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species of Myliobatis in the January issue of the Ann. and Mag. 
Nat. History. He distinguishes four—M. dixoni, M. striatus, 
M. toliapicus, and M. labidens, new species, the last from the 
Brackleshem Beds. 
Mr. A. S. Woodward (P. Z. S., 1887) asserts that a fossil 
representative of Chlamydoselachus, Garman, from the Pliocene 
beds of Oreiano in Tuscany, was described and figured (under 
another name) by Mr. R. Lawley in 1876. He suggests that this 
species be named C. lawleyi. The figures will be found in “ Nuovi 
Studi sopra di Peci ed albri Vertebrati fossili delle cobline Toscane,” 
di Roberto Lawley, Florence, 1876. 
Dr. O. Roger describes (Palwontographica, vol. 32) some teeth 
of Dinotherium bavaricum H. v. Meyer, discovered in the valley 
of the Zusam, a small tributary to the Danube. 
M. Lemoine has discovered in the eocene beds near Rheims, 
the teeth, jaws, etc., of five generic types of carnivora. Th 
first of these equals Arctocyon in size, and seems analogous to 
Dissacus Cope. The two molars preceding the last show a com- 
mencement of the division of the anterior cusp of the tooth. 
Another type approaches Proviverra; another is named Tricus- 
piodon from the three cusps which in the molar teeth precede a 
very small heel, and recalls the Spalacotherium of the Prexbeek 
beds while another (Procynictis) has very singular molars, yet 
presents analogies with Amblotherium and Peramus of Owen. 
These forms tend to link the mesozoic with more recent faunas. 
M. Gaudry has recently announced to the Acad. de Sciences of 
Paris the discovery of a gigantic tortoise in the middle Pliocene of 
Perpignan. The head, limbs, and part of the neck have been 
recovered from the encasing hard rock. In size this tortoise exceeds 
any living species, since the carapace is 1.20 metre long and a metre 
wide. The carapace of the Aldabra tortoise ( Testudo elephantina) 
scarcely reaches a length of one metre. The only other tertiary or 
later fossil tortoises equalling in size the Testudo perpiniana, an 
that discovered twenty years since by M. Gaudry in the miocene of 
Mt. Lebanon, and a sub-fossil species (7. grandidieri) brought from 
Madagascar by M. Grandidier. T. perpiniana seems to have 
more affinity to Testudo irrepta and triseriata of Mauritius than to 
any others, since like them it has a depressed smooth carapace, 
relatively slender limbs, ete. In the great development of its 
sternum, however, it approaches the Atdabra tortoise. 
Mr. A. Bell (Geol. Mag., Jan., 1888) enumerates the few sp 
cies of British Upper Tertiary corals known, and gives a deseription 
of Sphenotrochus boytonensis Tomes, n. sp. age 
The first part of Band. 32 of Zittel’s Paleontographica contains 
“Contributions to the Knowledge of the Bryozoan-fauna of the 
Older Tertiary of Southern Bavaria,” by Carl Koschinsky. 
