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don ferox, and C. macrocephalus ; Enhydrocyon stenocephalus,* E. 

 basilatus, now Hyaenocyon basilatics, Poehrotherium ste7^nbergi, Booch- 

 osrus humerosus; and from the Loup Fork Group of Cottonwood creek, 

 Oregon, LiUrictis lycopotamicus, and Protolabis t^'ansmontanus; from 

 the Green river shales of Wyoming,t Xiphotrygon acutidens; from 

 the White river beds of Colorado, Anchisodon tubifer; and from the 

 Post Pliocene of Shasta county, California, Arctotherium simum. 



Samuel H. ScudderJ described, from the thinly bedded, almost 

 paper-like, yellow, gray siliceous Tertiary shales, on the North Fork 

 of the Similkameen river, three miles from its mouth, Penthetria sim- 

 ilkanieena, Hygrotrechus stali, Cei^copis selwyni, Planophlebia gigan- 

 tea, Coilidia Columbiana; from Nine mile creek, which flows into Whip- 

 saw creek, a tributary of the Similkameen, Trox oustaleti, Gallerucella 

 picea, Tenebrio primigenius; and from the Nicola river, Nebria paleo- 

 melas, Cercyon ( 9) terrigena, Buprestis tertiaria, B. sepulta, and 

 Cryptohypnus (?) terrestris. 



Prof J. W. Dawson described, from Nine-mile creek, Equisetuni sim- 

 ilkamense. 



In 1880, Prof E. D. Copeg described, from the Truckee Miocene of 

 the John Day river, Central Oregon, JSTimravus confertus., N. gompho- 

 dus, Pogonodo/i brachyops; P. platycopis, Hoplophoneus cerebralis^ 

 H. strigidens, Dinictis cyclops; from the Loup Fork Group of Ne- 

 braska, Peraceras super ciliosus; and from a cave on the Schuylkill 

 river, in Pa., of Post-pliocene age, Smilodon gracilis. 



Dr. C. A. White|| described, from the Wasatch Group, near the 

 head of Soldier's Fork, Utah, Planorbis militaris; from the Green 

 River Group, on Henry's Fork of Green river, Wyoming, Planorbis 

 wqualis, and from three miles east of Table Rock Railroad station, 

 Limncea minuscula; and from the Upper Green River Group of Hen rj^'s 

 Fork. Wyoming,^ Pupa atavuncula. 



Angelo Heilprin** described, from the Eocene of Clarke county, Ala- 

 bama, Cytherea nuttalliopsis, Pseudoliva scalina, Loevibuccinum 

 lineatum, Fusus subtemcis, F. inter sir iatus., F. engonatus., F. sub- 



* Bull. U. S. G^eo. Sur. Terr., vol. v. 



f Am. Nat., vol. xiii. 



t Geo. Sur. of Canada. 



$ Am. Nat., vol. xiv. 



II Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 



H 12th Rep. U. S. Geo. Sur. Terr. 



'■'■* Proc. Acad. Nat. Sei. 



