368 Albany Miii^cwn RpcorcU. 



Dr. Ki-auss reported oii his fossils to the Naturalist's Association 

 at Mayence in 1842 S but he was chiefly interested in the Cretace- 

 ous fossils from Algoa Bay, and when Dr. Sandberger in 1846 

 appealed to him for information as to the localities of his palseo- 

 zoic specimens, he was unable to give anything definite'^ Dr. 

 Sandberger decribed Dr. Krauss's Spirifer as Sp. nmcropterus, Gold- 

 fuss, rar. nmcronatus, Sandberger, and this species I believe to 

 have been the Sp. atitarcticus of Morris and Sharpe. It is fortu- 

 nate that neither these earlier species can stand, as Morris and 

 Sharpe had already described in 1846 some Spiriferx from the 

 Falkland Islands under the names Sp. /utivkiiisi, Sjj. oi'hiytiyi, and 

 Sp. antarcticus. Li the Eastern Province Journal for 1856, Mr. 

 A. G. Bain i-eproduces a letter of T. Rupert Jones, dated Novem- 

 ber 24th, 1852, in which the latter identities the Cape Devonian 

 fossils as of the Falkland Islands type^. Mr. Sharpe later 

 described the Spirifers from the Warm Bokkeveld, collected by 

 Mr. A. Bain, but owing to the confusing nature of the material, it 

 it impossible to determine which he meant as Sp. orhignyi and 

 which as Sji. antarcticus. Mr. Reetl has la^^ely reexamined Sharpe's 

 tyi)es and com.es to the conclusion that there is only one species 

 represented, namely Sp. ortjignyi. I believe, however, that Morris 

 and Sharpe's original species are good, and are represented in our 

 South African specimens. The short, gibbose ones, with back- 

 wardly directed beak, I propose to call Sp. orljignyi, while the 

 fusiform ones with upright beak, which have been sometimes 

 divided into two species, and which have been called ^S^^. iiiucro- 

 natus by Sandberger, Sp. capensis by Von Buch, Sp. naicruptvruH 

 and Sp. speciosus by D'Archiac and de Verneuil, Sp. orhignyi and 

 Sp. antarcticus by Sharpe, Sp. orhignyi and Sp. cf. pedroanus by 

 Reed, I propose to call Sp. antarcticus. Mi-. ^^^tX^ Spirifer ceres 

 consists of two species ; his hgure PI. XXII, lig. 7 is very close to 

 S/J. JuiwJiinsi of Morris and Sharpe, while his tig. 6, with nine dis- 

 tinct ribs on each side of the median fokl is an overgrown example 



'Ber. Vers. ges. D. natiirf., XX., Mainz. ■.S42. 



'Quart. Jouru. Geol. Soc, Loudon, Vol. IX., 18 46, Pt. J, p. 2. 



'.See Trans. Geol. Soc. 8.A., Vol. II., p. 74. Johannesburg, 1897. 



