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animals and fishes the older one. The flora of the upper God- 
vvana series is of a similar type to that of the jurassic (lower and 
middle) floras of Asia and South-eastern Russia. 
Ser. II., 3. — Jurassic (Liassic) Flora of the Rajmahal Group 
from Golapili (near Ellore), South Godavari District. By 
Ottokar Feistmantel, M.D., Palaeontologist, Geological 
Survey of India. Calcutta : Geological Survey Office. 
London : Triibner and Co. 
We have here a description of Fossil Ferns, Cycads, and Coni- 
fers found embedded in the brown sandstone of Golapili. The 
beds in which they occur are concluded to correspond in age with 
the Rajmahal group in the Rajmahal hills. The illustrations are 
beautifully executed, and we are glad to perceive that native skill 
is employed in the lithographic process. 
Ser. IV., 2. — On some Remains of Ganoid Fishes from the 
Deccan. By Sir Philip de M. Grey Egerton, Bart., 
F.R.S., F.G.S. 
On the Genus Ceratodus, with Special Reference to the Fossil 
Teeth found at Maledi, Central India. By L. C. Miall, 
Professor of Biology in the Yorkshire College of Science 
and Curator of the Leeds Museum. 
On the Stratigraphy and Homotaxis of the Kota-Maledi Depo- 
sits. By W. T. Blanford, A.R.S.M., F.R.S., Geological 
Survey of India. 
Calcutta : Geological Survey Office. London : Triibner and 
Co. 
Sir P. Egerton’s paper is a description of Ganoid Fishes be- 
longing to the genera Lepidotus, Tetragonolepis , — a form hitherto 
only found in the lias of Bang and Boll, in Germany, and of 
Dumbleton, in Gloucestershire, — and Dapedius. 
Species of fishes referred to the genus Ceratodus are widely 
and curiously distributed. They have been found in a blackish 
shale in Illinois (C. Vinsolvii , Cope) ; in the upper keuper sand- 
stone of Worcester, at Aust Cliff, and in the oolite of Stonesfield 
(C. Icevissimus , obtusus , disauris t and Phillipsii ) ; in the triassic 
rocks of South Germany, where some eight species have been 
discovered ; in India, at Maledi, whilst in the rivers of Queens- 
land a species, C. Forsteri, still exists. 
The age of the beds named in the title Kota-Maledi, but in 
the text repeatedly Kota-Maleri, seems a difficult problem : — 
“ We have an association in the same group of beds of triassic 
reptiles and fish, liassic fish and plants, which may be either 
middle or upper jurassic, according as plants or marine animals 
are considered better evidence of age. If the latter are admitted 
