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produced an immediate change of colour—the yellow hue 
passed into at first a pale and afterwards deeper green, 
which, on the addition of dilute sulphuric acid, assumed 
more of a bluish tinge. Sulphuric acid by itself produced a 
ruby-red colour. The bodies-in question, therefore, exactly 
resemble the so-termed corpora amylacea of the nervous 
system, the prostate, and lungs. 
3. “ Psorospermia in the Intestinal Epithelium.”’—The oc- 
currence of Psorospermia in great abundance was observed 
in the epithelium of the small intestine of the rabbit in 
numerous instances. Though abundance of the Psorospermia 
were found free in the intestine, by far the larger number 
were contained in the epithelial cells themselves, few of 
which, indeed, were observed without them. 
Zeitsch. f. wiss. Zoologie. XVI, Heft. 1—The last part of 
this excellent journal contains papers on the following 
subjects : 
1. “* Myological Researches :—I1. The Connections between 
the Tendons in the Plantar Region in Man and the Mammalia,” 
by Dr. F. Eilhard Schultze. 
2. “ On Branchipus rubricaudatus, n. sp.,” by Dr. Klun- 
zinger, of Cosseir. 
3. “ On the Development of the Facetted Eyes of Tenebrio 
molitor, Linn.,” by Dr. H. Landois and W. Thelen. 
4, “ Researches on some American Sipunculide,” by Dr. 
W. Keferstein. 
5. “ On the Cochlea of Birds,” by Dr. C. Hasse. 
6. “ On the Sonorous and Vocal Apparatus of Insects, in its 
Anatomico-physiological and Acoustic Relations.” 
Of these papers, which are illustrated with not less than 
eleven beautifully executed and many of them coloured 
plates, the most interesting, in a microscopical point of view, 
are those on the development of the eyes in Tenebrio 
molitor, and especially that on the sound-apparatus in the 
Insecta, of which we hope hereafter to give a full abstract, 
the paper itself being too long for insertion in extenso. 
The discovery also of a new species of Branchipus is an 
interesting circumstance to those who attend to the study of 
the Entromostraca. 
The species B. rubricaudatus was met with by Dr. Klun- 
zinger in rain-water tanks at Cosscir, on the Red Sea, and 
the period at which he first observed it was some time after 
the winter rain. The Entomostracan occurred in great 
abundance, together with Cypride and larve of gnats, the 
males and females in about equal number. 
The following characters of the new species are given :— 
