148 Bibliograjtkical Notices. 



Dorsal tlirce fourths of height of body. Eye small, but 

 distinct. Snout obtuse ; lower jaw advancing a little beyond 

 upper. Teeth small, closely set, the outer series much snuiUer 

 and more closely set than in A. JJrounsonetii. Dorsal and 

 anal connected with caudal. Upper ])arts dark brown, with a 

 series of white spots along the whole length of the side ; lower 

 parts of sides and body white. 



One specimen in the British Museum, from ^lexico, pur- 

 chased. Length 1 foot 8] inches. 



BIBLIOGRArHICAL NOTICES. 

 Two Bo7ie-CavM in Switzerland. 



1. Anon. Hie E.vcavation in the Kesslerloch near Thayi)igen: *A\pen- 

 post,' No. 14, April 4, 1874, pp. 196-199, with 2 woodcuts. 



2. Prof. Albert Heim. On a '^Find," of the lieindcer Period, in 

 Sivitzerla7id : Mittheil. antiquarisch. Gcsellschaft in Ziirich, 

 vol. XA-iii. Heft 5, 1874, pp. 125-135, with a 4to plate. 



3. H. Karstex. Studies of the l^rimeval History of Man in a Cave 

 of the Schaffhausen Jura : Mittheil. autiq. Gcs. vol. xviii. Heft 6, 

 1874, pp. 139-162, with 4 4to plates. 



I. The Kesslerloch is a cave piercing a spur of the Jura, about a 

 kilometre west of the railway-station at Thayingcn (or Thiiingcn), 

 in the Canton of Schaffhausen. It opens to the east on the level of 

 the valley along which the railway passes, and to the south-west at 

 about three metres higher level. Many similar, but smaller, caves 

 are found in the neighbouring hills of upper white Jurassic limestone. 

 Incited by the discoveries made in the many caves of Germany, 

 Belgium, and France, the two masters of the High School of 

 Thayingen, MM. Wepf and Merk, set to work examining this cave 

 in the Christmas holidays of 1873-74. Having removed 1 to 1| 

 foot of fragments of limestone, they exposed a black layer, a foot 

 or more thick, full of bones and horns and other remains. Beneath 

 this they came upon a red bed, with black and brown patches in it, 

 over 6 feet thick in one place (down to water), and crowded with 

 small flint knives, cores, and flakes, broken marrow-bones, and other 

 evidences of man's early habitation. One of the most interesting 

 specimens was found in the southern half of the cave, on the top of 

 the red bed, about a metre below the surface, and consists of a piece 

 of subcylindrical Reindeer-antler bearing an incised life-like outline 

 of a Reindeer grazing. The deposits in the cave were horizontal ; 

 but the floor of the cave was found to be much lower near the 

 entrance than further back ; and it is thought that the higher part 

 was the habitation, and into the lower part the refuse boncH, stones, 

 &t. were flung by the old inhabitants. No definite succession of 



