332 Miscellaneous. 



colour, some 14 or 15 feet in thickness, and apparently occupying 

 a hollow in the London Clay. At the base these sandy beds 

 become dark and clayey in some ])laces, and include flints and 

 pebbles, while below this is the London Clay. In the dark pebbly 

 layer were found a large skull, a piece of a tusk, and a number of 

 smaller bones, which Mr. E. T. Newtox has determined to be a 

 piece of elephant-tusk, the skull (31 inches long) of lihinoceros 

 antiquitatis with some of its limb-boues ; while the smaller bones 

 represent two or perhaps three horses. Although the teeth of the 

 rhinoceros are wanting, the skull is otherwise very perfect ; and, 

 bearing this in mind, as well as the fact that certain of the limb- 

 bones were also found, and that Elephas is represented by the tusk, 

 and all three (it is said) at a depth of 14 or 15 feet, little room is left 

 for doubting that we have here at Carshalton a Pleistocene deposit of 

 a somewhat unusual character and at a spot where it was not before 

 suspected. 



The following communication was read : — 



* A Contribution to the Pala3ontology of the Decapod Crustacea 

 of England.' By the late James Carter, F.R.C.S., F.G.S. (Com- 

 municated by Prof. T. McKenny Hughes, M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S.) 



This paper deals mainly with the Brachyura. The Author 

 describes several new species, belonging to the genera Nephrops, 

 Gebia, Homolojysis, Ranina, Mltliracia, Neptunus, Acttvopsis, and 

 Ooniocypoda. The genera Gehia, Jianina, and Neptunus have not 

 been previously recorded from British rocks. Diaidax is for the 

 first time identified from the Tertiary strata — a single specimen 

 having been found iu the Middle Headon. PIat>ipodia Oweni, Bell, 

 is now referred to the genus Diaidax ; and Paheocorystes Broderijn, 

 Bell, to the genus Eucorystea, 



As a result of the careful study of large series of specimens iu 

 various collections, the Author is able to give much additional 

 information concerning the morphology of several species. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 

 Slugs from '^ Borneo^' : a Correction. By Waltbr E. Collixge. 



In two recent papers of mine (P. Z. S. 1897, p. 778, and A 

 Mag. Xat. Hist. 1898, i. p. 191) an unfortunate error has cr< 



Ann. & 



o , ^ , crept in 



through the introduction of the term " Borneo." The slugs described 

 in both of the above papers were collected in the island of Lombok 

 opposite Bali ; the habitat should therefore read " Island of Lonibok" 

 and not " Loinboh, Borneo.'' 



