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the cavity of the pharynx, beyond and above the opening of the glottis, 
to which it thus affords additional protection. A sort of membranous 
strainer is thus produced, through the small aperture of which the 
grosser particles of unmasticated food are prevented from passing. The 
muscles attached to these parts were shewn to consist in a sphincter of 
the funnel shaped membrane, connected with and supported by an 
anterior and posterior muscular column on each side. The two anterior 
columns arising from the fore part of the Os Hyoides, and ascending 
behind and partly through the muscular fibres of the root of the tongue, 
are continued upwards one on each side of the funnel, and are inserted 
into the posterior part of the palatine membrane ; the posterior columns 
are attached above to the palate and descend on either side of the funnel 
to be inserted into the lateral parts of the pharynx. These four mus- 
cular supports of the membranous strainer or funnel shaped velum palati, 
are considered by the authour as analogous to the muscles forming the 
pillars of the fauces in other animals. 
A paper was also read, entitled, “ 4n attempt to introducc a more pre- 
cise distribution of the genus Papilio, by George Milne, Esq., F.L.S. 
The authour proposes a recurrence to the Linnean genus Papilio, and its 
subdivision into eight phalanges; and concludes his paper with some 
remarks upon the innovations made on the Linnean system, chiefly as 
regards Lepidopterous insects. 
Art. XXXVII. Scientific Notices. 
Note on the British Species of Caryophyllia. Stokes. 
In a “ Note” appended to some very interesting ‘* Votes on the 
“ habits of a Caryophyllia from Tor Bay, Devon., by H, T. De la 
« Beche, Esq., F.R.S., &c.” inserted in the Zoological Journal, (Vol. 
IIl., page 481), the Coral referred to by the authour was described by 
Mr. Broderip as a new species, under the name of Caryophyllia Smithit. 
Dr. Fleming has recently, in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 
