80 Miscellaneous. 



corymb is covered with a considerable number of little mammillated 

 stalks like small radicles. It comes from Guadeloupe. The analo- 

 gous species from the Straits of Malacca has its corymb a little 

 inflated like a cushion, which has caused the author to call it M. 

 circinata ; its stalks are higher. A second Indian species, with the 

 corymb perfectly flat, has the cells longer, which renders the stalks 

 more spinose. The author names it M. expanse. 



In conclusion, the author remarks that " the balancing or repro- 

 duction of the forms of different species of animals, from either side 

 of the hemispheres, enters into the grand law which was already 

 recognized and expounded by Buffon, who established the fact that 

 the species of the same genus almost always differ under the same 

 latitudes, eastern or western. ,, — Comptes Rendus, June 4, 1860, 

 p. 1008. 



Note on some Parasites of lulus terrestris. 

 By M. d'Udekem. 



The parasites met with by the author in lulus terrestris are — an 

 Infusorium, a Cryptogamous plant, and two Nematode worms be- 

 longing to the genus Rhabditis. It is to the latter that M. d'Udekem 

 has particularly directed his attention. He has especially studied the 

 generative organs, — an important subject when we consider the dis- 

 pute which has arisen with regard to the reproductive system of the 

 Nematoda, between Nelson, Meissner, Schneider, Bischoff, and Cla- 

 parede. His . results agree especially with those obtained in other 

 Nematoda by Nelson, Thompson, and Claparede. As regards the 

 fecundation of the eggs, the author refers it to an epoch when the 

 egg is not surrounded by any membrane. There is therefore no 

 occasion for the existence of a micropyle, an orifice which Meissner 

 asserted that he had discovered in the ova of Ascaris mystax. M. 

 d'Udekem succeeded in observing, in the spermatozoids of one of 

 these Rhabdites, amoeboid movements similar to those indicated by 

 Schneider and Claparede in other Nematode worms. — Bull, de 

 V Acad. Roy. de Belgique, 2me serie, vii. No. 8. 



On a new Species of Bird (Chloronerpes sanguinolentus). 

 By P. L. Sclater, M.A. 



Olivascenti-brunneus : pileo coccineo : dorso toto aurescente y 

 colore sanguineo perfuso : alarum superficie inferiore nigri- 

 cante, albo tessellata : rostro et pedihus nigris. 



Long, tota 5*8, alse 3*4, caudae 2*6. 



Omoa. 



Rare ; frequents small, dense bushes. 



This apparently unnamed Chloronerpes is closely allied to C. olea- 

 gineus of Mexico and C.fumigatus of S. America, but is distinguished 

 by its blood-stained back and smaller size. — Proc. Zool. Soc. Jan. 

 25, 1859. 



