IRISH AND ENGLISH OSTRACODA. 



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4. Sandy silt (probably fresh water) . . 9 in. 



5. Peat bed. 



6. Silt or bluish clay, with Scrobicularia piper ata, 



Rissoa parva, &c. and Ostracoda . . 8 ft. 



7. Peat bed. 



8. Boulder-clay. 



In the silt or bluish clay, with Scrobicularia piperata (6), the following Ostracoda 

 were found : 



Cythere pellucida, Baird, 



— tenera^ Brady. 

 Loxoconcha impressa (Baird). 

 Cytherura nigrescens (Baird). 



— similis, G. 0. Sars. 



— angulata, Brady. 

 SclerocJdlus contortus (Norman). 

 Paradoxostoma abbreviatum, G. 0. Sars, 



9. Branston Fen, Lincolnshire. 



In some Post-tertiary clay from this fen the following species of Ostracoda were 

 found : • - ' 



Cypris compressa, Baird. 



— yibba, Ramdohr. 

 Cypridopsis obesa, Brady and Robertson. 

 Candona detecta (Miiller). 



— lactea, Baird. 



— Candida (Miiller). 

 Limnicythere inopinata (Baird). 

 Cytheridea lacustris (G. 0. Sars). 



