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rocks of this mountain to the Upper Sinian." At any rate, the latter geologist 

 did not succeed in finding any organic remains suggesting the Devonian age 

 in the district lying north of Lake Po-yang, that is in the frontier district of 

 the three provinces of An-wei,^' Kiang-si and Hu-pei. 



Many years ago, T. Ogawa submitted to me for examination a lot of De- 

 vonian fossils said to have been derived from the vicinity of Ling-ling,^' Yung- 

 chou-fu,*^ prov. Hu-nan ; it comprises 



Spirifer vernaiili Murch. 



Crania obsoleta Goldf. ? 



Spirorbis oinplialodcs Goldf. 



CJiactetcs parasitica KA^'SER ? 



Aulopora tiibacforinis Goldf. 



NoDA*^^ who travelled along the upper course of the Hsian-kiang'^ from- 

 Yung-chou to Kwei-lin*' in the province of Kwang-si, found the Upper Palaeo- 

 zoic formation well developed in the district, and composed of tvv^o beds 

 of h'mestone, two beds of clayslate and one of sandstone in alternation ; 

 although he provisionally referred this complex to the Carboniferous, yet the 

 above mentioned occurrence of Upper Devonian fossils in the vicinity of Ling- 

 ling renders it highy probable that at least a part of the complex or more 

 likely its greater part must be assigned to the Devonian. 



Moreover, Frech*' has very recently reported the occurrence of the 

 Middle Devonian StriiigocLphaliis limestone in Hu-nan, based on material' 

 collected by Oemichen ; according to the information given by the latter to 



1) See the geological map ol' southern China accompanying Noda's paper entitled Report on ■ 

 the survey work in the four provinces of Hu-nan, Kiang-si, Kwang-tun::^ and Kwang-si; - 

 igi6. (in Japanese). 



2) An-wei = ^{|i: 



3) Ling-ling = :^p^ 



4) Jun-chou-=:^;I|| 



5) H. Yabe: Devonian Fossils from Hu-nan, China. Journ. Geol. Soc. Tok) o, vol., XI. . 

 pp. 443-445- 1904. 



6) NoDA. I.e. p. 13. 



7) Hsing-kiang = -^01 



8) Kwei-lin = ;^-||: 



q) Frech: Beitrage zur Geologie Chinas. \. Ein neues Vorkommen des Stringocephlen- - 

 kalkes in Hu-nan. Centralbl. f. M. G. P. 1914. pp. 193-202. Frech: Ueber einige 

 mitteldevonische Beilerofhm:-Kxte.T\. Centralbl. f. M.G.P. 1914. pp. i6i-i6g. 



