204 SUPPLEMENT TO THE 



133. LiNGULA Brodiei. Dav., Sil. Sup., Pl.XVII, fig. 4. 



Some short time ago the Rev. P. B. Brodie forwarded for my inspection a large 

 oblong-oval Lingula with subparallel sides, vi^hich he had obtained from the Wool- 

 hope Limestone at Little Hope Quarries, Woolhope. It is the largest British Upper- 

 Silurian Lingula with which I am at present acquainted. It measures 1 inch 8 lines 

 in length by 10 lines in breadth, and in general shape bears some resemblance to L. 

 Beechei, Salter, from the Upper Llandovery of Marios Bay. It can hardly be a large 

 elongated form of L. Lewisii. I have given it the provisional name of L. Brodiei, but 

 hardly dare, from the inspection of a single specimen, to determine whether it is new. 



Mr. Brodie writes me that the Woolhope Limestone has some peculiar fossils, but 

 that the great majority are well known in the Wenlock Limestone, that fossils, as a 

 rule, are not very abundant in this peculiar deposit, and that it is very difficult to get 

 out even fairly good specimens because the rock is very hard and breaks up badly. 



134. LiNGU]>A Lesueuri, i^o;2fm//. Dav., Sil. Mon., PI. I, figs. 1—11; Sup., Vol. IV 



(Bud. Salt. Mon.), PI. XL, figs. IG— 20; and Sil. 

 Sup., Vol. V, PI. XVII, fig. 12. 



Lingula Lesueuri, Bav. Budleigh-Salterton Bracbiopoda, Supplement, vol. iv, p. 361, 

 pi. xl, figs. 16—20. 



— — — Geol. Mag., new series, vol. vii, p. 341 pi. x, fig. 7, 1880. 



— — — Bullet. Soc. Linn, de Normandie, 3 ser., vol. v, pi. ii, figs. 2, 



3, 1881. 



— — - — Bull. Soc. Geol. de France, 3d ser., vol. ix, pi. vii, fig. 12, 



1881. 



I have already fully described and illustrated this very remarkable species, and 

 revert to the subject once more in order to allude to the able researches by W. J. 

 Harrison, P.G.S., and to his excellent and instructive memoir " On the Quartzite Pebbles 

 contained in the Drift and in the Triassic Strata of England ; and of their derivation 

 from an ancient land-barrier in Central England."^ Lingula Lesueuri has again been 

 collected in some abundance by Mr. Harrison in quartzite pebbles from the Drift at 

 Moseley, near Birmingham. The specimens or casts are sometimes found in a fine state 

 of preservation, but, as far as I have seen, are much smaller in size than those that occur 

 in similar pebbles at Budleigh-Salterton. It is the only species of Brachiopod from the 

 lower portion of the Llandeilo or " Grcs Armoricain " that has been hitherto obtained 

 1 'Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Society,' vol. iii, p. 157, 1882. 



