291 
Ohs. Although this species has only been met with in fragments, its characters 
are seen to be at once clear and distinct, the large elongated tubercles and fine 
reticular ornament rendering it a conspicuous fossil. The tubercles are transversely 
elongated, and gradually rise from the sides and bach of the shell. 
Poroellia Pearsi agrees with P. puzio, Leveille,* * * § and P. armata, De Verneuil,t 
in the form and position of the tubercles, and vvitti the former in the reticulation of 
the surface, but it differs from this particular species in the back of the body-whorl 
being flat, or practically so. From P. ai'maf.a the present species may be distinguishc d 
by the nature of the ornamenting striae, and the number of tubercles to the whorl. 
The nearest ally of P. Pearsi appears to be P. Edoiiardi, D'Orb.,J from the Middle 
Devonian of the Eifel, both as to general form and surface ornament, but here again 
the back is highly convex and the decussating striae much stronger, whilst the tubercles 
are less marked and do not project to the extent they do in P. Pearsi. 
Loc. and Horizon. Corner Creek, Great Star Eiver (P. W. Pears) — Star 
Beds; Eockhampton District {C. W. De Vis; Colin. De Vis) — Gympie Beds; Banana 
Creek, near Banana, Dawson Eiver (if. Mackay ; Colin. Do Vis) — Middle or Marine 
Series of the Bowen Eiver Coal Field. 
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Class — Pteeopoda. 
Order- THECOSOMATA. 
Family— CO]SrULAEIID..E.§ 
Genus— CONTIL APIA, Miller (J. Smverhy), 1820. 
(Min. Con., iii., p. 107.) 
CONULAEIA TEKUISTEIATA, McCoy. 
Conularia tenuistriata, McCoy, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 1847, xx., p. 307, t. 17, f. 7 and 8. 
,, ,, ’De Koninck, Foss. Pal. Nonv.-Galles du Sud, 1877, Pt. 3, p. 310, t. 23, f. 2. 
Ohs. A small portion of an individual, exhibiting the number of fine transverse 
striae mentioned by Prof. McCoy as twenty-seven to twenty-nine in the space of half- 
an-inch, and the upward curve across the broad face, which carries a mesial line, would 
appear to indicate this species as a Queensland fossil. 
Loc. and Horizon. Gympie {W. H. Bands) — Gympie Beds. 
CoNULAHiA, sp. ind., PI. 41, fig 10. 
Ohs. Another fragment, one and a-quarter inches long, with portions of thirteen 
^ide and flat ridges, divided by similar interspaces. A mesial line traverses the centre 
longitudinally, representing one of the angles of the shell. Some of the cross ridges 
^I’e subalternate, and where they abut against the mesial line are slightly grooved. The 
interspaces are eross-wrinklocl, a similar form of ornament being visible in De Koninck’s 
figure of Gonularia Icevigata, Morris, || but no mention is made of it in the description. 
■Ihis is altogether a remarkable fragment, but is far too large for the above species. 
Loc. and Horizon. Gympie {W. H. Bands ) — Gympie Beds. 
* Mem. Soc. Geol. France, 1835, ii., p. 39, t. 2, f. 10 and 11. 
t Geol. Russia d’Eurnpe, 1845, ii., p. 346, t. 24, f. 3. 
t Hist. Nat. Cephalopoda Acdtab. 2me pte., p. 215, Atlas (Cryptodibranohes), t. 7, f. 6 and 7. 
§ S. A. Miller, American Pal. Foss., 1877, p. 141. 
II Foss. Pal. Nouv.-Galles du Sud, 1877, Pt. 3, t. 18, f. 9a. 
