558 CAPT. p. W. HITTTON^ ON THE COEEELATIOXS OF THE 



*"WAiDHEnnA SFFPLATA, Tate, Trans. Phil. Soc. of Adelaide, 1880, 

 p. 18, pi. viii. f. 4. 



In the Kakanui hmestone. Found also in the Pareora and Wan- 

 ganui systems. 



*Teeebeatella Gatilteei, Morris. 



In the Ototara limestone at Cave Yalley. 



Magasella Woodsh, Tate, Trans. Phil. Soc. Adelaide, 1880, p. 24, 

 pi. X. f. 3. 

 Waldheimia fajoirina, Hutton, I.e. p. 36. 



In the Ototara limestone at Cave Yalley. Also in the Cobden 

 limestone. 



EcHDrODERMATA. 



Mackopxetistes (?) sPATAsr&rpoEMis, Hutton, Cat. Tertiary MoU. and 

 Echin. of ]S^. Z. p. 40. 



In the Ototara limestone ; also in the Cobden limestone. 



*Meo]!IA (?) Ceawfoedi, Hutton. 



In the Ototara limestone. 



Here again we have 21 species, of which 11, including Palceeu- 

 dy^tes, are found in the Curiosity-Shop or the "Weka-pass stone ; and 

 of the others, six are found in the Upper Eocene or younger deposits, 

 leaving only four as possible Cretaceo-Tertiary forms, and these, it 

 must be remembered, are not identical with any Waipara fossils. 



Yalley of the Waitaki. 



Although I am unable to give anything like a complete list of 

 the fossils found in the Yalley of the Waitaki, the district is too 

 important to be passed over. The following are mentioned by Dr. 

 Hector and by Mr. M'^Kay as occurring in rocks belonging to the 

 Cretaceo-Tertiary series (Eep. Geol. Expl. 1881). I have also added 

 four others from the Waihao limestone in the Canterbury Museum. 



Maerewhenua Limestone. 



Kekenodon onamata, Hector, Trans. N. Z. Inst. vol. xiii. p. 435, pi. xyiii, 

 (1881). 



Cetacean bones, in the lower part. 

 Pecten Hochstetteri, Zittel. 

 Meoma (?) Crawfordi, Hutton. 

 Graphulkria (?) senescens, Tate. 

 Flabellum circulare, Ten.-Woods. 



In 1880 Mr. M'^Kay stated that the beds overlj-ing the Maere- 

 whenua limestone must be referred to the Cretaceo-Tertiary series 

 from "the character of a majority of the fossils found in them" 

 (Geol. Rep. 1881, p. 69) : but the next year he referred this lime- 

 stone with the overl}ing beds to the Upper Eocene, also on account 

 of the fossils found in them (Z. c. p. 103). Certainly there is no 

 palseontological reason for separating this limestone from theWeka- 

 pass stone and the Curiosity-Shop beds. 



