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the west of France, and discusses the relationships of the genus, 
The same geologist also describes two new species of Acrocutia, 
A. protei and A. silent, from the Lower Devonian of Mayenne, 
——E. Kayser (Richthofen’s China) describes fourteen species of 
Devonian brachiopoda from Southwest China. Fourteen species 
of fossils were previously known from the Chinese Devonian. 
Carboniferous —C. Schwager (Richthofen’s China) describes the 
flora of the Carboniferous strata of China and Japan. 
ser (op. cit.) describes the collection of Upper Carboniferous fos- 
sils made by Baron Richthofen at Lo-Ping. This consisted of 
1000 specimens and over fifty species, including Leptodus richtho- 
feni, a new genus and species of fishes, Phillipsia obtusicauda, 
four nautili, two or three Orthoceratida and numerous lamelli- 
Eo Pleuropholis, with the following new species, P. egertoni, 
: thiolleri, P, obtusirostris, P. lienardi. The genus was first known 
from the Purbeck beds of England, and has since been found in 
M. P. J. Van Ben- 
milis, equaled B. juddi, With these cetacean remains occurred 
the sternebra of a great terrestrial mammal, probably that of Zo- 
rhinoceroides Geinitz. The same beds yield numerous 
et and teeth and vertebrz of plagiostomes, The latter had 
; Teferred to Zamna cuspidata, L. elegans and Myliobates 
scribes the Locard (Arch. Mus. d’Hist. Nat. de Lyon, 1883), de- 
“Nopsis. Melania and Dreissena are each represented by two 
bare Planorbis by one p 
Nes described the Echini of the middle Miocene of Brittany. The 
ies ee are Echinocyamus lebescontei, Scutella circularis, Nucle- 
Brissus anensts, Echinanthus armoricus, Echinolampas dinanensts, 
Indica humberti and Spatangus brittannus. Palzontologica 
2 Series x, volume ll, part 6, treats of the Siwalik and Nar- 
Mivora. Mellivora sivalensis is known from three speci- 
ined near the Ganges valley, while another ratel occurs 
