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TRANSLATIONS AND NOTICES OF GEOLOGICAL MEMOIRS.

The Echinoida of the Upper Tertiaries of Austria and Hungary. By Dr. G. C. Laube.

[Imp. Geol. Institute, Vienna, June 30, 1869.]

In a memoir on this subject, prepared for publication in the 'Abhandlungen' of the Imperial Geological Institute of Vienna, Dr. Laube describes the following fossil Echinoida from the Upper Tertiaries of Austria and Hungary:—

Cidaris Schwabenaui, sp. n. Long, rod-like spines, with granular spinules directed forwards in narrow parallel rows. Vienna basin.

Psammechinus Serresii (Desmoul. sp.). Vienna and Hungary.

— —mirabilis (Nicol. sp.), Vienna basin. — —monilis (Desmar. sp.), Vienna basin. — —Duciei (Wright), Vienna basin.

Echinus dux, sp. n. Flattened, with ten rows of warts in the interambulacral and four in the ambulacral areas. Vienna basin. — —hungaricus, sp. n. Large, hemispherical warts of equal size in the ambulacral and interambulacral areas, ten rows in the latter and four in the former. Hungary.

Echinocyamis transylvanicus, sp. n. Small, differing from E. ovatus (Goldf. sp.) by its more pointed summit and more regular petaloidal star.

Amphiope perspicillata (Ag.) and A. elliptica (Desor). Vienna basin.

Scutella vindobonensis, sp. n. Large, with a sharply angular, prominent rostrum, and peculiarly inflated between the posterior petaloidia. Vienna basin and Hungary.

Clypeaster scilloe (Desmoul.), C. crassicostatus (Ag.), C. portentosus (Desmoul.), Hungary; C. acuminatus (Desor), Vienna basin and Hungary; C. gibbosus (Risso), C. pyramidalis (Michel.), C. partschi (Michel.), C. intermedius (Desmoul.), and C. latirostris (Ag.), Vienna basin.

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