VERTEBRATA . 281 



grossier from Dampleux. About the size of Pahsotherium minus, and 

 named P. eoccenum. E. T. N". 



Gervais, Prof. P. [Note upon the Memoir by Robert Lawley on a 

 ' Sphcerodiis from Tuscany.'] Jouim. Zool. vol. iv. pp. 516, 517. 

 [See p. 284.] 



Teeth like those which Agassiz named Sphcerodus have been found 

 upon the same jaw with the teeth of Lepidotus. The author has shown 

 that the Tertiary form referred to Sphcerodus really belongs to Chnjsophrys. 

 The affinities of Mr. Lawley's specimens are considered ; but the pro- 

 priety of uniting them with Sphcerodus {Chrysophnjs) cinctus is 

 questioned, and it is proposed provisionally to give them the name of 

 Chrf/sophr(/s Lawleyi. E. T. N. 



Goldenberg, Dr. Friedrich. [Fauna of the Carboniferous Formation 



of Saarbriick.] 

 Deals chiefly with Invort^brata (see post). 4 species of Amhly- 

 ptems are recorded ; a new Labyrinthodont, Anthracosaurus raniceps, 

 is described. Some enigmatical bodies are doubtfully referred to the 

 coprolites of fishes, under the name of Ichthyocopros pupceformis ; and 

 some teeth are described as Lamna carhonaria, Germar, var. minor. 



H.A.N. 



Gnnn, John. Notes respecting the Mammalian Remains in the 

 Norwich Museum, chiefly from the Forest Bed. Norwich Mercury 

 {Norw. Geol. Soc), Feb. 6 ; part 2, March 13. 



. Continuation of an Account of Fossil Remains in the . 



Norwich Museum [with] especial reference to those found in the 

 stony bed on the inclined plane of the Chalk. Norwich Mercury 

 (Norw. Geol Soc), April 10. 

 On the ancient weathered surface of the Chalk the Proboscidea 

 commonly assigned to the Norwich or Mammaliferous Crag are sup- 

 posed to have lived. A record is here presented of what is said to 

 have been an entire skeleton of Mastodon arvernensis from Horstead. 



L. C. M. 



Gunther, Dr. A. Description of the Living and Extinct Races of 



Gigantic Land-Tortoises. Pts. 1, 2. PhU. Trans, vol. clxv. pt. 1, 



pp. 251-284, pis. 33-45. 



The gigantic tortoises of the Indian Ocean have a convex cranium, 



trenchant beak, and a narrow bridge between the obturator foramina. 



Mauritius and Rodriguez were formerly inhabited by several species of 



gigantic tortoises with flat cranium, truncated beak, and abroad bridge 



between the obturator foramina. Tortoises of the latter type survive 



in the Gahipagos Islands ; and though greatly reduced in number, five 



species can be identified : — Testudo elephantopuSy Harlan ; T. niyrita^ 



Dumeril and Bibron ; 2\ ephippium^ n. sp. ; T. microphyeSj n. sp. : 2\ 



vicinUf n. sp. These are described and figured. L. C. M. 



Haberlandt, G. Ueber cine fossilo Landschildkrcito dcs Wiener 



