6 NOETLING: MARINE FOSSILS FROM MIOCENE, UPPER BURMA. 



Burma might considerably alter these results. For the present it will 



be sufficient to say that the fauna of the miocene beds in Burma 

 consists of— 



i. Indigenous species ....••• 23 



2. Indian species • • . • . • • • 18 



3. Java species • 7 



4. European species ........ 1 



5. Recent species before not known in a fossil state • 2 



Total . 51 species. 



In short, it is a fauna which represents a marked Indian facies, 

 slightly sprinkled with a more southern element from Java. 



DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES. 



I. COELENTERATA. 

 PARACYATHUS C/ERULEUS, Duncan. Plate I, Fig. i— 20. 



. 1889. Paracyathus caeruleus, Duncan, On the Madreporia of the Mergui Archi- 

 pelago, Journal of the Linnean Soc. Zoology, 

 Vol. XXI, page 5, plate I, figs. 10-11. 



The corallum is small, with rather a broad base and a constricted 

 stem ; the calice is shallow, elliptical ; marginal axis nearly in the same 

 plane ; septae in five incomplete circles, very unequal, their sides 

 being largely papillose, neither paii nor columella visible ; costae 

 low sub-equal, narrow and distinctly granular. 



Locality. — Common at Yenangyat, rare at Minbu. 



Remarks. — Through the kindness of Dr. Alcock I have been able 

 to compare the fossil species with Prof. Duncan's original, and all I can 

 say is that I found it impossible to discover the slightest difference. 

 For comparison I give here the figure of the recent Paracyathus 

 caeruleus from the Mergui Archipelago, the specimen not figured 

 in Prof, Duncan's paper, and even the closest examination will fail to 

 show any difference. 



EUPSAMMIA REGALIS, Alcock. Plate I, Fig. 3— 3a. 

 1893, Eupsammia regalis, Alcock Journ., Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. LXII, part 2, 



page 144, plate V, figs, 8 and 8a, 



Although none of the specimens under examination are well pre- 

 served, most of them being crushed, I have convinced myself by 

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