Hays ; 
_ We recent species are C, be eotoma d 
Fe syloatious ; Cariacus (Cervus) Virginianus ; Procyon 
Mineralogy and Geology. 273 
former connection of Australia and New Zealand, and makes the 
following additional observations on the subject. “Returning, i 
covered by the same friend, Mr. Hood, show that there was ay 
similar geological fa in times as far back at least, as the 
geological fauna k east, 
though now the flora is dissimilar, yet there is evidence that in 
even earlier geological times, such as our Carboniferous epoch, for 
instance, there was a similar flora. 
. views I have adopted lead me to maintain, that we in Aus- 
tralia inhabit only a fragment of a vast continent, of which in New 
Zealand there was probably, as there still is, the culminating ridge 
fie d 
. *. Synopsis of the Extinct Mammalia of the Cave Formations 
1 the United States, with observations on some Myriapoda found 
of Anguilla, W.L, and of other localities , by Epwarp D. Cops. 
(Prom the Proceedings re American Philosophical Society, 
Uadelphia, vol. xi, p. 171, 1869.)—This includes an account of 
remains of mammals discovered ina cave breccia in Wythe county, 
Virginia, by the author, among which several extinct forms occur- 
ted associated with existing species. The new species are > 
& tortus (gen. et sp, nov.) allied to Aretomys 5 Tamsas. loos 
ius 5 hag 
lated extinct species are Megalonyx 
> Di <i fy and others. on 
Dicotyles nasutus ; gertasagre ates. ; naer 
“AM. Jour. Scr.—Szconp Series, Vou. XLIX, No. 146.—Maxcu, 1870. 
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