Art. YII. — A Revision of the Fossil Fauna of the Table 

 Cape Beds, Tasjfiania, -with Descriptions of the Neiv 

 Species. 



(Plates II., III., IV.). 



By G. B. Pritchard, 



Lecturer in Geoloo-y, "Working Men's College, Melbourne. 

 [Read 10th October, 1895.] 



The pre.sent paper is the outcome of the study of the very fine 

 collection of fossils from the Table Cape beds made by Mr. E. D. 

 Atkinson. The collection was some short time ago left in the 

 charge of Mr. C. French, Government Entomologist, through 

 whose kindness and influence the request of Professor Spencer 

 that the collection should be deposited on loan in the Biological 

 Museum at the Melbourne University, to be named and worked 

 out, was at once complied with. I have to thank these gentle- 

 men for allowing me the privilege of attempting the work. 

 The collection is made up as follows : — Gastropoda, ninety-two 

 species ; Lamellibranchiata, thirty-nine species ; Brachiopoda, 

 seven species ; Echinodermata, three species ; Corals, three 

 species ; making a total of 144 species, including among the 

 mollusca twenty new species and two new varieties, which are 

 herein described. 



I have given full references to each described species and 

 remarks on the species where deemed necessary, and wherever I 

 have departed from the usual identifications I have given my 

 reasons in full for so doing. 



During the study of the above I thought it well to find out 

 what further material might be obtained from the collection from 

 this locality presented by Mr. Gronow to the Ballarat School of 

 Mines I\Iu.seum, accoixlingly I obtained from Mr. Alex. Purdie, 

 the present curator, a list of their fossils, which number fifty-one 

 species, the more important of which, for my present purpose, 

 were very kindly forwarded to me for examination. I tender 

 Mr. Purdie my l)est thanks for his ready response. 



