88 BRITISH BELEMNITES. 



Locality. Cheltenham, in the Belemnite-bed of the Lower Lias [Buckman). 



DIAGRAM 23. 

 Beletniiites oxyconus. 



The fossil here represented, from Mr. Buckman's Collection, is from the "Belemnite- 

 bed" of the Lower Lias of Cheltenham. It corresponds to all appearance with the species 

 referred to by Quenstedt, and I find it also to be much allied to B. elegans of Simpson 

 (p. 84 ; and PI. XX, fig. 50) ; but it is not striated about the point, as that species seems 

 always to be ; its axis is shorter, and the figure is more oblique. It seems allied to 

 B. acutus of Miller, and may be the old form of that species. 



