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Cytherea nitidula, Desk. Rostellaria rimosa ?, Sow. 



elegans, Lam. Sanguinolaria Hollowaysii, Sow. 



Deiitaliuin, n. s. (the common Brackle- Solen obliquus, Sow. 



sham one). Tellina donacialis, Lam. 



Fusus bulbiformis, Lam. tenuistriata, Desk. 



Globulus Willemettii, Desk. Turritella imbricataria, Lam. 



lufundibulum trochiforme, Sow. sulcifera, Lam. 



Natica. Venericardia acuticosta ?, Lam. 



Nummulites Isevigatus, Sow. Voluta. 

 Panopaea corrugata, Sow. 



Apparently overlying these beds are a series of dark grey sandy 

 clays and impure green sands, whicli were visible for a time iii the 

 cutting of the Dorchester railway crossing the London road at the 

 entrance to Southampton. They there contain extremely few fossils, 

 and those few very friable and imperfect. They consist of the Corbula 

 striata, Venericardia elegans, and a small Turritella. Some small 

 semi-indurated masses full of these shells, most of them mere impres- 

 sions and mixed with numerous fragments of carbonized wood, could 

 hardly in hand specimens be distinguished from specimens from 

 Shapley. 



To these strata succeed dark green sands, which underlie part of 

 the town. The docks are excavated in them. The following very 

 typical group of fossils were then found*. (See "a. 1," fig. 5, p. 388.) 



Fossils from part of the BracJdesham hedsy Southampton Docks, 



Turritella sulcifera, Lam. ^^ . 



Venericardia planicosta, Lam. 



leeih. oi Lamna elegans, k^as.i^ish \o isdn 



Otodus obliquus, Agas..~ "r „ ,, ., 



Carcharodon megalotis, Agas, 



another species, same as at Goldsworthy. 



Pristis acutidens, Agas. 



Palatal teeth of Edaphodon Bucklandi, Agas. 



Mtobates. 



Myliobates punctatus, Agas.? 



jugalis, Agas.? 



goniopleurus, Agas. ? 



und. spec, same as at Goldsworthy. 



Vertebra of Lamna and Myliobates. 



Serpent. 



Bones of Turtles. 



Bone, apparently of a ilfam»2a/. -''^^ ^^^l^^^'^}:f^ 



A beautiful undescribed palate of a fish. 



/a 



The large Venericardia and Turritella are here, as at White-Cliff 

 Bay, very abundant. They present, with the associated fishes, a 

 group of fossils singularly analogous to that just described from the 

 Middle Bagshot sands at Goldsworthy Hill. oiBwrijiofi ori^ 



In the upper division of the Bagshot sands organic mnains' are 

 extremely rare, and where they exist they are not easy to find. The 

 great mass of these sands contain no traces of fossils. Here and there 



* We are indebted to Mr. Keele of Southampton for the preservation of the 

 very interesting group of fossils found here, and which he has had the kindness 

 to place in my hands. 



