SECTION IV., 1895. [119] Trans. R. S. C. 
IV.—On some Fossils from the Nanaimo group of the Vancouver Cretaceous. 
By J. F. WHITEAVES. 
(Read May 23, 1894, but revised to date.) 
The present communication consists partly of notes upon some 
recently received fossil brachiopoda, mollusca and crustacea from the 
“Nanaimo group,” with descriptions of a few species which appear to be 
new, and partly of a revision of the nomenclature of certain fossils from 
that formation which have previously been reported upon in the second 
part of the first volume of “ Mesozoic Fossils,” published by the Geological 
Survey of Canada in 1879. 
The new material upon which it is based is as follows: (1) The 
whole of the fossils from the “ Nanaimo group” in the Provincial Museum 
at Victoria, kindly lent to the writer by its curator, Mr. John Fannin, and 
including a large series of fossils collected by Mr. Walter Harvey, of 
Comox, in 1892, at Hornby and Denman islands; (2) collections of Cre- 
taceous fossils made by Dr. C. F. Newcombe on the Comox River, V. I, 
at Hornby Island in 1892, and at the Sucia Islands in 1894, and oblig- 
ingly forwarded by him; and (3) a small series of Cretaceous fossils col- 
lected by Mr. Harvey at Hornby Island in 1894, which have been sent to 
the writer for identification. The new decapod crustacean which is 
described but not figured in this paper will probably be illustrated in the 
fourth and concluding part of the first volume of ‘“ Mesozoic Fossils,” now 
in course of preparation. 
MOLLUSCOIDEA. 
BRACHIOPODA. 
RHYNCHONELLA SUCIENSIS. (Sp. nov.) 
Plate 3, fig. 1. 
Shell moderately convex, subovate, with an apparently feebly de- 
veloped mesial fold and sinus. Ventral valve a little longer than broad, 
with a narrow, elongated and nearly straight beak ; dorsal valve broader 
than long, with a comparatively obtuse and incurved beak. Surface 
markings of both valves consisting of numerous (about twenty-two) nar- 
row, prominent, acute raised ribs, which extend from the beaks to the 
anterior margin. 
Sucia Islands, J. Richardson, 1874, one rather small but perfect speci- 
