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seems almost as acutely pointed behind as in Megalaspis rotundata, 
Ang., or VW. grandis, Sars.’ 7 
Novak, relying on Salter’s figure, has classed Miobe Homfr aii, 
Salter, as an Oy gygia.  Brogger, however, suggests that Salter’s 
. figure is imper- 
Fig. 31.—Niobe Homfrayi, Salter. (x45 diam.) fect, and that the 
From the Bronsil Shales, Southern Malverns. labrum may in 
reality agree with 
a ee that of Niobe 
ee = (signs, Lurs., a 
e SS species which N. 
= —s Homfrayt much 
‘ Sys resembles in ge- 
\ SS 
SS neral appearance. 
=— 
a ; I have examined 
ise he “ the only labrum 
cae he Se ait oe | of N. Homfrayi 
ee ay that I have been 
ap able to find (Mu- 
seum of Practical 
Geology, Jermyn 
Street): itis prob- 
ably that figured 
by Salter himself. 
Itmuchresembles 
the labrum of 
Ogygia dilatata, 
but is more ovate, 
and has a much 
more prominent 
| 6 median .. tooth, 
. = apparently either 
ane truncated at the 
ee ee pe end, or with a 
ae ANA eS pointed tooth like 
sae that of the Mal- 
vern specimen, 
es now: broken off. 
= The anterior lobe 
is largeand ovate ; 
the lateral mar- 
gins are’ appa- 
- rently narrow ; 
and the macule are connected by a transversely oval, prominent 
posterior tubercle, well-defined by furrows both in front and behind. 
The anterior wings appear to be short. The labrum much resembles 
that of Ogygia. 
It follows that so far from being ‘kaum specitecn verschieden ’ 
1 Brogger, Bihang t. Kongl. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. vol. xi (1886) no. 3, 
pl. ii, figs. 26 & 27. 
