162 



A notice of my paper on the Tsetse and Zimb, read at a previous meeting of the 

 Zoological Society, appears in the ' Zoologist,' 3037. 



(EstriDjE. 



The occurrence of great quantities of the larvae of CEstrus Tarandi, infesting the 

 rein-deer in the Zoological Society's Menagerie in the Regent's Park, has been no- 

 ticed by myself, (Proc. Ent. Soc. 76). 



Hippoboscidje. 



The species of Hippoboscidae parasitic upon the deer, have been noticed by Von 

 Siebold in the ' Verhandl. des Schlesischen Forstvereins.' 



A note by Von Siebold on the spider-fly of the deer, Lipoptera Cervi, and its sup- 

 posed identity with Ornithobia pallida, Meig., and Haemoboia pallipes, Curt., appears 

 in the ' Proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Silesian Society of Natural 

 History,* for 1850. 



M. Lucas (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. lxvii.) has published some observations on 

 the singular bee-parasite, Braula cceca, Nitzsch, (Entomobia Apum, Costa). 



Aphaniptera. 



A paper by Mr. Newman, on the 'Affinities of the Pulicites,' in which the opinion 

 that they are Dipterous insects without wings is adopted, appears in the ' Zoologist,' p. 

 cxliii. Independently however of the structure of the thoracic segments and their 

 appendages warranting their separation from the Diptera, in respect to the alary Lin- 

 naean arrangement, that of the mouth* both of the larva and imago, appears to me to 

 remove them from the Diptera with reference to the cibarian system of Fabricius. 



Thysanura. 



Professor Allman has published a notice of the emission of light by Podura fime- 

 taria, Linn., numerous specimens of which were observed to be luminous, the light 

 continuing to be visible for many nights. 



Crustacea. 



Mr. C. Spence Bate has communicated various notes on the Crustacea (Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. vii. 297), namely, ' On the Fifth Pair of Legs in the Anomoura,' ' On the Deve- 

 lopment of the Shell of Crabs,' ' Shedding the Exuviae,' and ' On the Reproduction of 

 Limbs.' He has also described (ibid. 318) a new British genus of Amphipods, named 

 Bellia arenaria, and new British species of Amphithoe, Pagurus and Portunus. 



In a memoir by Mr. Huxley on the auditory organs of the Crustacea (Ann. Nat. 

 Hist. vii. 304), Dr. Farre's views (exactly reversing the opinions of previous writers, 

 and considering a sac at the base of the first pair of antennae in some of the Podoph- 

 thalma to be the auditory organ, whilst the sac in the second pair in all the Podoph- 

 thalma is the olfactory organ, the Brachyura being considered as destitute of an au- 

 ditory organ) are supported by the structure of these organs in a small transparent 

 Crustacean taken in the South Pacific, allied to Palemon, and by Lucifer typus. 



A paper by Sir John G. Dalyell on the exfoliation of the Crustacea, has appeared 

 in the 'Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal,' No. 101. 



