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GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



strata of Calabria, I intend myself to describe in detail : mean- 

 while their extent may be judged of by an examination of the map 

 given by M. von TchihatchefT, which is copied with great accu- 

 racy from my original drawing f. 



Commencing with Sicily, we may include in one group the neigh- 

 bourhood of Buccheri, Caltagirone, Caltanissetta, Castrogiovanni, 

 Girgenti, Piazza, Sortino, Melilli and Syracuse. The following fos- 

 sils are found in these localities J. 



Solen siliqua 



coarctatus 



Solecurtus strigilatus.... 



Panopaea Faujasii 



Corbula nucleus 



Mactra solida 



inflata 



triangula 



Tellina donacina 



pulchella ......... 



Lucina spinosa 



*columbella 



*pensylvanica 



transversa ...f 



Donax semistriata 



Astarte incrassata 



* Cyprina islandica 



Cytherea exoleta 



rudis 



CyrilU 



lincta 



multilamella 



Venus senilis 



verrucosa 



gallina 



radiata 



Cardiura tuberculatum 



rusticum 



ciliare 



laevigatum 



echinatum 



Isocardia cor 



Cardita sulcata 



aculeata 



Area diluvii 



Nose 



barbata 



mytiloides 



t See the ' Coup d'oeil sur la Constitution Geologique des Provinces Meri- 

 dionales du royaume de Naples,' par M. de TchihatchefF. 



% The species printed in Italics are extinct, and those not now met with in the 

 neighbouring district of the Mediterranean are marked with an asterisk (*). 



