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to be of undeterminable affinities, whilst the Palceontina Oolitica of 

 Butler is regarded as Homopterous. H. A. N. 



Scudder, S. H. The Tertiary Physopoda of Colorado. Bull. U.S. 

 Geol. Surv. Territories, ser. 2, no. iv. pp. 215-31, plates. 



The following new species are described : — Melanothrips extincta^ 

 Chagrin Valley ; Liihadothrips (n. gen.), allied to Melanothrips, Hali- 

 day ; L. vetusta, Fossil Caiion ; besides Palceothrips (see Geol. Mag. vol. v. 

 p. 231), and P. fossilis (lac. cit.), Fossil Caiion. E,. E., Jun. 



(Remains of Insects in Carboniferous shale at Cape Breton.)' 



Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist, vol. xviii. pp. 113, 114. 



Seguenza, G. Studi paleontologici sulla fauna malacologica dei sedi- 

 menti pliocenici depositati a grandi profondita. [Deep-sea Plio- 

 cene Mollusca.] 8vo. Pisa. 



Stefani, Carlo de. Di alcune conchiglie terrestri fossili nella terra 

 rossa. [Fossil Land- shells from the Terra rossa.'] Pisa. 



Stoppani, Ant., and J. Meneghini. Paleontologie lombarde, &c. 

 ser. 4, nr. 1-8. Milan. 



Tate, Prof. Ealph. On some New Liassic Fossils. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. 

 vol. ii. pp. 1^03-206 ; woodcut. 



The following new species, from the Liassic rocks in the neighbour- 

 hood of Banbury, are described — Ammonites acutus, Patella Beesleyi, 

 P. gratans, Purjnirhia armata, Trochus tiarellus, Cerithiurn confusum, 

 C. ferreum, and Spiropora Liassica. H. A.. N, 



Thomson, James. On the Family Cyathophyllidae — Tribe, Aspidio- 



phyllacea — Genus, Asjpidiopliyllum. Proc. Phil. Soc. Glasgow, vol. 



ix. no. 2, pp. 153-162, pis. i. & ii. 



Describes a new genus, nearly allied to ClisiopTiyllunfi, under the 



name of AspidiophyUiim. The genus is distinguished trom Clisio- 



phyllum by having the calicine boss helmet-shaped instead of being 



conical, one half being dome-shaped, " whilst the other half slopes 



down to the inner margin of the primary septa on the dorsal side of 



the calice." The following new species of the genus are described and 



figured — Aspidiopliyllum KonincJfianum, A. Huxleyannm, A. cruci- 



forme, A. elegans, and A. Hennedii, all from the Lower Carboniferous 



rocks of Scotland ; but the author records the occurrence of species of 



this genus in the Carboniferous deposits of Cumberland, Wales, and 



Ireland. H. A. N. 



Thomson, James, and Prof. H. A. Nicholson. Contributions to 

 the Study of the chief Generic Types of the Palaeozoic Corals. 

 Ann. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, vol. xvi. pp. 305-309 and 424-429, pi. xii. 



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