428 Miscellaneous. 
Note on Testudo chilensis. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 
Looking over Dr. Strauch’s ‘Mémoires’ on the geographical dis- 
erie of Testudinata, I find that a Chilian tortoise I described in 
rmer Number was known to D’Orbigny (Voyage ees l'Amér. 
tortoise to compare it with, or they would not have made such a 
mista . de Meussy (Desc. Géog. et Statist. de la Conféd. Argent. 
ii. 38) mentions the same tortoise under the name of T'estudo mauri- 
tanica ; but it has no similarity to that species. 
Observations on some Vegetable Fossils from Victoria. 
By Dr. Fernano von MünLER and R. BRoven Surg, F.G.S. 
Mr. Smyth stated that the fossils, of which specimens were for- 
warded by him, were obtained in one of the deep leads at Haddon, near 
Smythesdale. No leaves have been obtained from the bed, which 
consists of a greyish-black clay; the fruits and seed-vessels were 
obtained about 180 feet from the surface, and represent a flora not 
very dissimilar to that now characterizing. some parts of Queensland. 
lostrobus. It is most nearly allied to Solenostrobus, Bowerbank ; but 
its five etd are es keeled. The co lumella forms the main in body 
d t 
a genus Dysoaylon. r. Miller considered that these 
mains indicate a former flora analogous to that of the existing 
forest-belt of Eastern Australia.— Proc. Geol. Soc. June 22, 1870., 
The Female Le Bartlett's Spider Monkey (Ateles Bartlettii). 
y Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &e. 
The. British ie has recen ins received a Spider Monkey. 
or greyish white, the confines of the two colours are not so di- 
stinctly ek, and the spots on the forehead and cheek are müch 
sm. d much less 
distinct, I have therefore little doubt it is 
the Xd B of the above Species. 
