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gesting this surmise. I canuot adduce any stratigraphical evidence that hears 
ujjon the relationship of the Naogaon and M6har-Balanj)ur or Chirakunt beds, 
for sections are of the most bi'oken and uninstructive character throughout 
the whole of the valley of the Jangaon river. 
I was not able to visit the Chirakunt locality, but the whole stratigraphic 
features seemed to me to indicate that there might bo a set of rocks, over the red 
Clays, corresponding to the sandstones of Naogaon, for the He of both sand¬ 
stones and underlying red clays is very low or nearly flat over this part of the 
valley, and the fossils were obtained from a spot a short distance up the side 
of the hill range. The Mdhar and Balanpur fossils were found in sandstones 
apparently above the red clays; and I have not the smallest doubt but that 
these rocks answer to those of Naogaon, Aksapur, &c., in fact they belong to the 
Gungapur sandstones, that is, are above the fossihferous red clays. Hughes is 
right about their being in the Kota-Maleri group; but it is highly important that 
their horizon in this group should be known; and there is this fact certainly, 
that the Naogaon beds at any rate are Gungapurs, and that the Gungapurs are 
above the projjer red clays. 
Having so far made out a little more as to the horizon of the plant beds of 
the Jangaon valley, it would be a most important gain if they could be placed 
in accord with the Anaram beds to the south-east. I can, I think, cany the 
Gungapur sandstone zone down as far as Kondampeta, whence certainly it 
may have curved round to the east-south-east, and so form the Anaram strata 
too, thus lapping over the red clays of Isnai on to the Kamthis of Linganapeta. 
This seems a not untoward lie of the strata, and it is a very temjhing position to 
place them in, as it would give a sti’ong point in favor of the overlap indicated 
in the Wardha valley ; but I cannot satisfy myself on this point. The several 
bands of sandstone and limestone above the red clays aj)pcard to me to be all 
running south-east right at the Linganapeta gimmd. There is, however, a lower 
lie and a strike round more to the eastward in the rocks about a mile and a half 
or two miles north of the latter village, and the red clays spread out rather to 
the south-east of Isnai, so that there may really be a trend round towards 
Ycdlabundun. In the meantime, I prefer to think that the limestone member 
of the Kota-Maleris does not thin out so easily near Isnai, and that the Anaram 
beds’ position is between the Kota and Itial-Metapali band of Hmestones. 
The point I would now suggest is, that we have here, at the IsTiai end of the 
Maloi'i field, tolerably present in evidence that the red clays arc being well 
overlapped by higher and higher strata of the limestone member between Isnai 
and Anaram. 
For the whole field of Kota-Malcris, the various points gained or suggested 
may bo summarized thus— 
The sei'ies appears fairly separable into two groups, the Maleris and the 
Kotas, which have already been referred to in this paper as the Ecd-clay and 
Limestone members The Red-clay or Maleri sub-gi-oup is overlai)ped at its 
northern end, between the Jangaon and Wardha rivers, by an upper sandstone 
zone of the limestone or Kota sub-group; and oven before the doubtful boundary 
between the sandstones of Sironcha and the Kota limestone is reached to the 
