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Laclinic, Carnic, and I^oric horizons, and pass conformably 

 upAvards into the Lias. 



(c) Piroutet regards the lowest fossiliferous beds, which contain 

 Salohia zitteli, as of Upper Ladinic age. I can find no 

 mention of the occurrence of any equivalent in I^ew 

 Caledonia of the Kaihiku fossiliferous beds with Daonella 

 indica, which form a lower horizon than the Halohia- 

 zitteli Bed in New Zealand. Spiriferinafragilis, however, 

 figures in Piroutet' s list of fossils, and so some members 

 or survivals of the Muschelkalk fauna seem to be present. 

 I prefer to regard Salohia zitteli as a Carnic fossil and 

 the bed below it as Ladino-Carnic. 



(f?) The Carnic Series in New Caledonia has the beds with 

 Mytilus prohlematicus as its base, and includes among 

 its fossils Halohia siiperba, H. austriaca, several indeter- 

 minate species of Arcestes, DiscophyUites, Spirigera, 

 Spiriferina, etc. 



{e) The Noric attains a thickness of at least 4920 feet, and 

 contains Pseiidoinonotis richmondiana in great abundance. 

 There is no record yet of Ps. ochotica or Monotis salinaria 

 in New Caledonia. 



(y) No mention is made of any definite E-hsetic fauna, nor can 

 any reference to the bisulcate Spirigerids of the Hectoria 

 group be found, Piroutet, however, records fossils which 

 present affinities with those of the Alpine Dachstein in his 

 lists. 



(^g) The JSlytilus-problemaiicus Beds are said to be transgres- 

 sive, and to begin in the coastal region with a conspicuous 

 conglomerate, which rests upon the trachj^tic tuffs of the 

 middle portion of the underlying series. The Fseudo- 

 monotis Beds are again transgressive, and rest upon beds 

 increasingly older as they extend Avestwards. 



The presence in Ncaa^ Zealand of thick and coarse conglomerates 

 at various horizons, together Avith the local absence of the Noric 

 Fseudomonotis Beds, points to local transgression and retrogression. 

 This is notabl}^ the case at Nugget Point, Avhere a thick coarse 

 conglomerate aj^pears rather Ioav in the Carnic, and Avhere the 

 JPseudomonotis Beds are entirely Avanting. The Trias in Ncav 

 Zealand, hoAvever, is too much disturbed, and the outcrops are too 

 discontinuous to enable one to make definite assertions as to the 

 extent or du-ection of such transgressions. 



The Triassic deposits in the eastern part of the Mala}" Archi- 

 pelago belong, AA^th one exception, to the Upper Trias. The ex- 

 ception is that of a piece of rock containing a Ceratitic ammonite 

 of the genus Dinarites, Avhich was' ejected by a mud- volcano on the 

 southern coast of Timor. Upper Trias has been found on seven 

 distinct islands spread over the Avhole East Indian Archipelago. 

 The beds discovered by Volz in Sumatra, and those in Borneo 

 •described by Vogel, are also of Upper Triassic age. 



