16 GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS. 



The following species are of very rare occurrence in the Olmiitz 

 sands : — 



Polystomella Fichteliana, D' Orb. 



Nonionina communis, D : Orb. 



Amphistegina Haueriana, D J Orb. \~ from Nussdorf. 



Bulimina elongata, Z)' Orb. 



Triloculina inflata, D'Orb. 



The strata from which these sands were produced belong evidently 

 to the Upper Marine Neogene beds of the Vienna Basin, and cer- 

 tainly stand next to the Amphistegina-zone of the Vienna Tertiaries. 



i ' [Count M.] 



On the Fossil Fishes of Austria. By Professor Kner. 

 [Proceed. Imp. Acad. Vienna, May 8, 1862.] 



Professor Kner has described three species of Acanthopterygian 

 fishes from the Calcaire grossier of the Leitha Hills, between Lower 

 Austria and Hungary. One of these fishes is a Labroid — Julis 

 Sigismundi ; another, Palimphanus anceps, is a representative of a new 

 generic type. The third, known only by a single specimen (wanting 

 the head and the whole fore part of the body), is undoubtedly a 

 Sparoid, and probably belonged to a species of Pagrus, for which 

 the appellation P. priscus is proposed. The late distinguished ich- 

 thyologist Heckel published two species, as Labroids, from the same 

 locality ; one of them {Labrus Agassizi) is probably a species of Julis, 

 while the other {Labrus parvulus) is certainly not a Labroid. 



[Count M.] 



On the Lias of Funfkirchen, Hungary. By Professor Peters. 

 [Proceed. Imp. Acad. Vienna, July 24, 1862.] 



Each of the three Liassic subdivisions, with its subpelagic fauna 

 (comparable to the Lias of Swabia), is represented in the Funfkirchen 

 district. The lowest subdivision (of great practical importance on 

 account of its rich coal-seams) rests on beds poorer in coal (pro- 

 bably analogous to the Bone-bed series) ; and these last cover a 

 sandstone destitute of coal, which, lying upon the Muschelkalk, is 

 analogous with the Keuper. The limestones of the Upper Alpine 

 Trias and of the Bhaetic subdivision (Dachstein-limestone) are con- 

 sequently wanting. 



The pelagic subdivisions of the Alpine formations appear again in 

 the Jurassic series, in the form of Ammonite-limestones, analogous 

 to the marbles of Trient, Campo Botondo, and other localities of the 

 Southern Alps. The Stramberg strata are represented by some 

 isolated organic forms. 



The whole series under notice comprehends the formations from 

 the Upper Triassic beds (and a red sandstone of problematic age) to 

 the Jurassic, both inclusive. [Count M.] 



