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  A 
  note 
  by 
  Mr. 
  G. 
  Guyon, 
  describing 
  the 
  curious 
  action 
  of 
  a 
  spider 
  in 
  cleaning 
  its 
  

   spinnerets 
  with 
  its 
  hind-legs, 
  is 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist,' 
  Jan. 
  1852. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  on 
  the 
  sexual 
  organs 
  of 
  spiders 
  by 
  W. 
  J. 
  Bennett, 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  

   Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Assoc. 
  Prom. 
  Sci. 
  iv. 
  106. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  A. 
  White 
  exhibited 
  drawings 
  of 
  the 
  curious 
  nests 
  of 
  two 
  species 
  of 
  spiders, 
  

   one 
  from 
  Albania, 
  formed 
  of 
  the 
  seed-vessels 
  of 
  Paliurus 
  aculeatus 
  arranged 
  cylindri- 
  

   cally, 
  and 
  the 
  other 
  from 
  Pernambuco, 
  (Proc. 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  May, 
  1852). 
  

  

  Some 
  anecdotes 
  of 
  spiders 
  from 
  the 
  ' 
  Bee,' 
  by 
  the 
  poet 
  Goldsmith, 
  are 
  reprinted 
  

   in 
  the 
  ' 
  Zoologist,' 
  p. 
  3492. 
  

  

  Mr, 
  Blackwall 
  has 
  continued 
  his 
  descriptive 
  and 
  synonymical 
  list 
  of 
  British 
  spiders 
  

   in 
  the 
  ' 
  Annals 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  ' 
  for 
  1852, 
  reviewing 
  the 
  genera 
  Neriene 
  ; 
  Walck- 
  

   enaeria 
  (Micryphantes, 
  Koch., 
  Argus, 
  Walck.), 
  20 
  species; 
  Pachygnatha, 
  Sund. 
  

   (Manduculus, 
  Blckw.) 
  and 
  Epeira, 
  Tetragnatha, 
  Dysdera, 
  Segestria, 
  Schsenobates, 
  

   Bl., 
  Oonops, 
  Scytodes, 
  and 
  Savignia. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  Blackwall 
  has 
  published 
  descriptions 
  of 
  seven 
  newly 
  discovered 
  species 
  of 
  

   spiders, 
  chiefly 
  from 
  the 
  neighbourhood 
  of 
  Interlacken 
  in 
  Switzerland, 
  and 
  different 
  

   parts 
  of 
  England, 
  (Ann. 
  Nat. 
  Hist. 
  Aug. 
  1852). 
  

  

  A 
  note 
  upon 
  Micrommata 
  spongitarsis 
  has 
  been 
  published 
  by 
  M. 
  Leon 
  Dufour 
  in 
  

   his 
  ' 
  Melanges 
  Entomologiques.' 
  

  

  AcARiD/E. 
  — 
  M. 
  Lucas 
  has 
  completed 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Ixodes, 
  the 
  

   male 
  of 
  which 
  was 
  found 
  upon 
  a 
  Boa 
  constrictor 
  from 
  Senegal 
  (Ix. 
  flavo-maculatus), 
  

   by 
  adding 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  female, 
  found 
  on 
  a 
  Python 
  Sebse 
  from 
  the 
  same 
  coun- 
  

   try, 
  (Ann. 
  Soc. 
  Ent. 
  France, 
  1851, 
  cxx.) 
  

  

  A 
  posthumous 
  memoir 
  by 
  M. 
  Gene 
  on 
  a 
  species 
  of 
  Sarcoptes 
  (S. 
  Strigis), 
  which 
  

   infests 
  the 
  cellular 
  tissue 
  and 
  surfiice 
  of 
  the 
  muscles 
  of 
  Stiix 
  flammea, 
  has 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  at 
  Turin. 
  

  

  The 
  destruction 
  of 
  French 
  beans 
  to 
  a 
  considerable 
  extent, 
  near 
  London, 
  by 
  the 
  

   attacks 
  of 
  a 
  red-brown 
  Acarus, 
  which 
  covers 
  them 
  with 
  a 
  delicate 
  web, 
  has 
  been 
  com- 
  

   municated 
  to 
  the 
  Ent. 
  Soc. 
  Lond. 
  by 
  Mr. 
  W. 
  W. 
  Saunders 
  (Proceedings, 
  Nov. 
  1851). 
  

  

  A 
  treatise 
  upon 
  the 
  parasitic 
  species 
  which 
  causes 
  the 
  itch 
  in 
  man, 
  has 
  been 
  pub- 
  

   lished 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Boursignon, 
  Paris, 
  4to., 
  with 
  10 
  coloured 
  plates. 
  

  

  A 
  few 
  species 
  of 
  Acaridae 
  and 
  Poduridas 
  are 
  described 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  White 
  in 
  the 
  ap- 
  

   pendix 
  to 
  the 
  Journal 
  of 
  Dr. 
  Sutherland's 
  ' 
  Voyage 
  to 
  Baffin's 
  Bay.' 
  

  

  Thysanura. 
  

  

  Specimens 
  of 
  a 
  minute 
  Podura 
  found 
  on 
  the 
  ice 
  in 
  Wellington 
  Channel, 
  in 
  the 
  

   Arctic 
  Regions, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  Sutherland, 
  were 
  exhibited 
  to 
  us 
  by 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  White, 
  (Proceed- 
  

   ings, 
  May, 
  1852). 
  

  

  Anoplura. 
  

  

  A 
  memoir 
  by 
  W. 
  J. 
  Bennett 
  on 
  the 
  relation 
  of 
  the 
  distribution 
  of 
  lice 
  to 
  the 
  dif- 
  

   ferent 
  Faunas, 
  has 
  appeared 
  in 
  the 
  Proceedings 
  of 
  the 
  Amer. 
  Assoc, 
  for 
  Prom. 
  Sci. 
  

   iv. 
  133. 
  

  

  