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shale : seams of crimson iron nodulelets or cubes thread the shales, and the 

 exposed surface is a mass of small crimson debris, soft to walk over. A 

 similar belt also occurs in the shales above the Katrol brown rocks ; so one 

 cannot be sure of being on Anceps ground until one has noted the overlie 

 oftheD. O., or found ' Anceps ' fossils. The thickness is not given: I 

 should put it down as about 200 feet, varying of course. You can be 

 pretty sure of picking up something nice in a belt of Anceps rock. Pensp. 

 omphalodes is fairly common and in good preservation. Ferisph. 

 obtusicosta is not infrequent, but seldom complete. Waagen says Per. 

 anceps is rare : but on the S. E. side of Keera Hill, they are fairly plenti- 

 ful. Here too I found two pretty Per. pseudorion. Phyllocems of ihefeddeni 

 type occur : also Lytoeeras adeloides. 



No. 9. Macrocephalus beds are best seen at Keera Hill, as recently 

 described. The sub-Anceps beds in the Ler-Hamundra Ellipse (along 

 Charwar) contain many specimens of the same species as are found in the 

 upper Macrocephalus beds at Keera. Stepli. fissum and Opis : Perisph. 

 Balinensis, Perdagatics, &c. : so though the two beds have a different 

 colour and structure, yet they belong to the same period. Waagen has 

 divided the Keera beds roughly into golden oolite below and Macr. 

 shales above : but where the thickness is so great, quite 1,000 feet, I should 

 say, this seems capable of improvement. In my previous notes, I gave a 

 rough description of the succession of beds there, but it needs expert 

 diagnosis to mark out actual zones. The upper layers at Keera contain 

 Lyt. adeloides, Phyll. disputabile ■, Harp, ipiobile and Crassefalcatum, and Ste2oh. 

 fissum ; the beds below it numerous other species of Stephanoeeras. 



No. 10. Putchum beds. Waagen says that 0pp. cf. Serriyera marke 

 this upper Putchum bed : however his 3 specimens came from Nurrha, 

 which is on the Cutch mainland, not from Putchum island. I suppose beds 

 lower than Callorian are found at Nurrha as well as in Putchum. Putchum 

 itself produces, it seems, only very badly preserved specimens : and no 

 Ammonites have been found yet in the lower Putchum Stratum, No. 11. 



Waagen calculated the main Putchum beds to be Bathonian, chiefly or. 

 the character of Molluscs other than Ammonites. The upper-most 

 Putchum beds are Callovian (see his note on Steph. Grantanum). 



But though at Keera the Macrocephalus beds full of Ammonites come in 

 regular succession below the Anceps beds, yet in the Ler Hamundra 

 Ellipse only the top Macrocephalus beds appear, to be succeeded by con- 

 siderable depths of grey sandstone without the sign of an Ammonite. Of 

 this I write above. 



J. H. SMITH. 



