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A correction of the Generic Character of Belkrophon of Mont- 

 fort. By M. Defrance. 



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

 Genus Nyctinomus. By M. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hi l aire. 



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. Hieaire. 



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 Ornithorhynchus. 



Anatomical researches upon the Lithobius forficatus and Scu- 

 tigera lineata. 



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. Hieaire. 



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

 in general well executed. 



British Entomology, By John Curtis, F.L.S. 



Since we first noticed this work several more numbers have 

 appeared, in which we 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 frequently, 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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