BihliograpMcal Notices. 243 



Gibocellum sudeticum.^ sp. nov. 



Oblongo-ovalis ; cephalothorax rufescens, singulis piKs rigidis ob- 

 tectus, antennis chelatis testaceis, rubentibus, pilosis, cephalo- 

 thoracem subaequantibus, palpis macilentibus, paululolongioribus, 

 pilosis ; hypopodia palporam securiformia ; pedes flaveseentes, 

 trochanteribus conspicuis,feinoribvis tibiisqiie clavatis, tarsis parum 

 incrassatis ; pedes autici (pedes maxillares) longissimi ; abdomen 

 viride brunneum, superficie inferiore setis plumosia obsitum. 

 Long. Corp. 2-5 millini. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The Geological llecord for 1874. An Account of Worlds on Geology, 

 Mineralogy, and Palceontology published during the Year. 

 Edited by William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S. 8vo. London : 

 Taylor and Erancis, 1875. 



If the denizens of the nethermost pit can contemplate the doings 

 of the inhabitants of this world of ours, we . should think the fate 

 of a "Eecorder" could hardly excite even their envy. Working 

 through paper after paper and book after book, often in search of a 

 minute modicum of valuable grain hidden in bushels of inane chaff, 

 compelled to read and digest articles in which they can take 

 scarcely any interest, and to give something like a notion of their 

 general bearings, is bad enough ; but when we consider also that 

 the Recorder's work is never finished, but always growing under 

 his hands, he seems almost as much deserving of pit}^ as the fabled 

 Sisyphus, or the daughters of Danaus, with whom the ancients 

 peopled part of the infernal regions. No one who has not per- 

 sonal experience of the business of "recording" can have the 

 smallest notion of the labour involved in it ; and most certainly the 

 students of any science ought to feel deeply indebted to those who 

 will take the trouble to summarize its literature for their benefit. 



The ' Zoological Record,' which now covers the literature of ten 

 years, and the well-known reports on zoological literature which 

 have appeared for a much longer period in the ' Archiv fiir Natiu- 

 geschichte' furnish the student of zoology with a digest of the con- 

 tributions to that science in the publications of each year ; but in 

 respect of geological literature we have no similar sjstematic 

 reports ; for the notices of memoirs which appear regularly in 

 Leonhard and Bromi's ' Jahrbuch,' in the 'Zeitschrift fiir die 

 gesammten Naturwissenschaften,' and in ' Silliman's Journal,' valuable 

 as they are, do not afford any thing like a connected view of the 

 current literature. 



Under these circumstances geologists ought to give an enthusiastic 

 welcome to Mr. Whitaker's ' Geological Record,' the first issue 

 of which embraces the literature of Geology, Mineralogy, and 



