ZOSTERACE^E. 



ZOZYMUq. 



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Hrad cf Ltetrta, teen from abort. (B<-11.) 



I.affrti agilit. 



7.o>.txa ricipara. 



For a full account of these creatures see Professor Bell's interesting 

 History of UritUh Reptiles.' 



Professor Owen (' Tram. CJeol. Soc.') has described a fossil obtained 

 from the Lower Chalk, which seems to have been closely allied to the 

 i listing small Lacvrtine Saurian*. 



Ride vl*w of poi t inn of lover Jaw of Lacrrtlin rcpllle from the Lower Chlk 

 near Cambridge. 



ZOSTER ACE-iE, fta Wrarla, a natural order of Endogenous Marine 

 PlanU, resembling sea-weeds, and living among them. The species 

 liave grassy thin leave*, sheathing at the base. The flowers are very 



minute, abnolutefy naked, or surrounded by three scales. If we are 

 to find anywhere a positive intercalation of flowering with flowerless 

 plants, it is here, where, with naked flowers but distinct sexes, the 

 pollen is in a condition that may be compared to the elaters of Mar- 

 chant ia and its allies, and totally different from all that is known of 

 other flowering planta. The habit too is quite that of sea-weeds. The 

 manner in which fertilisation takes place among these plants is un- 

 known. The bottom of the ocean is their locality, and they occur 

 from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and the 

 coast* of Arabia, One species only is seen on the shores of Australia, 

 and another in the West Indies. 



Zoitera marina, the Sea Wrack, is a British species, and is used as a 

 common material for packing, and for stuffing cottagers' cushion*; 

 it has also been used medicinally as a poultice, 



ZOSTEROPS, a genus of Inseseoriol or Perching Bird*, placed by 

 Mr. Swainson in his sub-family 1'arianir. [SYI.VIAD&] 



The bill U rather stouter than in Fylricoltt, acutely conic, almost 

 entire. Rictus smooth. Wings moderate, pointed ; the iir.-t quilt 

 rather shorter than the three next Tail as in fyimMM. Feet strong. 

 Tarsus longer than the middle toe. Lateral toes unequal. Eyes 

 encircled with compact white feathers. (Sw.) It is a native of India, 

 Africa, America, and Australia. 



'/.. flara, (Sw.), Yellow White-Eye, may be regarded as on example. 



Yellow Wbitc-Kre 



Mr. Swainson, in liis ' Birda of Western Africa,' observes that the 

 species of this genus are all of small size, and nearly intermediate in 

 their affinities between the Warblers nnd Titmice. He states his belief 

 that only one species is found iu the New World ; the others, about 

 twelve in number, being restricted to the warm latitudes of Asia, 

 Africa, and Australia. One of thme, Zottcropi cumirottrii, Swainson 

 (Mcaum ctiloronolut of the Paris Museum), has, he remarks, the bill 

 nearly as much curved ns some of the Honey-Suckers. 



Mr. Swainson adds that the general plumage of all those hitherto 

 discovered is green above and yellowish beneath ; so that the species, 

 otherwise well marked, possess a strong mutual resemblance in the 

 general cast of their colours. He thus describes /.attempt f ara : 



Size of Zutteropt dortalii, an Australian species, but the bill, which 

 is black, is larger. The upper plumage is of a bright greenish-yellow, 

 the under pure and bright yellow, uniform in all its parts ; the quills 

 and tail are blackish edged with yellow ; the snow-white ring nmml 

 the eye is very conspicuous, and it is connected to the base of the bill 

 by a deep black line ; the tail, although divaricated, is even, and the 

 bill and feet blackish. Total length 4 f inches. (Sw.) 



It is a native of Senegal. 



ZO'ZYMUS (Leach), a genus of Bnichyurous Crustacea, placed by 

 M. Milne-Edwards in the division of Cryptopod Cancerians, between 

 the genera Carpiliiu and Layoitoma. 



Zotymui is hardly distinguishable except by the form of the claws, 

 the extremity of which is enlarged and deeply hollowed out into a 

 spoon-shape, a disposition which most influences the habits of the 

 animal. It tends also, in his opinion, to establish the passage between 

 the genera Cancer and Xaniko ; for he finds no character sufficiently 

 precise to separate from it certain species, the general form of which 

 H slightly less oval than that of the crabs properly so called, and the 

 latero poterior borders of whose carapace are nearly as long as the 

 antero-posterior borders, which become strongly dentilnted. 



'/,. itneui has the carapace moderately large, convex, very unequal, 

 strongly embossed, and nearly tuberculous at its posterior part ; front 

 slightly advanced and indistinctly divided into four lobes ; latero- 

 anterior borders of the carapace not prolonged beyond the level of 

 the genital region, and armed with four very wide teeth, compressed 



