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and in searching in the neighbourhood for the beds whence it 

 came portions of an Orthoceras were found. Some curiously striated 

 rocks found in a quarry near Hayle closely resemble the fossils in the 

 Eophyton sandstone of Sweden. C. L. N. F. 



Pichler, Prof. Adolf. [Alpine Trias.] N. Jahrh. Heft iii. p. 265. 



[See Geology, p. 91.] 



Describes at p. 278 a new species of Inoceramus from the Chemnitzia 



Limestone (Keuper) of Hottingergraben, Tyrol. It has been called 



/. oetiipontanus. F. W. R. 



Piette, Edouard. Sur plusieurs genres nouveaux ou peu connus de 



Gasteropodes. [Xew or little-known Gasteropod Genera.] Compt. 



Bend. Assoc. Frcui^. 3 Sess. pp. 360-366, pi. iii. 



Gives generic characters of Eustoma, Ditretas, Petersia, and Brachy- 



trema (the 2nd and 3rd being new names for Cerithium-Vike genera). 



All are Jurassic, and closely allied. W. H. D. 



duenstedt, Prof. Friedr. Petrefaktenkunde Deutschlands. 1. Abth. 



Bd. iv, Echinodermen (Asteriden und Eticriniden), Heft 7-10, pp. 



432; atlas of 16 plates. 



Pp. 1-21 give a general account of the anatomy of the Asteroidea, 



and a description of the principal existing genera. Pp. 22-125 treat 



of the fossil forms. The Ophiuroids are considered, both generally and 



in detail, as to the fossil species of the group, in pp. 125-158. The 



rest treats wholly of the fossil and recent Crinoids, principally the 



Secondary forms. H. A. JST. 



Rathbun, Richard. Preliminary Report on the Cretaceous Lamelli- 



branchs collected in the vicinity of Pernambuco, Brazil, Proc. 



Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. xvii. pp. 241-256. 



Contains descriptions of the Mollusca obtained from the Cretaceous 



rocks near Pernambuco by the Morgan Expedition of 1870, under 



Prof. Hartt. The following new forms are described : — Nucula Marice, 



Leda Swiftiana, L. Braziliensis, Area Orestis, A. (OucuUcea^) ffarttii, 



Cucullcea suhcentralis, Cardita 3Iorr/anmna, C. Wilmotii., Lvcina tenella, 



Cardium Soaresanum^ Callista M^Grathiana, and Tellina Pernamhv- 



censis. H. A. N. 



Rathbun, Richard, and Prof. C. F. Hartt. On the Devonian Tri- 



lobites and Molluscs of Erere, Province of Para, Brazil. Ami. 



Lye. Nat. Hist. N. TorJc, vol. xi. pp. 110-127. 



Richter, R. [Thuringian Slates.] Zeitsch. deutsch. geol. Ges. Bd. xxvii. 



Heft ii. p. 261 , plate. [See p. 94.] 

 The following new species are described and figured, from the U. 

 Silurian slates of Thuringia : — Discina dissimilis, Dicranograptus post- 

 humus^ and Monoyraptns 7merodon. F. W. R. 

 Sandberger, Prof. C. L. F. Die Land- und Siisswasser-Conchylien 

 der Yorwelt. [Land- and Freshwater Shells of the Past.] Con- 

 cluding volume, text, pp. 353-956. 4to. Wiesbaden. 

 Describes the land and freshwater shells of the Miocene, Pliocene, 

 1875. Y 



