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Royal Collection published in Klug's Annals of Entomology. Our space does 

 not permit us, at the present moment, to give an abstract of its contents ; but 

 we propose returning to the subject in a future number. 



We have next " Extracts from the Observations of Swedish Naturalists," by 

 C. It. A. Krassow, containing a multiplicity of short notices deeply interesting to 

 the northern Europea nzoologist ; but the remaining paper is a monograph of the 

 genus JRhinolophus, amongst the bats, by Temminck, whose investigations have led 

 him to conclude that the two warts above the os pubis, which are not present in 

 the female of one year old, barely incipient in the second year, and only fully 

 developed in the third year, are not nipples, but appendages for the secretion of a 

 fat offensive substance. He reduces Dr. Horsfield's seven Javanese species to 

 three, and introduces, as new, three from Java, one from Africa, two from Am- 

 boina, and one from Japan, thus encreasing the number of the species to seven- 

 teen, exclusive of three very doubtful ones. 



The most interesting paper in the second number is from the novelty of its 

 subject, that by Lichtenstein, containing his observations upon living Cephalopoda, 

 made during a short visit to the coast of the north of France in September, 1835. 

 Here, for his and his companion's entertainment, the fishing fete called the Pouglie- 

 che, was celebrated, his friends remarking that Meckel (the comparative anato- 

 mist), had upon his visit in the year 1824, considered the sight of such a vast 

 multitude of living animals thus drawn in the fullest animation from the recesses 

 of the deep and exposed to examination, as one of the greatest rewards of his whole 

 excursion, and which Lichtenstein corroborates. It was in the vicinity of Mont- 

 pellier, upon the coast between Cette and Agde, that the party under the guidance 

 of Professor Duges and Dr. Fage, passed the night that they might witness at 

 day break the interesting sight. Three large nets, each 120 toises long, had been 

 cast the preceeding evening at a considerable distance from the coast, and were 

 drawn in by a multitude of poor country people, chiefly consisting of old men, 

 women and children, attracted by the hopes of participating in the capture. The 

 tumult of the swimmers exhibited itself even at a distance upon the gradual con- 

 traction of the bag of the nets, each of which brought from ten to twelve hundred 

 weight of fishes, sepias, Crustacea, andalcyonia, to the shore. The fishes consisted 

 chiefly of the usual species abundant at this period, of Spams, Clupea, Mullus, and 

 Mugil ; amongst which there were occasional individuals of Squalus Ferox, Syng- 

 nathus Hippocampus, and Raja Oxyrhynchus. But the Sepias from their size, 

 multitude, and remarkable conduct attracted the chief attention. There were 

 more than two hundred individuals of the genera Heledon, Sepia, and Loligo. 

 Each species exhibited motions which were as remarkable in themselves from 

 their novelty as in their difference from each other. The Heledones cast head- 

 long out of the net, endeavoured to escape from the mass, and actively exerting 

 themselves, crept towards the sea ; the majority of the Sepias had a half swal- 



