CARIDERPESTES. ■ S 



specimens. On the other hand, the fossils collected by Mr. Hall, Dr. Hicks, 

 Mr. Hamling, Miss Partridge, and myself bear, as a rule, the accurate name of the 

 place of their occurrence. 



It is proposed in the first place to attempt the elucidation of the species, and 

 after that to give the stratigraphical observations made by Dr. Hicks, Mr. Hamling, 

 and myself. 



VERTEBEATA. 



Fish Remains. PI. I, figs. 1, 1 a. 



? 1841. Scales of Holopttchtjs, Phillips. Pal. Foss., p. 133, pi. Ivii, figs. 256? 



(Meadfoot), 257 (Baggy). 



The only evidence of Vertebrates known to me from the Pilton Beds is a slab 

 containing a few crushed and scattered scales. As far as can be seen, these are 

 wide, flat, oval scales, marked by fine, close, rounded striations, which probably 

 curve parallel to the contour of the margins which are destroyed. The slab was 

 labelled " Fish scales " by the late Mr. Thomas Roberts, F.G.S., and on showing it to 

 Mr. A. Smith Woodward he confirmed this, considering that they are certainly the 

 remains of fish scales, but that, as their shape is quite lost, it is impossible further 

 to decide their character. 



Locality. — The Strand, Ashford. A single slab is in the Barnstaple Athen^um. 



Phillips figures an elliptic scale from Baggy Point, which appears to be 

 similarly ornamented, and may perhaps be identical. 



The scales of P/iylloIepis and Pentagonolepis^ seem to be similarly ornamented. 



ARTHROPODA. 

 TRACHEATA. 

 Class— MYRIOPODA, Latreille, 1796. 

 1. Genus — Caeideepestes, n. gen. 



1. CARIDBfiPESTES GYIUS,^ n. Sp. PI. I, fig. 2. 



Description of Specimen.— ^he only specimen consists of two portions of the 

 body ; one extremity and an intermediate portion of the body being lost. The bodj 

 is very long, sub-cylindrical, slightly diminishing in width as it approaches the tail. 



^ 1888 Lohest, ' Ann. Soc. Geol. Belg.,' vol. xv, p. 159 

 - Kap/$, a shrimp ; epitijarrfs, a crawler ; yvios, lame. 



