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A correction of the Generic Character of Bellerophon of Mont- 

 fort. By M. Defrance. 



Memoir on an American Bat, forming a new species of the 

 Genus Nydinomus. By M. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire. 



Description of a new species of Coluber^ named Coluber 

 Richardt. By M. Bory de St. Vincent. 



Observations upon the pretended Bones of the Ear, found 

 by M. Weber, Professor of Comparative Anatomy at Leipsic. 

 By M. E. Geoffroy de St, Hilaire. 



Notice relating to the Pulex irritans. By M. Defrance. 



Notice relative to the modifications of the Shell of certain 

 kinds of Adhering Mollusca. By M. Defrance. 



On a preserved head of an inhabitant of New Zealand. 

 By M. Leon-Dufour. 



New observations upon the Ornithorhj/nchus. 



Anatomical researches upon the Lithobius forficatus and ScU' 

 tiger a litieata. 



On the vestiges of placentary organization and of an umbilicus, 

 discovered in a very young foetus of Didelphis Virginiuna. By 

 M. E. Geoffroy de St. Hilaire. 



The figures are lithographic, in a separate quarto atlas, and are 

 in general well executed. 



British EntomologT/. By John Curtis, F.L.S. 



Since we first noticed this work several more numbers have 

 appeared, in which v/e regret to observe, that contrary to the 

 expressed wish of all scientific Entomologists and Entomological 

 Students, to whom the work is intended to be useful, the author 

 still adheres to his plan of adding to his beautiful and correct 

 plates of the Genera of British Insects, insufficient specimens of 

 plants, frequently in nowise connected with their accompanying 

 insects: we say frcqucntlij, for out of sixteen plates in these four 

 numbers, only five of the plants figured have any real connection 

 with the insects: this is the more to be lamented, because in the 

 title of the work the author professes to give figures of the plants 



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