80 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Revue et Magazin de Zoologie, etc. Review and Magazine of Zoology, 



Scientific and Practical. By Guerin-M eneville. 8vo. Paris. 



Vol. VIII. ; with Twenty-five Plates. 1856. 



Original Articles. Vertebrata. — (Guerin-M.) Note on the Aye-aye, 



Cheiromys madagascariensis ; with a figure from the living animal — p. 3i2-314. 



(Aucapitaine; Note on the African Mouflon, Ovis ornata G. St. Hilaire — p. 3-6. 



(Loche) Description of Zorilla vaillanti n. sp. from Algeria ; with a plate — p. 



497-499. (Pucheran) Sketch of the Mammalogy of Africa, concluded — p. 49- 



55. (Same) Notes on Mammalogy : Cetacea ; with a figure of Delphinus 



marginatus Duvernoy— p. 145-149, 315-321, 362-369, 449-460, 546-552. (Same) 



Cercopithecus erxlebenii, Cynocephalus doguera, n. spp — p. 96, (Rousseau) On 



the dentition of Cetacea, and the position of the whalebone in the mouth of the 



Balaense— p. 193-208, 257-260, 305-311, 353-369. (Bonaparte) Inaugural 



address to the Meeting of Ornithologists at Cothen — p. 292-295. (Same) 



Serresius galeatus, new genus and species of pigeon, of the Marquesas Islands ; 



with a plate — p. 401-403. (Bourcier) Pygmornis amaura, Thalucrania coelina, 



n. spp. of humming birds from New Granada — p. 552, 553. (Souance) Catalogue 



of the perroquets of the collection of the Duke of Rivoli, with observations on some 



new or imperfectly known species of Psittacidae — p. 56-64, 152-158, 248-226. 



Psittacara hahni, chloroptera, maugei ; Chrysotis chloronota, coccineifrons ; 



Psittacula cyanopygia; Pyocephalus aubryanus; Loriculus regulus, bonapartei ; 



Nestor esslingii, new species. (Same) Myiop&itta tigrina n. sp. — p. 144. 



(Verreaux") Vidua hypocherina n. sp., from the West coast of Africa; with a plate 



— p. 260-262. (Jaubert) Letters on the Ornithology of the South of France, 



concluded— p. 64-66, 97-105, 149-152, 262-267, 322-327, 403-417. (Dumeril) 



Note on the Reptiles of the Gabon; with two plates— p. 369-377, 417-424, 460- 



470. New, Chelonians, Pentonyx gabonensis, Cryptopodus aubryi ; Scincoids, 



Anelytrops, n. g. for Acontias elegans Hallowell ; Anisoterma n. g., A. sphenopsi- 



forme n. sp. ; Ophidians, Onychocephalus caecus ; Holophurolis n. g., H. olivaceus 



n. sp. ; Elapomorphus gabonensis. Articulata. — (Chevrolat) Six new 



Mexican Carabici — p. 351, 352. (Same) New European Longicornia — p. 435, 



436. Callidium deltili, Dorcadion alpinura, Oberea mairii, pedemontana. (Same) 



New exotic Longicornia— p. 48, 84-89, 340-343, 436-438, 485-491, 531-535, 



566-572. (Marseul) New Longicornia — p. 47. (Thomson) New species of 



Coleoptera of his collection'; with four plates— p. 112-118, 472-483, 528-530. A 



new genus Octocladiscus is established for Cladophora flabellata of Dejean's 



Catalogue, the name Cladophorus having been applied by Guerin to a genus of 



Lycidae. Mr. Thomson's ideas of the obligation under which the possessors of 



rich collections lie to publish the most interesting new species which they 



contain will scarcely meet the approbation of the modern critics who declaim so 



strongly against the publication of " detached species." At all events he has 



added to the value, such as it is, of the descriptions, by the elegant figures of so 



many of the new species. (Same) Pour new species of Lucanidae, with a list 



of the family after Hope, and a sketch of Lacordaire's general arrangement — p. 



516-528. (Keiche) Lucanus pentaphyllus n. sp. of the South of France— p. 



47, 80-82. (Same) Onitis osiridis n. sp. from Egypt, with a list of the species 



of this genus found in Europe and about the shores of the Mediterranean, 



Euxine, and Caspian seas — p. 118-121. (Fairmaire) New Coleoptera from Chili 



— p. 483-485 ; and Morocco— p. 530, 531. Pyladus n. g. of Scydmaenidae, &c. 



(Rojas) New Coleoptera of Venezuela — p. 565, 566. (Lucas) Further remarks 



on the immature characters of the individuals constituting the species Eremia- 



phila barbara Brisout — p. 42-47. (RobineauDesvoidy) On the Scale insects, 



Coccidae, of the Olive, Citron, Orange, and Oleander, and on the disease produced 



lay them_p. 121-128, 180-188, 277-284, 387-393. (Guerin-M.) On the 



improved cocoons of silk obtained by MM. Andre- Jean and Bronski — p. 295- 



303. (Same) On the causes of the epidemic of the silkworm ; an essay read 



before the Society of Acclimatisation — p. 583-589. Mollusca. — (Bourguignat) 



Malacological Recreations; with thirteen plates— p. 7-21, 66-80, 226-247, 268- 



277, 327-340, 378-386, 424-435, 499-516. The author proposes a new genus 



