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Scudder, S. H. Brief Synopsis of North American Earwigs, with an 

 Appendix on the Fossil Species. Ball. U.S. Oeol. Surv. Terr. vol. ii. 

 no. 3, pp. 249-260. (Eossil Species, pp. 259, 260.) 

 scribes Lahidura lithophila, a new Tertiary species, from near 



orissant, Colorado. 



Fossil Orthoptera from the Rocky Mountain Tertiaries. 



Bull U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. ser. 2, no. 6, pp. 447-449. 



Describes Hoynoeogartnia ventriosus [^? ventricosa] (a cockroach) and 



Lahidura tertiaria (an earwig), both from South Park, Colorado. 



Mentions other fossil earwigs. "W. H. D. 



Fossil Palaeozoic Insects. Geol. Mag. dec. ii. vol. iii. pp. 519, 



520. 



Makes additions and corrections to a paper by H. Woodward on a 

 new Carboniferous Orthopter (see p. 298), and gives a list of the lyisecta, 

 Arachnida, and Myriapoda of the Carboniferous Eocks of N. America. 



H. A. N. 



Post- Pliocene Fossils from Sankoty Head, Nantucket. Proc. 



Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vol. xviii. pp. 182-185. 

 The fossils alluded to are marine shells, which lie above the clays. 

 Remarks are made upon the gravels, sands, and clays. 



Seguenza, G. Studii stratigrafici suUa Formazione pliocenica delF 



Italia Meridionale. [Pliocene Fossils of S. Italy.] Boll. R. Com. 



geol. Ital. t. vii. pp. 8-15, 91-103, 179-189, 259-271, 355-359. 



Continuation of Catalogue of MoUusca from the upper zone of the 



Older Pliocene of S. Italy. [See Geological Recoed for 1874, p. 95 ; 



and for 1875, p. 97.] E. B. T. 



Ricerche Paleontologiche intorno ai Cirripedi Terziarii 



della Provincia di Messina, con appendice intorno ai Cirripedi 

 viventi nel Mediterraneo, e sui fossili terziari dell' Italia meridio- 

 nale. Pt. ii. [Tertiary Cirripeds of Messina and S. Italy.] 

 Atti Ac. Pontan. vol. x. pp. 1-113, pis. vi.-x. 



— . Cenni intorno alle Yerticordie fossili del Pliocene Italiano. 



[Verticordice of Italian Pliocene.] Bend. R. Ac. Sci. Napoli, 

 fasc. 6, pp. 1-9. 

 Describes the species, giving full synonymy, the following being 

 new — Verticordia mytiloides, V. aooinoides, and V. orbiculata. 



Studi paleontologici sulla fauna malacologica dei sediment! 



pliocenici depositati a grandi profondita. [Deep-sea Pliocene 



Mollusca.] Boll. Soc. Mai. Ital. vol. ii. pp. 34.^ 

 Remarks on the fauna, with bibliography ; continuation of article in 

 vol. i. (26 pp.) imperfectly noticed in the Geological Recoed for 

 1875, p. 323. W. H. D. 



