272 RevieU'S — FritscJi's Permian Amphibia, 



Both in Tuscany and in the Marche it is found that the facies of 

 the fauna points to the lower part of the Congeria beds, and in so 

 far the Congeria strata only in part corresponds with that of Austria 

 and Hungary, the upper part as there known being absent in Italy, 

 The lower group of the Miocene strata of the Leghorn mountains 

 corresponds with the marls and sands of the Cardita Jouanetti beds 

 of the Rhine, and if these are to be considered Upper Miocene, then 

 the Middle and Lower Miocene are unrepresented in the province of 

 Pisa, but well developed in Tuscany. 



In the second paper this formation is shown to be very well 

 developed in the hills south-east of Pisa, especially good sections 

 being exposed in the valley of the Marmolajo, and between Parrana 

 and Cologne, where the complete series can be examined resting on 

 the Leithakalk, and at Linione and Uliveto there is a marl bed 

 intercalated in the formation containing plants, fish, and fossil 

 insects, by which means these beds and the Oeningen lacustrine 

 formation are correlated. 



The Lower Pliocene is considered to end with the marl containing 

 Pecten comilatiis, Font., which has also been called P. denudatus and 

 P. Fuchsii, De Stef. ; and immediately below this follows the Con- 

 geria (sulphur-gypsum) formation, and these Professor Capellini 

 proposes to divide into (1) Cardium heds with 31elanopsis Bonelli ; 

 (2) marl with Cypris ; (3) marl with Melanopsis ivipressa ; (4) 

 limestone and serpentine conglomerate ; (5) marl with Melanopsis 

 Bartolinii. 



These Congeria beds are superposed on the Sarmatian or Tripoli 

 beds of the Leghorn mountains, which again rest on Tortonian or 

 Leithakalk, considered by some as Upper Miocene, and by others as 

 Middle Miocene, the latter being the division followed by Capellini. 



Both papers are accompanied with several plates of the fossils 

 found in these beds. A. W. W. 



laE^VIE-WS. 



I. — Feitsch's Permian Amphibians of Bohemia. 



THE second part of Dr. Fritsch's Monograph of the Fauna of the 

 Permian Rocks of Bohemia fully sustains the interest of the 

 first volume. It consists of 34 quarto pages of text, amply ill ustrated 

 by many figures printed in the text, and by 12 coloured plates. It 

 is impossible not to regard with admiration a work so fully and 

 wisely illustrated; but equally in the literary work the author has 

 endeavoured to give his labours completeness of expression, not so 

 much with the object it may be of making the task of futui'e 

 labourers a sinecure, as in a happy endeavour to say everything that 

 is worth knowing about his fossils. This memoir commences with 

 some general remarks on the Branchiosauridas, in which the opinion 

 is expressed and sustained that several of the Stegocephali which 

 have been described in other countries must be included in this 

 family, so that the author finally arranges in it the following ten 



