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already bearing good fruit. From Mr. J. Wood-Mason, one of 

 the most promising of our Oxford students, and who is now 

 attached to the Calcutta Museum, we have received the first 

 portion of a memoir on the Indian and Malayan species of crabs 

 belonging to the family TelphusidEe, illustrated by plates equal 

 to anything hitherto published in Europe (Journal Asiat. Soc. of 

 Bengal, vol. xl.). 



A new and interesting genus of Decapod Crustacea has also been 

 described by Mr, Wood-Mason (in the ' Proceedings of the Asiatic 

 Society of Bengal,' August, 1872), which was dredged in deep 

 water off the eastern coast of the Andaman Islands, and which is 

 closely allied to the Northern European Nephrops Norvegicus, 

 but, like Calocaris MacAndrese of Bell, is destitute of the organs 

 of vision. 



Descriptions of the crabs found in the fresh waters of Mada- 

 gascar have appeared from the pen of M. Alphonse Milne- 

 Edwards (Annales Sci. Nat , tom. xv.). 



The Decapodous and Stomapodous Crustacea of the sea round 

 Cuba have formed the subject of a memoir by Dr. Von Martens, 

 in the 'Archiv fur Naturgeschichte ' for 1872, in which eighty- 

 four species are described. 



M. Hesse has continued his series of articles on the rare and 

 new species of Crustacea of the Coasts of France, in the 'Annales 

 des Sciences Naturelles.' 



The numerous new species of Crustacea dredged in the Gulf- 

 Stream in the Straits of Florida during the U. S. Government 

 Coast Survey, have been studied by Dr. W. Stimpson, who has 

 published descriptions of a portion of the Decapoda Brachyura 

 in the ' BuUetin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of 

 Harvard College, Mass.' 



The third part of the Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology of Harvard College is devoted to a Mono- 

 graph of the North-American Astacid?e, by Dr. H. A. Hagen, in 

 which thirty-eight species are described, thirty-two Cambari and 

 six Astaci. The plates containing figures of the perfect animals 

 and of their minute structural characters leave nothing to be 

 desired. 



Under the title of " Zoologische Aphorismen," Dr. Semper has 

 published in the ' Zeitschrift f. Wissench. Zoologie' (1872, pi. 22) 

 several excellent observations on various marine animals observed 



