132 Mr. E. A. Smith on the Marine 



Kellia suhorhicularis (Montagu). 



Hah. North Sea, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Port Elizabeth, 

 Kerguelen Island. 



This species has been recorded from all the above localities, 

 and it is quite probable that K. rotunda^ Deshayes, an Aus- 

 tralian species, is not specifically separable from it. 



TJiecalia concamerata (Brugui^re). 



Hah. South Africa and South Australia. 

 Only a few small valves of this species were obtained 

 by Capt. Turton. 



Grenella rhomhea (Berkeley). 



Huh. English coast, North Atlantic, Mediterranean. 



This species having been got at St. Helena on " sea-horn," 

 the term locally applied to this kind of floating seaweed, it 

 doubtless also occurs at the Cape, although it has not at 

 present been recorded from there. 



III. Maeine Species found Inland. 



The discovery of a considerable number of marine shells at 

 an elevation of about 700 feet is an interesting fact, as nothing 

 of this kind had been observed previously in the island. 

 Capt. Turton, who found them in small patches of sand 

 which had accumulated in certain spots in the bed of a small 

 dried-up watercourse on Sugarloaf Hidge, was at a loss to 

 account for their occurrence in that locality. Mr. R. B. 

 Newton, to whom I mentioned the subject, suggested that 

 probably wind was the agency by which they had been 

 carried up the hillside. This seems a very likely solution, 

 for without exception all the shells are very minute and 

 might easily be blown any distance by hurricanes or whirl- 

 winds. Capt. Turton found these accumulations of sand at 

 intervals, and it would appear that, when storms rushed up 

 the slope, the sand was stopped here and there by projecting 

 rock and accumulated accordingly. He informs me that 

 " the largest patch of sand did not exceed a very few cubic 

 yards, but of course the rains had washed all the rest away." 

 Such accumulations are known to geologists as ^olian or 

 Eluvium deposits. This is not an instance of a raised beach, 

 as the surroundings generally testify ; besides, if such were 

 the case, we should expect to meet with larger marine objects 



