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are a species of Diptera of the genus Bibio or Cecidomya, several spe- 

 cies of Tipularice, large Curculionites allied to the Otiorhynchus, larvae or 

 nymphs of Lihellulce, Blattce, Ichneumonidce, FormicidcE and Arach- 

 nida. All these fossils belong to extinct species, but their genera, 

 which still exist, do not occur in Europe. 



** The diurnal lepidopterous insect belongs to one of those genera 

 the species of which are not numerous, and are at present confined to 

 the islands of the Indian Archipelago or the warmest countries of the 

 Asiatic continent. According to M. Blum of Leyden, they hover 

 around the palm-trees, on which perhaps they feed in the state of 

 caterpillars. The individual which has been named sepulta, to recall 

 its antediluvian origin, belongs to the genus Cyllo, and is allied to 

 the Rohria, Camnus, and other neighbouring species ; but it cannot 

 be referred to any of those known at the present day, 



" The outline and form of this insect are so well-preserved, that one 

 might imagine it lithographed on a schist : only the right side is 

 alone preserved, which is perfectly untouched, with a portion of the 

 thorax and a slight impression of the abdomen. The upper wing is 

 in great part hidden by the under one, and it is impossible to say 

 whether it presents other delineations than an apical ocellus sur- 

 mounted by a white point ; the other, the whole surface of which is 

 seen, is of a brownish gray colour, as in the alHed species, with a 

 white costal spot, a sinuated, median transverse band, of the same 

 colour, followed by two black ocelli bordered in white, connected 

 exteriorly with two white spots. The extremity of this same wing 

 is rather paler, almost whitish, and divided, as in most of the living 

 species, by two parallel brown marginal lines. The caudal appendix 

 is rather longer than in the Rohria, but situated in the same manner. 

 The preservation of the specimen admits of distinguishing the out- 

 line, and probably the true colour of the butterfly as it was before 

 its incrustation." 



I am not sufficiently acquainted with the species of exotic frogs 

 to be able to compare them with the Rana aquensis, but I can assert 

 that it differs entirely from those which exist in Europe. I await a 

 favourable opportunity to allow me to describe and publish the fossil 

 insects which for the last ten years I have collected in the gypsiferous 

 beds of Aix ; the number of the species I possess at the present time 

 amounts to more than sixty. — Bulletin de la Soci4t4 Gdologique de 

 France, April 21st, 1845. 



On a curious appearance presented by the contents of the Capsules of a 

 Moss from Chili, extracted from a Letter to Me Rev. M. J. Berke- 

 ley, by Dr. Montagne. 



"I was engaged in describing for the Cryptogamic flora of Chili 

 a new genus allied to Weissia, and in consequence was desirous of 

 ascertaining the form and structure of the spores in the species which 

 I had before me. What was my surprise to find, instead of spores 

 in every capsule which I opened, a kind of gemmse analogous to those 

 which occur in the cups of Marchantia ! They have not indeed the 



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