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Memoires de la Societe Imperiale des Sciences de Lille. Memoirs of 

 the Scientific Society of Lille. Second Series. 8vo. Paris and Lille. 



Vol. II. 1855. 

 (Macquart) Herbaceous plants of Europe and their Insects ; third and conclud- 

 ing part — p. 253-407. 



Archives du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle. Archives of the Museum 

 of Natural History. 4to. Paris. 

 Vol. VIII. Part IV. A.D. 1856. 

 (Dumeril) Description of new or imperfectly known Keptiles of the Collection 

 of the Museum, and Kemarks on the Classification of the Eeptilia : Memoir II. ; 

 with eight plates — p. 437-588. The species figured entire, or in part, are 

 Platydactylus trachygaster Bum. P. boivini, n. sp. ; Hemidactylus baliolus Bum.; 

 H. ateles, n. sp. ; Sphserodactylus fantasticus Cuv. var. ; Gymnodactylus elegans, 

 Gray ; G. arnouxii, n. sp. ; G. coleonyx Gray ; Stenodactylus caudicinctus Bum. ; 

 Laimanctes longipes Wiegm. ; Anolis transversalis Bum.; A. heterodermus Bum. ; 

 Corytophanes percarinatus, n. sp. ; Basiliscus galeritus Bum. ; B. fasciatus Wiegm, ; 

 B. mitratus Baud.; Enyalis laticeps; Ophryessoides n. g., distinguished. from 

 Ophryessa by the smaller size and subcylindric form of the tail, the absence of 

 folds under the throat, and the greater size of all the scales, especially those of 

 the head, 0. tricristatus, n. sp., from Brazil, length Of inches, of which the tail 

 makes five-eighths; Leiosaurus collaris Say. ; L. bellii Bum. ; Sauromalus, n. g., 

 of singularly depressed form, differing from Diplolsemus by the lateral folds of 

 the neck and flanks, the greater proportional length of the head and tail, and by 

 the presence of denticulations on the anterior edge of the ear, and of pores on 

 the inner face of the femora ; S. ater. n. sp., of which the origin is unknown ; 

 Holotropis trachycephalus Bum,; Phymatolepis, n. g., distinguished from all the 

 other groups of Iguanini Pleurodontes by the tubercular character of the scales \, 

 P. bicarinatus, n. sp., from Mexico; Centrura flagtllifera Bell; G. quadrimaculata 

 Bum. ; Mecolepis trispinosus Bum. ; M. hirsutus Bum. ; M. sulcatus Bum. 



Vol. IX. Parts I, II. A.D. 1856. 

 fWeddell) Monograph of the Urticese; with four plates— p. 1-200. The 

 family is divided into five tribes, Urerese, Procridese, Bcehmeriese, Parietariesev 

 Forskahlese. The present part contains the Urerese, with the genera Urtica, 

 51 species; Obetia, 2 spp. ; Fleurya, 11 spp. ; Laportea, 17 spp.; Urera, 17 spp. ; 

 Girardinia, 6 species; and of the Procridese, g. Pilea, with 35 species. Among 

 the rest is figured the gigantic nettle of Australia, Laportea gigas, a tree which 

 attains the height of one hundred and eighty feet in the woods of Illawarra. 



SWITZERLAND. 

 Memoires de l'Institut National Genevois. Memoirs of the Gene- 

 vese National Institute. 4to. Geneva. Vol. III. 1855. 

 (Mortillet) Prodromus of a new Geology of Savoy ; with a plate — pp. 47. 

 (Moulinie) Summary of the Embryology of Internal parasitic Trematodea; with 

 seven plates — pp. 279. The kinds most largely illustrated here, from original ob- 

 servations, are Distomum lanceolatum, and the Sporocysts and Cercariae found in 

 Limax cinerea and rufa. 



Bulletin de l'Institut National Genevois. Bulletin of the Genevese 



National Institute. 8vo. Geneva. 



Vol. I. A.D. 1853, 1854. 



(Mayer) On Necrosis of bones — p. 200. (Vogt) On the penetration of the 



egg by Zoospermia — p. 223. (Mortillet) Catalogue of the Mammalia found 



about Genoa — p. 109. (Same) Description of the species of shells collected by 



Mr. Huet in Armenia, and considerations of iklalacostatics — p. 36. New species, 



