WHiTEAVEs J DEVONIAX FOSSILS OF MANITOBA, ETC. 259 



and the Polyzoa or Bryozoa in accordance with Mr. Uh'ich's recently 

 published monograph of the " Palseozoic Bryozoa," in the eighth volume 

 of Reports of the Geological Survey of Illinois. 



Determinatioxs and Descriptions of Species. 

 RECEPTACULITID^. 

 (S.) Sph.erospongia tessellata, Phillips. (Sp.) 



Plate 33. All the figures. 



Sphirroiili^s te.s-iella/u.i, Phillips. 1841. Pal. Foss. Dev., Coriiw. & W. Somers., 



p. 1.35, pi. lix, fig. 49. 

 Echino.tphi'rilex te<«eUalun., Murch., De Verneuil & Keyserling. 1S45. Geol. Riiss., 



&o., vol. II, p. 381, pi. xxvii, fig. 7. 

 Splictronitrx faxejlalus Bowerbank. 1S4.>. Ann & Mag. Nat. Hist., p. '299. 



" " Austin. " lb., p. 406. 



Proboscis of crinoid. G. & F. Samlberger. 18r)IJ-.56. Verstein des Rhein. Schioht. 



— Syst., ijp. 384, .385. 

 Spharo-iponijia tesxellata, Pengelly. 18131. Geologist, vol. IV, p. 340, pi. v. 

 Pasceo/u-': ttuse/latua et Safhii, Kayser. 1875 Zeitschr. der. deutsch. Geol. 



Gesellsch., p. 780, t xx. 

 FolygoHosphieri/es Us-:i-Jlalu^, F. Roemer. 1880. Leth. Pal. vol. I, p. 297, fig. 54. 

 Zittel. 1880. Handb. der PaUeont., vol. I, p. 100. 

 Dictyophy/oiKjerolstein.fii'x, F. Roemer. 1883. Zeitschr. der. deutsch. Geol. Gesellsch, 



vol. XXXV, p. 706, fig. b. 

 Sphiprosjjoiiijia fe^^xdlafa, Hinde. 1884. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soo. Lond., vol. XL, 



p. 840, pi. xxxvii, figs. 1, la — c. 



Two badly worn and loose specimens of a fossil which E. Billings refer- 

 red with doubt to the genus lii'i-pptacalites*, were collected by Dr. J. W. 

 Spencer in 1874, on the western shore of Dawson Bay, Lake Winnipeg- 

 osis. On examining these specimens in the spring of 1888, the writer 

 became con\'inoed that they ai'e identical with the Sjilui'm^pongia traai'1- 

 lata, Phillip.s, (sp.) as described and figured by Dr. G. J. Hinde and 

 others. A single specimen (if the same species was collected by Mr. A. 

 P. Low, in 1886, at the Limestone rapids of the Fawn branch of the 

 Severn River. 



In July, 1888, four tolerably good specimens of )S'. irssi'llata were 

 obtained by Mr. J. B. Tyrrell and the writer on the north-west shore of 

 Lake Manitoba, at Pentamerus Point. Two of these specimens were 



* Geol. Surv. Canada, Rep. Progr. 1874-75, 1875, p. G8. 



