16 BULLETIN: MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. 
time I was altogether unacquainted with the distinction between Cre- 
taceous and Tertiary fossils, and I knew next to nothing of the care and 
discrimination required in such collecting. I now recall the fact that 
at one of the Maria Farinha localities I sifted fossils out of piles of re- 
siduary earth that might have represented several different formations, 
and all of these went to Dr. White simply as having come from Maria 
Farinha. 
At a place on the northern coast of the State of Pernambuco called 
Ponta de Pedras I found sedimentary beds containing fossils that 
Fre. 1. Ponta de Pedras, State of Pernambuco. The fossiliferous rocks 
are exposed along the beach. 
strongly resemble those found at Maria Farinha. These fossils were 
examined by Dr. Ralph Arnold, who kindly made the following determi- 
nations and correlations ; — 
Fossins FROM Ponta DE PEDRAS, Coast оғ PERNAMBUCO. 
Also found at — 
1. Oypreacteon penne White. . .« . Rio Pirabas. 
9. Volutilithes radula (White, not Sow йү]: ‚ Olinda; Maria Farinha, 
3. Volutilithes altweostatus White 
7 V, radula White | y 
4. Acmæa sp. nov. 
5. Natica or Neverita вр. undet . . . . . + Montserrate, Bahia, 
6. (Neritina prolabiata White) 
7. Turritella elicita (White, not Stolitzk: m . . Maria Farinha. 
8. Vicarya ? daphne White . . . . Maria Farinha, 
9. Capulus sp. nov. 
10, Amalthea sp. nov. 
Maria Farinha. 
