ae site Sip) eer a =e ag tee 
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donts of Brazil, its many gigantic Armadillos and Sloths could 
_ Well rival the Elephants, Rhinoceros, and roe aT which dur- 
ing the same period roamed the soil of Europe.— Tidschrift f. pop. 
Nat., ee re Geological Migiates or 
27. 
IY; 
ozoie Entomostraca. E Pree T. Rupert Jonrs and Dr, 
ii B. ced eos No. VIII of notes on the Paleozoic Bivalved 
: in the Annals and Magazine of Nat. His story, IV, 
ii, 54, Gnly, 3 is6s), describing some Lower Silurian species from 
the chair of Kildare, Irelan 
» On the discovery wa w Pulmonate Mollusk [Zonites 
ulus)* priseus Cpr.) in the Gnd formation of Nova Scotia ; 
y » Dawson, LL.D., with a description of the eee. 
- Carpenter, M. . J. Geol. Soc., Nov. i, 
—— 831,)—This m memoir describes a shell found last summer in the sae 
a: excavations made under the direction of Dr. Dawson in the bed 
a8 cont at 
— 18 1217 feet below that i in twhiel Pupa vetusta was origin- 
vered in trunks of erect nniddle o and about 42 foot be- 
p 
L. Sigitlerian joiad with 5 eee in the original reposi- 
y._ Jf erect Sigillaris, The appearances were such as to con- 
ete ihge ression, stated in a previous paper, that the land-shells 
- dence. along with vegetable matter by some quiet stream, and 
“epowited on the muddy bottom of shallow w 
excavating the bed was to cert if any other 
of land-animal than Pupa vetusta could be obtained from 
. 1 the first ins stance, os result es purely negative, 
a the presence of min e fragments of bone, and of what 
ig ve ok the chitinous Pili of insects. gt a more 
Conulus Fitz, 1933 =Trochiscus Held, 1837, non Sl 
1831 =, Sine oratella tit), is a wieeuae off Zonites Monte. Font tans Leach, ee 
Adams, ‘ Genera of Recent Shells,’ vol. ii, p. 116, and pe 
de Conch. et de Paléont.,’ vol. i i, p. 422.° Those wh 
the modern cirisseol of the land-shells, may st the 
r even, speaking loosely, as a Helix. 
1. Soe. » Feb. 1862, and May 1866, p. 121. 
the p tioned. 
ND Serres, VoL: XLVI, No. 187,—Sxpr., 1868. 
