532 Jones and Woodward—Fossil Phyllopoda. 
it to our old friend Hofrath Geinitz, of Dresden, who has always 
been deeply interested in fossil Entomostraca and in the strata from 
which those of the Wetterau have been obtained. 
This short form, deep (high) in its anterior moiety, is abundant 
(gregarious) in a dark greenish-grey, nearly black, shale, ferruginous 
on one face, of the Lebach Beds, from the Boos Tunnel, on the 
Rhine-Nahe Railway, and on the same geological horizon as at 
Altenstadt. 
4, Esruerta GeErnivzi, var. Grepeana, nov. Pl. XIX. Fig. 5. 
Length, 1:2 mm. ; hinge-line, 1-05 mm. ; height, 0-9 mm. 
Fig. 5 (right-valve) is subtriangular and differs from Fig. 4, 
owing to the great proportional length of the hinge-line and the 
less fully rounded free margins. ‘The front border is truncate, 
sloping downwards and inwards; and the hinder margin slopes 
downwards at once and forwards, and not partly outwards as in 
Fig. 4. 
These differences in outline do not seem to be due to bad preser- 
vation, for the ridges are truly concentric with the margins, as far 
as they are exposed; but they are varietal, if not sexual. Hence 
Fig. 5 may be distinguished as var. Grebeana, after Herr Grebe, of 
the Prussian Geological Service, who found it crowded together with 
E. Geinitzii in the hard, dark-coloured Lebach Shale from the railway 
tunnel near Boos, a village about one kilometre from Miinster-on- 
the-Nahe. 
III. In Katzer’s Geologie von Bohmen, III. Abtheilung, 1892, 
the following fossil Phyllcpoda are mentioned :— 
P. 1169, Estheria cyanea, Fr., from Lubna ? (Lubno). 
P. 1156 », tenella (Jordan), from Nirschan (Nyrany), ) Post- 
P. 1156 », sp. from Tremosna, ) Carboniferous. 
Since that date our friend Dr. Anton Fritsch has shown us some 
figures of Phyllopods which probably comprise those referred to 
above. These figures are: 1, Hstheria, from the lowest horizon of 
the Permian system of Bohemia, in the bituminous shale of Nyran, 
near Pilsen; 2, #. cyanea, sp. nov., Fritsch, from the Middle Permian, 
in bituminous shale from Kaunova; 38, an Estheria from Upper 
Permian bituminous shale at Kastialov; 4, an Hstheria from the 
limestone with Palgoniscus Vratislavensis of the Uppermost Permian 
at Braunau; 5, an Estheria, also from the Uppermost Permian Lime- 
stone. ‘These, with some Ostracodes, will be published in due course 
by Dr. A. Fritsch in his “ Fauna der Gaskohle,” some parts of which 
have been already issued. 
IY. S. 8S. Gorby, State-Geologist has issued some “Advance Sheets 
from the Highteenth Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana” 
(Svo. Indianapolis, September, 1892), in which the Paleontology is 
done by 8. A. Miller and 8. A. Casseday (see p. 23). Some Phyllo- 
caride of the family of Pinacaride are treated of, and at p. 77, 
pl. ix. fig. 87, the post-abdomen (trifid) of Mesothyra Gurleyi, n. sp., 
from the Kinderhook group, at Le Grand, Iowa, is described and 
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