Cretaceous Gastropoda, and Pelecypoda from Zululand. 13 
" The chalk formation is represented by a deposit of small extent 
on the sea-coast in Alfred County, which is rich in organic remains 
bearing easy comparison with those found in the chalk deposits of 
India." 
The Cretaceous fossils of Natal appear to be restricted to the 
region forming the mouth of the Umpenyati Eiver, situated in the 
most southern province, known as Alfred County, that is if we 
except a Cephalopod which has been described as coming from 
Port Natal, the locality of which has been questioned by Mr. Ander- 
son on p. 50 of his "Third and Final Eeport." The specimen 
concerned was described and figured by the late Professor Hyatt 
as Eulophoceras natalense from the Upper Cretaceous rocks of Port 
Natal, but Mr. Anderson knows of no Cretaceous outcrops on the 
present land surface at that place, hence he thinks the fossil must 
have been brought to the port, although originally collected either 
from near the mouth of the Umpenyati River or from the Pondoland 
deposits. 
In the rocks of the Umpenyati region Mr. Anderson (p. 50, " Third 
and Final Report") has determined the presence of Hemiaster 
forhesi, Baily, a number of Pelecypods, Gastropods, and Cephalo- 
poda, as well as Vertebrate remains ; the entire fauna being of 
precisely the same facies as characterises the Upper Cretaceous 
deposits of Pondoland, forming an extension, therefore, of the 
Umtamvuna or Umzamba beds (of A. W. Rogers and E. H. L. 
Schwarz) of that province. Special notices have also been written 
on the Vertebrates in the "Third and Final Report," Professor 
Broom t dealing with the Reptilian fauna and Dr. A. S. Woodward I 
with the Fish remains. In addition an Ammonite has been described 
by Mr. G. C. Crick § from this same locality. 
Pondoland. 
UmtamYuna River, &c. — The Cretaceous rocks of Pondoland were 
first noticed by Captain R. J. Garden || as occurring near the Umta- 
* Hyatt, A.— Pseudoceratites of the Cretaceous, Mon. United States Geol. Surv., 
1903, vol. 44, pi. xi., figs. pp. 86, 87. 
t Broom, R. — On some Keptilian remains from the Cretaceous beds at the 
mouth of the Umpenyati Kiver, p. 95. 
I Woodward, A. S. — Note on Cretaceous Fish Teeth from the Mouth of the 
Umpenyati River, pi. x., pp. 99-101. 
§ Crick, G. C. — Note on a Cretaceous Ammonite from the Mouth of the Umpen- 
yati River, p. 250. 
l! Garden, R. J. — Notice of some Cretaceous Rocks near Natal, South Africa, 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, 1855, vol. xi., pp. 453, 454. 
