Reviews—R. Etheridge, jun.—Fossils of N. S. Wales. 88 
Phialocrinus is a name which Mr. Etheridge revives for the 
Cyathocrinus Konincki of De Koninck and three new species, P. prin- 
ceps, P. nodosus, and P. Stephensi. The genus Phialocrinus, as Mr. 
Htheridge understands it, has a cup composed of five infrabasals, 
five basals, and five radials, with a pentagonal axal « truncating the 
posterior basal, in a line with the radials, and supporting two plates 
of the anal tube; its radials have a wide facet supporting two or 
three wide primary brachials, which bear in each ray two main arms. 
It is, however, advisable to point out that the arms, beyond the 
earlier distichals, are unknown in all the Australian species, and 
that the anal area also is unknown in P. princeps; it is therefore 
doubtful how far they agree with P. patens, Trd., which is taken 
as type of the genus. They certainly do not agree with Scaphiocrinus 
simplex, Hall, with which they are supposed to be congeneric. The 
whole question, however, involving as it does difficult points both 
of nomenclature and taxonomy, cannot be discussed in a review, and 
since we purpose describing a specimen allied to P. Konincki, we 
gladly defer till that occasion discussion of these and other interesting 
matters alluded to in the present Monograph: 
Among Annelida there is only described one specimen, namely, 
a Serpula, to which is regrettably assigned a new name, apparently 
because it ‘“‘is the first yet noted from the Permo-Carboniferous 
Series of New South Wales.” 
Turning to Ostracoda we find a rather doubtful new species 
described as Carbonia australis, and the description of Hntomis 
Jonesi, De Kon. corrected; while the little bodies referred by De 
Koninck to Polycope are now supposed to be the fry of a species of 
Aphania or Aviculopecten. 
The Trilobites of New South Wales do not extend above the 
Carboniferous. Griffithides dubius, Eth., senior, is now redescribed 
from older and better examples, and referred to Phillipsia; its axis 
has a peculiarly angular arch. There are also described P. grandis, 
n. sp., and some undeterminable fragments of both Phillipsia and 
Griffithides. 
The difficulties of preparing such a book as this Monograph in 
a go-ahead country, far from libraries and fellow-workers, can 
hardly be appreciated by European students. Future parts would 
be improved if the author could dispense with a few misprints, 
such as “‘analagous,” with the evidences of haste that occur in his 
quotations, and with such remarkable sentences as the following: 
*‘Waagen has described a species as C. goliathus, which, from his 
remarks, in comparing his detached plates with P. Konincki, certainly , 
appear to place C. goliathus in congeneric relation with the Australian 
Crinoid.” It is much to be regretted that all the plate-figures are 
reversed; on plate xvi. numbers 2 and 98 are interchanged, while 
we have wasted many weary minutes in discovering the orientation 
of figures 5 to 9. Having eased our feelings with regard to these 
easily avoidable defects, we may conclude by offering to Mr. 
Etheridge our thanks for, and felicitations on, the success that he 
has attained. F. A. BaruEr, , 
