158 PROF. T. RUPERT JONES ON THE [May 1 894, 



form which ho referred to " Cypris liassica, Brodie," at Beer- 

 Crowcombe, Stoke, Vallis, etc. 1 



The section at Beer-Crowcomhe 2 shows : — 



1 & 2. Some beds of the Lias, of and above the Am. planorbis- 

 zone. 3. The Saurian Bed. 4 [Bhatic]. The White Lias. 5. The 

 Avicida-contorta-zone. 6 [Trias]. The Keuper. No fossils are here 

 especially mentioned. 



One of the Ostracoda collected by C. Moore at Beer-Crowcombe 

 has been kindly lent from the Bath Museum, through the courtesy 

 of the Bev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S. ; it does not, however, corre- 

 spond to the so-called Cypris liassica. About the occurrence of 

 the latter (?) Mr. C. Moore states as follows 3 : — " The upper 

 surfaces of the blocks of ' White Lias ' in the sections near Taunton 

 [Stoke St.-Mary, etc.] are frequently covered with the shells of this 

 little Crustacean. The same conditions prevailed when the 'Flinty 

 bed ' at Beer-Crowcombe was deposited, as the shells are very 

 numerous on its weathered surface. In the Vallis section it is very 

 rare, and only represented by a single specimen, attached to a 

 fragment of Lima precursor." 



1865. — The Bev. P. B. Brodie mentioned the occurrence of the 

 Cypris-bed at Wootton Park, near Henley-in-Arden, in the Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxi. p. 160 ; and at p. 161 he expressed 

 his opinion that this and the associated strata, below the Saurian 

 Bed, would probably come " within the Bhsetic series of the Trias." 



1865. — Messrs. J. W. Salter and H. Woodward's 'Descriptive 

 Catalogue of a Chart of Fossil Crustacea ' contains figures of 

 two ' Bhsetic ' ( ? ) Ostracods from Somerset, enumerated at 

 p. 21, as [fig.] "87, Cythere liassica, Jones, MS.," and "88, 

 Cythere, sp. nov., Jones, MS." There is some confusion here, for 

 the specific name given to fig. 87 is Brodie's, not Jones's; nor is it 

 the ' Cypris liassica,' but some form of Cytheridea. Fig. 88 is 

 probably of the same species as that represented by fig. 6 in 

 PI. IX. Although the sketches for figs. 87 and 88 wero 

 supplied by me in 1865, all trace of them and of the specimens »has 

 been lost. These latter, however, may possibly have been found by 

 me in some probably Lower-Liassic limestones near Tauntov,, 

 Somerset. 



1867. — Mr. C. Moore recorded the occurrence of ' Cythere liassica ' 

 in the ' Bhsetic White Lias ' of the Camel Hill Bailw ay- cutting 4 

 on the Westbury-and- Weymouth line. Mr. E. Wilson has remarked 3 

 that the fact of some of the whiter beds of the Lower Lias, as well 

 as some of the Upper Bhaetic, having both been termed ' White 

 Lias/ leads to occasional confusion. He also informs me that 

 Mr. C. Moore's ' List of Fossils ' at p. 465, vol. xxiii. op. cit., shows 

 that it is a mixed series of Bhsetic and Lower-Lias species ; or it is 



1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xvii. (ISfil) p. 514. 



2 Ibid. pp. 485, 486. 



3 Ibid. p. 512. 



4 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxiii. (1867) p. 465. 



5 Of. cit. vol. xlvii. (1891) p. 546. 



