490 Bibliographical Notice. 
The synonyms of the genus and species are as follows :— 
Alcyoncellum, sp., Quoy & Gaimard; not Blainville, ‘ Zoophytes,’ 1832, 
nor ‘ Manuel,’ 1834. 
Aleyoncellum, Milne-Edw., Lam. An. s. Vert. ed. 2. ii. 389 (1836) ; 
Bowerbank, British Sponges, i. 174. 
Alcyonellum, Owen (misprint). 
Euplectella, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soe. iti, 203 (1841); Trans. Linn. Soe. 
xxi. 117. 
1. Euplectella speciosa (Venus’s Flower-basket). 
Alcyoncellum speciosum, Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, iv. 302 
(Zoophytes, t. 26. f.5); Lam. Anim. s. Vert. 11. 389. 
Euplectella aspergillum, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soe. ii. 203, t. 13. 
Alcyoncellum aspergillum, Bowerbank, Brit. Sponges, i. 177. 
Alcyoncellum corbicula, Valenc. Mus. Paris; Bowerbank, British 
Sponges, 1. 176. 
Hab. Philippines. 
2. Euplectella cucumer, Owen, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 117, 
taro. 
Hab. Seychelles. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
The Record of Zoological Literature. 1865. Vol. II. Edited by 
Axupert C. L. G. Gintruer, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.Z.S8., &e., 
Van Voorst, 1866. 
Our readers, from the review which we last year gave of the first 
volume of this work, will know that the ‘the object of the ‘ Record’ 
is to give, in an annual volume, reports on, abstracts of, and an index 
to, the various zoological publications which have appeared in the 
preceding year; to acquaint zoologists with the progress of every 
branch of their science in all parts of the globe; and to form a re- 
pertory which will retain its value for the student of future years.” 
In all these respects the second volume fully bears out the promise of 
the first. The ‘ Record’ is, in fact, invaluable ; and zoologists owe 
a debt of gratitude to Dr. Ginther and his coadjutors for the able 
way in which they carry out the task which they have proposed to 
themselves, and for the benefit which they thus confer upon their 
brother naturalists. The volume now before us contains a brief 
(necessarily very brief) summary of all that has been written in 1865— 
the cream, in fact, of no less than 35000 pages of zoological literature. 
It consists of a bulky octavo of 800 pages, and thus exceeds in size 
the ‘ Record’ for 1864 by nearly one fourth. The reports on the 
Cceelenterata and Protozoa, which were omitted in the first volume, are 
now supplied for the year 1864 as well as for 1865. A slight change 
has been made in the list of Recorders : Dr. Cobbold and Mr. J. Reay 
Greene have ceased to take part in the work; and the cooperation 
of Dr. E. P. Wright has been secured, who has taken in hand 
