2 ON SOME TERTIARY FOSSILS, 



of expressing what a loss science has sustained in the death of so 

 estimable a man. Not only was his house hospitably open to all 

 who desired to advance the knowledge of the geology of the 

 district, but during the last 20 years he constantly gave me the 

 most untiring and valuable assistance in all my studies. It is an 

 additional source of regret to me that he was not able to receive 

 from me the feeble, but sincere acknowledgment of his assistance 

 which I have given in the preceding paper. 



The fossils here described have no special character which calls 

 for notice. The resemblances to Miocene forms of Europe are 

 fewer. A Leiostraca and a Crossed connect them with our existing 

 fauna, but the general character differs much from anything we 

 have with us now. It has been thought that our fossil fauna is 

 somewhat like the facies of that living in Philippine Seas ; but 

 this is not the case. The fauna of North Eastern Australia has a 

 large number of species identical with those now living in the 

 Philippine seas, but the relations between the Queensland marine 

 fauna and that of our Miocene seas is very remote. The relations 

 are not evident so far, except with the Miocene of Europe, but 

 this will more clearly be seen when the whole of the paleontology 

 of the beds has been dealt with. 



Eulima Dante. PI. 1, fig. 1. 



Testa, late pyramidata, polita, solida, apice acuto; anfr. 12, planatis 

 Icevibus, lineis incrementi tantum insignitis, sutura hand imptrcssa, 

 peripheric/, obtuse angulata, apertura late ovata, labro tenui, acuto, 

 antiee producto ; labio ant ice tantum reflexo. Alt. 13^, lat. 4£. 



Shell broadly pyramidal, polished, solid, apex acute, whorls 12 

 quite flat, smooth, only marked and generally very faintly with 

 the lines of growth, suture only marked by a fine line, periphery 

 obtusely angular, aperture widely ovate, labrum thin, acute, 

 produced anteriorly, lip reflected anteriorly. 



This fossil is not uncommon in the beds, but the specimens 

 usually met with are not quite so stout as represented in the 

 figure. 



