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pi. xvi. f. 8 (non Corhula truncata, Sow., d'Orbigny, Terr. Cret. vol. iii. pi. 338, 



fa. 8-12) [right and left valves]. Up. Greensand, Blackdown. 

 Cucullcsa formosa, J. de C. Sowerby (Fitton), Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. 



p. 342, pi. xvii. f. 7; W. Downes, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxviii. p. 87 [left valves]. 



Up. Greensand, Blackdown. 

 Cypricardia filoptera, G. F. Whidborne, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxix. p. 529, pi. xviii. 



fs. 19, 19a [valves united]. Inf. Ool. Dundry. 

 Cyprina rostrata, J. de C. Sowerby (Fitton), Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. p. 341, 



pi. xvii. f. 1; Veniella (Venilicardia), F. Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. of S. India, 



p. 193 [right valve]. Up. Greensand, Blackdown. 

 Cytherea subrotunda, J. de C. Sowerby (Fitton), Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. 



p. 341, pi. xvii. f. 2; Caryatis, F. Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. of S. India, p. 161 



[right valve]. Up. Greensand, Blackdown. 

 Gervilha gladiolus, G. F. Whidborne, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxix. p. 516, pi. xvi. f. 7 [double 



shell] Inf. Ool. Dundry. 

 Gervillia rostrata, J. de C. Sowerby (Fitton), Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. p. 342, 



pi. xvii. f. 17 ; ? Perna, J. Morris, Cat. Brit. Foss. 2nd ed. p. 179 ; Melina, F. 



Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. of S. India, p. 400 [valves united]. Up. Greens. Blackdn. 

 Gryphea abrupta, G. F. Whidborne, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxix. p. 493, pi. xv. f. 7 [left valve]. 



Inf. Ool. Dundry. 

 Gryphea Sollasii, G. F. Whidborne, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxix. p. 495, pi. xv. f. 9 [valves 



united]. Inf. Ool. Dundry. 

 Harpax Tawneyi, G. F. Whidborne, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxix. p. 514, pi. xv. fs. 18, 19 



[2 single valves in matrix showing interiors]. Inf. Ool. Dundry. 

 Leda ? ambigua, W. J. Sollas, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxv. p. 497, pi. xxiv. f. 7 [valves united]. 



Up. Ludlow, Cae Castle, Rhymney. 

 Lima antiquata, J. Sowerby, Min. Conch, pi. 214, f. 2 [valves united]. Syn. of 



L. succincta, Schlotheim, Pt. Tate, York. Lias, p. 365. L. Lias, Fretherne, 



Gloucestershire. 

 Lima poetica, G. F. Whidborne, Q.J.G.S. vol. xxxix. p. 511, pi. xvii. f, 9 [left valve]. 



Inf. Ool. Dundry. 

 Lima subovalis, J. de C. Sowerby (Fitton), Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. p. 342, 



pi. xvii. f. 21; Radula (Ctenoides), F. Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. of S. India, p. 414 

 [valves united]. Up. Greensand, Blackdown. 

 Lucina ? orbicularis, J. de C. Sowerby (Fitton), Trans. Geol. Soc. ser. ii. vol. iv. 

 p. 341, pi. xvi. f. 13 ; Limopsis, F. Stoliczka, Cret. Pel. of S. India, p. 252 

 [valves united]. Up. Greensand, Blackdown. 



(To be continued!) 



1TOTIGES OIF 1 IMIIEIMIOIIRS. 



Le Pieghe delle Alpi Aptjane. Contribuzione agli Studi 

 sull' Origine delle Montagne. Per Carlo de Stefani, Pro- 

 fessore di Geologia nel E. Istituto di Studi Superiori di Fireuze. 

 pp. 114. Con una Carta Geologica, due Tavole di Spaccati, ed 

 Incisioni nel Testo. (Firenze, Le Monnier, 1889.) 



The Foldings of the Apuan Alps. Contributions to the Study 

 of the Origin of Mountains. By Prof. C. de Stefani. With 

 coloured Geological Map, two Tables of Sections, and Woodcuts. 



THE author of this work, who has for many years studied the 

 Apuan Alps, commences by giving a description of the different 

 beds of wbich tbey are composed and of the fossils contaiued in 

 tbem. Tbe lowest strata consist of dark magnesian limestones, 

 with numerous remains of Orthoceras, Crinoids, and Sponges, wbich 

 are referred on general grounds to the age of the Middle or Upper 

 Silurian. These are succeeded by peculiar bluisb, bituminous lime- 

 stones, technically known as ' grezzoni,'' belonging to the Middle 

 Trias or Muschelkalk, and above tbese, a series of limestones, marbles 

 and schists of the age of the Upper Trias. In this series are included 



