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« Director's Office, State Hall, Albany, N. Y. (July 11, 
1906). 
Dr. I. C. White, State Geologist. 
Morgantown, W. Va. 
My dear Sir: 
The Devonic fossils from Brazil which you have sub- 
mitted to my examination are labeled as from three (or 
four) localities. I have the following comments to make 
upon them: 
State of Parana 
(I) Tibagy. Internal casts in soft yellow argillo-micaceous rock. 
Two species are here represented : 
Spirifer borbai v. Ihering 
Modiomorpha sp; 
The Spirifer, a fine large species, has been compared 
with S. vespertilio Sowerby aPermian species and also with 
S. macropleurus Hall of the Helderbergian, (Lower Devonic). 
Kayser, in discussing the fossils of this locality, (Revista do 
Museu Paulista, v. 4, 1900, p. 304-314) cites also the lamellibranch 
Pholadella radiata Wall which in New York occurs in Middle Devonic. 
strata. 
(2) Near Jaguariahyva. 
A similar rock in general character but with less iron contents. 
It contains : 
Spirifer thering, Kayser, (cf. S. murchisoni D’Orbigny) ; 
Leptocoelia flabelittes Conrad ; 
Leptostrophia cf. perplana Conrad ; 
Orthothetes cf. becraftensis Clarke ; 
Chonetes cf. hudsonicus Clarke. 
The Lower Devonic age of this combination is beyond reasonable 
doubt as all the species are of strongly early Devonic habit. Smal 
Leptostrophias of the type of Z. perplana are common in these faunas, 
