718 Col. Sykes on Fossils from Cutch. 



his prosecution of useful objects, so effectually realized my wishes, that in a 

 comparatively short time, a large collection of fossils reached me in England ; 

 a series of these I presented to the Society, and on examination, the genu- 

 ineness of Captain Smee's fossils was fully established from identical species 

 being met with in the collection. Shortly afterwards, Capt. Grant, of the 

 Bombay Engineers, arrived from Cutch, — rich in a collection of fossils, rich 

 in a local knowledge of the country, and doubly rich in his powers of 

 graphic delineation. His treasures and memoranda were submitted to the 

 Society, and I thought no more of mine. It appears, however, that independ- 

 ently of there being some few specimens in my collection from the field of 

 Capt. Grant's researches which he does not possess, a series of my shells 

 comes from a territory not geologically investigated by Capt. Grant, namely, 

 the desert N.E. of Cutch, from Balmeer and Joonah, and the plains and ri- 

 vers in their neighbourhood, and proved by the specimens collected by Col. 

 Pottinger to belong to the same series of beds as those from which Capt. 

 Smee's and Col. Pottinger's specimens were obtained in Cutch. Under these 

 circumstances it has been thought desirable to figure the new specimens 

 from Cutch and the Desert ; and the present notice may be looked upon 

 as an appendix to my former memoranda on Capt. Smee's fossils. 



W. H. Sykes. 



List of Fossils contained in the collections of Capt. Smee and Col. Pottinger, determined by Mr. 

 James de Carle Sowerby. (Plates XXII. to XXV. accompany Capt. Grant's Memoir, see 

 ante, p. 289.) 



Genus and Species. Reference. Locality. 



Lycophrysdispansas.Capt.Grant'sMem. XXIV. f. 16. Near Luckput Bunder*. 



Corbula pectinata LXI. f. 4, 4 a. Dookenarra, in the Runn *. 



Astarte major LXI. f. 1 . "1 



. compressa LXI. f. 2. /'" '^^ neighbourhood of Shahpoor*. 



• rotunda LXI. f. 3, 3 a. Hills 12 to 15 miles north of Boojf. 



Trigonia costata, Min. Con. LXXXV. . Woodcut fig. 1. Ibidf. 



Smeeii LXI. f. ,5. Shahpoor*. 



Cucullaea virgata, Capt. Grant's Mem. . XXII. f. 1, 2 J. Hills 12 to 15 miles north of Boojf. 



Nucula tenuistriata, Capt. Grant's Mem. XXII. f. 3. Ibidf. 



Plicatula pectinoides, M. C. CCCCIX. . XXII. f. 6, 9 a. Ibid.f;alsoDeserttotheN.E.ofCutch. 



Ostrea orbicularis, Capt. Grant's Mem. XXIV. f. 8. Hills 12 to 15 miles north of Boojf. 



flabellulum, Min. Con. CCLIII. XXV. f. 8. Ibidf. 



Ostrea carinata? Min. Con. CCCLXV. XXII. f. 8. Ibidf. 

 Marshii? Min. Con. XLVIII. XXII. f. 9. Ibidf. 



* From Capt. Smee's collection. f From Col. Pottinger's collection. 

 X C. virgata, a young specimen, is represented in PI. LXI. f. 6. 



