88 BRITISH BELEMNITES. 
The fossil here represented, from Mr. Buckman’s Collection, is from the “ Belemnite- 
bed” of the Lower Lias of Cheltenham. It corresponds to all appearance with the species 
DIAGRAM 23. 
Belemnites oxyconus. 
referred to by Quenstedt, and I find it also to be much alhed to B. eleguns of Simpson 
(p. 84; and Pl. XX, fig. 50); but it is not striated about the point, as that species seems 
always to be; its axis is shorter, and the figure is more oblique. It seems allied to 
B. acutus of Miller, and may be the old form of that species. 
DIAGRAM 24, 
v', Longest individual. v’’. Smaller. v'’, Minute specimen. 
In Mr. Charles Moore’s very interesting collection from the Upper Lias of Ilminster 
are specimens of an extremely small, short Belemnite, which may possibly be the young 
