V.—On a new Trilobite from the Dictyonema-shales of the Malvern Hills

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In the collection made by the late Dr. Grindrod, now in the Geological Museum at Oxford, there is a minute species of trilobite, represented by two specimens, obtained from the Dictyonema-shales of the Malverns. This form was referred by Dr. Callaway to Shumardia (Conophrys) Salopiensis, Call.; but a careful study of the two specimens, aided by the removal of a small fragment of shale which partly concealed the more complete example, has shown the distinctness of the trilobite from Shumardia, and from any other genus known to the writer. Owing to the kindness of Professor Sollas I have been enabled to make a thorough examination of the specimens. The preservation is fairly good, but much of the actual test has been lost, and both fossils are largely in the form of internal casts. In the more complete but somewhat smaller example, which may be taken as the type-specimen, the whole trilobite is preserved (Fig. 3); in the second specimen little more than the thorax and pygidium is seen (Fig. 4).