40 



GOYEENMENT WELL, BETWEEN" BUEKA. AND XORTH-WEST-BEND. 



FT. 



Eed loamy clay (Pliocene)... ... ... ... 40 



Light-coloured sandstone with casts of shells ... 10 



Grravelly ironstone and layers of clay ... ) „, 



Blue marl ... ... ... ... ... j 



Sandstone without shells ... ... ... ... 17 



E-unning sand ... ... ... ... ... 6 



Total 154 



Similar results were obtained in a well-sinking five miles 

 east of the above, and at "nine-mile camp," near North- West 

 Bend. Again, at AVestbrook, about eleven miles north of 

 "Wellington and one and a-half east from the river, a blue marl 

 occurs near the bottom of a well, sixty feet deep, charged with 

 fossils in an excellent state of preservation. 



Charcharodon angustidens, Ag.; Otodus Desori, Ag.; Lamna 

 elegans, Ag. 



Aturia australis, McCot/. 



Typhis McCoyi, Woods ; Triton Abbottii, Woods ; Eanella 

 Prattii, Woods ; Nassa Tatei, Woods ; Ancillaria semilaevis, 

 Woods; A. mucronata, Sow.; A. hebera, Hutton {?); Cassis 

 textilis, Tate; Yoluta Hannafordi, McOoy ; Y. antiscalaris, 

 McCoy; Y. strophodon, McCoy; Marginella Wentworthi, 

 Woods; M. propiuqua, Tate; Niso psila, Woods; Eulima 

 acutispira, Woods; Leiostraca Johnstoni, Tate; Mangelia 

 bidens. Woods ; Daphnella gracillima. Woods ; Triforis sulcata, 

 T. Wilkinsoni, and T. planata. Woods ; Cerithium cibarioides, 

 Woods ; Cyprsea gigas, C. leptorhyncha, and C. consobrina, 

 McCoy; Trivia avellanoides, 2IcCoy ; Conus Traillii, Woods; 

 Cancellaria varicif era, Woods ; Torcula Murrayana, Tate ; 

 JVatica polita and N. Hamiltonensis, Woods; Solarium acutum, 

 Woods; Minolia strigata. Woods; Liotia Rohliwi, Johnston ; 

 Cyclostrema acuticarinata. Woods; Xenophora undulata(?); 

 PissurellidcTa malleata, Tate; Emarginula transenua. Woods; 

 Cylichna exigua, Woods; Bulla scrobiculata, Woods; Pecten 

 Tahliensis, P. Poulcheri, and P. iucertus. Woods ; P. Darwini, 

 Sow. ; P. Atkinsoni, Jolinston ; P. spoudyloides, Tate ; Lima 

 '^?i%%\\. Woods ; L. Jeffreysiana, Tate; Spondylus pseudoradula, 

 McCoy; Leda inconspicua, W^oods ; jSTucula tumida, Woods; 

 N. Atkinsoni, Jolinston ; Limopsis Belcheri, Pectunculus lati- 

 costatus (?). 



CucuUcTa Corioensis, McCoy ; Crasatclla oblouga, Woods; 

 Lepton crassum, Tate; Chama lamellifera, Woods; Cardium 

 pseudomagnum, McCoy ; Chione Cainozoica, Woods; C. dimor- 

 phophylla, Tate ; Corbula ephamilla, Tate. 



