AUSTRALIAN TERTIARY FORMATIONS. ee 
which certainly throw gers light on our Tertiary beds, will find 
the following pres ces ul:—* On the Geology of the Maltese 
Islands, with "re on te. ossils by Prof. E. Forbes, Proc. Geol. 
Soc. Lond., vol. Ae. 995 * On Fossil Echinoderms ‘fromm Malta, 
Fe., by Thos . Wright, U.D.: Ann. Nat. Hist. , Feby. 1855, p. 101 ; 
also Fossil Echinoderms of Malta, by Wright : Jour. Geol. Soe. 
p.4 
Yellow sand ; 3. Clay ; 4. Caleareous sandstone ; 5. Hard cherty 
flintstone. The Tehinsdevmate are the most abundant and 
characteristic fossils. Judei 
ging from the figures of Wright, there 
are few that resemble our fossil species except Echinolampas 
Deshayesii, which is in no way Sei mare from my Echino 
rag Gambieriensis, which I t s the one described by Laube 
. ovukum, and considered ye hei a distinct species from the 
ori form, Pegoniasdlcs Vassali, Wright, and another which 
is regarded as identical by Pro essor Duncan. Dr. right con- 
sidered it as resembling Catopygus capeee on from the upper 
chalk of Belgium, an ering but slightly from Wucleolites 
RPori yobs subearinatus of the Mi dale Tertiaries of Biinde. 
rofessor Duncan remarks that the genus is essentially tertiary, 
but Forbes dasovibich one which j is probably a Casstdulus, from the 
Indian cretaceous. The numerous species have been found in 
2nd series, . 184), is not to be distinguished from our existing 
temporaneous rocks s the existing fauna here. There 
are not wanting facts which would support this view—it certain] 
is the case with the corals inthia Australis sometimes attains 
a very large size, but generally it is found of the dimensions 
given by WwW The Maltese Spatangus ocellatus, Defrance, 
1s extremely like our Lovenia sii, Woods and Dunc., but they 
ng to different genera. estion, however, whether the 
t is very rare to see the internal fasciole on our 
fo but but it seems to me that even from Wright's figures arg 
Society, vol. 20, pl. 21, 1) 
h a mark, ie f t from the atrophy of the apical 
pores of the 0 this of 
comme: 
who can refer to the 
