454 Miscellaneous. 



" Fjsell Gfis," with the Anas erythropus of Linnaeus ; and I here 

 subjoin a concise summary of the principal synonyms of this bird. 



Anser erythropus (Linn.). 



Anas {Anser) erythropus, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), vol. i. 

 pars 1. p. 197 (non Auct.). 



Anser finmarchicus, Gunner, in Leemii de Lappon. Comm. notis 

 (1767), p. 264. 



Anser Temminckii, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 882. 



Anser minutus, Naum. Naturgesch. der Vog. Deutschl. (1842) 

 vol. xi. p. 365, tab. 290. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Note on the Tetrapedos Smithii of Jan. 

 By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., &c. 



In a recent Number of the f Archiv fur Naturgeschichte ' (vol. xxv. 

 p. 69, t. 2), a reptile from Ceylon is described by Prof. Jan of Milan, 

 under the name of Tetrapedos Stnithii : it is the same as Evesia 

 monodactyla, described by me in the 'Annals of Natural History,' 

 ser. 1. vol. ii. p. 336, in 1839, and in the ' Catalogue of Lizards in the 

 Collection of the British Museum,' 1845, p. 127 ; and identical with 

 Evesia Bellii, described by Dume'ril and Bibron, ' Erpetologie Gene- 

 rale,' vol. v. p. 783. Both these descriptions are from the same 

 specimen, which was in the collection of Mr. Bell, and which he 

 presented to the French Museum. 



Freshwater Polyzoa in Australia. 

 By C. D'Oyly H. Aplin, Esq. 



To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — As I believe that up to this time the existence of 

 freshwater Polyzoa in any part of Australia, or even in the southern 

 hemisphere, is quite unknown to naturalists, I am gratified at being 

 able to announce that within the last week I have found several spe- 

 cimens, comprising at least two species, each belonging to a different 

 genus. 



One is a Plumatella, with elongated statoblasts (free), closely 

 resembling the figure of those of P. emarginata in Dr. Allman's 

 Monograph, pi. 7. fig. 7. 



The other is unlike any figure in the above-named work. 



Both were found adhering to the under surface of fragments of 

 basalt, near the margin of a clear sheet of water occupying the site 

 of a deserted quarry close to the river Yarra, at Richmond, about 

 two and a half miles from Melbourne, — the former also adhering to 

 the inner surface of the bark of a dead stump of Eucalyptus, in a 

 lagoon in the Zoological Gardens near Melbourne. 



They will both, I hope, be described and figured at an early date. 

 In the mean time, I must content myself with this notice of their 



