May, 1 Mathews and Iredale, " Perrv's Arcana." 1 1; 



Wagler (iiSjo). is considered available. Perry's Gitanaco seems 

 to claim usage, being nineteen years earlier than Wagler's 

 name. 



Plate LXXll. is a skull of the fossil Elk. Cervns fossilis. 



Plate LXXIII is o( Dipiis (ridactylits, or Kangaroo. 



Plate LXXVl. figures Ei/uiis zebra. 



Plate LXXVl I. illustrates Ovis aries. 



Plate LXXXIII. is of the Hya;na. 



Reptilia. 



Plate V. is a picture of the Rattlesnake. Crolaliis hoyriciiis, 

 Linne. 



Plate XX\'. is a now Chameleon, called ('.haniceleo pallida, 

 from Egypt. 



Plate XXXIll. figures a tortoise from Panama, which Perry 

 calls Test lido pdiuuiia. 



Pisces. 



Plate VIII. is of Spams handatus. 



Plate XVIII. is of the Sea Horse, genus Syngnatliiis, or 

 Hippocampus, species joliatus, a native of Botany Bay. In the 

 text is written : — " The Hippocampus, or Sea Horse, has been 

 always placed by the most eminent naturalists with Syngnathiis 

 and .... The fish called Syngnathiis, or 

 Pipe Fish, we cannot helj) considering as decidedly distinct 

 from the proper Hippocampus, to be divided into a separate 

 form, and we regard the different form of the tail already 

 described as quite sufftcient reason." This is the first use of 

 Hippocampus generically, and as type must be quoted H. 

 foliatus. 



Plate XX\T. purports to figure a new species of Stromaleus 

 — viz., depressus. 



Plate XLV. represents Hippocampus erectns, and in the text 

 we again note : — " In a former number of the ' Arcana ' (for 

 May) we imparted to our readers a new species of this curious 

 genus. . The Hippocampus erectns is a native of the 



American Seas." Plate XVIII. is here referred to, confirming 

 the conclusion that four plates were regularly issued monthly. 



Plate LV., figuring Congiopodus pcrcaliis, aj)j)ears to intro- 

 duce a new generic name which has not hitherto been noticed. 



Plate LXIV. is of Iisox nilolicus, from the Nile. 



Plate I.XXIX. figures Zeus jaber, or John Dory. 



Insect.^. 

 Plate IV. gives figures of two sjiecies of Fulgora — F. pyro- 

 rhynchus, from " i^engal," and F. candelaria. a native of China. 

 Plate XXIV. figures Mantis joliaceiis. 



Plate XXXI. is of Papilio demostJwnes. from the l-Jrazils. 

 Plate X\X\'I1. contains two figures — the U])i)er one of 



