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HARDWICKE'S SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



[May 1, 1870. 



they are applied correctly, and not to give, as Mr. 

 Spicer (no doubt inadvertently) has done, the name 

 "Spring Usher," which belongs to Eybernia leu- 

 cophoearia, to Anisopteryx, nor that of "Chimney 

 Sweep," applied (usually) to Tanagra chcerophyllata, 

 to Fumea. Of course, Mr. Spicer is only joking 

 when he charges Nature with having forgotten (an 

 expression of doubtful propriety for the pages of a 

 scientific journal) to supply the females of the 

 Psy'chidce with legs and antennse, as the females of 

 the genus Fumea have both legs and antennse ! 

 Will Mr. Spicer also kindly explain how the legless 

 females contrive to come out of their cocoons and 

 perch themselves on the outside? The truth is 

 that the females of the genus Psyche (which in- 

 cludes Sterrhopteryx) have neither legs nor antennae, 

 and never quit the case in which they spent their 

 lives as larvae, but that the females of the genus 

 Fumea have both legs and antenna?, and, on attaining 

 the perfect state, come out of their cocoons and sit 

 on the outside. Passing over the next three orders, 

 we find the "Springtails" (Thysanura) and "Bird- 

 lice" {Mallophaga) placed by Mr. Spicer among 

 the Orthoptera. Some entomologists place the Dra- 

 gonilies proper in this order, but on what grounds 

 are the "Birdlice" and "Springtails" included in 

 it ? Finally we arrive at the Hemiptera, and as I 

 am one of the few in Britain who take an interest 

 in this order, I think I have just cause for holy 

 indignation at finding the disgusting Anoplura (the 

 Louse, et id genus omne), which are probably not in- 

 sects at all, shoved in among my pets!— F. Buchanan 

 White, M.D. Fdin., Perth. 



D'ORBIGNY'S EOBAMINIFERA. 



CONTINUING the figures of Chalk Poraminifera 

 from our April number, we must refer such 

 of our readers as omitted to read that paper to 

 observations therein made as to the intention 

 and mode of these communications, and our reasons 

 for adhering to the order and nomenclature of the 

 original Memoir. 



Fig. 103. Flabellina rugosa. 



The order which succeeds to Stichostegia is Heli- 

 costegia, divided into two families, the Nautiloidte 

 and the Turbinoidre. The first of these contains 

 three genera, and nine species 



Meudon. In Morris's list, this is included from 

 Charing and the Kentish chalk. Beuss has it re- 

 corded in Bohemia. 



Fig. 104. Flabellina Baudouiniana. 



22. Flabellina Baudouiniana (fig. 104), although 

 only recorded by D'Orbigny from Sens, does not 

 appear to be an uncommon European form, and 

 occurs in English chalk. 



23. Flabellina pulchra (fig. 105) is the last of 

 this genus, said to be rare at Meudon, but has been 

 found in Kentish chalk, and in the chalk marl (we 



Fig. 105. Flabellina pulchra. 



presume) near Norwich. Thus all the species enu- 

 merated in the Memoir are British. 



The next genus is Cristellaria, and its first species 

 one of the most common forms. 



Fig. 106. Cristellaria rotulata. 



24. Cristellaria rotulata (figs. 106, 107) is very 



Fig. 10". Cristellaria rotulata, variety. 



common in the Prench chalk, at Charing, in the chalk 



21. Flabellina rugosa (fig. 103), from Sens and I of England, the lower chalk of Germany and Bohe- 



