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4. Lametas or Infbatbappeans. —While working out the preceding series in the 
Pangadi plateau, I discovered a new set of rocks immediately underlying the lower flow 
of trap a short distance south of the village of Doodkooroo, which is likewise traceable to 
Gowreepatnam, a mile or so further east. The chabootra, or resting place, of Doodkooroo 
and the old pagoda of the second village are built of blocks from a fossiliferous bed of this 
group, which is so crowded with a species of Turritella that it may be called in the series 
the Turritella Zone. This shell is very closely allied to, if not actually identical with, 
T. (Torcula ) dispassa of Stoliczka (Cretaceous Fauna of Southern India, Palmon. Indies). 
The other associated fossils are Nautilus, Bostellaria, Murex, Fasciolaria, latirus ? 
Pyrula, Fusus, Pseudoliva, Pleurotoma, Volutilithes (very near Valuta tornlosa, Desh.), 
Nalica, Turritella (near T. Pondichemensis, Forbes, and T. Multislriata, Beuss.), 
Cerithium, and Dentalium. Ostrea, Cueidlea, Pectunculus, Corbie, Cardita (C. variabilis, 
Hisl. aud others), and Cytherea. There arc also a Ciliopod (Lunxdites) and numerous choice 
of a small crab. Only one of these forms, Cardita variabilis, is common to this zone and 
the intertrappeans. There is evidence, I think, to show that the bottom trap of Pangadi is 
lying uuconformably on the Turritella band. Lithologically, this group is very similar to 
the Lametas in other parts of India. 
5. Kajmahals. —These dark-red and brown ferruginous sandstones and conglomerates 
with a zone of fine white and buff shales containing Ammonites, Pecten, Nucula, fyc., with 
Palceozamia, Cycadites, Sfc., crop out from under the Lametas near Daywarrapilli. In 
addition to the above and another set of fossils from Innaparazpolliam, which Dr. Stoliczka, 
just before leaving on the Yarkand expedition, pronounced as having their equivalents in the 
Oumia beds of Kachh (uppermost jurassic strata), I have, during the last season, obtained a 
good series of plant remains from tbc Golapilly plateau some twelve miles west of Eitaro. They 
are Pterophyllum Jlislopianum, Palceozamia acutifolium, Pal. rigida, Pecjpieris Indica, 
P. ? lobata, Taxodites ?, Lycopodium ?, Auracarites ?, seeds, leaf-stalks, and stems. 
6. Damudas. —a. Kamthis. A further examination of the fossil-locality near Kun- 
lacheroo (pointed out by W. T. Blanford in a previous number of the Records) enabled me 
to secure the following:— Vertebraria, Glossoptcris Browneana, var. Indica, and var? 
Australacia, G. muscefolia ?, Nceggcrathia, Filicites, Phyllotheca Indica, Yuccites ?, and 
stems. 
b. BaraTcars. —The opinion already given by me in Yols. V and VI of the Records that 
the sandstones of Beddadanole are of this group, arid that they probably contained coal, has 
been confirmed by the borings selected for Mr. Yaustaveren, the Executive Engineer. Four 
seams of coal and carbonaceous shale were struck, only one of which is, however, of any 
thickness. The bore hole of this is near the eastern edge of the field; aud at 188 feet 
4 inches, a 4J foot seam of poor coal was found. My colleague Mr. Tween gives the follow¬ 
ing assay:— 
Carbon 
Volatile 
Ash 
Coal. 
Coke. 
16-4 
30*6 
Carbon 
22 5 
53-0 
Ash 
77*5 
100-0 
100-0 
This was evidently from a fair average of the material brought up from the hole, which 
was more black shale than anything else; for a subsequent analysis, of fragments of fair coal 
picked from the stuff, gives— 
Coal. Coke. 
Carbon 
37*0 
Carbon 
59*5 
Volatile 
37*8 
Ash 
25*2 
Ash 
40*5 
100*0 
1000 
