285 



in 1888, on the authority of the late Professor H. A. Nicholson, who, in 

 a letter to the present writer, received June 24, 1889, says that he can 

 " pretty certainly identify " both of these species in the specimens for- 

 warded to him from that locality. But, it is to be noted that Nicholson 

 has nowhere quoted Manitoba as a locality for either of these species, in 

 any of his subsequent publications ; and that no specimen of any Stroma- 

 toporoid from Davis Point in the Museum of the Survey is labelled with 

 either of these names by him.) 



C. FROM THE NORTH-EAST SHORE OF LAKE 



WINNIPEGOSIS. 



Collected by Me. J. B. Tyrrell in 1889. 



The rocks from which these fossils were collected are described on 

 153-158E of Mr. Tyrrell's "Report on North-western Manitoba, with 

 portions of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan,'' published by this Survey. 



ANTHOZOA. 



Hexacoballa. 

 Alveolites Labechei, Milne Edwards & Haime. 



Alveolites Labechei, Milne Edwards & Haime. 1851. Polyp. Foss. Terr. Palaeoz., p. 257 ; 



& (1856) Brit. Foss. Corals, p. 2C2, pi. 61, 

 figs. 6, 6 a, & 6 6. 



„ „ Billings 1866. Cat. Silur. Foss. Anticosti, p. 33. 



„ „ Lainbe 1899. Contr. Canad. Palseont., vol. IV, pt. 



1, p. 21. 



East shore, north of Birch Island : one specimen that is " thought to 



belong to this species.'' (Lambe). 



BBACHIOPODA. 



Stropheodonta acanthopteka, Whiteaves. (Sp.). 



Plate 24, tigs. 8 and 9. 



Strophomow acanthoptera, WhJtPn.veB 1891. Canad. Rec. Sci., vol. IV, p. 294, 



pi. 3, figs. 1 and 2. 

 Stropheodonta acanthoptera, Sehuohert 1897. Synops. Amer. Foss. Brachiopoda, p. 



419. 



Original description of Strophomenji acanthoptera. " Shell varying in 

 outline from broadly semicircular or semioval and regularly rounded in 

 front, to subtrigonal with the front margin produced and somewhat pointed 

 in the centre, — but always broadest at the cardinal margin, which is 

 produced on each side into a long, very slender and slightly curved spine ; 



