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Out of this list of seventy-six species twenty-six are Recent, giving a 

 percentage of 34. 



In addition to the molluscs, Pachymagas huttoni Thomson is abvmdant 

 in the glauconitic bands. Two new species of Surcula were found in the 

 writer's collection, and Dr. Thomson obtained a new species of Vexillum. 



Every one of the above species occurs in the Awamoan beds elsewhere, 

 and thirty -nine species have never been foimd below the " Pachymagas 

 parki " greensand band (the upper limit of the Hutch insonian) in the 

 Oamaru district, ('orals also occur in these beds. (Note. — To avoid 

 circumlocution the writer will refer to these upper fossiliferous beds as the 

 " Otiake beds.") 



Dr. Marshall has published a list of fossils from this locality, and they 

 are stated to have come from the limestone (1915, p. 383). All fossils 



