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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



GEOLOGY. 



Fossil Bones.— The great cave of Gailenreuth, in Fraaconia, has a narrow 

 •entrance under a large rock, but the passage soon opens into a wide space 

 divided into several cells, apparently produced in part by the decomposition 

 of the lime-stone which is mixed with a great deal of sand. Beyond this every 

 thing is encrusted with stalactites below, above, and on the sides. The first 

 chamber has stalactites of all sizes hanging from its roof, and numerous 

 bones of bears strewed upon its floor; the second has more bones on its 

 ^oor than the first. From the last a large aperture descends obliquely 

 downwards, and contains cart loads of loose bones. The cave ends with an 

 oven-shaped cavity, which has been excavated artificially by the extraction 

 of bones and skulls trom the osseous breccia, and in one of the cavities there 

 is a large mass of compact breccia, composed chiefly of bones cemented 

 by stalagmites. — In some of the lower caverns, the stalactites, when dug 1 

 through, were found to have been formed upon sea sand. 



Fossil Insects. — The following fossil insects were discovered by Messrs. 

 Murchison and Lyell in the tertiary formations of Aix, in Provence, and 

 -jhave been classified, &c. by Mr. Curtis, F.L.S. The bed in which tlu*y 

 #ere found was "a brown greenish or light gray calcareous marl, efferi 

 vescing briskly with acids, fetid under the hammer, very thinly laminated." 1 

 With them were associated an occasional Potumides and leaves of plants. 



Order COLEOPTERA. 

 Fam. Carabid.e. — 1. Harpalus, with punctured elytra, perhaps an 

 Cphonus. There is also the elytron of anotner species. Fam. Hydrophi- 

 lAtoX..— 2. Hydrobius, nearly as large as H.fujicipes, Lin. Fam. Staphy- 

 I.inid.e. — 3. Lalhrobium. Fam. Ptinidj;.— 4. Ptinus, about the size of 

 P. Lichenum, Marsh. Fam. Melolonthid.e.— 5. Ceionia, resembling the 

 C. hirtellus.—& Cetonia, like C. sfictica, Fab. Fam. Curculionid.e. — 

 7. Sitona? The dark parts shew the corneous covering which actually 

 remains ; and when it is peeled off, the impression of the sculpture is very 

 perfect : the wings of this and of another are extended beyond the elytra, as 

 if they had been arrested in their flight.— -8. Sitonia.' — 9. Notaris? under- 



ge.— 10. Lipams, black, somewhat like L. An<iUccmus, Marsh.— 11. Ditto, 

 e L. punctatus, Marsh. — 13. Hvpcra. Fam. Chrysomelid e.— 14. 

 gassida, and cast, the size of C. rcridis, Fab — 15. Ditto, and cast, the size 

 I C. equestris, Fab. — 16. Chrysomela , and cast, scarcely so large as C. 

 'Bankiii, Fab. — 17. Ditto, under side. — 18, Ditto, much smaller. 



Order HYMENOPTERA. 

 Fana. TEVTHRCEDINlDiE.— Tenthrcdo, like Lelandria fuligitwsa, Schr. 

 — Fam. Ichn'eumonid/E. — 20. Ichneumon.' the wings are wanting; but 

 from the long oripositor it is probably allied to Pimp/a or Bracon.— Fam. 

 Formicid.*. — 21. Formica, and cast", winged.— 22. Ditto, apterous.— 23. 

 Ditto, apterous. 



Order LEPIDOPTER A 

 24. Plinltena; or it may be one of the Noctuida-. 



Order OMOPET11A. 

 Fam. Aphid*.— 25. Aphis, of the middle size, 26, 27 Obs. There are 

 several small insects , some apterous others with very short wings, which 

 I thought 'Dircps ; but the apex of the abdomen is too abtusi- lor that 

 group; and from the shortness of their legs, they cannot, I think, be the, 

 larvae of any of the Hemiptera. lam. Cekcopida: — 28. Tettiyonia, ex- 

 ceedingly like T. spumaria, Lin.— 29. Asirica; or it may belong to some of 

 the neighbouring genera Cixias, DcJphax, or tercopis. 



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