Miscellaneous. 26.'5 



female sex. It is not without interest to add that among the in- 

 dividuals of Urothoe mariaus forwarded to the authors of the 

 ' British Sessile-eyed Crustacea,' some were from Cumbrae, where 

 they had been collected by Dr. Robertson, the talented zoologist, 

 who, as we have already stated, has investigated the habits of the 

 Echinocardium in that same locality. Others were found at Mac- 

 duff in the stomach of a haddock. Now Alex. Agassiz tells us that 

 the large fishes of the genus Gadus are great eaters of sea-urchins. 

 These old observations thus indirectly aid to verify the commensalism 

 of Urothoe as ascertained by us. — Comptes ZJe/icZus, Jan.3, 187C,p. 76. 



On some new Species of Stomatopod Crustacea. By J". Wood-Masoit 



Mr. Wood-Mason exhibited several new species of Stomatopod 

 crustaceans, viz. :- — Clorida decorata, with eyes as in C. mtcro- 

 phtludma^ M.-Edw., and C. Lutreillei, Ey. ik Soul., the inner margin 

 of the sabre-like appendage of the lateral portions of the caudal 

 swimmerct armed with fine acuminate spines, and the telson vermi- 

 culated above and below with granulated ridges, claw of raptorial 

 arm 5-toothed — from the Andamans ; Coronis spinosa, with three 

 spines projecting from the telson just above the level of the marginal 

 ones, of which there are three pairs, the median pair movable and 

 smaller than the rest and with the interval between them finely ser- 

 rated (five or six teeth on each side of the middle line), between 

 these and each lateral pair two spinules, between the teeth of each 

 lateral pair one spinule, claw of raptorial arm 10-toothed — from the 

 Andamans and New Zealand ; Gonodactylus f/liqjtocercits, allied to 

 G. trinjniiosHS, with the telson ornamented with two oval tubercles 

 bounded by an impressed invected line and with a median basal 

 cinquefoil-shaped one, and the two preceding somites symmetrically 

 engraved with fine lines — from the Nicobars ; and Squilla suppJex, 

 with three short oblique ridges on each side of the telson, between 

 which and the strong median ridge on each side a row of confluent 

 tubercles in the same straight line with the two median marginal 

 teeth, five teeth to the claw of the raptorial arms, postabdominal 

 somites with nine ridges, arranged three in the middle and three on 

 each side — from Bombay. — Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bcmjal, December 1875. 



" Ornithologiad Errors in the '■Reliquice Aquitanicce.' " 

 To the Editors of the Amuds and Mar/azine of Natural History. 



(iKXTLKMEx, — With reference to Professor Alfred Newton's Note in 

 the 'Annals & Mag. of Nat. Hist.' for February, pages 108-17(1, on 

 some ornithological errors in Professor Alphonse Milne-Edwards'a 

 memoir on the Bird-remains from the Caves of Perigord, in the 

 ' Kelicjuia) Aquitanica?,' Part xvi., of which I am Editor, respon- 

 8il)le for its Translations, I ask permission to state that twelve of the 

 " errors " are evidently discrepancies of fact and opinion between 

 the Author and Prof. A. Newton ; and the correction of these M. A. 

 Milne-Edwards acknowledges, witli thanks, in his revised reprint of 

 his memoir from the original MS., in the November number of the 

 ' Materiaux pour I'histoirc do rilumme ' &c., 187o, p. 473 «S:c. 



Directly after Prof. Newton had read the translated memoir in 

 question, before it was published, he favoured me witli his critical 



