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valve twice as deep as the opposite one, broadly flattened longitudinally from the 

 extremity of the beak to the front, the lateral portions of the valve being likewise flattened 

 and sloping rapidly from the edge of the mesial space ; beak very short, and truncated by a 

 rather small, circular foramen; lateral margin presenting a convex curve; loop not known. 

 Surface smooth, marked by concentric lines of growth. Two specimens measured — 

 Length 2 inches 3 lines ; width 1 inch 5 lines ; depth 1 inch 3 lines. 



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Obs. — This remarkable species is at once distinguishable from all its British con- 

 geners by its peculiar shape and character. Mr. Walton, of Bath, gave me a specimen 

 of it some years ago, which had been obtained from the Inferior Oolite, near Sherborne, 

 and another rather larger, but in other respects exactly similar, example, was lent to me 

 by Mr. Darell Stephens from the same locality. 1 I have named it after Miss Agnes 

 Crane, a talented young palaeontologist to whom science is indebted for several excellent 

 papers. 



127. Terebratula Whitakeri, Walker MS. Sup., PI. XIX, figs. 6, 7, 8, 9. 



Shell as broad as long, or a little longer than wide, circular, or slightly longitudinally 

 oval. Dorsal valve moderately convex, fold broad and scarcely raised above the general 

 convexity of the valve, and sloping almost insensibly into the general convexity of the 

 valve. Ventral valve rather deeper and more convex than the opposite one, with a broad, 

 shallow sinus. Eront line formed into a rounded wave, sides rounded ; margins of valves 

 very sharp ; beak short, incurved, and truncated by a circular foramen situated in close 

 contiguity to the umbone of the opposite valve ; loop not known, in all probability short. 

 Surface smooth. Two specimens measured — 



Length 1 inch 5 lines; width 1 inch 3 lines ; depth 10 lines, 

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Obs. — This species seems, as far as I have been able to judge from the inspection of 

 eight specimens placed in my hands by Mr. J. E. Walker, to be persistent in shape and 



1 By some mistake the locality of Yeovil has been several times given to Inferior Oolite fossils, but 

 there is no Inferior Oolite at Yeovil itself, although it occurs near by. Professor Buckman writes to me 

 upon this subject: "Bradford Abbas is in Dorsetshire, but nearer Yeovil than it is to Sherborne, hence, 

 perhaps, some mistake may have arisen about localities. My quarry and the celebrated Half- Way House 

 quarry have yielded most of the fossils from the Inferior Oolite of Dorsetshire. Sherborne is mostly on 

 Fuller's Earih, and the hills around me are Inferior Oolite, hence the Fuller's Earth is faulted down. 

 My village, Bradford Abbas, is on Fuller's Earth faulted in like manner. Yeovil is on Upper Lias, and the 

 Yeo thence to Bridgewater runs along the Lower Lias shale. The Inferior Oolite has yielded numerous 

 species of Brachiopods at the following localities : Bradford Abbas, Half- Way House, Bridport Station, near 

 Sherborne, Scavington, Milborne Wick, Haselburg, Crewkerne Station, and Broadwinsor." 



