1884] 
- form three or four small fresh-water lakes by damming back the 
Geology and Paleontology. ; 719 
___Inanother of the memoirs of the same survey, W. T. Blanford 
describes the hills on the Sind and Punjab frontier. The recog- 
_ tized strata in Sind are the Siwalik (Pliocene and Upper Miocene), 
_ the Gaj (Miocene), the Nari, Upper and Lower (Lower Miocene? 
_ Oligocene), the Khirthar (Eocene), the Ranikot (Lower Eocene), 
the Deccan trap (Transition or Laramie) and limestone with hip- 
_ puntes, probably cretaceous. Two Melanias, a Paludina, and four 
-Unios are described. 
___Paleozoic,—The first part of the fifth volume of the Palaontology 
_ of the Geological survey of New York is devoted to the Lamel- 
iata Monomyaria. The new species described are Avicu- 
i lopecten @quilateralis; six species of Pterinopecten; Fterinea 
4 grandis and interstrialis, Vertumnia reproba; eight species of Ac- 
_ Mnopteria; fourteen forms of Ptychopteria; six species of Lei- 
_ ptera; thirty species of Leptodesma, and three of Mytilarca. 
All are from the Upper Helderberg, Hamilton or Chemung 
Soups —S. A. Miller (Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist.) describes 
R aleaster magnificus, from the Lower Silurian of the Hudson 
ver group, and Gomphoceras faberi and cincinnatiense from the 
ie’ describes Streptelasma remeri, a new coral from the Wen- 
r : shale, also Cyathophyllum fletcheri, from the same forma- 
4 me report of Messrs. R. Etheridge, H. Woodward 
be - Jones On the fossil Phyllopoda of the Palzozoic rocks, 
; a rates thirty-three genera, with a short diagnosis of each, 
4 * 7 abl full description of Hymenocaris, Caryocaris and 
cM. J. F. Whiteaves (Trans. Roy. Soc. Canada 
ftom the and figures some supposed annelid tracks (Gyrichnites), 
aS POC sandstones, 
; —Ch. Barrois (Ann. Soc. Geol. du Nord 1883), gives 
= the Silurian fauna of Haute-Garonne. 
describes eM E. Sauvage (Annales des Sciences Geologiques), 
department © Ossi reptiles of a bone bed in the Rhetian of the 
mollusks. of Saone-et-Loire. The beds contain also numerous 
