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and under the same subject discusses the merits of Neumayr's 
shell, stating that "it is possible that the Conducia specimens are 
specifically identical with Indian examples referred to Phylloceras 
velleclcB." 
There appears to be every reason to assume, therefore, that 
Neumayr's specimen has been wrongly determined, and that 
instead of its being of Neocomian age, it really belongs to the 
Vraconnian-Cenomanian series, to which M. Choffat refers the 
Conducia fauna. 
Sofala. — South of the Conducia area, Sofala appears to be the 
next locality of importance where Upper Cretaceous {= Senonian) 
rocks have been discovered, Mr. David Draper having brought home 
a specimen of Alectryonia ungulata/'' which proved the existence of 
those deposits in that region. 
From the valley of the Busi Eiver, in the same neighbourhood, 
M. Paul Choffat t has determined another example of the same 
oyster associated with Exogyra columha and some other less definite 
remains, all of which are of Upper Cretaceous age. 
Delagoa Bay (district of Lorenzo Marques). — From the district of 
Lorenzo Marques, in Delagoa Bay, M. Kilian| has reported the 
occurrence of Aptian fossils belonging to such forms as : Hamites 
Toyerianus, Orbigny, Acanthoceras martini var. alhrechti-austrioi 
Hoh., Op2)elia nisus, Orbigny, Ancyloceras, Anomia Icsvigata, J. de C. 
Sowerby, Pinna cf. rohinalcUna, Orbigny, &c. 
The completed memoir on this subject will be welcomed by all 
palaeontologists, as it is exceedingly interesting to find so old a fauna 
comiog between the two Upper Cretaceous areas of Sofala in the 
north and the False Bay region of Zululand in the south. 
Natal. 
Umpenyati River. — One of the earliest references to the Creta- 
ceous fauna of Natal is to be found in the " Handbook " § of that 
country, issued during 1886 in connection with the "Colonial and 
Indian Exhibition," where a brief statement is made on the rocks of 
Alfred County as follows :— 
* Newton, R. B.— On the occurrence of Alectryonia nngiilata in S.E. Africa ; 
with a notice of previous researches on the Cretaceous Conchology of Southern 
Africa. Jonrn. Conchology , 1896, vol. 8. pp. 136-151. 
t Choffat, P. — Le Cretacique de Conducia, Contrih. Connais. Geol. Colonies 
Fortugaises Afrique, 1903, p. 7. 
I Kilian, W. — Ueber Aptien in Sildafrika, Centralbl. Min. Geol. Pal., 1902, 
pp. 465-468. 
§ Anon. — Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, Natal. Official Handbook 
[London], 1886, p. 31. 
