Since the publication of H. C. Wang’s [14] paper on the stratigraphical position of the Devonian fish-bearing series of E Yunnan, a general agreement seems to be arrived at among Chinese geologists. Recently, however, C. S. Pien [22] discovered some dermal plates of Bothriolepis in a sandstone conformably overlying the Tientzulin limestone bearing Tentico-spirifer tenticulum, Camarotoechia hsikuangshanensis, C. hunanensis in N Kwangtung. He shows again some doubt on the early Eifelian age