28 BRITISH DEVONIAN BRACHIOPODA. 



? ? Spirifera megaloba, Phillips. PI. IX, fig. 23. 



Spirifera megaloba, Phill. Pal. Foss., pi. xxx, fig, 140, 1841. 



" Characters. General figure rhomboidal (?), gibbous ; surface radiated with very 

 few, extremely broad, transversely imbricated ridges and hollows. Having seen only the 

 crushed specimens here represented, I am not able to present a more perfect description, 

 but I presume it will be easily recognized. Locality. North Devon, Brushford." 



? ? Spirifera rudis, Phillips. PI. IX, figs. 24 and 25. 



Spirifera rudis, Phill. Pal. Foss., p. 78, pi. xxxi, fig. 136, 1841. 



" The specimens figured are all that have fallen under my notice, and not sufficient 

 to allow of precise definition. I found them in a hard black limestone, among the slaty 

 rocks of Croyde Bay, on the south side of Baggy Point. Locality. Baggy Point, North 

 Devon." 



Spirifera l^evicosta, Vol. (sp.) in Lamarck. PI. VIII, figs. 4, 5. 



Terebratula l.evis e majoribus, &c, Beuth. Julise et Montium Subterranea, p. 146, 



No. 158, 1776. 

 — L.3EVICOSTA, Val. iu Lamarck. Hist. Naturelle des Animaux sans Vertebres, 



vol. iv, p. 254, 1819 ; and Davidson, "Notes on an Exami- 

 nation of Lamarck's Species of Fossil Terebratulae," Annals 

 and Mag. of Nat. Hist., 2nd series, vol. v, p. 443, 1850. 

 Terebratclites ostiolatus, Schlo(heim. Nachtragen zur Petrefactenkunde, pi. xvii, fig. 3, 



1822. 

 Spirifer — Von Buch. Ueber Delthyris oder Spirifer und Orthis, p. 33, 



1837; and Memoires Soc. Ge'ol. France, vol. iv, p. 178, pi. viii, 

 fig. 1, 1840. 

 ■ — — Steining. Eifel, p. 33. 



— — Bronn. Index Palaeontologicus, p. 1178, 1848. 



— — Quenstedt. Handb. der Petrefactenkunde, p. 477, pi. xxxviii, 



fig. 17, 1851. 



— — Phillips. Pal. Foss. of Cornwall, Devon, and West Somerset, 



p. 76, pi. xxx, fig. 132, 1841. 

 LiEVicosTA, M'Coy. British Pal. Fossils, p. 375, 1852. 



— — Schnur, in Dunker u. Von Meyer's Palaeontographica, vol. iii, 



pi. xxxii 4 , fig. 3, 1853. 



Spec. Char. Shell rotundato-quadrate, slightly wider than long ; valves very convex ; 

 hinge-line hardly as wide as the shell; ventral area concave, of moderate width; beak 



