuhoides above mentioned is pro- 

 bably procnboide6\ noticed by Kayser as occurring in the Eifelian 

 limestone of Hope's iS"ose. 



The Eifelian slates occur on Meadfoot Uoad, Torquay, south of 

 Marychurch, from Broadhempston southward to Totnes, and thence 

 to Marldon, bounding the limestones of Dartingtou, Berry-Pomeroy, 

 Little Hempston, and Marldon, which, with natural, inverted, or fault 

 dips, overlie them ; and they also bound the Ashprington volcanic series, 

 under which they pass, generally witii inverted dips. The shaly 

 Calceolen-Kalk, or Eifelian limestone, is frequently brought up in 

 the limestone masses of Torquay and elsewhere by contortion. At 

 Hope's Nose slaty Calceolen-Kalk is apparently completely inverted 

 upon massive bedded limestone, containing lleliolites porosns, and is 

 also affected by thrust-faults. Patches of limestone occur at the 

 base of the xishprington series at and near Totnes, which belong to 

 this group : the lower parts of the Berry-Park, Dartington, Little- 

 Hempston, and Marldon limestones belong to the same horizon, also 

 apparently the base of the Torbryan limestones, the Broadhempston 

 limestone, and part of the limestones in Ellacombe, and perhaps 

 Babbacombe and Torre, and the thin beds in Torquay cemetery. 

 The Calceola-beds and their relations to the limestones of Daddyhole 

 were described by Mr. Champernowne in a paper published in the 

 ' Transactions ' of the Devon Assoc, for 1 874. 



The following fossils are common in the Eifelian slates : — Atrypa 

 reticularis, Stre'ptorhynclius creuistria, tSpirifer speciosuff, Phaoops 

 latifrons, Fenestella^ Aulopora, and less frequently Leptcena inter- 

 strialis and Stropliomena rhomhoiclalis, found in a quarry in Berry- 

 Park slates west of Westerland House : Phacops hatrachim east of 

 Little Hempston wood ; Retepora repisteria near Bulleigh Cross ; 

 and Orthis striatula north of Follaton House, west of Totnes, iden- 

 tified by Professor Gosselet, as also Orthis, near to O. nfeleyisis, 

 near Port Bridge, north- east of Stoke Gabriel. 



Helianthaster filiciformis, Woodw., Avas found by Mr. Champer- 

 nowne* in the upper port of the Eifelian slates near Harbertonford. 



The following lists of fossils from the thin limestones of Hope's 

 Nose and their representatives elsewhere will show^ the connection of 

 the beds, in a palaeontological aspect, with the slates they overlie 

 and the limestones above : — 



From Hope's Nose thin h"inestones. Dr. Kayser's li^t: — 



Atrypa reticularis. j Si)ii-ifei- curvatus (in typical 



Kayseria lens. 1 shapes). 



Leptaina interstriali.s. I speciosus. 



Fentamerus galeatus. I Streptorhynchus umbraculum. 



Rhynchonella procuboides. I Cyathopliylluni heterophyllum. 



Identified by M. Frecli on the spot: 

 Cjstiphyllutn vesiculosum. | Pbacops latifrons. 



Geol. Mag. 1874, p. 1. 



