160 PROF. T. RUPERT JOKES ON THE [May 1 894, 



contents to some pieces of Rhsetic limestone from Pylle Hill, near 

 Bristol, sent to me by Mr. E. Wilson, E.G.S., in 1891, and noticed 

 by bim in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlvii. (1891) pp. 545-549. 

 They are similar also to a specimen from Uphill, near Weston- 

 super-Mare, collected by Mr. C. Moore, and now in the Bath 

 Museum. 



In the Geological Society's Collection there are also three 

 pieces of the " Cypris-hei with traces of small plants ; Westbury. 

 Mr. Brodie." One piece shows an edge-view of what seems to be 

 an internal cast of Darwinula liassica. 



In one of the drawers of the Collection is an old label purporting 

 to be a " List of fossils from the Lower Lias of Gloucestershire : — ■ 



" Insects, Wainlodes Cliff. 



" Insect-limestone and Cyjiris-bed, Wainlodes. 



" Insect-limestone and Cypris - bed, Westbury, and minute 

 plants." 



These above-mentioned specimens may well have been those 

 presented by the llev. Mr. Brodie in 1842 l as " Remains of Insects 

 and other fossils from the Lower Lias [Rhsetic ?] near Cheltenham " 

 [and elsewhere?]. 



II. The specimens lent from the Charles-Moore Collection in the 

 Bath Museum in 1892-93 (see above, p. 158) comprised : — 



1. "Cypris liassica. Ehcetic Beds. Beer-Crowcombe." Con- 

 sisting of numerous small, oval, black, smooth Ostracoda (Cytheridea, 

 see PI. IX. fig. 7), lying close together in a hard, grey marl. 



2. " Cypris liassica (slab covered with). White Lias near Taun- 

 ton." A buff-coloured limestone, with numerous small, oval, 

 smooth Ostracoda, not so well preserved as in the grey-marl speci- 

 men, but apparently belonging to the same species. They lie on a 

 bed-plane, together with fragments of shells (Pecten) and a piece of 

 an Echinid spine ; also the cast of a small furrow or trail. These 

 are evidently not Brodie's species; but Mr. C. Moore seems to have 

 met with the real form elsewhere, judging from his remark that on 

 some bed-planes at the Willsbridge cutting (see above, p. 159) 

 the carapace-valves lie uniformly lengthwise, as if they had a 

 relatively long axial diameter, as is the case with Darwinula 

 liassica. 



3. A piece of cream-coloured limestone, containing fragments of 

 Naiadita and valves of Darwinula liassica, from Uphill, near Weston- 

 super-Mare, Somerset. 



4. Some mounted Ostracoda, labelled " Bairdia liassica, Brodie ; 

 Lower Lias ; Brocastle," belong to the genus Cytheridea most 

 probably ; and are really Lower-Liassic, not Rhaetic. 



III. The Bev. P. B. Brodie has kindly given me several interest- 

 ing specimens from his Collection, but only one of them yields a 

 form identical with his ' Cypris liassica ' ; and there are other 

 forms, of much interest, which will be noticed in the sequel. 



IV. It is Mr. Edward Wilson's large series of shale and lime- 

 stone (from Pylle Hill, Bristol), alluded to in Quart. Journ. Geol. 



1 Proc. Geol. Soc. vol. iv. part i. p. 50. 



