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Truncaria australis, Angas 

 Mitra pellucida, Tate 

 Marginella strangei, Angas 

 Marginella whani, Pritchard 



and Gatliff' 

 Marginella pisum, Reeve 

 Marginella tridentata, I'ate 

 Marginella cymbalum, Tate 

 Columbella filosa, Angas 

 Terebra inconspicua, Pritchard 



and Gatliff" 

 Terebra fictilis, Hinds 

 Conus aplustre, Reeve 

 Natica tenisoni, Tate 

 Donovania fenestrata, Tate and 



May 

 Daphnella crebriplicata, Reeve 

 Daphnella mimica, Sowerby 

 Daphnella mimica, Sowerby, 



var. fusca 

 Mangilia incerta, Pritchard and 



Gatliff 

 Mangilia st. gallge, T. Woods 

 Crepidula aculeata, Gmelin 

 Vermetus caperatus, Tate and 



May 



Scala (Acrilla) minutula, Tate 



and May 

 Crossea cancellata, T. Woods 

 Fulima infiata, Tate and May 

 Turbonilla (Ondina) harrisoni, 



Tate a7id May 

 Odostomia deplexa, 2'ate and 



May 

 Odostomia suprasculpta, T. 



Woods 

 Oscilla ligata, Angas 

 Pseudorissoina tasmanica, J\ 



Woods 

 Triforis graniferus, Brazier 

 Triforis labiatus, A. Adams 

 Triforis cinereus, Hedley 

 Triforis maculosus, Hedley 

 Teinostoma cala, Pilsbry 

 Cyclostrema inscriptum, T'ate 

 Cyclostreniajohnstoni, ^eo?o?om<? 

 Rissoa agnewi, T. Woods 

 Rissoa dubitabilis, 2'ate 

 Rissoa tumida, T. Woods 

 Rissoa fiammea, Ihmktr 

 Rissoa pellucida, Tate and May 

 Rissoa maccoyi, 2\ Woods. 



ON THE OCCURRENCE OF OLDER CAINOZOIC 

 MARINE FOSSILS NEAR HEXHAM, WESTERN 

 VICTORIA. 



By a. E. Kitson, F.G.S. 



{Read hef ore the Field Naturalists' Club of Victoria, 12th October, 1903.) 



The Older Cainozoic marine fossiliferous deposits of Victoria are 

 of wide distribution in the southern portion of the State. They 

 occur in various places, from the Snowy River on the east, to the 

 South Australian border on the west, so that it may appear 

 unnecessary to mention the occurrence of a ^&\v shells from bores 

 sunk on the Western plains. Still, as every fresh discovery helps 

 to link together more or less widely separated occurrences, it is of 

 value, and should be recorded. Noticing, therefore, in the public 

 press during February last that Mr. R. Hood, of Merrang, near 

 Hexham, had obtained some fossil shells from material taken out 

 of bores for water sunk on his estate, I asked him for some of 

 the fossils, and for particulars regarding the bores. He very 



