86 Records of the Geological Survey of India. [vol. ix. 
On the relations of the fosstliferous strata at Maleri and Kota, near Sironcha, 
Central Provinces, by Th. W. H. Hughes, a.r.s.m., f.g.s., Geological Survey of 
India. 
The fossiliferous strata alluded to in this paper have already been brought to notice 
directly in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London* and incidentally in 
our own Memoirs,t and various other publications, hut hitherto only speculative suggestions 
as to their mutual relations have resulted, the essential element of stratigraphical evidence 
having been wanting to complete the data for practical discussion. 
This year, however, in the course of a special tour in which I accompanied Mr. King 
Deputy Superintendent of the Survey for Madras, we were able to visit Kota and Maleri, 
and to trace the extension of the more prominent beds of the one locality into connection 
with those of the other, thus supplying the needed evidence. 
The result we have come to is, that the Kota and Maleri beds must he classed together, 
or, at all events, are members of the same series, and that they are younger than the Kam- 
thi, or Kamthi-Damuda series. 
The most interesting result of our palaeontological researches in the same district was 
the discovery by Mr. King, in strata below the beds at Kota, of a Palissya which Dr. 
Feistmantel has identified as a specific representative of one in the Rajmahal series ( Palis¬ 
sya conferta ); while in beds associated with the fossiliferous strata at Maleri, I detected 
another Palissya , referable to a species found in the Jabalpur group, and also the Arauca. 
rites of the Kach plant-beds. 
The fauna already known from Kota and Maleri is represented by relics of lepidotus, 
(Echmodus, and Ceratodus, with the crocodilian genus Paraswchus, Pyperodapedon, &c., 
some of which indicate a Triassic age, whilst none are represented by allied forms in Euro¬ 
pean strata at more recent period than the Liassic. 
We thus have associated in the same group plants of our Indian Jabalpur, Kach, and 
Kajmahal groups, and animals, which, if judged by European analogy, are certainly not 
younger than the age of the Lias. 
Dr. Eeistmantel has recently endeavoured to show that the flora of the Jabalpur, Kach 
and Kajmahal groups proves them to be older than the age usually ascribed to them, a view 
which our discovery tends to strengthen. 
Notes on the Fossil Mammalian Faun* of India and Burma, by R. Lydekker, b.a.. 
Geological Survey of India. 
The present short paper is intended to appear as a kind of preface to full descriptions 
of several new species of fossil mammalia which have lately 
Introduction. been discovered in the tertiary strata of India and Burma, 
chiefly by Members of the Geological Survey of India. 
These descriptions will appear in the “ Pakeontologia Indica,” according to the opportunities 
of publication. 
The formations and districts from which the remains of mammalia have hitherto been 
discovered in India and Burma are shown in the following 
Formations. lists ; these I have arranged according to that which seems 
to me to he their most probable succession in time ; several 
* VII, p. 272; VIII, p. 230; IX, p. 351; XVII, p. 34fl; XX, pp. 117, 280, &c. 
t II, p. 335 ; III, p. 202 ; IX, p. 33. 
