BRITISH DEVONIAN BRACHIOPODA. 29 



in the Middle Devonian at Lunimaton, near Torquay. It is nearly allied to B. lejnda ; 

 but is a larger, flatter, and broader shell. The Rev. Norman Glass has partly worked out 

 its interior, and informs me that its spirals and connections seem arranged as in B. lepida. 

 It is with much pleasure I name this species after Mr. A. R. Hunt, late President of 

 the Torquay Natural History Society. 



Genus — Retzia, King, 1850. 



16. Retzia longirostris, Kayser. Dav., Dev. Mon. (as R.ferifa), PI. IV; figs. 8 — 10 ; 



and Dev. Sup., PI. I, figs. 30, 30a, 31. 



Terebratula ferita of Sclimir, d'Orbigny, Sandberger, Phillips, de Verne'uil, 

 Quenstedt, Hail, Davidson, and others. According to 

 Kayser, not Terebratula ferita, voa Buch, ' Ueber 

 Terebrateln,' p., 76, pi. 2, fig. 37, 1834. 



Retzia longirosteis, Kayser. Die Brachiopoden des Mittel- und Obei--Devou. der 

 Eifel, p. 558, pi. x, fig. 5, 1871. 



At p. 21 of my ' Devonian Monograph ' I described and figured the species under 

 description as the Retzia {Tereb.) ferita, von Buch. As will be seen, all the palaeontolo- 

 gists who subsequently to Von Buch described the shell under notice believed it to be 

 the Ter. ferita of von Buch. The mistake was in 1871 pointed out by Dr. Kayser ; and, 

 on referring to Buch's original figure of T. ferita, I am bound to admit the correctness of 

 Dr. Kayser's view. It is in reality quite distinct from the species which since 1843 has 

 been termed Retzia ferita ; and, to avoid any further misapprehensions, I have admitted 

 Dr. Kayser's views and name of lonyirostris. 



We need not here repeat the description of the exterior characters of Retzia longi- 

 rostris, as they will be found on p. 21 of my Monograph under Retzia ferita. I was 

 not, however, at that period able to give a figure of its spiral appendages. In his ' Die 

 Brach. des Rheinischen Schichtens systems in Nassau,' pi. xxxii, fig. 13, 1855, 

 Dr. Sandberger gives a figure of the spiral appendages of this species, but some- 

 what displaced; he also gives a figure of the perforated shell-structure. Prof. Hall, 

 in the ' Sixteenth Annual Report of the University of the State of New York,' p. 56, fig. 6, 

 represents one of the spirals. Quenstedt, in his ' Brachiopoden,' gives two or 

 three figures showing the spirals in this species, but no one had been able to develop 

 their connections. Thanks to Mr. Whidborne, I am now able to give a figure of the 

 spirals of a British species of R. longirostris, from the Middle Devonian of Lummaton, 



