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mentioned in my last communication, of specimens showing 
little or no appearance of a tubular structure on their exterior. 
In conclusion, if the surface-observations which I have hitherto 
brought under the notice of paleontologists have not been deemed 
sufficient to show that the valves of Rhynchopora Geinitziana are 
tubulated through and through, like those of species belonging 
to nearly every family of the Palliobranchiata, it is to be hoped 
that the clear evidence adduced in the present paper will be ac- 
cepted as entirely removing all doubts on the matter: 
Belmont, near Galway. 
Feb. 14, 1866. 
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 
Catalogue of the Coleopterous Insects of the Canaries in the Col- 
lection of the British Museum. By T. Vernon Wo.ut.aston, 
M.A., F.L.S. Printed by order of the Trustees. London, 1864. 
8vo, pp. xin & 648. 
Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an enumeration of the Coleopterous 
Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries. By T. VERNON 
Woutaston, M.A., F.L.S. London: Van Voorst, 1865. pp. 
xlvii, 526, & 140. 
WHETHER we are to regard the ancient traditions of an Atlantis as 
pure fables, or as springing from some germ of truth, there can be 
no doubt that its scattered islands, as the last relics of a great sub- 
merged continent, must ever be looked upon with interest by the 
naturalist. We cannot tell whether their summits were gazed upon 
by men when this country was under an icy sea and the reindeer 
wandered over Southern France, which would probably carry back 
the time 
“When first Madeira trembled to a kiss” 
to a period considerably earlier than that ascribed to this remarkable 
phenomenon by the Rev. Mr. Bowles; but we may justly regard 
the animal inhabitants of these islands as representatives, perhaps 
somewhat changed, of the great fauna of the lands now forming the 
sea-bottom of the Atiantic, crowded together upon the highest points 
to which they had access, and looking out, Deucalion-like, over the 
flood that has destroyed the home of their progenitors. 
Looked at in this light, a sort of dramatic interest seems to sur- 
round these dwellers in the islands of the sea—an interest, however, 
which cannot but heighten our curiosity to know as much as possible 
about them ; whilst at the same time the data to be obtained from 
their study, in connexion with the great question of the origin of 
species, are of such importance that their careful investigation must 
be considered one of the greatest services that can be rendered to 
philosophical zoology. 
Already some of these islands had received a portion of the atten- 
