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CLASS PALLIOBRANCHIATA. 
The geological distribution of Palliobranchs in Cainozoic hori- 
zons in Australia is very restricted, as with the exception of 
Magasella Cumingiana, a recent species in Post-tertiary deposits 
at the Tintinara bore, Tatiara Desert, at a depth of 154-160 feet. 
and of a species of Terebratella, 7. pumila, in the Miocene at 
Gippsland Lakes, the whole fauna is of Eocene age, or, perhaps, 
extending to Oligocene. Ahynchonella Baileyana was wrongly 
attributed to the Australian Miocene. A few Eocene species 
had been listed as belonging to the Miocene fauna at Grange 
Burn and Muddy Creek near Hamilton ; but as all examples 
collected, since full knowledge was gained that two distinct 
faunal horizons were in contact at those localities, exhibit the 
characteristic features of a derivative source, the species in the 
Hamilton Miccene are not considered to be of endemic origin. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE. 
1, Tate, ‘‘On the Australian Tertiary Palliobranchs,”’ Tran. Roy. Soc., 
S. Aust., vol. III., 1880, pp. 140-170, plates 7-11. 
A contribution of apparent importance is plate 33 in R. M. 
Johnston’s “ Geology of Tasmania,” 1888. This plate is devoted 
to the illustration of fifteen species of Tertiary Brachiopoda, 
some of them are reputed by the author to occur at Table Cape ; 
however, as the figures are bad copies of those in my monograph, 
the local records based thereon are of no value. On pages 232 
and 233 of the same work is a list of our Paleogene Brachiopods 
showing provincial occurrences in parallel columns. The 
Tasmanian list I can only revise from the collection made by me 
on two separate visits to Table Cape ; and I am constrained to 
reject some of the names, as I have good reason to believe they 
were introduced through faulty identifications. In this connec- 
tion I urge that a mere superficial examination is not always 
reliable, and that in several instances actual dissection is neces- 
sary to resolve the similitudes, such as are presented by 
Terebratula vitreoides and Terebratella Tepperi; Magellania 
insolita and Terebratella furculifera (adult); Terebratula 
Aldinge and Terebratella furculifera (junior); Terebratella 
Woodsii and Magasella lunata. 
FAMILY TEREBRATULIDZ. 
Genus TEREBRATULA, Bruguiere. 
T. vitreoides, 7. Woods, 1878, non Tate, 1, p. 144. Pl. viii., fig. 5. 
Post-EocENE.—TABLE CapzE, Tasmania. 
T. Tateana, 7. Woods, 1878; T. vitreoides, Tate, 1, p. 144; non 
Waldheimia Tateana, Tate, 1, p. 150. PI. viii., fig. 2. 
