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don ferox, and C. macrocephalus; Enhydrocyon stenocephalus,* LE. 
basilatus, now Hyenocyon basilatus, Pebrotherium sternbergt, Booch- 
erus humerosus; and from the Loup Fork Group of Cottonwood creek, 
Oregon, Lutrictis lycopotamicus, and Protolabis transmontanus; from 
the Green river shales of Wyoming,+ Xtphotrygon acutidens; from 
the White river beds of Colorado, Anchisodon tubifer; and from the 
Post Pliocene of Shasta county, California, Arctotherium simum. 
Samuel H. Scudder{ described, from the thinly bedded, almost 
paper-like, yellow, gray siliceous Tertiary shales, on the North Fork 
of the Similkameen river, three miles from its mouth, Penthetria sim- 
tlkameena, Hygrotrechus stali, Cercopis selwynt, Planophlebia gigan- 
tea, Celidia columbiana; from Nine- mile creek, which flows into Whip- 
saw creek, a tributary of the Similkameen, Trowx oustaleti, Gallerucella 
picea, Tenebrio primigenius; and from the Nicola river, Nebria paleo- 
melas, Cercyon (?) terrigena, Buprestis tertiaria, B. sepulta, and 
Cryptahypnus (?) terrestris. 
Prof. J. W. Dawson described, from Nine-mile creek, Hquisetum sim- 
tilkamense. 
In 1880, Prof. E. D. Cope§ described, from the Truckee Miocene of 
the Jobn Day river, Central Oregon, Nimravus confertus, N. gompho- 
dus, Pogonodon brachyops; P. platycopis, Hoplophoneus cerebralis, 
H, strigidens, Dinictis cyclops; from the Loup Fork Group of Ne- 
braska, Peraceras superciliosus; and from a cave on the Schuylkill 
river, in Pa., of Post-pliocene age, Smilodon gracilzs. 
Dr. C. A. Whitel| described, from the Wasatch Group, near the 
head of Soldier’s Fork, Utah, Planorbis militaris; from the Green 
River Group, on Henry’s Fork of: Green river, Wyoming, Planorbis 
equalis, and from three miles east of Table Rock Railroad station, 
Limnea minuscula; and from the Upper Green River Group of Henry’s 
Fork, Wyoming,{] Pupa atavuncula. 
Angelo Heilprin** described, from the Eocene of Clarke county, Ala- 
bama, Cytherea nuttalliopsis, Pseudoliva scalina, Levibuccinum 
lineatum, Fusus subtenuis, F. interstriatus, F. engonatus, F. sub- 
* Bull. U.S. Geo. Sur. Terr., vol. v. 
+ Am. Nat., vol. xiii. 
t Geo. Sur. of Canada. 
§ Am. Nat., vol. xiv. 
|| Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 
{| 12th Rep. U. S. Geo. Sur. Terr. 
** Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 
