34 Notices of Memoirs — Prof. Cctpellini — On Italian Gharials. 



Microtics ratticeps (Keys, and Bias.) : Newton, Hid. p. 453, f. 1, 2. [Records 



remains from Crayford and Erith in Mus. Pract. Geol. and F. C. J. 



Spurrell Coll.] 

 Myodes lemmus (Linn.) : Newton, Geol. Mag. 1890, p. 45o, f. 7, 8. [Eecorded 



from Erith Pleistocene : mandib. ramus and teeth, F. C. J. Spurrell Coll.] 

 torquatus (Desm.) : Newton, ihid. p. 454, f. 3-6. [Recorded from Erith 



Pleistocene : r. mandib. ramus, F. C. J. Spurrell Coll.] 

 Neitrogymnurus, Filhol. Prof. Rosenberg, of Dorpat, points out that this name, 



though invariably adopted, is a misprint for Necrogymnurus. 

 Fhoca Moori [n. sp.], E. T. Newton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlvi. 1890, p. 



446, pi. xviii.f. 3. Eed Crag: Woodbridge. [L. humerns ; E. C.Moor Coll.] 

 Phocanella minor, P. J. van Beneden : E. T. Newton, Quart. Joiurn. Geol. Soc. 



vol xlvi. 1890, p. 447, pi. xviii. f. 4. Eed Crag: Woodbridge. [Humerus ; 



E. C. Moor CoU.] 

 Platycheerops Richardsoni, Charlesw. : [E. Lydekker] Ann. Eep. Yorks. Phil. Soc. 



1889 (1890), p. 35, pi. 1, f. 1. 

 Trogontheriuin minus [n. sp.], E. T. Newton, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xlvi. 



1890, p. 447, pi. xviii. f. 5 (? 6). ? Includes incisor from Sizewell Gap, 



Norwich Crag, in Geol. Soc. Mus. (Owen, Brit. Foss. Mamm. 1846, p. 192). 



Eed Crag; Woodbridge. [E. maxilla ; E. C. Moor Coll.] ? Norwich Crag ; 



Suffolk. 

 Xiphodon platyceps, Flower : " May be Dacrytherium ovini<m,'" E. Lydekker, Cat. 



Foss. Mamm. B.M. pt. ii. 1885, p. 187. 



N.B. — General information on the distribution of Pliocene and 

 Pleistocene Fossil Vertebrata will also be found in the following 

 works : — 



W. Whitakek, " The Geology of London and of Part of the Thames 

 Valley," 2 vols. 8vo., London (Geol. Survey), 1889. 



C. Keid, " The Pliocene Deposits of Britain," 8vo., London (Geol. 

 Survey), 1890. W. and S. 



isTOTiGES oip ^yciEinycoiias. 



L — Prof. Capellini on a Fossil Italian Species of Tomistoma. 

 G. Capellini. Sul Coogodrlliano Garialoide (Tomistoma 

 calakitanus), scoperto nella Collina di Cagliari nel 1868. 

 Mem. Ac. Line. (4) Vol. VL 1890, 4 Plates. 



I^ILL within the last few years the existing Schlegel's Gharial, of 

 Borneo, was the only known representative of the genus 

 Tomistoma, the skull of which is readily distinguished from that of 

 the Gangetic Gharial [Gnrialis gangeticus) by the forward extension 

 of the nasals to join the preraaxillse in the long snout. Within 

 that period fossil remains of this genus have, however, been 

 determined from the Miocene of Malta (T. champsoides) and 

 Lower Austria (T. eggenbiirgense), while it has been suggested that 

 Blainville's Crocodilus macrorhynchus, from the Cretaceous Pisolite 

 of France, might also be included in the same genus. In the 

 memoir before us the learned Professor of the University of 

 Bologna makes us acquainted with a third species from Italian 

 strata, for which he proposes the name T. calaritanns} This 

 species is described upon the evidence of a skull, somewhat 

 imperfect posteriorly, which was obtained in 1868 from beds at 

 ^ T. calaritanum would appear to be more correct. 



