44.0) ONISCID®. 
series, vol. li., and which is evidently identical with 
Koch’s Pherusa alba (“ Herrich Schaffer, Contin. of 
Panzer,” Fasc., 180, pl. 24). Another curious blind 
species, closely allied to Platyarthrus, has been described 
by Schébl, under the name of Typhloniscus Steinai, in the 
“ Proceedings of the Imperial Academy of Vienna for 
1860.” It lives in ants’ nests. The memoir is illustrated 
by ten elaborate plates. 
These animals have recently attracted considerable 
attention amongst foreign carcinologists, since, in addition 
to the special memoirs of Brandt (‘‘ Conspectus Mono- 
graphie Crustaceorum Oniscodorum,” in Bull. Soc. Nat. 
Moscow, 1833); Lereboullet (‘‘ Sur les Crustaces de la 
Famille des Cloportides qui habitent les Environs de 
Strasbourg,” in the ‘‘ Contes Rendus,” 1845, t. 20, No. 6, 
and in the ‘‘ Memoirs of the Nat. Hist. Society of Stras- 
bourg” for 1853); and Professor Kinahan (of whose 
memoir, entitled ‘‘ Analysis of certain allied Genera of 
Terrestrial Isopoda,” in the ‘‘ Natural History Review,” 
vol. iv., 1857, and supplement in ditto, 1858 and 1859, we 
have greatly availed ourselves); there have been pub- 
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lished several other memoirs, which have been greatly 
overlooked, namely, Burgersdijk’s ‘“‘ Specimen Acade- 
micum inaugurale continens Annotationes de quibusdam 
Crustaceis indigenis,’ Svo, Lugduni Batav. 1852; 
Schnitzler’s Memoir “de Oniscineis agri Bonnensis,” 
8vo, Coloniz, 1853; Stein’s ‘‘ Catalogue of the Crus- 
tacea and Myriapoda of the Grisons,” published in the 
“Annual Report of the Natural History Society of the 
Grisons”’ for 1855, in which fifteen species of the family 
are described ; and Johnsson’s “Synoptisk Framstallning 
af Sveriges Oniscider, Upsala,” 1858. In Koch’s “ Con- 
tinuation of Panzer’s Deutchslands Insecten” (pub- 
lished also separately), not fewer than sixty-one supposed 
