The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . za, Dr. Oswaldhaving collected some recent specimens at Kisii. Occurrence.—The summit-fragment was found in Bed 8,associated with Tropidophora nyasana and Cerastus sp.; the largerspecimen came from Bed 31, and othervertebrates. Localities.—Nira (Bed 31) ; Kikongo (Bed 8). Family Bulimixldje.•Cerastus cf. mcellexdorffi Kobelt. (PI. XXX, figs. 15 <fc 16.) Cerastus moellendorffi, Kobelt, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Naturf. Gesellscb. vol. xxxii(1909) pp. 15, 64 & pi. iii, tigs. 11-15. Remarks.—The collection incl
The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London . za, Dr. Oswaldhaving collected some recent specimens at Kisii. Occurrence.—The summit-fragment was found in Bed 8,associated with Tropidophora nyasana and Cerastus sp.; the largerspecimen came from Bed 31, and othervertebrates. Localities.—Nira (Bed 31) ; Kikongo (Bed 8). Family Bulimixldje.•Cerastus cf. mcellexdorffi Kobelt. (PI. XXX, figs. 15 <fc 16.) Cerastus moellendorffi, Kobelt, Abhandl. Senckenberg. Naturf. Gesellscb. vol. xxxii(1909) pp. 15, 64 & pi. iii, tigs. 11-15. Remarks.—The collection includes a fairly good matrix-cast ofa form of Buliminidse which belongs undoubtedly to the genusCerastus of Albers (tyipe = BuUminus distans Pfeiffer), andshowing, moreover, certain resemblances to C. moellendorffi fromiShoa and Somaliland (East Africa). The specimen is small, of i E. A. Smith, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1893, p. 634. 2 Proc. Malac. Soc. London, vol. vii (1906) p. 89 & text-figure. Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. Vol. LXX,
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