348 AUSTRALIAN, SOUTH AFRICAN, AND INDIAN COAL-MEASURES, 



(I.e. p. 194). Omitting them therefore from our present consider- 

 ation we shall have a conjectural list of parallel formations made 

 out as follows : — "^ 



NEW ZEALAND. NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Mataura series, No. viii., 



Hector, I.e. " Jurassic " ... Wianamatta. 

 Macrotcenmpteris lata ... M. Wianamattce. 

 Tceniopteris Daintreei, 

 Clent Hills, N.Z. 

 Otapiri-Wairoa (No. x.), "Tri- 



1. < 



. - Clarence beds. 



assic 



I Upper 



4- (') { 



GlossojJteris, Labyrintho- 

 donts 

 Oreti conglomerate — evidence | Hawkesburj beds, Laby- 

 of ice ... ... ... ( rinthodonts. 



Kaihiku beds (No. xi.), j Lower Clarence beds, 

 "Permian" ... ... ( Narrabeen, &c. 



Glossoj^teris, Laby rintho- 

 donts. 



Conglomerates of Lake 

 Macquarie, &e. 

 5. Break in the record. 



i Glossopteris beds, New- 



6-11. Maitai series, No. xii., "Car-j ,, ri at j. t 



' ' \ castle CM, to Lower 



boniferous " ... ... I tm • 



^ Marine. 



Spirifer bisidcatus, S. glaber, Froductus brachythcBrics, 



CyathophyUurrij Cyathocrinus. 



12. Break in tlie record. 



13. Te Anau beds (No. xiii.)^ i Lepidodendron beds at 



" Devonian " (?) .' ( Stroud, &c. 



If we endeavour to reconstruct for ourselves the varying aspects 

 of the whole region during the vast extent of time over which we 

 have glanced, we shall see some such succession of Physiographical 

 features as the following : — 



* See Proc. Roy. Soc. N.S.W. Vol. XIII. 1879, p. 68, for a provisional 

 classification by Sir James Hector, which however, as was inevitable at 

 that time, contains many misapprehensions as to the succession on our 

 side. 



