136 Brief Notices. 



soudderi, Oxycera rohweri, Urn/pis perdita, Protolomatia recurrens, 

 JProtepacmus (nov. gen.) setosus, Pachysomites (nov. gen.) inermis, 

 Tabanus merychippi, Chilosia septdtula, Sciara florissantensis, Cordylura 

 exhumata, Chironomus scudderiellus, from the Miocene Shales of 

 Florissant. Lepidoptera : Tortrix (?) destructus, from the Florissant 

 Miocene. Trichoptera : Dolophilus (?) prcemissus, Upper Cretaceous 

 (Emscherian) of Tennessee. Protorthoptera : Daniehiella (nov. gen.) 

 priscula, Carboniferous of Illinois. Odonata : Lithragion (?) optimum, 

 Miocene of Florissant. Hymenoptera : Aulacites (nov. gen.) secimdus, 

 Eriocampoides micrarche, Miocene of Florissant. Coleoptera : Saperda 

 lesquereuxi, Miocene of Florissant, Calandrites hindsi, Ophryastiles 

 hendersoni, from the Eocene of North Park, Colorado. 



4. — Alexandrian Pocks op the North-Eastern Illinois and Eastern 

 Wisconsin. By T. E. Savage. Bulletin of the Geological Society 

 of America, vol. xxvii, pp. 305-24, pis. xv-xvii, 1916. 



THE author's investigations on this subject lead him to recognize 

 that a correlation exists between the May ville Beds of Wisconsin 

 and the Alexandrian rocks of North-Eastern Illinois, as also between 

 the Alexandrian rocks of the Mississippi Valley and the early Silurian 

 strata of Anticosti. The fossils figured and described from the 

 Alexandrian rocks belong to the Brachiopoda; there is besides a form 

 of Eurypterus {E. pumilus, n.sp.). Some new species or varieties 

 among the Brachiopods are referred to the genera Sehueherlella, 

 Clorinda, Stricklandinia, Platymerella, and Virgimia. 



5. — The Glossopteris Beds of Northern Queensland. 



The Glossopteris Beds of Betts's Creek, Northern Queensland. 

 By J. H. Reid, A.S.T.C, Fifth Government Geologist, Geological 

 Survey of Queensland. Publication No. 254. pp. 21, with two 

 plates (maps) and four text-figures (sections and map). With 

 an Introductory Note by B. Dunstan, Chief Government 

 Geologist, 1916. 



fPHIS is an important contribution to the geology of Queensland, 

 JL the beds in question at Betts's Creek having long been recognized 

 as containing Glossopteris remains, although assigned by W. H. Bands 

 to a Cretaceous age and claimed as forming part of the Desert 

 Sandstone series. The author regards the deposits as of Permo- 

 Carboniferous or probably of Upper Coal-measure age, mentioning 

 that they are overlain by "Desert Sandstone" and divided by 

 a slight unconformity. A list of the flora referred to includes 

 Glossopteris browniana (Brongniart), Vertebraria, Phyllotheca, etc. 



6. — New Brachiopods of the genus Spieifer from the Silurian 

 of Maine. By Henry Shaler Williams. Proo. United States 

 National Museum, vol. li, pp. 73-80, pi. i, No. 2144, 1916. 



THE species described in this pamphlet are said to exhibit a closer 

 relationship to the Wenlock-Ludlow formations of Great Britain 

 than to the Niagara of the interior of the American Continent. They 



