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Locusta cavicola is no doubt nearest to the genus Rhaphidophora, 

 Serv., differing however in one important point from Serville's 

 character of it, namely, in the structure of the legs, which are ex- 

 tremely compressed. Not having had an opportunity of examining 

 any of the species of Rhaphidophora described by Serville, Harris, 

 and De Haan, I am unable to point out anything beyond that. 



II. My researches concerning the Fauna of the caves were 

 communicated to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences, at the 

 Meeting of the 25th June, 1847, and a sketch of them was pub- 

 lished the same year, in the Academy's Proceedings, No. 6, p. 75, 

 et seq. Through the kindness of Mr. Ferd. Schmidt I have 

 since become acquainted with a quarto paper, published by him 

 (as it appears, a transcript from an Illyrian daily paper), entitled 

 Naturhistorisches aus Krain (Communications on Natural History, 

 from Carniola), and dated the 28th December, 1847; in which 

 that zealous and, as respects the Fauna of the caves, very merito- 

 rious collector, gives an account of several new objects found there. 

 A new Anophthalmia, from the Sele grotto, has now appeared in 

 Sturm's " Deutschlands-Fauna,'' under the name of A. Bllimekl 

 (named after the discoverer, a Cistercian divine). Two other 

 animals likewise mentioned there ; Calops troglodytes and Obisium 

 troglodytes, are probably identical with Bathyscia byssina and 

 Blothrus spelceus. Mr. Schmidt has likewise met with Stagobius 

 troglodytes in the Adelsberg grotto, referring to it under the 

 name of Leptodirus Hohenwarti, represented in an annexed litho- 

 graphic outline. It is mentioned at the same time, that frag- 

 ments of the animal had already been found, in 1831, by Count 

 Franz von Hohenwart ; but that Mr. Schmidt had visited the caves 

 annually, from 1831 to 1846, on purpose to search for it, but in 

 vain. Sturm has now given a good account of this cave-inhabitant 

 in his "Deutschlands-Fauna," but appears not to have been ac- 

 quainted with my memoir. The anterior tarsi of the male are 

 five-jointed, according to his account; so that my specimens must 

 be all females, and those points, to which I thought 1 could attach 

 external sexual differences, can only belong to individuals. 



IH. In a communication from Mr. Freyer mention is made of 

 a new cave-crustacean, Palomon anophthalmus, Kollar, said to serve 

 as food for Hypochthon ; of which last genus he discriminates six 

 species. Berichte, &c. (Reports on the Communications of 

 Friends of Natural Sciences at Vienna, edited by William Hai- 

 dinger, vol. 5, Vienna, 8vo. p. 56.) 



