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Gihocellum sudeticurrij sp. nov. 



Obion go- ovalis ; cephalothorax rufescens, singulis pilis rigidis ob- 

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

 thoracem subaequantibus, palpis macilentibus, paululolongioribus, 

 pilosis ; hypopodia palporum securiformia ; pedes flavescentes, 

 trochanteribus conspicuis, femoribus tibiisque clavatis, tarsis parum 

 incrassatis ; pedes antici (pedes maxilla res) longissimi ; abdomen 

 viride brunneum, superficie inferiore setis plumosis obsitum. 

 Long. Corp. 2-Z) millim. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The Geological Record for 1874. An Account of WorTcs on Geology, 

 Mineralogy, and Palaeontology ^^mSZis^^c? during the Year. 

 Edited by William AVhitakek, B.A., F.G.H. 8vo. London : 

 Taylor and Francis, 1875. 



If tbe denizens of the netbermost pit can contemplate tbe doings 

 of the inhabitants of this world of onrs, we should think the fate 

 of a "Ilecorder" could hardly excite even their env}'. 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, 

 compeDed 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 finisbed, but always growing under 

 his hands, he seems almost as much deserving of i)ity as the fabled 

 Sisj'phus, or the daughters of Danaus, with whom the ancients 

 peojded part of the infernal regions. Xo 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 

 wiU 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 Natur- 

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

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

 respect of geological literature Ave have no similar systematic 

 reports ; for the notices of memoirs which appear regularly in 

 Ijconhard and Bronn'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 



