150 The American Naturalist. | [February, 
Mr. J. C. White reports a small collection of fossil plants from the 
Wichita beds of Texas. They are essentially the same with the flora 
from southwestern Pennsylvania described by Prof. Fontaine. This 
makes an equivalency probable between the uppermost beds of the 
Carboniferous system in West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania 
and southern Ohio (the Dunkard Creek series), and those of the 
Wichita beds of Texas—Bull. Geol. Soc. Am., Vol. iii. 
Mesozoic.—A Termite, discovered in the English Lias by Mr. 
Montagu Brown, exhibits even the patches of pigment on the wings. 
It is described by Dr. Henry Woodward in the May number of the 
Geol. Mag. under the name Paleotermes ellisii ——Mr. A. S. Wood- 
ward reports Pholidophorus germanicus from the Upper Lias of 
Whitby, Yorkshire. This Lepidosteoid fish was observed by Quensted 
in the Lias of Wiirtemburg and named in 1858.—Geol. Mag., Dec., 
1891.—A mammalian tooth discovered by Mr. Charles Dawson has 
been given the provisional name Plagiaulaz dawsonii by Mr. A. S. Wood- 
ward, who describes and figures it in the Proceeds. London Zool. Sot. 
Nov., 1891. This fossil is the first evidence of a European Cretaceous 
mammal, A fine specimen of Belonostomus from the Rolling 
Downs formation (Cretaceous) of Central Queensland is described and 
figured by Mr. Etheridge in the Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 1891, under 
the name Belonostomus sweetii. The specimen is supplemented by four 
other fragments so that all the more important features in the skeleton 
of the fish are made known. 
Cenozoic.—A proof of the identity of the diatomaceous beds of 
New Jersey, Delaware and the outerops on the western shore of Ches- 
apeake Bay is afforded by the presence of a single specific form of 
diatom, Heliopelta, which occurs at the base only of this bed, and has 
not been found elsewhere in the world, either fossil or recent.—Ann. 
Rep. State Geol. New Jersey, 1891. Mr. Harlé reports the finding 
of the right mandible of a monkey in a cave in the stone quarry ° 
Montsaunés. The fossil in question is that of a Macaque and as it 
appears to Mr. Harlé to be a distinct species, he has given the name 
Macacus tolosanus.—Comptes-rendus, fev. 1892.——A list of Birds from 
the so-called Post-Pliocene drifts of Queensland, by Mr. De Vis, is 9° 
interesting contribution to avian literature. The list comprises twenty- 
eight species referred to twenty-four genera. The whole of the twenty- 
eight species and seven or perhaps eight of the genera are extinct. 
This change is very much the same as that observed in the case of the 
marsupials——Proceeds Linn. Soc. N. S. W., Vol. vi. 
