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other series show the same inconsistencies in the flora, which. 
is, however, as we know, net a very safe guide. The fauna 
is but little more satisfaccory. The Damuda series (Per- 
mian and Permo-Carboniferous) contains reptiles with Per- 
mian and Jurassic affinities, while the fauna of the Khbota 
Maléri (Lower Oolitic) has alliances with European Upper 
Trias, Lias, and Jura. Further on (id., p. 284) ne says— 
“The great distinction between Paleozoic and Mesczoic 
rocks of Europe does not hold good m India. . . . the 
interval between Mesozoic and Cainozoic is similarly 
bridged.” He further imsists (ad., p: 300) that caution is 
necessary in appiying paleontological results derived from 
a single order of animals, and prefers to follow views based 
on stratigraphy and general paleontology. 
‘One very abnormal range is noted, and that is the oecur- 
rence of the genus Bellerophon in the Ceratite beds (Trias) 
of the Salt Range (’d., p. 129). 
Noetling (Noetling, $9) shows a considerable agreement 
-becween the Miocene of Burma and the Eocene of Europe, 
which he explains by the theory of migration from west to 
east, which commenced m Eocene times, and probably con- 
tinued up till the recent period. 
Professor J. W. Gregory (Gregory, 00, p. 3), in speaking 
of the Jurassic corals of Cutch, says that the 66 species from 
the Putcham beds have English representatives in beds 
ranging from Upper Cretaceous to the Trias, and remarks— 
“This apparent ‘confusion of species,’ belonging to different 
horizons, is usually observed when distant coral faunas are 
compared. D’Achiardi, for example, has noticed the 
similarly inconsistent evidence of the corals of Mentone and 
of other localities in’ South-eastern and Central France. 
D’Achiardi found occurring together on-the same horizon 
at Mentone corals which im adjoining provinces are regarded 
ws characteristic of Bathonian and Corallian age. It is 
therefore not surprising that the specific comparison of 
distant faunas yields unsatisfactory results. . The faunas 
as a whole serve. as more reliable grounds for comparison. 
But even then the evidence of the corai fauna in the present 
case is not very definite. ‘The corals . . . . were de- 
posited in different zoological provinces, and corals then 
lived in Indian seas which were not found in Europe till 
later; similarly, some Evrepean families . . . . appear 
to have entered the Indien region . . . . during the 
subsequent period.” 
The Brachiopoda of Cutch toll a similar tale, .ccording to 
the reviewer in Nature of Mr. P. 1: .Kitehin’s work 
