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Upon North Island: 
a) Waitemata beds: sandstone and shale on the Isthmus of Auckland and 
on North shore, generally scarce of fossils. — On the Orakei Bay near 
Auckland sandy glauconite-bearing strata, abounding in foraminifene 
and bryozoes, together with small specimens of pectens (P. Auck- 
landicus ; P. Fisheri Zitt.), bivalves, and forms resembling belemnites 
(probably Vaginella-shells). On North shore and on St. George's Bay 
with pieces of drift-wood turned into brown-coal. 
b) Limestone near Papakura: marls abounding in foraminiferre and bryozoes, 
and tabular limestone opened in quarries, with Turbinolia, Schizaster, 
Waldheimia gravida, Pecten Fisher i, Neritopsis etc. 
c) Finely granulated sandstone (resembling the Quader-Sandstein of Sa- 
xony): on Waikato Southhead resting unconformable above the belemnite- 
beds, and on the West coast south of the mouth of the Waikato, containing 
Cidaris , Nucleolites, Schizaster , Fasciculipora , Retepora , Cellcpora, Wald- 
heimia , Pecten etc. 
d) The shales and tabular limestones on the West coast of the Prov. 
Auckland (Whaingaroa, Aotea, and Kawhia Harbours) with numerous 
foraminiferm and other fossils. 
e) The cave-limestone of the Upper Waipa and Mokau Country with caves, 
funnel-shaped holes in the ground and subterraneous water-courses. 
Upon South Island: 
f) Motupipi and Rangiheta Limestone on Golden Bay (Prov. Nelson), 
tabular limestone deposited upon the brown-coal bearing strata, with 
Brissus eximius Zitt. 
Pecten athleta Zitt. 
„ Burnetii Zitt. 
Waldheimia lenticular is Desh. 
g) The sandy cave-limestones of the Aorere Valley, and the sandy lime- 
stones on Cape Farewell (Prov. Nelson). On Cape Farewell witli a 
great abundance of fossils: Ilemipatagus formosus and tuberculatus Zitt., 
very frequent* Pecten Hoclistetteri Zitt. 
li) The auriferous conglomerates of the Aorere Valley , developed especially 
on the “Quartz ranges", (perhaps belonging to the driftformation). 
Commencement of the gold-digging on the Aorere goldfield in 1857. 
Here I enumerate also: 
i) White and yellow, foraminiferous sandstones and green sands, com- 
pared by english geologists with the chalk-tuffs of Mastricht and Faxo: 
Mataura and Shag Valley Series (according to Dr. Lindsay ). 
Ototora (Oamaru) Series (Prov. Otago) calcareo-arenaceous, greatly 
