CURRENT LITERATURE. I 55 



Dr. Westerlund still pursues the course of heaping up new (?) species, on 

 which remarks have been made ante, p. 125. One or two seem the same species 

 redescribed. 



Williamson (Mrs.) Burton. — On dementia subdiaphana, Cpr., in San Pedro 

 Bay. Naut., 1893, vi., p. 116. 



PALEONTOLOGY. 



Cossmann, M. — Catalogue illustre des Coquilles fossiles de l'Eocene des 

 Environs de Paris. &c. Pt. v. and suppl. Ann. Soc. R. Malac. Belgique. xxvi. 

 Although the separate copies of this concluding part of a most invaluable 

 work were issued in July of last year, the members of the Society and subscribers 

 to their journal have only just become possessed of copies of the volume from 

 which it purports to be extracted. Some new genera, sections, and many new 

 species are described and figured. 



Cosmann, M. — Revision sommaire de la faune du terrain oligocene marni aux 

 environs d'Etampes. Journ. de Conchyl., 1892, pp. 330-75, 1 pi. 



Dal I, W. H. — Contributions to the Tertiary Fauna of Florida. Pt. ii. Trans. 

 Wagner Free Inst., iii.. pp. 201-446, 1 map and pis. xiii.-xxii. 



This second part of a most valuable monograph completes the description of 

 the Gastropoda (including notes supplemental to the first part) and gives those 

 of the Pteropoda, Polyplacophora and Scaphopoda ; leaving only the Pelecypoda 

 for another part. 



Very many new , species are described, also one new genus Glyptostyla for 

 G. panamensis, n. sp. from the Tertiary of Panama. Que fait ceci dansce galere ? 



The alternative between Odostomia and Odontostomia, the latter favoured by the 

 author, is perhaps not quite settled yet. Amaltkeidce proposed, however, as a 

 family name for what has hitherto been regarded as a section of Hipponyx cannot 

 stand it being already preoccupied for a section of Ammonites (type genus 

 Amaltheus), indeed it is doubtful if the generic form Amaltkea can stand. 



Fox-Strangways, C. — The Jurassic Rocks of Great Britain. Yorkshire. .Mem. 

 Geol. Surv. United Kingdom, 2 vols., London, 1892. 

 Vol. ii. contains very full tables of the fossil contents, the vast majority of 

 forms being molluscan. 



Hind, Wheelton. — On the affinities of Anthracoptera and Anthracomya. Quart. 

 Journ. Geol. Soc, 1893, xlix., pp. 249-75, 4 pis. 

 The former of these genera the author leaves in the Mytilidce, but the latter, 

 following Sowerby and Dawson, he places with Unionidce, He has been 

 fortunate in obtaining good material on which to base his conclusions. One new 

 species of Anthracoptera and several of Anthracomya are described. 



Jack, R. L., and Etheridge, R., Junr. — The Geology and Palaeontology of 

 Queensland and >Jew Guinea. Text and Atlas, 2 vols., 8vo. , Brisbane and 

 London, 1892, pp. xxx, 768, 68 pis. 

 The fossils of the several formations, from the Middle Devonian up to the 

 Post Tertiary period (inclusive) are fully described. 



Four new genera are created : — Deltopecten type Pecten illawarensis, Morris ; 

 Merismoptcria type Pterinea macroptera ; Pseudavicula type Lucina anomala, 

 Moore ; and Macoyella type Avicula barklyi, Moore. Very many new species 

 are described. 



Lehmann, F. — Die Lamellibranchiaten des Miocans von Dingden. I. Thl. 

 Asiphonida und Siphonida Integripalliata. Verhandl. N. h. Verein prems. 

 Rheinlande, xlix. , pp. 198-241, 1 pi. 



Many new species. 



