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breed of solid-hoofed pigs, apparently established in Texas. To these papers 
we shall refer in our “ Summary.” 
The reptiles of Dakota and Montana, furnish the subject of an article by 
Dr. Coues and Dr. IT. 0. Yarrow, which includes descriptions of a series of 
species such as makes our British Reptile Fauna appear very insignificant, 
although, as it includes two rattlesnakes, the colonists of these western 
Territories are perhaps not much to be envied for this pre-eminence. 
The remainder of the zoological articles relate chiefly to insects and, indeed, 
to the single order Lepidoptera. Mr. Chambers describes a considerable 
number of new species of Tineina, chiefly from Texas, although a few from 
more northern localities are interspersed ; and follows up this paper with a 
•classified catalogue of the plants on which these small moths are known to 
feed in the United States and Canada, and this again with an index to the 
described Tineina of the same countries. This last will prove a most valuable 
aid to entomologists. Mr. Grote describes numerous new species of Noctuid 
Moths, chiefly from California, and furnishes notes on some other species ; 
and Mr. Scudder has a short notice of the Butterflies collected by Dr. 
Edward Palmer, in the arid regions of southern Utah and northern Arizona, 
during the summer of 1877, which also includes descriptions of new forms. 
Carcinologists will be interested in an article by Mr. J. S. Kingley on the 
North American species of the genus Alpheus, to the number of which the 
author adds considerably, perhaps too liberally, considering the amount of 
materials at his command. Alpheus minus and heterochelis of Say, and four of 
the author’s new species, occur on both sides of the Isthmus of Panama, and 
the author gives a list of all the species of Decapod Crustacea that he knows 
of as being reported from both coasts. There are 26 in all. 
The remaining articles relate to palaeontological matters. In one of them 
Professor Cope describes some fossil fishes from the Cretaceous and Tertiary 
deposits west of the Mississippi ; in the other he takes up the cudgels in 
defence of his order Pythonomorpha, and in opposition to the views expressed 
by Professor Owen as to the affinities of the Mosasauroid reptiles on which 
that order was established. 
Dr. Hayden’s Preliminary Report on the Field Work of the Survey under 
his direction in the season of 1877* is a record of persevering activity which 
promises most important and interesting results. Considerable progress was 
made in the survev of parts of Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah, and various 
geographical and geological details are here briefly indicated, the principal 
report being that of Mr. 0. St. John on the geology of the Teton district, 
which appears to display very interesting but rather complex characters. 
Dr. C. A. White, the paleeontologist to the survey, has made some extensive 
journeys in various directions for the purpose of investigating on the spot the 
palaeontological characters of various formations in districts which have been 
surveyed, or are now in course of surveying. Besides demonstrating the 
identity “ of the lignitic series of strata east of the Rocky Mountains in 
Colorado, with the Fort Union group of the Upper Missouri River, and also 
* “Preliminary Report of the Field Work of the U.S. Geological and 
Geographical Survey of the Territories for the season of 1877.” 8vo. 
Washington : Government Printing Office. 1877. 
