56 Prof. N. 0. HoM— Writing Chalk of Scania, Sweden. 



Sir J, W. Dawson wrote upon, and S. H. Scudder gave diagnoses 

 of, an insect-wing from the Coal-shale of Cape Breton, and four 

 insect-remains from the Devonian of St. John's, Brunswick. In 

 1874 A. H. Swinton figured a fossil Ortliopter of the genus 

 GryJlacris (= Corydalis Brongniarti, Buck.) from Coalbrookdale. 

 Charles Brongniart described (1879) a new genus of Phasmidfe 

 (Protophasma Dumasii) from the Coal-measures of Commentry, 

 Central France, and (in 1885) described various insects from the 

 Primary rocks. H. A. Allen described (1901) Fouquea cambrensis 

 (near to Lithomantis) from the Coal-measures of South Wales. 

 The Rev. P. B. Brodie (1893) noticed the Eocene Tertiary Insects 

 of Gurnet Bay, Isle of Wight, collected by A'Court Smith. 

 Henry Woodward (1884) described the wing of a Neuropterous insect 

 from the Cretaceous Limestone, Flinders River, North Queensland. 

 He discoui'sed on British Carboniferous cockroaches and on their 

 larval forms (Etoblattina Peachii), etc. (1887, pp. 49 and 431). 

 He also described a Neuropterous insect (Palceotermes Ellisii) from 

 the Lower Lias, Barrow-on-Soar, in which the clouded colour of the 

 wing had been preserved in the fossil (1892). 



Aeachnida. — Henry Woodward described in 1871 a remarkably 

 perfect Arachnid, Eophrynus Prestvici, from the Coal-measures near 

 Dudley, preserved in a nodule of clay ironstone. He also figured 

 Architarbits snbovalis from the Coal-measures of Lancashire in 1872. 

 R. I. Pocock redescribed PJophri/niis and figured two new Arachnids, 

 from the Coal-measures. 



Myriopoua. — Henry Woodward illustrated some remarkable spined 

 Myriapods from the Carboniferous rocks of England and Scotland. 

 (To be continued.) 



II. — On the Relations of the 'Writing Chalk' of Tullstorp 

 (Sweden) to the Drift Deposits, with reference to the 

 ' Interglacial ' question. 



By Nils Olof Holst.^ 



IN the district of Tullstorp in Scania (Southern Sweden) the 

 white ' Writing Chalk ' is dug rather extensively, and in 

 exploring the ground numerous borings have lately been made 

 which have shown that this Chalk is not actually in place as 

 supposed by Angelin, B. Lundgren, J. Jonsson, J. C. Moberg, 

 W. Dames, and others, but occurs only in extraordinarily large 



1 Dr. N. 0. Hoist's researches in Greenland on the Inland Ice and his views 

 on Post-Glacial earth-movements in Scandinavia are already well known to 

 English readers. The recently published paper of this eminent Swedish geologist, 

 " Om skrifkritan i Tullstorpstrakten och de b§,da moriiner, i hvilka den 

 iir inbaddad : ett inliigg i InterglacialMgau " {Sveriges Geol. Undersokning : 

 Afhandlingar och iippsatser, ser. C, No. 194, 1903), is of such general interest to 

 all glacial geologists, that I have been glad to have had the privilege of rendering 

 some little assistance to the author in his preparation of this English abstract of his 

 paper. The doubts as to the validity of the evidence for even a single Interglacial 

 Period, which have been expressed recently in several countries, are here put forward 

 with great force, and it is clear that a general re-discussion of this very important 

 question is rapidly becoming imperatiA^e. — G. "W. Lamplugh. 



