( 106 ) 
The following* parallel lists represent what now appear 
to he synonyms; to prevent future confusion, I have marked 
with an ( * ) those which claim priority of publication :— 
Prof. Oppel, 1864 
A, Sommer ringi, Opp. 
Blanford, 1863. 
* A. octagonus, Str. 
* A. Spitiensis, Blanf. 
* A. guttaius, Str. 
* A. Gerardi, Blanf. 
* A. Wallicliii, Gray. 
* A. acucinctus, Str. 
* A. (Cer.) Himalayanus, 
Blanf. 
* A. Hyphasis, Blanf. 
* Belemnites sulcatus, 
Mill. 
* Astarte major, Sow. 
* A. Stanleyi, Opp. 
A Groteanus , Opp. 
A. Cautleyi, Opp. 
A. cognatus, Opp. 
A. MoriJceanus, Opp, 
* A. Sabineanus, Opp 
A. Lymani, Opp. 
* A. Theodorii, Opp. 
A. Thuillieri, Opp. 
A. Seidell, Opp. 
B. Gerardi, Opp. 
A. Uermanui, Opp. 
Blanford, 1865. 
A , octagonus, Str. 
A. Uoolceri, Str. 
A. scriptus, Str. 
A. Spitiensis, Blanf 
A. guttatus, Str. 
A. Wallicliii, Gray. 
A. Jubar, Str. 
A. acucinctus, Str. 
A. Griffithii, Str. 
A. umbo , Str. 
B. sulcatus, Miller. 
For some of the above identifications, I am indebted to 
Dr. Stoliczka. 
As mentioned at page 75, several references to my paper on 
Dr. Gerardos fossils have been corrected in this reprint. This 
paper, as originally written, had described under other names 
several of the species which exist in Colonel Strachey’s col¬ 
lection, and among these, some, which I had at first 
regarded as identical with European species, proved, on exa¬ 
mination of Colonel Strachey^s more perfect specimens, and 
of authentic specimens of European species, to be distinct. 
The original manuscript had been left by me for publication 
in the hands of the Asiatic Society of Bengal before I left 
India, and contemplating the possible event of the paper being 
published during my absence in England, in describing Colonel 
Stracliey's fossils, I quoted my own previous names of identical 
species as synonyms, mentioning at the same time in the text, 
the errors which 1 had made in my paper on Dr. Gerard's 
fossils. On my return to India, I found that my paper had 
been reserved for my revision, and I accordingly withdrew 
and corrected it to the form in which it appeared in the 
