30 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Bulletin de l'Academie R. des Sciences de BELGiQaE. Bulletin of the 

 R. Belgian Academy of Science. 8vo. Bruxelles. 



Vol. XXII. Part II. A.D. 1855. 



(Selys-Longcharaps) Note on the Rufescent Swallow of Europe, Hirundo 

 rufula Temm., and the other species of the subg. Gecropis — p. 95-134. (Wes- 

 mael) Ichneumonological Miscellanies — p. 302-435. A supplement to his 

 various essays on the same family of insects, in the Bulletin and Memoirs of the 

 Academy. Many new species are described, viz., of Ichneumon 26, Hoplismenus 

 1, Amblyteles2,Eury1abusl,Platylabus l,Gnathoxys l,Dicoelotusl, Phaeogenes 

 8 ; some of wbich had been previously considered as varieties of known species. 

 (Udekem) Two new species of Scolex, with a plate — p. 528-533. From the in- 

 terior of Tubifex rivulorum and Nais proboscidea, respectively. (Same) Classi- 

 fication of the Annelida Setigera Abranchia ; with a plate — p. 535-555. The 

 following new species are characterized — Tubifex benedii, hyalinus, elongatus ; 

 Enchytreus ventriculosus ; Dero obtusa ; Nais appendiculata ; Chgetogaster muel- 

 leri. (Beneden) On the parasitic worms of the fish Orthagoriscus mola, and 

 on the Cecrops latreillii, which lives attached to its gills; with a plate — p. 520- 

 527. (Nyst) Alderia scaldiana, a new marine Mollusk of the shores of the 

 Scheldt — p. 435-437. (Lacaze-Duthiers) Extract of a letter on the Hermaphro- 

 ditism of the Anodontes — p. 504. (Strail) On anew species of Michelaria; 

 reported on by Mr. Spring — p. 508 — 518. 



Vol. XXni. Part. I. A.D. 1856. 

 (Beneden) On the existence and characters of a third species of Taenia in man 

 — p. 258. ThisTseoia, named T. medio- cannelataby Kuechenmeister, had been 

 very generally supposed to be a T. solium that had lost its hooks ; but an entire 

 specimen recently voided, and yet living, having been brought to Mr. Van Bene- 

 den lately, he was enabled to assure himself of its specific distinctness, especially 

 in the complete want of the rostellum, which is not liable to be lost, like some of 

 the other organs wanting in this species. It appears, therefore, that the inference 

 had been too hastily drawn that the older authors, who mention a Taenia without 

 books in the human subject had in view the Bothriocephalus, which is known 

 only in Switzerland, Poland, and Russia. Mr. Van Beneden also announced that 

 Mr. Leuckart had succeeded in tracing the development of Cysticerci by means 

 of artificial incubation. (Demoor) On the genus Michelaria of Dumortier — 

 p. 357-366. Establishing, by the result of eight years' continued cultivation, 

 the permanence of the characters of the plant in question, as a genuine species 

 of Bromus, B. arduennensis Dumortier. (Spring and Kickx) Report on the 

 preceding communication — p. 344-346. (Kickx) Essay on the indigenous 

 varieties of Fucus vesiculosus — p. 477-526. (Bommer) Notice of Gagea spa- 

 thacea, an addition to the Belgian Flora — p. 756. (Kickx) Report on the 

 same — p. 736. (Ghaye) On the phosphorescence of snow — p. 256. 



FRANCE. 



Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France. Memoirs of the Geo- 

 logical Society of France. Second Series. 



Vol. V. Part II. 4to. Paris. 1855. 



(Terquem) Paleontology of the lower stage of the Lias formation of the Pro- 

 vince of Luxemburg, and of Hettange, department of the Moselle ; with fifteen 

 plates — p. 216-343. This essay comprizes the animal remains ; the new species 

 described and figured amount to 130 Mollusca, 3 Annelida, 1 of Radiata, 1 of 

 Polypi, 1 of Foraminifera. (Hebert) Sketch of the fossils of the chalk of Meudon, 

 and descriptions of some new species ; with three plates — p. 345-374. The new 

 species are a fish, Sphyrna plana, 2 Annelida, 3 species of Aptychus, 3 Cephalo- 

 poda, 7 Gasteropoda. 



