76 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



of Rice. (Croockewit) On the cultivation and manufacture of Sugar, and the 

 occurrence of the Sugar-cane in West Borneo. (Fromberg) Analysis of samples 

 of Sugar-cane, &c. ( Wijers) Analysis of the Caranna resin. (Tormingen) Ana- 

 lysis of Guano from the Grotto Poetjakwangi, in the district of Grissee. (From- 

 berg) On the same. Notices of the Geology and Mineralogy of Dutch India. 

 Anthracite on the borders of Batavia and Bantam. (Mulder) Analysis of Coal 

 from Mew Bay. ' (Mayer; Analysis of the water of the Artesian well in the Coral 

 island Onrust; and notice of the strata bored through there. — Analysis of the 

 mineral water of the Solfatara Kawa Manuk. (Altheex) Analysis of mineral water 

 from the Straits of Bali, and from the Residency of Pasoeroean. Earthquakes in 

 the Indian Archipelago. Influence of Earthquakes on the Magnet. Mining 

 operations of the Corps of Engineers. Proceedings of the Society of Natural 

 Science. 



BELGIUM. 

 Bulletin de l'Academie Royale des Sciences de Belgique. Bul- 

 letin of the Royal Belgian Academy of Science. 8vo. Bruxelles. 



Vol. XXIII. Part II. A.D. 1856. 

 (De Selys-Longchamps) Further instances of Hybrids of the family Anatidae ;. 

 supplementary to the list in Vol. XII. of this Bulletin— p. 6-22. (Van 

 Beneden) On a shower of worms, Mermis nigrescens — p. 3. (Same) Epibdella 

 scicence, a new Trematode ; with a plate — p. 502-508. (Same) On two species 

 of Trematodes, Octobothrium merlangi and Axine bellones ; with a plate — p. 643- 

 653. (Schwann and Gluge) Report on an essay by Udekem on the develop- 

 ment of Infusoria — p. 159-163. (Melsens) On some properties of the grains of 

 Starch — p. 663-665. (De Koninck) On the distribution of certain Carboni- 

 ferous fossils—p. 309-311. -(De Vaux) On the position and formation of 

 Oligist, Limonite, and Pyrites — p. 69-73. (Perrey) On the Earthquakes that 

 occurred in 1855, with supplementary notices for previous years — p. 23-68. 



Memoires de la Societe Royale des Sciences de Liege. Memoirs of 

 the Royal Society of Science of Liege. 8vo. Liege. 



Vol. IX. A.D. 1854. 

 (De Selys-Longchamps and Hagen) Monograph of the Calopterygini ; with 

 fourteen plates — pp. 291. Libellula virgo of Linnaeus constituted the type 

 upon which Leach founded the genus Calopteryx, and from this has been taken 

 the name of one of the two sub-families into which the AgrioniiTse are subdivided. 

 The sub-genus Calopteryx, composed of the species which group themselves 

 most closely about that type, is the widest in its geographical range of all the 

 forms in the sub-family, extending into the temperate regions, and this both of 

 the old world and the new, while no other sub-genus is in common to both of 

 these, nor any single species, even of that group, unless it be C. sphndens, which 

 is said to have been received from Georgia. Of the genera themselves, in the 

 wider sense, five in number, which compose the sub 'family, two only (Calop- 

 teryx, Euphcea) are represented in both hemispheres, two of the others (Amphip- 

 teryx, Thore) being confined to America, and one, Libellago, to the Eastern 

 hemisphere. One hundred species of the Calopterygini are described here. 

 The majority of all the groups belong to the warmer regions of the globe. 

 Southern Asia and South America are richest in species ; but the apparent 

 comparative deficiency in respect to Africa may be explained by our imperfect 

 acquaintance with that continent. Oceania proper affords no representative of 

 the group, and Europe itself possesses but three, all belonging to the sub -genus 

 Calopteryx, unless for a fourth Euphcea fatime is taken in, which passes over 

 from its habitat in Asia Minor to the opposite shores of the Bosphorus. Of 

 those three, one belongs to the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, while 

 two, C. virgo and C. splendens, attain to the British Islands, and the first extends 

 even into Lapland. The present is intended as the first of a series of Mono- 

 graphs in which the learned authors propose to treat in succession the several 



