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196 of the Royal University of Naples, there are some elephants' tusks (difesi elefante), found near Chiaromonte in Basilicata, and an upper jaw with the molar teeth, belonging to the same class of quadrupeds, which was found last year near Chieti, to which fossils some pebbles are adhering, which lead us to presume that they had been dug out of the conglomerate.

Sub-Apennine paleontology is distinguished by possessing many species yet existing in the Mediterranean Sea. The subject has been treated by Brocchi and Philippi, and several other notices have been published by Neapolitan writers. Meanwhile the question whether deposits are found with us, which belong to the lower supercretaceous rocks, otherwise called Eocene, in which fossils of species analogous to the existing species are much less frequent, needs further investigation; and as we cannot conclusively determine it, it suffices to remark that the fossils of the supercretaceous rocks of Pizzo, in the province of Catanzaro, mostly belong to lost species, and that the other deposits of Gargano manifest the same condition still more strikingly.