350 Miscellaneous. 



consuetudine mansuescit mas, adeo ut resupinatus complectatur canem 

 pedibus et colludat, ita ut nee dente lsedat nee ungue." 



Caius has a chapter Be Cornibus Cervi Palmati, of which he had 

 seen and figured a specimen in the monastery at Kenilworth in War- 

 wickshire : — another chapter, also, on the Bonasus, whose skull and 

 ribs were then preserved in the chapel of Guy of Warwick. In this 

 he also mentions the Wild Cattle of our forests. 



Notices of the Crocodile by the English Crusaders. 



"Be Cocodrillis, fyc. — Cocodrillos apud Bamietam invenimus et 

 interfecimus : est autem bestia crudelis, homines et jumenta devorans, 

 apertis oculis solo visu ova sua fovet : exclusi pulli statim fugiunt 

 parentem quasi hostem, quos enim rapere potest in momento glutit 

 et devorat." 



"iEgyptii vero honoraverunt Prophetam, sepelientes eum juxta 

 tumulum Regum, memores beneficiorum quae prsestiterat JEgypto, 

 oratione enim sua fugaverat bestias aquarum, quas Grseci Cocodrillos 

 appellant." — Historia Captionis Bamietce : apud Gale, Historice 

 Anglicance Scriptores XV. vol. ii. p. 452. 



They are called Cocodryll in Trevisa's Chronicle. 



Richard Taylor. 



A Monograph of Macrochisma, a genus of Gasteropodous Mollusca 

 belonging to the family Fissurellidse. By Arthur Adams, R.N., 

 F.L.S. 



Macrochisma, Swainson. 

 Animal ? Shell elongated, clypeiform, radiately ribbed, extremities 

 elevated ; foramen very large, elongated, placed near the hind part, 

 with a groove posteriorly ; the hind margin sinuated. 



1. Macrochisma maxima, A. Adams. M. testa oblong d, costis 

 parum elevatis subrugosis, striisque concentricis obsoletis ornatd, 

 fusco radiatim maculatd, dorso elevatd, lateribus planulatis, 



extremitate anticd rotundatd; posticd elevatd, subtruncatd; 

 foramen dilatatum, postice excavatum. Hab. ? 



2. Macrochisma dilatata, A. Adams. M. testa ovato-ol 



radiatim costatd, rubrd, albo variegatd, utrinque rotundatd, 

 lateribus dilatatis ; foramen oblongum, in medio angustatum. 

 Hab ? 



3. Macrochisma hiatula, Swainson, Manual of Malacology, 

 p. 356. 



Fissurella macrochisma, Sow. 



M. testa ovato-oblongd, radiatim costellatd, fused, subdepressd, 

 lateribus concavis, utrinque rotundatd ; foramen magnum, ob- 

 longum, posticb dilatatum, extremitate posticd valde elevatd ; 

 margine vix sinuato. Hab. 1 



4. Macrochisma compressa, A. Adams. M. testd anguste 

 oblongd, albidd, roseo radiatim pictd, costellis granulosis striis- 

 que concentricis decussatd, utrinque rotundatd, dorso convexd, 

 lateribus compressis, in medio in/lexis, extremitate posticd valde 

 elevatd ; foramen magnum, lanceolatum, postice dilatatum. 



ffab. ? 



