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of beds. Below the Bendigo series is found a series of rocks 
which are best studied at Lancefield, and are hence called 
Lancefieldian. ” 
The district to which his subsequent remarks apply extends 
westwards of Bendigo nearly to Bealiba, a distance of nearly 
40 miles, and from near Maryborough northwards to Ingle- 
wood, ^ a distance of about 25 miles. He considered the 
material from 40 localities, much of it “in an extremely poor 
state of preservation, so that in a large number of cases it 
was not possible to determine the fossils; still, from most 
localities, a sufficient number of identifications were made to 
fix the age of the beds approximately.” 
Prom a couple of miles east of Bealiba to Laanecoorie the 
rocks appear to be entirely of Lancefieldian age and this has 
been proved north and south along their strike for 15 miles. 
About 15 miles north of the east and west Bendigo-Bealiba 
line IS found at Inglewood, slightly to the east of the Laane- 
coorie strike Tetragraptus decipiens and Clonograptus sp., 
suggesting Lancefieldian and Tetragraptus approximatus 
hitherto only found in association with T. fruticosus at 
Bendigo and Dromana. “Its presence, then, may be taken 
to indicate on the one hand the top of the Lancefield, and, on 
the other, the base of the Bendigo series, and the two series 
pass into one another without a break.” He details the serial 
occurrences east and west of the Inglewood strike and the 
Bealiba-Laanecoorie belt and also those at Marong. 
He concluded that “the age of the rocks about Dunolly, in 
the middle of the Bealiba-Laanecoorie belt, is Lancefieldian, 
then on the Inglewood-Campbelltown-Smeaton strike we 
reach the higher Bendigonian series. The eastward continua- 
tion of this, between Llanelly and Marong, is basalt masked, 
but Bendigonian is again met with at Marong, and possibly 
still farther to the eastward.” 
He reported (70) on p*aptolites from Sebastian, which he 
placed in the Castlemaine Series (they are now known to 
belong to the Darriwil Series) and from several localities at 
Bendigo, Chewton, Dunolly, Bromley, Barp, Waanyarra, 
Goldsborough, Bet Bet, Tarnagulla, Elaine, Inglewood, 
Wedderburn (?), Moolort, Deep Creek (Parish of Bulla- 
rook), Eganstown, Wombat, Rocky Lead, and localities in 
the Parishes of Dean, Bullarook, Creswick, Smeaton, Claren- 
don, Painswick, Ballarat district, Woodend, Mansfield, 
Kevington district, Myrtleford district, ¥owa Nowa, Mt. 
Wellington district, and Accommodation Creek. 
He described and figured TricJiograptus fergusoni sp. nov.. 
