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Having established the D. O. and the Athleta beds, one not unnaturally 

 looks to see if the Katrol beds are at all in evidence. The place they should 

 occupy is just outside the D. O, beds — but here it is all the wide sandy 

 nulla, which would seem to have eroded all the outcrop of the katrol 

 layers. Considering how tough and hard the katrol beds along Fakirwadi 

 exhibit themselves, one would have thought the nulla would have left 

 several ridges outstanding : but from Habye for some distance east and 

 west there are no signs of katrol strata. However from near the village of 

 Jihadi — two miles west — a man brought me several Ammonites of distinct 

 katrol era : and I found katrol beds on the north east side of the hills near 

 Lodai tank. Looking towards the range from this latter tank, you see a 

 cluster of low flatly rounded knolls, coming down close to the tank. 

 Examine their broken debris — -and you will find katrol fossils . One is just like 

 the common Bathyplocus in its earlier stages : and one is an Oppelia (?) with 

 faint spiral furrow along the middle of the whorls — just such a one as I 

 found in sandy nodules at Yala Khawas in the Fakirwadi katrols. Other 

 fragments bear out the identity of the beds. One might guess that when 

 the Habye hills were squeezed up into their anticline, these knolls were 

 squeezed up as well. I had no time to examine the mass of them — but 

 their facies seemed much the same all over. So we may now consider it 

 proved that we have got exposed here the usual sequence — so far : viz ., 

 Katrol, D. O., and Athletas. 



To give a logbook of expeditions would be of little interest. I will 

 confine myself chiefly to the easiest ascent which I struck. Ride along 

 the cart road from camp eastwards till the road dips down into the big 

 nulla of the Khaswali River — just where the melon patches are being culti- 

 vated. Here on your left there emerges, through a cutting in the D. O. and 

 Athleta ridges, a small stream. Looking up through the gap, you see the 

 ground rising in easy slopes up to the crest of the main central ridge about 

 a mile away. Follow the nulla upwards. 



Your first ridge is D. O. : the second, Athleta : the third is a long gradual 

 slope of 300 yards. It is Anceps. Ammonites are rare — but the nulla 

 shows great quantities of marbled crimson slabs — marbled with the white of 

 shells. (There are too a great many slabs of a tough bluish-white stone 

 crammed with molluscs but these come from a bed someway higher up.) 

 One Ammonite fragment looks like Per. gudjinsirensis which 'grows' in 

 Fakirwadi Anceps : there are plenty of belemnites, pectens and other 

 molluscs. The dip of all these strata is, I should guess, about 1.5'". The 

 "false conglomerate" which occurs under Anceps beds in the LerHamundra 

 section also occurs here, coming up just where in my opinion the line 

 between Anceps and Sub Anceps beds may be drawn. Then come hard 

 dark-brown slabs of rock — full of mollusc life — rhynconella, pectens, etc., 

 also an Ammonite of the Perdagatus type, found in the same beds in the Ler 

 Hamundra Ellipse. Also a hollow-backed Nautilus — possibly kumagunensis. 

 (I might here add that hollow-backed Nautili occurs also in Athleta beds and 

 in D. O. Waagen's hollow-backed one was only from Macrocephalus strata.) 

 Descend the Falus of the Sub Anceps scarp, and you will find the light 

 bluish white slabs — of which many fragments have been carried down the 

 nulla — lying in situ. They form a great sheet, coating the succeeding hill : 

 I found only one Ammonite here — one of the Perdagatus type and from its 

 beautiful preservation and clearness I longed to find more — but time 

 forbade. Towards the summit of this knoll — ^whose lower part these slabs 

 cover — the grey fades away into yellow brown rocks which rise into a ridge. 

 Sitting down for a rest on its summit, one noted the protruding edge of an 

 Ammonite — which when duly hammered out of its environment showed some 

 affinity with the Ancep's family. The inner whorls had the large spine like 



