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Actinomya was preoccupied by Meyer. On page 628 Mr. Ulrich says : 

 "A new name is therefore necessary for the Silurian genus, and it 

 gives me much pleasure to propose Whiteavesia, after Prof. J. F. 

 Whiteaves the successful palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of 

 Canada. H. M. Ami. 



Whiteaves, J. F. Descriptions of two new species of Ammonites 



from the Cretaceous rocks of the Queen Charlotte Islands. Can. Rec. Sci. 



pp. 421-426, PI. VII, figs, 1 , 1 a, and 2, 2 a, and 2 b. Montreal, 

 October, i8gj. 



As the title indicates, Mr. Whiteaves here described two new 

 species of Ammonites from British Columbia. The precise locality 

 from which the specimens are said to have been collected is Skidegate 

 Inlet, Q. C. I. 



These specimens were communicated to Mr. Whiteaves, by Dr. C. 

 F. Newcombe of Victoria, B.C., curator of the Natural History Society 

 of British Columbia, but were collected at Skidegate by Mr. James 

 Deans, formerly assistant to the late Mr. James Richardson of the 

 Geological Survey of Canada, who visited those Islands in 1872. 



The two species described by Mr. Whiteaves are as foilows : 



PI. VII, figs. 1, 1 a. Olcostephanus (Astieria) Deansii ; PI. VII, 

 figs. 2, 2 a, 2 b. Hoplites Haidaguensis. These two forms, which as 

 Mr. Whiteaves says "are clearly referable to the family of Stephanocer- 

 atidae of Neumayr," are "nearly related" to two other forms from "the 

 Neocomian of France " viz : Olcostephanus Jeatinotti d'Orbigny, sp., and 

 Hoplites sinnosus, d'Orbigny, sp., respectively. An excellent plate 

 accompanies the paper, prepared by Mr. Laurence Lambe, and drawn 

 on stone by Mr. O. E. Prudhomme. 



H. M. Ami. 



