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10. A Beatricea-like organism from the Middle Ordovician ; 

 by Percy E. Raymond. Geol. Surv. Canada, Museum Bull. No. 

 5, 1914, pp. 1-19, pis. 1-4. — This excellent paper describes in 

 detail the form and internal structure of the oldest known form 

 of Beatricea under the name of Cry23to))hrag?nus antiquatus, n. 

 gen. n. sp. It is found just below the Lowville in the Pamelia 

 formation (Ordovician) of Ontario and New York. The internal 

 structure shows it to be the cylindrical base of a vertically grow- 

 ing hydroid closely related to the stromatoporids. 



In a paper just published by M. Heinrich (Centralbl. f. Min., 

 etc., 1914, No. 23, pp. 732-736), the families Labechidae and Idio- 

 stromidse, one of which includes Beatricea, are removed from 

 the order Stromatoporoidea. As this paper is of importance to 

 American paleontology, a translation of it will be presented later 

 in this Journal. c. s. 



11. The Middle Triassic marine invertebrate faunas of North 

 America; by James Perrin Smith, IT. S. Geol. Surv., Prof. 

 Paper 83, 1914, pp. 254, pis. 99. — This abundantly illustrated and 

 valuable monograph of the Middle Triassic invertebrate faunas of 

 the western United States describes 153 species, and lists 7 verte- 

 brates. Of the invertebrates, 124 are ammonids (in 36 genera), 

 6 belemnids, 5 nautilids, 11 bivalves, 6 brachiopods, and 1 Pent a- 

 crinus. These faunas are in part of northern Pacific-Asiatic 

 origin, but mainly of Euro-Tethyian derivation, apparently by 

 way of Gondwana and northern Mexico. A large and detailed 

 interregional correlation table of all Triassic time faces page 4. 



c. s. 



12. New Miocene Coleoptera from Florissant ; by H. F. Wick- 

 ham. Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. lviii, No. 11, 1914, pp. 423- 

 494, pis. 1-16. — The author here describes 86 new forms of 

 Coleoptera, and these, together with those taken up in another 

 paper in press, raise the total number of species of this order 

 found in the Florissant shales to 494. About 80 additional forms 

 still await description. Wickham concludes : " From these con- 

 siderations we are justified in believing that the proportional 

 development of the various coleopterous families during the Mio- 

 cene times differed, sometimes very decidedly, from that obtain- 

 ing to-day. Consequently we should be conservative in using 

 data derived from comparison of these lists with recent ones as 

 bases of conclusions as to probable climatic conditions." c. s. 



III. Miscellaneous Scientific Intelligence. 



1. Insects Injurious to the Household ; by Glenn W. Her- 

 rick. Pp. xvii, 470, with 152 figures and 8 plates. New York, 

 1914 (The Macmillan Co.).— This volume of the Rural Science 

 Series contains a general account of the insects and related 

 animals, such as spiders, ticks, and mites, which are in any way 

 harmful or annoying to man, and which are likely to invade the 

 dwelling. 



