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1803. Latreille, p. a. 



Histoire naturelle, etc. Tomes V.-VI. A Paris. An XL 



This volume opens with the Histoire ties Malaeostraces, notices how little attention was 

 paid them from the time of Aristotle till we come to Belon, Eondelet, Gesner, 

 Aldrovandus, with whom they still remain between the Mollusca and the Testacea. 

 Jonston was only a compiler. Swammerdam in hernard Vhennite discovers a heart 

 or at least a principal organ of circulation "different du vaisseau dorsal et noueux 

 des insectes. Ce crustace trouve son rang avec eux ; il est compris avec les insectes du 

 premier ordre, ou ceux qui sortent de leur oeuf parfaitement formes et pourvus de tous leurs 

 membres." Ivlein rejected Linnseus's arrangement of Aptera. " Ses animaux multipedes 

 sont partag^s en deux sections. La premiere est destin^e k ceux qui sent cuirasses, 

 lorieata ; elle est remplie par six ordres, dont les cinq premiers appartiennent aux crustaces, 

 et le dernier aux scorpions. La seconde section est celle des insectes ; la se voient les 

 scolopendres, les iules, les cloportes, les araignees, etc." Latreille then gives the system of 

 Lefrancq de Berkley, who, he says, " de nos jours, a le premier s6pare les malacodermes ou 

 les crustaces des naturalistes des insectes." But this seems to be an error, as, except that 

 he places Man in a first division by himself, the nine groups of his second division 

 correspond with those of Brisson. 



^■ol. vi., pp. 270-331, contains the fuller account of the Eranchiogastra. The species given are 

 Phnmima sedentaria, Forsk., Talitms locusta, Fabr., Talitrus gammarellus, Pall., Talitrus 

 grillus, Bosc, Talitrus mediisarum, Fab., Talitrus cicada, 0th. Fab., Gammarus pulex, Fab., 

 Gammarus cancellus, Faja. (with a suspicion that it is the same as Gammarus carinahis. 

 Fab.), Gammarus ampidla, Fab., Gammarus nugax, Fab., Gammarus longieornis, Fab., 

 Gammarits comiger, Fab., Gammarus esca, Fab., Gammarus spinicarpus, Miiller, Gammarus 

 homari, Fabr., Suppl. ent. syst. p. 418, Stroem. Act Hafn. 10. 5. tab. 2. Gammarits 

 arenariiis, 0th. Fab., Gammarus ahyssinus, 0th. Fab., Gammarus serratus, 0th. Fab., 

 followed by the remark "Les crevettes suivantes de Fabricius ou de I'EncyclopMie 

 mdthodique appartiennent a d'autres genres; Gammarus linearis, Fab. Voyez chevrolle. 

 Gammarus fiUformis. Oliv. — Cancer filiformis. Lin. Voyez Tom. IV de cette Histoire, 

 p. 330, le second entomostrace d^crit par Godeheu Riville. Je crois en effet que c'est une 

 crevette. Gammarus stagnalis. Fab. Voyez branch iopode. Gammarus salinus. Fab. Idem. 

 Les autres appartiennent au genre talitre, ainsi que le cloporte de Stroemius d'Othon 

 Fabricius, Fauna Greenland, no. 235, et dont nous n'avons point parlti." He proposes to 

 call it talitre stroemien. In Miiller and in Herbst, he says, there are two Crustacea which 

 belong to this genus, canri'r podurus, cancer mutilus, but their specific characters do not 

 appear to be well established. Under Caprella he gives Caprella linearis, Linn., and 

 Caprella ve^itrieosa, MuUer. Under Cgamus, " cyamus ceti, Lin." On pi. liL he figures 

 Cyame de la Baleine. On pi. Ivi. he professes to figure Phronima sedentaria, but it does not 

 appear there. On that plate are Talitre sauterelle and Talitre gamraarelle, the latter being an 

 Orchestia, the figure of it not original. On pi. IviL are Crevette puce, representing Roesel's 

 dentate species, and Chevrolle liniiaire. In the discussion of Gammarus ptdex an account 

 is given of .some original observations in regard to the heart and other internal organs. 



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