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habits and character, but, unfortunately, says less about their 

 physical features. The conclusions which he has arrived at 

 independently in regard to the affinities of the tribe are better than 

 some which he has accepted, apparently somewhat reluctantly, in 

 deference to opinions of men whom he regarded as high authorities. 



A few defects and deficiencies in special parts of the book 

 cannot, however, seriously detract from its value and importance ; 

 and the author must be congratulated on an important addition to the 

 literature of East Africa. Captain Swayne's work is more business- 

 like and instructive than James's racy narrative ; it is more reliable 

 and juster in its judgments than Burton's " First Footprints in 

 East Africa " ; and it is more generally intelligible and interesting 

 than the detailed, scientific monographs of Paulitschke, It may be 

 confidently recommended as the best existing account of our new 

 protectorate of Somaliland, of its game, and of its people. 



J. W. Gregory. 

 Some Recent Carcinology. 



Report upon the Crustacea of the Order Stomatopoda collected by the 

 Steamer "Albatross," between 1SS5 and 1891, and on other [[specimens in the 

 U.S. National Museum. By Robert Payne Bigelow, Ph.D., Bruce Fellow in 

 the Johns Hopkins University. From the Pyoc. U.S. Nut. Miis., vol. xvii., 

 pp. 489-550, pis. xx.-xxii. Washington, 1894. 



Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Crabs of the Family Lithodid^, 

 with Notes on the Young of LttJwdes camtschaticus and Lithodes brevipes. By 

 James E. Benedict, Assistant-Curator, Department of Marine Invertebrates. 

 Pvoc. U.S. Nat. Mus , vol. xvii., pp. 479-488. Washington, 1894. 



Morphologisch-biologische Studien uber den Bewegungsapparat der 

 Arthropoden. Von Dr. Theodor List, Mit Tafel xiv.-xviii. und 3 Figuren 

 im Texte. i.Theil: Astacus fluviatilis. Preisgekronte Beantwortung einer fiir 

 das Jahr 1894, von der mathemat.-naturw. Abtheilung der Grossh. techn. 

 Hochschule in Darmstadt gestellter Aufgabe. Morphol. Jahyhiich., xx. Bd., 

 3 Heft. Leipzig, 1895. 2. Theil. Die Decapoden. Mit Tafel 4-6 und 9 

 Figureu im Text., Mittheilungen aiis der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. Band, xii., 

 I. Heft. Pp. 74-168. 1895. 



Dr. Bigelow here furnishes valuable analytical keys to the genera 

 and species of the Squillidae in general. He supplies figures and 

 detailed descriptions of the fourteen new species which he had already 

 established in 1893. Odontodadylus, which in that year he separated 

 from Gonodactylus as a subgenus, is here raised to the rank of a genus. 

 He accepts in all nine genera of Squillidae, whereas H. J. Hansen, in 

 his Stomatopoda of the Plankton Expedition, 1895, reduces the 

 number to seven. But Dr. Bigelow retains the Leptosqiiilla of Miers 

 and the Ptevygosqiiilla of Hilgendorf with a hesitation which almost 

 amounts to dismissing them. Hansen includes them both under 

 Squilla. The ProtosquiUa of Brooks, admitted as valid by Bigelow, is 

 re-united to Gonodactylus by Hansen, who, on his own account, 

 assigns Pseiidosquilla stylifera (Milne Edwards) to a new genus, 

 Hemisqnilla. 



Under the name of " the Odonterichthus larva," Dr. Bigelow 

 exhibits two forms as probably the young of Odontodadylus. The larvae 

 of Stomatopoda, he says, are sometimes to be found in immense 

 schools. When working at Bimini Islands, Bahamas, in the summer 

 of 1892, he found a few of these larvae of various kinds and stages 

 almost every time that the towing-net was used ; but after dark on 

 three successive evenings in July the towing-nets were crowded with 



