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 Spiriferince and Terebratidce 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. 



Sjpiriferina Stracheyii (Salter) ? 



,, Stracheyii (Salter) ? var. altior, (Verch.). 



Solenopsis imbricata ? (Koninck). 



Solenopsis sp. PI. VI. fig. 1. 



Cucullwa ? sp. PI. VI. fig. 4. 



Anthracosia ? (King) — Cardinia, sp. PI. VI. fig. 3. 



„ ? Cardinia ovalis ? (Martin) PI. VI. fig. 3. 



Axinus, sp. n., allied to A. obscurus. 

 Aviculo-Pecten dissimilis (Fleming). 



„ „ sp. n. (.4. circularise Verchere,) Plat. VII. 



[fig. 1, la, & lb. 



„ sp. ? PI. VI. fig. 6, 6a, 6b. 



„ sp. ? PI. VI. fig. 7, 7a. 



„ sp. ? PI. VI. fig. 7, 7a, 7b. 



„ „ sp . n . ? (A. Testudo, Verch.) PL VII. fig. 3, 3a. 



„ „ sp n.? (A. Gibbosus, Verch.) PI. VII. fig. 4, 4a. 



Goniatites } sp. like G. Henslowii (Sowerby). 



Entomostracce -Gypridinicz ? 



Foraminifera. 



Crinoidea ; Cyathocrinites and Pentremites. 



