202 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Order HEMIPTERA. 

 I ...ii.C'oreid.e— 30. Miris, a small one— 31. Lygmis, allied to L. nUi, 

 tig Lin.— 3-2. There are many examples of different divisions of the Lyqcei. 



33. Corizus, and cast, not half the size of C. Hyoscyami, Lin. Fam. 



Pcntatomidje.— 34. Cydnus, the size of C. Albomarginatus, Fab.— 35. 

 Pentatoma ; or it may be a Cydnus, the corners of the thorax being rounded : 

 in form it resembles Tetyra, but itjias a smaller scutellum. 



Order DIPTERA. 

 Fam. TlPUMDJS.— 36. Limuobiu, female, allied to L. sexpunrtata, Fab. 

 apparently fixed while at rest— 37. Gnoriste ; either struggling on its 

 back, or in the attitude of depositing her eggs.— 38. Another species, orthe 

 other sex of the former one.— 39. Mycetqphila; a pale one.— 41. Nov. Gen. 

 allied perhaps to Penthetria hotoseiicca, Meig. but not being acquainted 

 with the genus, 1 speak with uncertainty. There are several examples of 

 this insect— 4-2. Nov. Gen. another species, or the other sex of the last. — 43 

 Bibio, male, and cast, allied to B. venosus, Meig.— 44. Several specimens 

 of a genus between Bioio and BerU. Fam. Strationid.*.— 45. Nov. Gen. 

 apparently allied to Sargus, but I am not acquainted with any genus of the 

 family having the same niervure in the wings. The antennae are no doubt 

 distorted by pressure, but they are too robust aud short to belong to BerU 

 or Xylophagtu. One of the paltires is discernable of this handsome and dis- 

 tinct insect, oi which there is the cast. Fam. Empid/E.— 46. Emjjis, a 

 female, and cast.— 47. Obs. There are eight species of Empidce, comprising, 

 apparently, other species. 



Fossil Shells.— List of fossil shells in the fresh water formation of Aix 

 and Fuveau, in Provence:— 



UNIVALVES. 



1. Potamides Lamarrkii. — 2. Potomides (Ccri/hium gr. of Deshaycs).-^ 

 1. Bv.limu.1 tercbra. — ~2. B. pyymceus. — 1. Niritiim (cast of) Ly'mnteva 

 orum. — 2. Lymvaus, new species whorls reversed Phyta?). — 1. Planorbis 

 rotundatus, ooal of Fuveau, and limestone of Aix.— '2. I'lanorbis, new 

 species, somewhat resembling P. rotundatus — Mclnnia scaluris, (newspecies, 

 Sowerby,] coal of Fuveau.— 2. Mclania, newspecies, striated, too imperfect 

 to be figured coal of Fuveau. 



BIVALVES 



1. Cyclas gibbosa, new species, Sowerby.— 2. C. aqu/r-sarfia: new species' 

 of Sbwerbj (Very large).— 3. C. concin)ia,Ao. do. of Sowerby, roof of coal, 

 Fuveau.— 4. O. cuneata, :io\ <Jo. of'Sowerby. High above the coal Fuveau. 

 1. Unio, a new and very large species, roof of coal Fuveau.— CyfWs, (new 

 species, Sowerby ) 



Fossil Plants.— Plants found in the same fresh water formation of Aix and 

 Fuveau, in Provence : — 



1. A terminal pinna of some articulated compound leaf. I have no doubt, 

 observes .Mr. Lindley, who describes them, "but that it belongs to some 

 Lcguminosa, either of the tribe of Lotctr or Phuseoli<e of M. de Candolle's 

 arrangement.— 2. The leaf of Pednrar/ius muerophyllu. — 3. Apparently the 

 branch of some Thuja, nearly related to Thuja articulata —4. Leaves of 

 Laurus dulcis ; or if not, of a species of cinnamon that cannot be distinguish- 

 ed from it by Uie.se specimens . — .">. The fruit of some plant, but in too im- 

 perfect a state to be determined. — 6. Very like Bunts Balearira ; but it is 

 perhaps something else, and cannot be determined.— 7. A leaf, but of so 

 common a form that it could not be safe to offer even a conjecture about it. 

 — 8 The stem of an herbaceous plant, but there is no evidence to shew 

 what it is. 



Fossil Botany.— M. Adolphe Brongniart, who has devoted himself with 

 such extraordinary zeal ana perseverance to fossil botany, has been obliged 

 1o create a new method of ascertaining the nature of vegetable deposits, and 

 li.xs formed it from the surface and composition of the stems, the nerves of 

 the leaves, &c. &c. He has commenced publishing a new work, where he 

 describes more than f>IH) fossil species, with their positions. By help of 

 these species, he establishes a certain number of successive formations, in 

 which vegetables succeed each other with few changes, and in almost equal 

 numbers of genera; and other formations, where genera and families 



