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more or less long sutural lobe ; but in most cases, the development of the 

 second lateral is not interfered with by the exiiberance of the auxiliaries. 

 In some cases (of specimens which look like brothers) there is a difference, 

 in that the 2nd auxiliary sometimes crosses the apex of the 2nd Lateral, 

 sometimes does not. Pottingeri which is fairly common along Fakirwadi 

 seems at a discount here. Katrolensis there is : also some other species 

 which I can not identify with Waagen's : one may be bleicheri : it agrees in 

 every point except with the high and sharp ribs named by Waagen : some 

 may be Chloroolithicus. Several look much likeUhlig's bipliccctus, except that 

 the height of the last whorl is not pronounced enough. One half specimen 

 looks very much like Uhlig's Per. smWi-woodwardi. The cleancut Virgatos- 

 phinct ribs are few and only on the body chamber : but they are clean and 

 decided .■ and moreover the ribs of both sides do not always correspond with 

 the ribs on the other flank, as seems to be the case in Uhlig's back view of 

 S7nith-iooodioardi. (This non-correspondence of ribs is a very common 

 feature of these Katrol specimens). But the specimen has the inner whorls 

 mostly blocked by hard iron stone. The section shows great similarity in 

 .+he development of the shape of the whorls. Other Katrol specimens are 

 ilitich like Tibetanus of Spiti, but are not Aulacosphinct. 



I must leave the other peculiar specimens of that class. Description is 

 of not much use. All I want to do is to induce some Ammonitologist to 

 become interested. 



A Lytoceras must be named. Its strise, though thicker or more elevated 

 in some places than in others, have no cremulations : but only the body 

 chamber is visible : inner whorls if extricable might be interesting. Phyl- 

 loceras mediterran&um (or what seems to be that) is also here. I have now 

 some 10 specimens of this from Katrol beds, Waagen's were found much 

 lower. There is also a worn half specimen of Phijll. disputabile : its lopes 

 agree with Waagen's illustration of disputabile'' s lopes : it is not lodaiense. 

 Waagen's disputabile came from Macrocephalus beds where I have also found 

 them. There is also an Aspidoceras like binodiferum but with differing 

 suture. OppelicB of the Trachynota group are not infrequent. 



The layers of rock teeming with Ammonites die out very soon. I doubt if 

 here they are more than 50 feet deep: near the Barapur Road (Fakirwadi 

 Ridge) they extend for perhaps 300 feet of depth. The cold brown and 

 red supervene and produce practically nil. I stalked across the ladder 

 like outcrops for a mile up to the foot of the high range. That the rocks 

 were marine was still evident for a rare belemnite here and there showed 

 it; on one ridge perhaps 100 feet above the rich vein. I found an ammonite 

 of, I think, the Evoluti with very early trichotone sharp ribs and at the foot 

 of the high hill the fragment of another Evoluti. The outer cast of an 

 Aspidoceras like Subdistractum — with very long spines I had found pre- 

 viously somewhere about the middle of this ridge ladder. 



What with the multitude of forms not yet recorded from Cutch, and with 

 the alterations which seem to be now necessary in Waagen's work (c.(?., 

 Polyphemus, Torquatus, Frequens) and with the Spiti specimens available 

 for comparison, it does not seem out of place to urge a fresh examination 

 of the Cutch ammonites. If a member or a friend of the Society would 

 take it up, there would be a fresh feather to plant in the Society's cap. 



J. H. SMITH. 



Bhuj, 25t/z January 1914. 



