12 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



only. Of the familiar metals, copper, lead, and iron are found with both animals 

 and plants generally; manganese, more abundant than iron in the plants, is 

 eliminated from the animal structures. Zinc, cobalt, and nickel also have been 

 discovered only in the plants. (Steenstrup) Note of Geological Antiquaiian 

 researches in Jylland — p. 131. 



GERMANY. 



Neueste Schriften der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Danzig. 

 Transactions of the Danzig Society of Naturalists. New Series. 4to. 

 Danzig. 



Vol. V. Part. II. 1855. 

 (Menge) On the Chernetidae or Pseudoscorpii ; with five plates — pp. 44. A 

 ▼ery full and particular account of the internal and external anatomy of this 

 tribe of minute and curious Arachnidans. The family is divided into five genera. 

 1. Chthonius, one recent species, (perhaps the same as Obisium orthodactylum 

 Leach and Chelifer ischnochelus Hermann ;) and a second in amber. 2. Obisium, 

 one recent species, and one in amber. 3. Chelifer, three recent, and three in am- 

 ber. 4. Cheiridium, Chelifer museorum Leach, and a species in amber. 5. 

 Chernes, Scorpio cimicoides Fb., and another recent species, and one in amber. 

 (Klinsmann) Clavis Breyniana or key to "Jacobi Breynii Gedanensis Exoti- 

 carum aliarumque minus cognitarum plantarum, Centmia prima, &c," and to 

 "Johannis Philippi Breynii Icones, fasciculi rariorum plantarum primus et se- 

 cundus." — pp. 30. 



Vol. V. Part. Til. 1855. 

 Contains nothing of Natural History, being entirely Astronomical. 



In connection with Danzig, we may here notice also 



Programm zu der oeffentlichen Pruefung der Schueler der Petrischule. 

 Programm of the Public Examination of St. Peter's School. 

 4to. Danzig. 1856. 

 (Menge) On the indications of the Natural History of the primeval animals 

 contained in amber — pp. 32. 



Zeitschrift fuer Entomologie, im Auftrage des Vereins fuer Schlesische 

 Insektenkunde. Journal of the Entomological Association of Silesia. 

 Edited by A. Assmann. 8vo. Breslau. Vol. VIII. A.D. 1854. 

 Lepidoptera. (Heinemann) Ten new Microlepidoptera — p. 1-7. Penthina 

 obscurofasciana ; Carpocapsa herrichiana; Syndemis collicolana ; Crambus 

 hercjniee; Tinea niveistrigella ; Oecophoraruficeps ; Argyresthia semipurpurella ; 

 Coleophora zelleriella, nemorum; Elachista aridella. (Frief) On Notodonta 

 Glyphidia crenata — p. 7. (Zeller) Additions to the Silesian Fauna found 

 about Gr. Glogau in 1853 — p. 9-14. Coleoptera. (Joseph) Observations on 

 the light of the Glowworm— p. 1 12. (Same) On the Coleoptera of Venice and 

 the Lido, from November to April — p. 13-17. (Letzner) On Cryptocephalus 

 betul« nanae, and Donacia palustiis — p. 18. The former is C. labiatus (w.),C. 

 bothnicus Fb., and C. ornatus Hbst. (C. decempunctatus varr. c. d. Gyll.) (/.) ; the 

 second reduced to D. sericea. Hemiptera. (Assmann) Catalogue of theHeter- 

 optera that have been found in Silesia up to the present time — pp. 106. These are 

 enumerated by families — Nepoidae 2, Naucoriuse 1, Notoneotidae 2, Corisidas 20, 

 Hydrometridas 9, Limnobatidae 1, Hebroidse 6, Reduvidce 13, Phjmatoidal, 

 Acanthidae7, Tingidae42, Cimicidael, Aradoidae 7,Phytocoridsel36, Lygfleoidae56, 

 Anthocoridae 11, Coreidae 17, Berytidae 9, Megapeltidse 60 : in all 401 species, or 

 four-ninths of the recorded Fauna of this order in Europe, the only families 

 represented therein, which are wanting within the limits of the Silesian Fauna, 

 being the Galgulini and Leptopoidae. The arrangement of Fieber is followed 

 in this list. We miss here two gentra in particular, which, judging from their 



