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Trigonia WUUamsoni, T. paticicosta, T. Leclcenby% T. Sharpiana, T. 

 Joassi, T. ManselU, T. temdtexta^ and T. Beesleyana. H. A. N. 



McCoy, Prof. FfiEDERicK. Prodromus of the Palaeontology of 

 Yictoria, or Figures and Descriptions of Yictorian Organic Re- 

 mains. Geological Survey of Yictoria, Decade I., with ten plates. 

 8vo. Melbourne. 



The first part treats of the Graptolites of the L. Silurian Slates, in 

 which the auriferous veins of Victoria are contained. None of the 

 species are new ; but all 'are forms known in the Quebec Group of 

 "Canada and the Skiddaw Slates of England, except one or two species 

 which the author identifies with types belonging to the Moff'at series 

 of Scotland. Ten species or varieties are described and figured. 



The author describes and illustrates an extinct species of Wombat, 

 which he names PTiascolomys PUocoenus. The remains of this animal 

 are found in the gold-cement of Yictoria, and show that the Auriferous 

 Drifts are of the age of the Mammaliferous Crag of Britain. 



The memoir is continued with plates and descriptions of 4 new 

 species of Voluta {V. Hannafordi, V. anticingulata, V. antiscalaris , 

 and V. macropterd) from the L. Miocene (Oligocene) deposits stretch- 

 ing from the shores of Hobson's Bay to the Murray. 



The author next describes and figures 3 new species of Podozamites 

 (P. BarJclyi, P. ellipticus, and P. longifolius) from the Mesozoic coal- 

 bearing deposits of Bellarine, near Geelong. N"ext, we have a plate 

 and description of Lepidodendroyi (Bergeria) austrcde, of common occur- 

 rence in the red and yellow micaceous sandstones of the Avon river, 

 Gippsland, which are Carboniferous. The author thinks it probably 

 the same as that described by Carruthers as L. nothum. 



The Decade is concluded with a plate and descriptions of two 

 species of Starfish from U. Silurian beds. One of these is termed 

 Petraster Smyihii ; and the other, nearly allied to Uraster Ruthveni, 

 Porbes, is named Urasterella Sehuyni. H. A. N. 



Makzoni, Dr. Angelo. Earita paleozoica. [A rare fossil (Tertiary).] 

 Boll. E. Com. geol. Ital. pp. 152-159. 



Notes the discovery of a fine specimen of Pentacrinus Gastcddi 

 (Mich.) in the MoUasse of Montese, near Bologna, and reviews the few 

 other occurrences of the genus in Tertiary beds. E. B. T. 



Martens, E. vok. Eossile Susswasser-Conchylien aus Sibirien. 



Zeitsch. deutsch. geol. Gesell. Bd. xxvi. Heft. 4, pp. 741-751, 



with plate. 



Describes 12 species of fossil freshwater shells, from the shore of 



the river Irtysch, near Omsk in Siberia. Includes the following new 



species — Paludina (ViviparcC) tenuisculjpta, Lithoglyphus constrictus, 



Unio Pallasi, U. promts, and U. bituherculosus. F. W. E. 



Maurer, F. Palaontologische Studien im Gebiete des rheinischen 

 Devon. [Fossils from the Rhenish Devonian rocks.] Neues 

 Jahrbuch, Heft. 5, pp. 453-459, with plate. 



