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Affinities and Differences. — The wide test, deep ambulacra, and inclined upper surface 

 distinguish this Urchin from all its congeners ; and likewise from the Micrasters with 

 which others have been often confounded. 



I dedicate this fine species to my esteemed friend M. De Loriol, the learned author of 

 the ' Echinologie Helvetique,' whose assiduous studies in Palaeontology have borne such 

 ample fruits. 



Locality and Stratigrapldcal Position. This species has been collected from the 

 Upper Greensand, near Warminster and Devizes, Wilts. 



— COR-ANGUINUM, 



— GIBBUS, 



Epiaster gibbus, Lamarck, 1816. PI. LXIII, fig. 1, a — Tc. 



Spatangus gibbus, Lamarck. Animaux sans Vertebres, t. iii, 



p. 32, 1816. 



— — Deslong champs. Enc. Method., p. 689, 



pi. 156, figs. 4— 6, 1824. 



— — Goldfuss. Petr. Germanise, tab. xlviii, fig. 4, 



p. 155, 1824. 



— — Befrance. Diet. Sc. Nat., t. 1, p. 94, 1827. 



Woodward. Geol. of Norfolk, pi. v, fig. 8, 



1833. 

 De Blainville. Manuel d'Actin., pp. 203, 653, 



1834. 

 Grateloup. Oursins Foss. (Dax), p. 71, 



1836. 

 Besmoulins. Etudes sur les Echinides, p. 402, 



1837. 

 Edwards. Anim. sans Verteb., t. iii, p. 331, 



1840. 

 Agassiz. Catal. Syst., p. 129, 1847. 

 Hebert. Etudes sur les Terr. Cretaces ; Mem. 



Soc. Geol. France, 2e ser., t. v, pi. xxix, 



fig. 16, 1854. 

 Desor. Synopsis Echid. Foss., p. 365, 1858. 

 Forbes (pars). Mem. Geol. Surv., dec. iii, 



pi. x, 1850. 

 Forbes. In Dixon's Geol. of Sussex, p. 342, 



pi. xxiv, figs. 5, 6, 1850. 



— cor-anguinum var. gibbus, Morris. Brit. Foss., 2nd ed., p. 83, 1854. 



— — d Orbigny (pars). Paleont. Francaise Terr. 



Cret., t. vi, p. 207, 1855. 



Diagnosis. — Test cordiform, very high, and almost conical ; sides convex and 

 carinated. Ambulacra slightly depressed ; anteal sulcus shallow above and grooving the 

 anterior border ; posterior margin acuminated and truncated obliquely inwards. Vent 



Micraster cobdatus, 



— gibbus, 



— cor-anguinum, 



GIBBUS, 



