168 LIAS OF ENGLAND AND WALES : 
The following fossils occur : 
Ammonites capricornus. 
Belemnites clavatus. 
Amberleya imbricata. 
Cardita multicostata. 
Inoceramus ventricosus. 
Leda. 
Modiola scalprum. 
hillana. 
Plicatula spinosa. 
Pentacrinus basaltiformis. 
Lignite (partially converted into 
jet) 
Pecten. 
The above list includes the species obtained by Prof. Judd and 
those subsequently collected by Mr. Beeby Thompson and 
myself. 
At Cranhoe brickyard (also described by Prof. Judd) we have 
an exposure of light-blue stratified clays, with layers of concentric 
balls of ironstone which fall to pieces on exposure to the air. 
These nodules contain numerous but imperfectly preserved fossils ; 
the species collected were as follows : 
Ammonites Henleyi. 
Belemnites. 
Avicula inaequivalvis. 
Cardium truncatum. 
Cucullaea. 
Leda complanata. 
Lima pectinoides. 
Pecten lunularis. 
aequivalvis. 
Pentacrinus. 
Inoceramus ventricosus. 
The beds here, as noted by Prof. Judd, are near the junction 
of Middle and Lower Lias ; possibly portions of the Middle Lias 
are represented.* 
It arrow -on- Soar and Melton Mowbray. 
The lowest beds of the Lower Lias near Leicester, consist of 
beds of banded and fissile argillaceous limestone, alternating with 
shaly clay ; beds which resemble the Insect Limestones in the 
Lower Lias of Wilmcote and other places.f They also yield 
remains of Saurians, Fishes and Crustaceans, including Ichthyo- 
saurus communis, I. intermedius, I. tenuirostris, Plesiosaurus 
macrocephalus, Bclonorhynchus acutus, Oxygnathus Egertoni, 
Dapedius dorsalis, Eugnathus serrulatus, Pholidophorus Hastingsice 
P. Stricklandi, and JSryon barrovensis. From Barrow-on-Soar 
there was obtained a specimen of Ichthyosaurus with traces of the 
skin or dermal covering. J Among other fossils there are found 
Ammonites planorbis, A. Johnstoni, Nautilus striatus, Gryphcea 
arcuma, Lima gigantca, and Rhynchonella calcicosta. A fiue 
Neuropterous Insect, named Palceotermes JEV/mY, by Dr. H. Wood- 
ward has lately been found in the same strata by Mr. Montagu 
Browne ; and in this specimen the wings are clouded with spots 
of colour. 
The thickness of the beds is from 30 to 40 feet. These 
lower beds have been noticed by Prof. Judd in railway-cuttings 
at Sysonby and Kirby Bellars, and by Mr. Strangways in 
* Geology of Rutland, &c., pp. 62, 63. 
f Brodie, Proc. Cotteswold Club, vol. ii. p. 139 ; W. J. Harrison, Sketch of th 
Geology of Leicestershire, &c., 1877, p. 37 ; M. Browne, Vertebrate Animals of 
Leicester and Rutland, 1889, pp, 173, &c. 
I Buckland, Bridgewater Treatise, vol. ii., Plate 10 ; W. Davies, Geol. Mag., 1864 
p. 248. See also Moore, Proc. Somerset Arch. Soc., vol. xiii. p. 179. 
Geol. Mag. 1892, p. 193. 
