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and from their organic remains appear to correspond to Prof. 

 E. Forbes's Regions IV., V., VI., VII., and the upper part of Region 

 VIII., representing a depth beneath the surface of from 20 to 125 

 fathoms. The marly and gypseous beds 9 to 16, in which organic 

 remains are either very rare or wholly absent, are equivalent to the 

 lower portion of Region VIII., which approaches the zero of animal 

 life. We may therefore infer a tranquil condition throughout the 

 deposition of this Pliocene formation, during which the sea gradually 

 became shallower from the filling up of its bed, and the fauna under- 

 went corresponding modifications. The unconformability of the 

 subjacent Miocene rocks indicates a preceding period of distur- 

 bance, while the high angle at which the whole Pliocene series is now 

 elevated, proves an enormous dislocation at a very recent geological 

 date. 



List of Fossils from Lixouri in Cephalonia. 



The figures in the right-hand column refer to the beds in which some of the spe- 

 cies are found, as distinguished in the accompanying section. Those species to 

 which no number is attached were chiefly found in the beds 3 and 7, but their 

 precise position was not noted. 

 The species of which specimens have been presented to the Geological Society 

 are marked G. S. 



Stratum in 

 which found. 



G. S. 1. Caryophyllia conica? No. 8 



G. S. 2. Fungia 8 



G. S. 3. Lobularia arborea 5 



Balanus balanoides ?, hving in the Mediterranean. — F. 

 G. S. 4. Serpula arenaria, Lin., Brocchi ; Vermetus arenarius, Desh. — D. 

 G. S. 5. Serpula. 

 G. S. 6. Serpula glomerata, Lam. 



G. S. 7. Amphidesma pubescens 6 



G. S. 8. Corbula nucleus. 



9. Lucina spinifera {Mont.), living in Med. and Brit. seas. — F. 

 (Lucina lupinus, Desh. — D.) 



10. Astarte incrassata, Brocchi, pi. xiv. fig. 7. 



11. Venus paphia, Zm. 



12. Venus Boryi, nob. fossile de Moree. — D. 



G. S. 13. Venus casinoides ? 3 



14. Venus radiata, Brocchi. — D. (Venus ovata, Mont. — F.) 

 G. S. 15. Cardita aculeata, PMlippi ; Chama aculeata, Poli. — D 3 



16. Cardita. 



17. Circe minima {Mont.), living in Med. and Brit. seas. — F. (Cy- 



therea an venetiana ? jeune. — D.) 



18. Cardium aculeatum 6 



19. Isocardia cor 2 



G. S. 20. Area antiquata ? 



21. Area 2 



G. S. 22. Pectunculus, appartenant probablement au P. glycymeris, de 



Linne. — D 6 



G. S. 23. Pectunculus auritus, Brocchi, pi. xi. fig. 9 7 



24. Nucula minuta, Brocchi, pi. xi. fig. 4. 



25. Nucula. 



26. Chama. 



27. Pinna 6 



28. Pecten 4 



29. Pecten, from the quarries at Schceuo. 



