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floribunda, and macrophylla—he briefly characterizes. An abstract of the 
Botanical Society’s proceedings exhibits a variety of interesting notices. 10. 
For miscellanies, you find sketches of two recent species of Trigonia, the 
margaritacea and lamarchii ; notes on the sexes of Limpets; and an account 
of the habits of Patella pedlucide, its habitats and food. 
VII.—Mr. MacLeay describes some new forms of Arachnida, four of 
which at least he regards as very singular, and are selected as such out of a 
great variety of new forms in his cabinet. The forms here delineated are, 
the Nops guanabacoe, Hypoplatea celer, Deinopis Jamia, Myrmarachne mela- 
nocephala, and Otiothops walckenaeri ; with five illustrative coloured figures. 
Mr. M.’s aim is, to show that a true spider may have a distinct head; that 
spiders may have an articulated thorax and abdomen ; that spiders may have 
only two eyes; that those which have eight may have them disposed in sys- 
tems very different from any of the systems hitherto described; and that, al- 
though spiders in general have their labial palpi like feet, some species, on 
the other hand, may have their true feet like palpi, and their labial palp; 
without ungues. For the second article, you find a continuation of Mr, 
Thompson’s observations on Fishes new to Ireland: these are, Mostella 
glauca, the mackerel midge; Phycis fwreatus, the common fork-beard; Pla- 
tessa pola, the pole; Solea Jingula, the red-backed sole; 8. variegata ; An- 
guilla lativostris, the broad-nosed eel ; Ammodytes tobianus, the wide-mouthed 
sand-eel; Syngnathus typhle, the deep-nosed pipe-fish; S. ophidion, the snake 
pipe-fish ; Hippocampus brevirostris, the sea-horse; Petromyzon planeri, the 
fringed-lipped lamprey ; and Gobius gracilis, in an “addendum” to a former 
contribution. Mr. Ball’s botanical notes of a tour in Ireland, with notices 
of some new British plants, is a very interesting and valuable communica. 
tion. In Dr. Walker’s account of the genus Langsdorflia, two species—the 
L. janeirensis and L. indica—are characterized. Dr. Parnell’s description of 
a new species of British fish, Motella cimbria, the four-bearded rockling, is 
illustrated with a finely executed lithographic figure. In an additional note 
on the British shrews, Mr. Jenyns gives the distinguishing characters of 
Sorex detragonurus, the square-tailed shrew, and 8. castaneus, the chestnut 
shrew; and he adds a remark on his alleged error of considering the British 
water shrew as distinct from the Sorex fodiens of the continent. Another 
portion of Mr. Allan Cunningham’s specimen of the botany of the New Zea- 
land islands, includes a phytology of Calystegia sepiwm and C. soldanella, Ipo- 
mea pendula, Dichondra repens, Gentiana sazosa and G. montana, Sebzea gra- 
cilis, Geniostoma ligustrifolium, Parsonsia heterophylla, Olea apetala, Achras 
costata, Myrsine wrvillei and M. divaricata, Cyathodis acerosa, Leucopogon 
fasciculatus, and L. fraseri, Pentachondra pumila, Fpacris pauciflora, Draco-_ 
phyllum Jatifolium, D. longifolium, D. rosmarinifolium, and D. urvillianum 
Gualtheria antipoda, G. rupestris and G, fluviatilis, Wahlenbergia gracilis, Lo- 
belia alata, L. angulata, L. littoralis, L. submersa and L. physaloides, Stylidium 
spathulatum, Fostera sedifolia, Goodenovia repens, and Sczevola nove zealan- 
die: the presence of barbated stipuliform appendages at the axillz, as also 
of the bilocular fruit, has induced Mr. C. to place this plant with the Goode- 
novice rather than with the Euphorbiacez: his ‘‘ specimen” has the curious 
feature of exhibiting the native designations of the plants and their positions. 
Seventy-two articles are noted in a continuation of Mr. Eyton’s attempt to 
ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and North Wales; and this brings you to 
