132 THE NAUTILUS. 
berg and Fischer have left little to criticise in the text, although we 
could wish that they had assorted the new Plewrotomide into sub- 
generic groups.—H. A. P. 
Descxrprions OF TERTIARY Fossils FROM THE ANTILLLEAN 
Rearon, by R. J. Lechmere Guppy and Wm. H. Dall (Proce. U. 
S. Nat. Museum, XIX, pages 303-331, Plates XX VII-XXX, 
1896). Inthe preliminary remarks Dr. Dall gives stratigraphically 
the source of the various fossils described. The Pliocene material 
was obtained from Moen, Costa Riea. The Caroni beds of Trinidad, 
the deposits at Bowden, Jamaica, and in Haiti, and the Chipola 
beds of Florida which have long been referred to the Miocene, are 
here placed in the Upper Oligocene, no strictly Miocene strata be- 
ing recognized in the Antillean region. The Gatun beds of Con- 
rad and Hill on the Panama Isthmus are Eocene, and contain a 
fair proportion of the species common to the Claibornian of Ala. 
and the Upper Tejon of Cal. “The list of Tertiary fossils of the 
West Indian region, prepared by Mr. Guppy in 1874, comprised 
some 250 species of fossil mollusks, but the fauna is much richer 
than this, since in one day at the Bowden beds, Messrs. Henderson 
and Simpson procured over 400 species. A significant proportion 
of these appear to have survived little changed, or to be represented 
by closely analogous species in the recent fauna of the West Indies.” 
In this paper 43 new species are described by Mr. Guppy and 19 
by Dr. Dall, besides notes on a number of well known and doubtful | 
species.—C. W. J. 
On THE Genus REMONDIA GABB, A GROUP OF CRETACEOUS 
BrvaLvE Mo.uuusks, by Timothy W. Stanton (Proc. U. S. Nat. 
Mus., XTX, pages 299-301, pl. XX VI). The type of this genus is 
Remondia furcata Gabb. ‘“ The genus has been recognized in the 
Manuals of Conchology and Paleontology, and placed in the Tri- 
goniide by Tryon, Zittel and Fischer, though the latter remarks 
that it would perhaps be better placed near Astarte.” Mr. Stanton 
places it in family Crassitellidze or Craesitellitidee, as the family is 
now called. 
New AnD Inrerestinc EocenrE MouiuuscA FROM THE GULF 
Srares, by Gilbert D. Harris (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1896, pages 
470-482, pls. XVIII-X XIII). This paper relates to new and in- 
teresting forms in the “ Lea Collection of Eocene Mollusca ” in the 
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Seventeen new spe- 
cies are described and a number of specimens that are much finer 
than the types, have also been figured. 
