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1831 an homopterous insect has shown itself, and multiplying rapidly 

 has committed great ravages ; this is Delphax saccharivora, West- 

 wood. Two other insects, apparently belonging to the Aphisidsc and 

 Coccidae, have more recently been highly injurious to the sugar-canes, 

 and others of this class equally infest other plants. The cocoa-nuts 

 are so attacked by an Aleyrodes, that when the author quitted Bar- 

 . bados there was not a single healthy tree left. 



The list of Crustacea is compiled by Mr. Adam White. Sir Robert 

 Schomburgk believes that, if thoroughly examined, the islands and 

 seas of the West Indian Archipelago would yield probably four 

 times as many species as are at present known, and states that al- 

 though the marine fauna of these islands is still insufficiently known 

 to enable us to deduce results as to the distribution of the Crustacea, 

 it is Mr. White's opinion that many of the species discovered by 

 Jay and his correspondents on the south shores of the United States 

 Avill eventually be found in the West Indian Archipelago. 



The number of Mollusca found in the neighbourhood of Barbados 

 is by no means large, and the author having been disappointed of a 

 list, gives a catalogue of those found both in Barbados and the West 

 Indies in general. 



The Fishes, determined by Profs. Midler and Troschel, include a 

 number of new species and one new genus, Caprophomis, Mull, et 

 Trosch., belonging to the family Scomberoidei. The Ileptilia are 

 sparingly represented in Barbados ; the Iguana tuberculata, the largest 

 of the Saurians, is now very scarce. Only one snake has been found, 

 and the sight of a specimen is a rare occurrence ; it is perfectly harm- 

 less, and from the description given to the author, probably a Tortrix. 

 The number of indigenous birds does not amount to fifteen, and 

 there are about forty species recorded as birds of passage, or only 

 occasionally seen on the island. The absence of woods and umbra- 

 geous trees is doubtless the cause of this paucity. A British bird, 

 the Ruff Sandpiper, Philomarchus pngnax, L., is recorded for the first 

 time as occurring on the other side of the Atlantic. It was sent to 

 the author among other migratory birds, but the communicator, Mr. 

 Bishop, observed that its name was not known ; thence it may be in- 

 ferred that its occurrence in Barbados is a rare circumstance. Our 

 space does not admit of more than this hasty glance over the contents 

 of this book, but we hope that it will be sufficient to convince our 

 readers of the interest attaching to it, and induce them to become ac- 

 quainted with the details by a perusal of the work itself. — A. H. 



Zoological Recreations. By W. J. Broderip, Esq., F.R.S. 



A pleasant book on a delightful subject with a pleasing title. This 

 work, which we should have noticed before, consists of a series of 

 papers written by one of our most talented lawyers for the pages of 

 the New Monthly Magazine, from which their author, urged by Pro- 

 fessor Owen and other scientific friends, has reprinted them. He has 

 done well in collecting these papers, for he has given us another book 

 belonging to a class far too rare, in which White of Selborne, Knapp, 



