FOSSILS FROM PERNAMBUCO COAST SANDSTONE 47 



The expedition stopped at this place June 17, 1899, just long enough 

 to examine the rocks and gather a few fossils. These fossils were exam- 

 ined by Mr Ralph Arnold, who kindly made the following determina- 

 tions and correlations : 



Fossils from Ponta de Pedras, Coast of Pernambuco* 



Also found at— 



1. Cyprseacteon pennse White Rio Piabas. 



2. Volutilithes radula (White, not Sowerby) I ^ m . da ^, . , * 



3. Volutilithes alticostatus, White ) ,/r • t-. • i 



f F. raduZa, White } Maria Farmha. 



4. Acmsea sp. nov. 



5. Natica neverita sp. undet Montserrate, Bahia. 



6. {Neritina prolabiata, White.) 



7. Turritella elicita (White, not Stolitzka) Maria Farinha. 



5. Vicarya ? daphne White Maria Farinha. 



9. Capulus sp. nov. 



10. Hyponyx sp. nov. 



11. t Melania terebriformis Morris ? 1 Itamaraca < 



1 Montserrate, Bahia. 



1 2. Crepidula sp. nov. 



13. Lucina tenella Rathbun | ?j° . Pi5 *bas. 



t Maria Farinha. 



14. Nucula marix Rathbun Maria Farinha. 



15. Leda (Nuculana) swiftiana, Rathbun Maria Farinha. 



{Maria Farinha. 

 Sergipe. 

 Rio Piabas. 



17. Corbula sp. nov. 



18. Dosinia brasiliensis White j ^ rg Jv\ 



19. Glycimeris (Axinea) bineminis White Rio Piabas. 



20. Cardium (Criocardium) soaresanum Rathbun j ^maraS" 11 ™' 



Of the twenty species here listed, five are new, five are reported from 

 Rio Piabas, state of Para, nine are found at Maria Farinha, two at Mont- 

 serrate, Bahia, two in the state of Sergipe, and one at Olinda, Pernam- 

 buco. Two were also found at a new locality discovered by the writer 

 at the northeast end of the island of Itamaraca. The specimen from 

 Itamaraca was found in a bed of brown sandstone. The Itamaraca 

 locality is only 11 kilometers south, and Maria Farinha is only 27 kilo- 

 meters 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. I have elsewhere pointed out 



* Collected by J. C Branner, June 17, 1899. 



