148 Journ. of the Asiat. Soc. of Bengal. [May & June, 1915, 
for the time being, the Champion gneiss. Other patches of 
what is believed to be the same gneiss have been recognized 
more recently in the Shimoga, Chitaldrug and Kadur Districts, 
and several of these contain or form friction-breccias or agglo- 
merates which at one time were regarded as undoubtedly 
sedimentary conglomerates. 
e Champion gneiss represents a very early period of 
granitic intrusion into the Dharwar schists. of the 
various granites, but so protean that no adequate description 
can be given here. € various granites, of which three are 
often distinctly recognizable, give evidence of successivé 
intrusion, and the fact that the earlier forms contain theif 
variable extent, with lenses, patches, and fragments of 
Dharwars chiefly, as might b é he le 
or hornblendic divining. € expected, belonging to 
