438 The American Naturalist. [May, 
F. Bussane (Boll. Soc. Geol. ii., vii. 1888) describes a species 
of Ephippus to which he gives the name of E. nicolosi, discov- 
ered in the middle Eocene of Val Sordino, near Lonigo 
(Veronese). It is near E. longipcnnis, Ag., but has denticu- 
lated spinous rays in dorsal and anal. 
From an examination of fossil plants found near Rome, G. 
Antonelli concludes that in the plistocene period the neigh- 
borhood afforded a good number of land and fresh water spe- 
cies, mostly of a woody nature, and identical with recent 
plants of the same district, so that the climate must have been 
much the same as now. 
The Bolletine of the Geological Society of Italy, 1888, has 
an account of the pliocene foraminifera of Ca de Reggio, by 
Mario Malogili. 
G. Ristori describes some Lower Miocene Crustacea of Pied- 
mont, including a new Neptunus {N. convexits) and Mursiopsis 
pustidosiis, nov gen. et. sp., also Callianassa canaverii and frag- 
ments of unnamed species. Mursiopsis belongs to the Calappi- 
dae, and has points of resemblance to Hepatus, Mursia, Lam- 
brus, and Calappilia. The carapax is convex in front, reenter- 
ing at the sides, and straight behind, and is trilobed like 
Calappilia or Lambrus. 
A new species of Clupea, from the Oligocene strata in the 
Isle of Wight, is described at length by E. T. Newton, in the 
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, February, 1889. 
As he is unable to refer the specimens to any known species, 
he proposes the name Clupea vectensis. 
MINERALOGY AND PETROGRAPHY.' 
Petrographical News.— The paljeopicrite^ of Botten- 
horn, Hessen-Nassau, consists essentially of olivine and augite, 
both of which have yielded interesting alteration products. 
The olivine, when fresh, is discovered in twins, whose twin- 
1 Edited by Dr. W. S. Bayley, Colby University, Waterville, Me. 
» Brauns : Zeits. d. deutsch. geol. Gesell. xL, p. 455. 
