1866.] the Western Himalaya and Afghan Mountains. 169 
Everything in the Weean bed tells of a shallow sea formation. 
The rocks in some localities, to be described hereafter, have been 
much altered by heat or other forces soon after their formation. We 
shall see them thus altered at Manus Bal and at Islamabad, and 
also at the Kafir Kote in the Punjab district of Bunnoo. It appears 
that considerable disturbances occurred while the Weean Bed was 
still in a soft state. But this subject will be examined more carefully 
in another paragraph of this paper. 
The fossils differ a great deal from those of the Zeeawan Bed. In 
most layers they are mere debris hardly to be recognized. When 
they do occur, they are always crowded together in limited beds. 
The Spiriferine and Terebratule appear to have lived in shallow 
lagoons, in creeks in the sand, in pools on a flat marshy shore, 
and the large bivalves on sandbanks and shallows. The following 
fossils appear to be characteristic of the Weean Bed, as they 
are not found either in the Zeeawan Bed below or the Kothair bed 
above. 
Spiriferina Stracheyit (Salter) ? 
¥ Stracheywt (Salter)? var. altior, (Verch.). 
Solenopsis imbricata ? (Koninck). 
Pl Vale tie 
Cucullea ? sp. -— Pl. VI. fig. 4. 
Anthracosia ? (King)—Cardinia, sp. Pl. VI. fig. 3. — 
i ? Cardinia ovalis ? (Martin) Pl. VI. fig. 3. 
Axinus, sp. n., allied to A. obscurus. 
Solenopsis sp. 
Aviculo-Pecten dissimilis (Fleming). 
a ot Sp. cn. (A. circularis, Verchére,) Plat. VII. 
[fig. 1, la, & 1b. 
E 4 SY ? Pl. VL. fig. 6, 6a, 6b. 
4, CSP MET) VAR high ot, ia. 
a ih Sp: CPL Vi igea, vas 1b: 
‘ » sp. n. ——?(4. Testudo, Verch.) Pl. VIL fig. 3, 3a. 
45 » sp n.? CA. Gibbosus, Verch.) Pl. VII. fig. 4, 4a. 
Goniatites, sp. 
like G. Henslowiw (Sowerby). 
Entomostrace-~Cypridinia ? 
Foraminifere, - 
Crinoidea ; Cyathocrinites and Pentremites. 
