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II. — Sedgwick Museum Notes. 

 New Fossils from the Bokkeveld Beds, South Africa. 

 By F. R. CowPEii Reed, M.A., F.G.S. 

 (PLATES XVI AND XVII.) 

 A SMALL collection of fossils from the Bokkeveld Beds has 

 J\, recently been sent to me for identification by the South 

 African Museum, and some of them have been generously presented 

 to the Sedgwick Museum. Amongst this material it is interesting 

 to find some genera not previously recorded from the Cape and 

 some new species. The majority of the specimens are in the 

 condition of internal casts, and hence present especial difficulties in 

 their determination, so that in a few cases some uncertainty must 

 remain as to the generic position of the fossils. However, I am 

 able to record for the first time from these beds the occurrence of 

 the well-known lamellibranchiate genus Biichiola, and of a shell 

 which may be identified with Nyassa arguta, Hall, of the North 

 American Devonian. The genus Biichiola occurs in argillaceous 

 nodules from the Zwartberg Pass crowded with individuals of the 

 species which I have named B. snbpalmata and with a few examples 

 of an undetermined species. No other associated fossils can be 

 recognised in these nodules, but I am informed that an abundant 

 fauna is found in the beds at this locality. 



There are only single specimens in the collection of the species 

 which I have determined as NiicuUies cf. Smilhi, SanguinoUtes (?) acer, 

 and Nyassa arguta, and only two of SanguinoUtes niger. The fine 

 large brachiopod which appears to be probably referable to the little 

 known Bolivian genus ScapTiiocoeUa, or may belong to a completely 

 new generic type, is represented by eight specimens, all of which 

 are sandstone casts with occasionally portions of the shell attached. 

 The genus PtycJiospira is now for the first time identified in the 

 Bokkeveld Beds. 



The following is a list of the species in the collection : — 

 ' Tentaculites crotalinus, Salter. 

 Buchiola subpalmata, sp. nov. 

 Buchiola sp. ind. 

 ' NucuUtes cf. Smithi, Clarke. 

 SanguinoUtes niger, sp. nov. 

 S. (?) acer, sp. nov. 

 Nyassa arguta, Hall. 

 Scaphiocoelia (?) africana, sp. nov. 

 Benssel(eria cf. confluentina, Fuchs. 

 ' PtycJiospira variegata, sp. nov. 

 The present author has previously published an account of 

 the principal collection of brachiopods and molluscs from the 

 Bokkeveld Beds in the Annals of the South African Museum, 

 vol. iv, pts. 3 and 6 (1903-1904). 



1 These three species occur associated together on the same rock specimens from an 

 unkno'wn locality. 



