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Also found at — 
11. 2 Melania terebriformis Morris ? . . Itamaracá; Montserrate, 
Bahia. 
12. Crepidula sp. nov. 
18, Lucia tenella Rathbun +. . . . . ... Rio Pirabas; Maria Fa- 
rinha. 
14, Nucula marie Rathbun . . . . . . . Maria Farinha, 
15. Leda (Nuculana) swiftiana Rathbun . . . Maria Farinha. 
16. Corbula 1 chordata White © . . . . . . Maria Farinha; Sergipe; 
Rio Pirabas. 
17. Corbula sp. nov. 
18. Dosinia brasiliensis White . +... Sergipe; Rio Pirabas. 
19. Glycymeris (Awinea) bineminis White . . . Rio Pirabas. 
20. Cardium (Oriocardium) зоатезатит Rathbun Maria Farinha; Itamaracá. 
Of the twenty species here listed, five are new, five are reported from 
Rio Pirabas, State of Para, nine are found at Maria Farinha, two at 
Montserrate, Bahia, two in the State of Sergipe, and one at Olinda, 
Pernambuco. Two were also found at a new locality discovered by the 
writer at the northeast end of the island of Ttamaracá. The specimen 
from Itamaracá was found in a bed of brown sandstone. The Itamaracá 
locality is only eleven kilometres south, and Maria Farinha is only 
twenty-seven kilometres south of Ponta de Pedras. 
The resemblance of the fauna found in the Ponta de Pedras rocks to 
that of the Maria Farinha beds is at once apparent, while the proximity 
of the localities to each other bears out the theory that the same beds 
are repeated at these two or three localities. 
At Parahyba do Norte, on the other hand, have been found a few 
fossils, one of which — a species of Sphenodiscus — is so characteristic a 
Cretaceous genus that it seems impossible to doubt the Cretaceous age 
of the beds from which it came." The same beds have yielded a species 
of Cimolichthys, another Cretaceous genus, 
On account of his acquaintance with South American palaeontology I 
have asked the opinion of Dr. A. E. Ortmann of Princeton regarding the 
possible Tertiary age of some of the beds yielding the fossils described 
by Dr. White. He writes me as follows : — 
PRINCETON, N. J., 27 July, 1902. 
Duar Sir, — Thanking you for your letter of May 9th I may say that I 
have used White’s paper on the supposed Cretaceous in Brazil for comparison 
with my Patagonian fossils; but, of course, I did not make a very careful 
Search for allied species, since I took it for granted that we have to deal here 
with Cretaceous beds. 
1 Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. XIIL, р. 48. 
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