PALEONTOLOGY. 285 



• In the paper (18G) on the " Ui)i)er Tertiary Invertebrates from the 

 west side of Chesapeake Bay," the author gives a list of twenty-five 

 species discovered inside a hir<(e Balanus concavus Bronn ; one new 

 species is described : Aligena shmyi, sp. nov.. p. 171, and wood cut. In 

 the article (187) on the two books of Conrad on Tertiary shells, the 

 author gives information in regard to imperfections which have ap- 

 peared in various copies of T. A. Conrad's " Fossil Shells of the Tertiary 

 Formations," and " Fossils of the Tertiary Formations." 



C. L. Webster (272) has written an article on the geology of Johnson 

 County, at the close of which, p. 419, is given a list of eighteen species 

 of land and freshwater shells, collected from the Loess of Johnson 

 County by Prof. B. Shimek, of Iowa City, five of which are said not to 

 occur as living forms in the county at the present time. 



B. Shimek (239) i)ublishes notes on the fossils of the Loess at Iowa 

 City; a list of twenty -five species is given with comments, but no 

 species are described. 



K. Ellsworth Call (19) defines a new Post-Pliocene Limnreid, refer- 

 ring it to the genus Pompholyx, Lea, and describing it under the name 

 Fonqyholojisis tchitei (subgen. et sp. nov.), p. 147, f. 1-3, from Tassajara 

 Hills, California. Comparison is made of this genus with the genera 

 Carinifex, Binney, Pompliolyx, Lea, and Vorticifex, Meek. 



T. H. Aldrich (1), in a paper in the Journal of the Cincinnati Society 

 of Natural Science (vol. x, pp. 78-83), describes the following new 

 species : 



Dosinia mercenaroidea, p. 82, no figure. 

 Sigaretus {Sigaticus) Clarkeamis, p. 83, no figure. 

 Physa choctavensis, p. 83, no figure. 

 Physa elongaioidea, p. 83, uo figure. 

 Mathilda Claihoriiensis, p. 83, no figure. 



Angelo Heilprin (100) has published in the Transactions of the Wag- 

 ner Free Institute an account of his explorations of the west coast of 

 Florida. Several new species are described as follows : 



Pliocene ("Floridian") Caloosahatchie, Florida: 



Fusus Caloosaensis, p. 08, pi. i, f . 1. 



Faseiolaria scalarlna, p. 69, pi. i, f. 2. 



Melongena subeoronata, p. 70, pi. i, f. 3, 3a. 



Fulgur raimm, p. 71, pi. ii, f. 4. 



Turhinella regina, p. 74, pi. iii, f. 5. 



Vasum horridum, p. 75 and p. 132, pi. iv, f. 6, 6a, pi. xvi a, f. 72. 



Mazzalina htilbosa, p. 76. jjI. ii, f. 7. 



Voluta Floridana, p. 77, pi. v, f. 8. 



Mitra Hneolaia, p. 79, pi. ii, f. 9, 9« ; p. 133, j)!. xvia, f. 74. 



CohtmheUa ruslicoides, p. ^l, pi. viii, f. 9*. 



Conns Tryoni, p. 82, pi. v, f. 10 ; p. 133, pi. xvi&, f. 7.'>. 



Strombus Leidyi, p. 84, pi. vi, f. 11 ; p. 7, f. lid. 



Sq)hocyprKa (subgen. nov. ), p. 86. 



Cyprcea {Siphocyj)ra'a) problem'atica, p. 87, pi. iv, f. 12, 12rt, 126; p. 133, pi. xvio, 



f. 73. 

 TurriieUa perattenuata, p. 88, pi. viii, f. 13. 



