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the underlying tertiary beds are grass grown and largely 

 obscured by talus. Another cutting is seen on the road 

 nearby which turns off in a westerly direction to Port 

 Noarlunga, and here, again, the fossiliferous beds show in 

 the rise of the road, but soon pass below surface level, and 

 are covered, first by the small quartz gravel and then by 

 variegated river sands of considerable thickness. 



Lithologically, the beds bear a close resemblance to the 

 argillaceous limestones of Blanche Point, with which they also 

 agree in having Turrit ella aldingae as the characteristic fossil. 

 The beds at Hackham, however, have a greater tendency to 

 become cherty in their composition. 



With the exception of the fossil named, the organic 

 remains are not particularly numerous, and are present only 

 as impressions or casts. Examples of Siliquaria (undescribed) 

 sometimes occur in considerable numbers in groups, and there 

 were also noted: Pecten, Magellania, Cellepora gambierensis, 

 and spines of echinozoa. 



Walter How chin. 



Evening Meeting, September 12, 1918. 



Note on Lepidopleurus badius (Hedley and Hull). 



Lepidopleurus badius, Hedley and Hull : Records Austr. 

 Mus., vol. vii., No. iv., 1909, p. 260, pi. lxxiii., figs. 1, 2; G-atliff 

 and Gabriel: Proc. Roy. Soc. Vict. vol. xxv. (N.S.), part 1, 

 1912, p. 171. 



This species was taken by me at Cape Jervis on December 

 28, 1917, and is now recorded for the first time for South 

 Australia. The species was named from New South Wales, 

 and was later taken in Victoria. Mr. Hull and Mr. Gatliff 

 kindly identified the South Australian shells, which were 

 taken on the under-surface of a medium-sized boulder on 

 the reef below water at low tide. It manifested the same 

 habitat as at the type locality, where, "though a rare shell, 

 fifteen specimens were found under one small stone"; for at 

 Cape Jervis fourteen examples were taken from beneath one 

 stone . 



Frank L. Saunders, 



(presented through the President). 

 Evening Meeting, October 10, 1918. 



