50 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Obituary. — Karl Heinrich Aster — p. 38. Johann Charpentier — p. 39. Johanr 

 Friedrich Anton Dehne — p. 53-56. Friederike Lienig — p. 71-76. 



Acta Nova Academije C. L. C. Nature Curiosorum. New Transac- 

 tions of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists. 4to. Bonn. 

 Vol. XXV. Part II. 1856. 

 (Hannover) On the development and structure of the teeth in Mammalia ; 

 with eight plates— p. 805-936. (Jaeger) Jcthyosaurus longirostris Owen and 

 Jaeger, n. sp., and observations on the other Reptiles found in the Lias forma- 

 tion of Wurtemburg ; with a plate — p. 937-967. (Glocker) On the Northern 

 Diluvium of the Oder about Breslau ; continued from Vol. XXIV. — p.767-804. 

 Vol. XXIII. Supplement, a.d. 1856. 

 (Lehmann) Revision of the Potentillae ; with sixty-four plates — pp. 231. 



Linnjea ein Journal fuer die Botanik, etc. Linn-ea, a General 

 Botanical Journal. Edited by Sehlechtendahl. 8vo. Halle. 

 Vol. XI. A.D. 1855, 1856. 

 (Berg,) Revision of the Myrtaceae of America known up to this time ; form- 

 ing part of Klotzch's Flora of Equinoctial America — p. 1-472. Distributed 

 into the following tribes : — I. Myrteae (with five sub-tribes — Myrciodeae, Euge- 

 nioideae, Pimentoideae, Myrrhinioideae, Orthostemonoideae) ; II. Barringtonieas ; 

 III. Lecythideae ; IV. Granateae ; V. Leptospermeae. (Sehlechtendahl) 



Supplementary observations on the plants cultivated in the Botanic Garden at 

 Halle, made in the year 1854, or previously— p. 473-552. (Hampe) Enume- 



ration of the Hepaticae included in the second section of the plants of Chili, and 

 in the plants of Peru, collected by Lechler, and published by Hohenacker — p. 

 553-556. (Sehlechtendahl) The Ranunculaceae and Borragineae of the same 

 collection — p. 556-560. (Koernicke) Supplement to the Monograph of the 

 Eriocaulaceae— p. 561-692. (Hanstein) The Gesneriaceae of the Royal Her- 

 barium and of the Botanic Garden at Berlin ; with a Monographical synopsis of 

 the family in general : Section II. The Genera and Species; Part I. The Ni- 

 phaeae and Achaemeneae— p. 693-785. Index, Title, and Contents of Vol. XI. 



Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem Entomologischen Ver- 

 einezu Stettin. Entomological Journal, monthly,, of the Entomolo- 

 gical Association of Stettin. 8vo. Stettin. 



Vol. XVII. ; with Portrait of Erichson and a Plate. Stettin. 1856. 



Coleoptera (Bach) Additions and corrections to the Fauna of Northern 



and Central Germany — p. 241-247. The following new species of Curculionidae, 

 Baridius resedce, the larva in the roots of Reseda luteola ; Phytonomus monticola, 

 Sciaphilus plochoides ; further, Saprinus specularis ; Haltica nigriventris ; Euc- 

 nemis heydenii, reared from larvae in rotten beechwood. (Dohrn) The Fauna 

 of Stettin — p. 188- 19i. Remarks on the localities of Miscodera arctica, the 

 several species of Chlaenius and Marmaropus besseri. (Georg) Bostrichus 

 alni, n. sp. — p. 59-61. With remarks by Ratzeburg. (Kraatz) Synonymic 

 notes — p. 177-181. On Staphylinidae and some others. (Same) Addenda to 

 the revision of the genus Catops, and observations on Cryptophagus — p. 237-241. 

 New species described, Catops nitidicollis, nivalis; Cryptophagus grandis, validus 

 subfumatus. (Mueller) Glyptomerus, a new genus of Staphylmidas — p. 3u8- 

 312. A blind insect found in a cave. Mueller refers it to the group Oxypo- 

 rin ; but Kraatz— Entomological Journal Vol. XVIII., p. 95 — has remarked 

 that it scarcely diners from Lathrobium, except in wanting eyes. (Steffany) 

 Notes on the Catalogue of European Coleoptera — p. 52-59. (Steirlin) Syno- 

 nymic remarks — p. 361, 362. Polydrosus penninus is merely a variety of P. 

 fulvicornis Sch., and Rhytirhinus alpiuus Bremi seems to be identical with 



