NEW MATERIAL OF AZYGOGRAPTIDAE AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE

Among the graptolites collected by Unit 734 from the Lower Ordovician Qiaotingzi Formation (corresponding to the Ningkou Formation) at Xiayanzhai of Jishou, Hunan, more than ten specimens particularly chosen from the collection were handed over to the writer for. study. These spe cimens preserved as mere carbonaceous films in grey green slate belong to one new genus and the same new species named by the writer Jishougraptus mui gen. et sp. nov. in association with Didymograptus cf. praenuntius

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