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Lower Awatere. 



The Awatere beds are well exposed on the banks of 

 the Awatere Eiver, both above and below the railway-bridge 

 near the Township of Seddon, and also in the bed of Star- 

 borough Creek, which flows through Seddon, and joins the 

 Awatere a little over a quarter of a mile below the bridge. 

 The lower beds consist of blue clays, which often contain 

 large limestone concretions ; and the higher beds, of sandy 

 beds and sandstones, which are interbedded with thin layers 

 of harder shelly sandstone, generally crowded with shells. 

 The clay beds contain only a few fossils. The higher sandy 

 beds, on the other hand, are richly fossiliferous, the shells 

 being well preserved and easily extracted. 



A collection made from the upper beds as exposed on the 

 bank of the Awatere, at the mouth of Starborough Creek, con- 

 tained the following forms : — 



1. Siphonalia dilatata, Quoy and Gaimard. 



2. Siphonalia mandariua, var. cordata, Quoy and 



Gaimard. 



3. Siphonalia subnodosa, Hutton. 



4. Siphonalia conoidea, Hutton. 



5. Struthiolaria sulcata, Hutton. 



6. Struthiolaria, vermis, Martyn. 



7. Struthiolaria papulosa, Martyn. 



8. Struthiolaria cincta, Hutton. 



9. Scaphclla corrugata, Hutton. 



10. Scaphclla pacifica, Lamarck. 



11. Turritelta rosea, Quoy and Gaimard. 



12. Turritella kanieriensis, Harris. 



13. Cirsotrema zelebori, Frauenfeld. 



14. CaUiostoma selection, Chemnitz. 



15. Natica ovata, Hutton. 



16. Natica zelandica, Gray. 



17. Ancilla australis, Sowerby. 



18. Cylichna striata, Hutton. 



19. Cantharidus purpuratus, Martyn. 



20. Monilea cgena, Gould. 



21. Dentaiium conicum, Zittel. 



22. Ostrea angasi, Sowerby. 



23. Anomia walteri, Hector. 



24. Pinna zelandica, Gray. 



25. Mytiius magellanicus, Chemnitz. 



26. Grlycimeris laticostata, Quoy and Gaimard. 



27. Pecten convexus, Quoy and Gaimard. 



28. Pecten triphooki, Hutton. 



29. Chione oblonga, Hutton. 



30. Chione stutchburyi, Gray. 



