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Goldfuss (Bonn Museum) as distinct from the species just described. 
The figures of G. nodosum given b}’ Hteininger, Bronn, and Boemer 
represent immature shells, but, such as they are, they appear to me 
to present no characters to warrant their separation from G. ornatum^ 
and I have therefore included G. nodosum in the synonymy of that 
species. 
Regarding Phillips’s recognition of G. ornatum among his South 
Devon fossils, it may sufiice to say that the condition of his speci- 
mens is too imperfect to warrant any conclusion as to their specific 
afiinities. Of two of them, now in the British Museum, the one re- 
ferred to G. nodosum by Phillips (under the name of Cyrtoceras 
nodosum) is much too imperfect for identification ; while the other is 
referred by the same author to G. ornatum {Cyrtoceras ornatiimil)) 
with doubt, owing to the fact that the specimens were “ not sufficient 
to allow of strict comparison.” 
It will be of interest to note that from a specimen which has lately 
come into the possession of the Museum (forming part of the Lee 
gift), the identity of Phillips’s Cyrtoceras (?) hdeUalites ” with G. or- 
natum can now be demonstrated. Phillips affirms respecting this 
species, that “ in some specimens displacements appear : in others 
irregular bending and distortion, such as may naturally be expected 
in rocks so much disturbed by violent pressures and rearrangements 
as those of I^orth and South Devon.” It cannot be surprising 
therefore that fossils from this region should present such difficulties 
to the palaeontologist who attempts to identify them. 
It may be added that Gyroceras Medlicottianum^ Waageu \ is not 
unlike the present species, but it has a row of small tubercles on the 
inner side of the whorl, just below the lateral angles. It is a frag- 
ment only. 
Horizon. Middle Devonian. 
Loccdities. British. Mudstone Bay, near Torquay, Newton Bushel, 
Tor Abbey (Tor Bay), Devonshire. — Foreign. Gerolstein, Eifel ; 
Nismes, Belgium. 
Represented in the Collection by a large and fine series of speci- 
mens, several of which were presented by J. E. Lee, Esq., E.G.8., 
one of whose specimens was figured by Phillips in his ‘ Palaeozoic 
Fossils of Cornwall, &c.’ (p. 116, pi. xlvi. f. 221) under the name 
of “ Cyrtoceras nodosum.” The Collection contains also two other 
specimens (No. C. 1574) figured and described by Phillips in the 
same work, under the name of “ Cyrtoceras (?) hdeUalites” 
^ Palseont. Indica, ser. xiii. Salt-Range Fossils, i. p. 65, pi. vi. ff. 6, a-c. 
