-72 Annals of Hie South African Museum. 



Africa or Europe, the agreement may be found to be less close than it 

 A\*as during Albiau times. 



Uhlig* thought that the aspect of the [Jurassic and Lower Creta- 

 ceous] fauna as a whole justified the establishment of an Ethiopian 

 province by Neumayr, later regarded by Dacqiu' and Krenkel as a 

 sub-area of the Indian Province. In the Upper Cretaceous, this 

 "Ethiopian Province" had lost its individuality, if it ever formed a 

 separate province ; for, e.g., Haug points to the presence of the peculiar 

 genus Bouleiceras in Madagascar as possibly indicating a separate 

 zoological province, but the writer has found a specimen of B. nitescens, 

 Thevenin, in a Domerian-Toarcian collection from Baluchistan. t At 

 any rate, in the Upper Cretaceous, the Indo-Malgascan fauna shows 

 the closest relations with those of the Pacific and Antarctic provinces ; 

 and the most characteristic element of this vast " Indo-Pacific " 

 province is the genus Kossmaticeras, as pointed out by Haug.J 

 Through a slip, this author also stated that Kossmaticeras was not 

 known either in Madagascar or in South Africa, whereas on pp. 1344 

 and 1355 he quotes it from both localities. 



Under the description of Kossmaticeras (Madmsites') bhavani, 

 Stoliczka sp., in the Manuan Creek fauna, the writer has referred to 

 various South African forms, and other hitherto unrecorded species of 

 Kossmaticeras and allied genera from New Zealand, and the presence 

 of this genus in South Africa shows the fauna to belong to this 

 great " Indo-Pacific Province "|| in spite of the number of " Atlantic " 

 types introduced from the North via Egypt. 



* "Marine Reiche d. Jura and d. Unterkr.," 'Mitt. Geol. Ges. Wien," iv 

 (1911), 3, p. 406. 



f British Museum (Geol. Society Coll.), from Valley of Kelat, Baluchistan, 

 together with Phylloceras, Rhacophyllites, Lytoceras, Fuciniceras, Protorirammo- 

 reras, Dactylioceras, etc. 



J Loc. cit., vol. ii, 2, p. 1369. 



Ibid., p. 1369. 



The communication, to the West, with Graham Land, Southern Patagonia 

 and Chili, is perhaps even more certain, and in all these areas, as pointed out 

 below (p. 307), the deposits consist largely of glauconitic, calcareous sandstones, 

 contain the same fossil assemblages, and apparently pass uninterruptedly into 

 the lower Eocene. 



