284 PALiEONTOLOGT. 



M'Coy, Prof. F. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of Victoria ; or, 

 Pigures and Descriptions of Victorian Organic Eemains. Decade iv. 

 Pp. 32. 8vo. Melbourne. 



New forms described are Diprotodon hngiceps (Post Tertiary), Pecten 

 Yahlensis (Woods), var. semilcevis, Voluta strophodon, Spondylus 

 gaderopoides, and the plants (Tertiary) Eucalyptus pluti and Cinna- 

 momum polymorphoides. Of Palaeozoic fossils the new forms described 

 are Chonetes australis, Phragmoceras suhtrigonum, Asterolejns ornata 

 (Eichw.), var. australis, and the plants Archceopteris Howitti, Sphe- 

 nopteris Igiianensis, and Gordaites australis, Devonian. R. E., Jun. 



On a New Victorian Graptolite. Annals, ser. 4, vol. xviii. 



p. 126, woodcut. 



Describes Didymograptus Thureaul from Llandeilo flags of the 

 Bendigo (Sandhurst) Goldlield, distinguished by the regular zigzag 

 bondings of the four branches of the funicle, &c. For such forms as 

 this, in which the branches of the funicle are angularly bent at the 

 points of budding into the celluliferous stems, the generic name 

 Ooniograptus is proposed. E,. E., Jun. 



On the Discovery of the Trigonia acuticostata, M'Coy, in the 



Living State. Annals, ser. 4, vol. xviii-. p. 273. 

 A Miocene and hitherto supposed extinct species. Dredged in 

 Bass's Straits. The nacre of the interior is pearly white. 



Mascke, H. CUnoeeras, n. gen. ein silurischer Nautilide mit ge- 



lappten Scheidewanden. [New Nautiloid Genus.] Zeitsch. deutsch. 



geol. Ges. Bd. xxviii. Heft 1, pp. 49-56, pi. 1. 



Glinoceras is a new genus occurring in erratic L. Silurian blocks in 



Prussia ; G. dens is described ; other species are indicated by fragments. 



Only a few septa are preserved, the rest of the cone being filled with 



mineral matter. Shell conical (allied to Loxoceras, M'Coy), the si- 



phuncle-side straight, the others more or less curved ; a constriction 



below the body-chamber. Septal border with an obtuse-angled saddle 



on the siphuncle-side, with gently rounded lobes and two slightly 



marked lateral saddles. Siphuncle y^ ^^ 3 ^^ diameter from the wall. 



E. B. T. 



Maurer, Friedrich. Palaeontologische Studien im Gebiet des rhei- 



nischen Devon. 3. Die Thonschiefer des Ruppbachthales bei 



Diez. [Rhenish Devonian Palaeontology. 3. Clay-slates of the 



Ruppbachthal, near Diez.] N. Jahrh. Heft 8, pp. 808-848 ; plate. 



Describes the stratigraphical and petrographic characters of the beds 



and their palaeontological relations. The new species described are 



Bronteus cameratus and six Cephalopods : see Index. E. W. R. 



Mayer, Charles. Catalogue des Eossiles du terrain nummulitique 

 des environs d'Einsiedeln. [Catalogue of the Nummulitic Eossils 

 of Einsiedeln.] Bull. Soc. Geol. France, ser. 3, t. iv. pp. 361-363. 



