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Ceratochloa simplex, Eragrostis cretacea, Meoschium griffithii and Isolepis 

 hispidula. There would be less appearance of a deviation from the rules of 

 ordinal nomenclature of botany, if the Glumarem or chaff-bearing vegetables 

 were designated from the name of a typical plant. 32. Mr. Eyton proceeds 

 with his attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North Wales ; 

 his contributions to this local ornithography commenced in the Magazine of 

 Zoolgy and Botany : he comes now to Aves, and of these he specifies one hun- 

 dred and seven subjects. 33. Mr. J. E. Gray explains his views concerning 

 the Phalangista cookii in an additional communication. 34. The prodomus 

 of a monograph of the Rodiata and Echinadermata is continued by Dr. Louis 

 Agassiz ; and, in this article, forty species are characterized. 34. The de- 

 scriptions of British Chalcidites, by Mr. Walker, relate to the Insecta Te- 

 traptera- stirps ichneumonina, order chalcidites and genus cirrospilus : where- 

 of five species with thirty-six varieties, are enumerated— Cirr. vittatus, C. 

 thasits, C. elegintissimus, C. salatis and C. diallus ,• and these are succeeded by 

 Mr. J. E. Gray's new species, with a figure, of Tetrapturus, which he names 

 the herschelli in honour of Sir John Herschel its discoverer. At a meeting of 

 the Zoological Society in October of last year, Col. Sykes read a paper 

 on the identity of the Wild Ass of Cutch and the Indus with the Dreggetai 

 or Equus hemionus of Pallas, a proposition which the colonel supports with 

 many facts and ingenious arguments, founded on actual observation. Mr. 

 Curtis described five new genera of Coleoptera, at a meeting of the Linnsean 

 Society, May 1st, and these are the cascellius, cardiophthalmus, odontoscellis, 

 cyllocellis and metius, all belonging to the Carabidaean family. On the same 

 occasion, Mr. Bentham clearly shewed that the Arachis should be placed 

 among the Hedysareae, and also adduced good reasons for referring the 

 Voandzeia to the Phaseola? : of the former, he distinguished five species — the 

 Arachis hypogaia, A. glabrata, A. pusilla, A. proUrata, A. villosa, and A. 

 tuberosa, by their diagnostic characters. Dr. Traill's remarks on the ossife- 

 rous caves of Cefn in Denbighshire, were read at a meeting of the Royal 

 Society of Edinburgh, and the professor illustrated his paper with a view oi 

 the cliffs of Cefn, and with a plan and sections of the principal cave. Among 

 the proceedings of the Royal Academy of Berlin, appear some ingenious and 

 geological and zoological observations by M. Von Buch on the Jura of Ger- 

 many : he considers the "Jurassic" chains to have been originally produced 

 in their present form, with their canal-like valleys which traverse four or 

 five times the whole breadth of the chain, and with their deep inlets or sec- 

 tions. With five miscellanies on the Fungi of India, the Trachypterus vog- 

 manm, the Otis tarda, the zoology of Java, and the two species of Echidna ; 

 and with three meterological observations and a table, we arrive at the end of 

 June for the first year of the Annals which, after a careful inspection, we 

 appreciate highly, and recommend earnestly to the consideration of all prac- 

 tical naturalists. 



The London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, and Journal of Science ; 

 being a continuation of the Annals of Philosophy ; conducted by Sir 



