40 Praeger— Fossils at Alexandra Dock , Belfast 
Cypraea Europaea, Mont. 
Our little cowry is extremely rare. The upper clay yielded one specimen, 
and the yellow sand another. 
* Cylichna cylindracea, Penn. 
In the upper clay, very rare. 
* Vtriculus mammillatus, Phil. 
A fragment of a shell of this tiny species in the yellow sand made me look for 
more, and I discovered a perfect specimen in the upper clay. 
f Utriculus obtusus, Mont. 
In the upper clay and yellow sand, hut few and far between. 
Vtriculus byalinus, Turt. 
One specimen was discovered inside the closed valves o a apes , 
lower clay. (Plentiful in the Belfast bed, Stewart ). 
Accra bullata, Mull. . . 
In profusion in the upper clay, but so fragile that it is well nigh impossible 
to obtain a perfect specimen. 
Actaeon tornatilis, Linn. 
One dilapidated specimen in the upper clay. 
Scaphander lignarius, Linn. 
Lower clay, very rare. 
Philine aperta, Linn. 
Very frequent in the upper clay and yellow sand. 
* Philine scabra, Mull. 
In the lower clay, very rare, 
f Melampus bidentatus, Mont. 
Upper clay, very scarce. 
Anomia ephippium, Linn. 
Quite abundant in the upper and lower clay and yellow sand, n every 
variety of shape and size. I obtained one beautiful specimen adhering to 
the flat valve of a large Pecten maximus , with ridges on both valves as 
high and regular as those on the Pecten , and measuring four inches m 
diameter. 
* Anomia aculeata, Mull. 
Two or three specimens occurred in the yellow sand. 
Anomia patelliformis, Linn. 
Very rare. One specimen was obtained in the yellow sand. (Rare, Grainger) . 
* Anomia patelliformis, var. striata, F. 8f H. 
Yellow sand, a single valve. 
Ostrea edulis, Linn. 
The Oyster is abundant throughout the deposits. Fine examples occur m 
numbers in the upper clay, the colours in the interior as vivid as if the 
animal had inhabited the shell but yesterday. 
