50 BibliograpJdcal Notices. 



for publication a short description of it, as this genus has 

 never been recorded as found in Europe, and as the species 

 on examination proves to be distinct from the species which 

 is found in North Africa. From the attention which Capt. 

 Widdrington (late Capt. Cooke) has paid to the animals of 

 Spain, I have been induced to name this species added by his 

 exertions to the fauna of Europe in remembrance of him, 



Herpestes Widdringtonii, Andulasian Ichneumon. 



Fur black and white, grisled ; side of the nose, feet, and the end 

 of the tail blackish ; the hair of the back is long, black, with three 

 broad white rings and a very fine brownish tip ; under fur soft, bay- 

 coloured, half as long as the hairs, most seen on the middle of 

 the back ; the hairs of the face are short, adpressed ; the throat and 

 belly are nakedish ; the ears short, rounded, covered with short, soft, 

 fine ringed hairs. 



Inhab. Sierra Morena. 



Length of body and head, 22 inches ; of tail, 20. 



This species is most nearly allied to Herpestes Ichneumon ; 

 but it differs from that species in the hairs being much shorter 

 and having only three rings, while the hairs of the back of 

 H. Ichneumon are white with seven broad black rings, leaving 

 a long white base and only narrow rings between the black 

 ones above. 



British Museum, I am. Gentlemen, yours very truly, 



Feb. 17, 1842. J. E. Gray. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Histoire Physiologique des Plantes d 'Europe, ou exposition des TMno - 

 menes quelles presentent dans les diverses p^riodes de leur developpe- 

 ment. Par J. P. Vaucher, Prof, a 1' Academic de Geneve. 4 vols. 

 8vo. Paris, 1841. 



We have now the pleasure of calling the attention of our readers to 

 a work of the highest value to the student of botany, the production 

 of an author long favourably known to botanists, although his name 

 may be comparatively new to the younger votaries of science, owing 

 to the distant intervals at which his works have appeared. The most 

 celebrated of his former works is his ' Histoire des Conferves d'eau 

 douce,' published in 1803 ; and we may also mention as a well-known 

 production, although not of equal value with the above, his ' Mono- 

 graphic des Orobanches.' Neither of these however appears to us 

 to make even a moderate approach to the value of the work now 

 before us, which the author states to be the result of the "travail 

 d'une grande partie de ma vie *." It consists of four thick octavo 



* The venerable author received the first copies on his death-bed, — blessed 

 Heaven that he had been favoured with this last satisfaction, — and employed 

 his little remaining strength in sending some copies to his friends. 



