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in three papers (1870, 1893, and 1894). The Cirripede originally- 

 described by H. Woodward (in 1868) as Pyrgoma cretacea, from the 

 Chalk of Norwich, proved to be intermediate between the sessile 

 and pedunculated groups. This new form, named Brachylepas 

 cretacea, was discovered by Dr. Kowe, and described and figured by 

 H. Woodward in 1901 (p. 145). Two species of Turrilepas from the 

 Silurian are enumerated by the same author, one from Canada and one 

 from Dudley. The gastric teeth and shields of Cai'boniferous, Devonian, 

 and Silurian Phyllopods, especially of the genera Dithyrocaris and 

 Ceratiocaris, received attention and description in five well-illustrated 

 papers by the same author ; while eight papers were devoted to 

 the description and figuring of various genera of Mekostomata,' 

 Eurypterus, Stylonuriis, Hemiaspis, and Neolimulus, the last-named 

 being the earliest king-crab known, coming from the Upper Silurian 

 of Lanarkshire. 



Entobiostraca. — Mr. Sherborn and Mr. Chapman had papers on 

 the Ostracoda of the Gault of Folkestone and the Tithonian of 

 Nesselsdorf. Fourteen papers on Tertiary, Cretaceous, Wealden, 

 Carboniferous, and Silurian Ostracoda from North and South 

 America, South Africa, and Britain, have been contributed by 

 Professor T. Eupert Jones. Four others, in conjunction with J. W. 

 Kirkby and one with Mr. Sherborn, treat of the same subject. 

 Professor Rupert Jones had also five papers on fossil Estlierice from 

 North America, South Africa, and Siberia; and eight papers in con- 

 junction with H. Woodward on fossil Phyllopoda from the Palgeozoio 

 rocks. Messrs. Brady and Crosskey described in 1871 Post-Tertiary 

 Ostracoda from Canada and New England ; and Miss Partridge 

 described Echinocaris Whidbornei and ^. Sloliensis from Devonshire. 



Insecta. — It is pleasant again to record the name of Professor 

 John Phillips (1866), who, under the title of "Oxford Fossils," 

 figured a dragon-fly's wing as Zibelliila Westiooodi, from the 

 Stonesfield Slate, and compared it with the wing of JEscTina Brodiei 

 from the Lias of Dumbleton. J. W. Kirkby figured some insect- 

 remains (part of wing of a species of Blatta and part of wing of 

 an Orthopterous insect related to the Phasmidee) fi-om the Coal- 

 measures of Durham. A. G. Butler illustrated the wing of a fossil 

 butterfly from the Stonesfield Slate (1873), PalcBontina oolitica, to 

 which he again referred (in 1874), maintaining its Lepidoptei'ous 

 character against the opinion of S. H. Scudder, who considered it 

 to be an Homopterous wing allied to the Cicada. S. H. Scudder 

 described and figured a tinted Neuropterous insect - wing (Brodia 

 priscotincta) from the Dudley Coalfield, and two other Carboniferous 

 insects, Archceoptilus and ^deeophasma, from Lancashire. He added 

 some notes on European species of Etohlattina, of which he 

 enumerated 28 species (1896), also a new form, E. Beanensis, from 

 the Forest of Dean, and gave an account of the Insect fauna of the 

 Miocene of Oeningen, of which 876 had been described by Professor 

 0. Heer and five figured by Scudder (1895). His earliest paper 

 (not illustrated) was in 1868, on the fossil insects of North America 

 (published by special request of Sir Charles Lyell). In 1867 



