JURASSIC AND TRIASSIC BRACHIOPODA. 225 



Hist. Soc.,' vol. xiii, p. 41, 1865-6, to have found this species in the Middle Lias of 

 Whatley, near Frome, but, as the specimen has been mislaid, I can refer only to the 

 statement above given, and cannot affirm its existence as a British fossil. Bh. Deslong- 

 champsii is a fine large shell, and was first described and figured by myself from a specimen 

 obtained in 1852 from the Lias of Fontaine-Etoupe-Four, near Caen, in Normandy. 

 It was subsequently redescribed and figured by M. E. Deslongchamps in vol. ii of 

 the 'Bulletin of the Linn. Soc. of Normandy/ 1857. 



238. Rhynchonella fallax, E. Deslongchamps. 



Mr. Charles Moore states that he found this species in the " abnormal " Lias (Middle 

 Lias) at Whatley (' Quarterly Journal Geol. Soc.,' vol. xxiii, pp. 480 and 560, 1867. 

 I regret that Mr. Moore could not find this specimen in his collection, so that all I can 

 do is to quote the statement he made in his paper " On Abnormal Secondary Fossils." 



239. Rhynchonella Morierei, Dav. Ool. Mon., p. 92, PL XVIII, figs. 12, 13. 



Nothing new. Cornbrash. 



Mr. J. F. Walker informs me that he has recently seen examples of Bh. tetrahedra, 

 var. curviceps, Quenstedt, or Bh. tetrahedra, (3, 'Hand. Petref.,' pi. xxxvi, fig. 30, in 

 the collection' of Mr. Innes Griffin, who had found them in the Middle Lias at Fenny 

 Compton, near Banbury. It occurs in Germany in Lias y, corresponding to Am. 

 Jamesoni zone in England. 



240. Lingtjla Brodiei, Dav. Sup., PI. IX, fig. 31. 



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In external shape Lingula Brodiei is elongated, with almost straight and parallel 

 sides, tapering beak, and rounded front ; surface smooth. 

 Length 6, width 2| lines. 



Obs. — A single incomplete valve of this Lingula was found by the Rev. P. B. Brodie 

 in the Coral Rag of Wheatley, Oxon. It seems distinguishable from L. ovalis by its 

 almost straight sides and very acuminated beak. I gave a sketch of it in PI. IX, fig. 31, 

 and now feel much pleasure in naming it after its distinguished discoverer. It is the 

 only specimen of the genus at present known from the Coral Rag of Great Britain, and 

 it is interesting, because species of Brachiopoda are few in this formation. Wheatley is 

 an important geological locality, situated about five miles east of Oxford (as the crow 



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