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1878. On November 7th, 1877, a paper by R. Etheridge, jun., was read before 

 the Geological Society, pubHshed in No. 133, vol. xxxiv, p. 1, 1878. " On our 

 Present Knowledge of the Invertebrate Fauna of the Lower Carboniferous or 

 Calciferous Sandstone Series of the Edinburgh Neighbourhood, especially of that 

 division known as the Wardie Shales, and on the First Appearance of certain 

 Species in these Beds." 



The following species of Lamellibranchs are figured and described for the first 

 time (Pis. i and ii) : 



Avicula Hendersoni . 



Anthracoptera ? ohesa. 

 Myalina sublamellosa. 



Nueulana Sharmani. 

 Pandora ? typica. 



Figures are also given of Schizodus SaJteri and Anthracosia ? nucleus, and notes 

 are added on Myalina crassa, var. modioUformis, Brown, and Anthracomya Scotica, 

 Etheridge. 



1878. In the July number of the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History,' 

 series 5, vol. ii, p. 30, is a short paper by R. Etheridge, jun., entitled " Notes 

 on Carboniferous MoUusca," which consists of two short articles : — No. 1, " On 

 the Hinge-structure and Generic Affinity of Pecten Soiuerbii, M'Coy ;" No. 2, 

 " On the Hinge-structure of Nucula gibhosa (Fleming) and Nuculana attenuata 

 (Fleming)," with a plate (pi. i) in illustration of both subjects. 



1878. In his ' Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus ' Dr. Bigsby gave a list of all 

 the species and genera described from European, North-American, and Australian 

 Carboniferous beds, with a list of authors and publications. 



1878. The ' Manual of the Geology of Ireland,' by G. H. Kinahan, contains 

 two plates, iii and iv (pp. 63 and 95), of Carboniferous fossils, among which the 

 following Lamellibranchs are figured, no descriptions, however, being given: 



Aviculopecten Sowerhyi. 

 PleurorhyncTius Koninchii. 

 Modiola Macadamii. 

 Aviculopecten papyraceus. 

 Posidonomya Becheri. 



Posidonomya memhranacea. 

 Myacites fahieformis. 

 Anthracosia Bilboensis. 

 Lunulocardium Footii. 



1879. In the ' Neues Jahrbuch fiir Mineralogie,' &c., for 1879, von Koenen 

 describes, in his paper on " Die Kulm Fauna von Herborn," the following new 

 Lamellibranchs, pp. 327, &c. : 



Pecten Lassen i. 



— prietenuis. 



— perovalis. 

 Avicula? latisulcata. 



Avicula Koclii. 

 Myalina mytiloides. 

 Area Sitter shauseni. 

 — Becheni. 



All are figured (pi. vi) with the exception of the last. 



