M. F. Plateau on the Muscular Force of Insects, 95 



6. Hyperhcena Domingensis, Benth. (in parte), 1. c. 50 ; — Cocculus 

 Domingensis, DC, Syst. i. 528, Prodr, i. 99 ; Deless. Icon, 

 i. tab. 96; Griseb. FL Br. W. Ind, p. 10 ;— Anelasma Do- 

 mingensis, nob. olim, I. c. 43 ; — Pachygone Domingensis, 

 Eichl. L c. 197. — In Antillis, ^ , San Domingo (Poiteau) : 

 V. s. in herb. Hook. ^ , Villa Monte Verde, Cuba (Wrigbt, 

 1105), Domenica (Imray, 453) ; in herb. De Candolle $, 

 Guadeloupe (Krauss, 1615) ; in herb, Benth., Jamaica 

 (Forsyth). 



7. rotundiuscula, nob. — In Cuba : v, s. in herb. Hook, ? , 



Cuba (Wright, 23). 



8. retinervis, nob. — In Antillis : v. s. in herb. De Cand., 



Puerto Rico (Bertero). 



9. Prioriana, nob. — In Antillis : v, s, in herb. Dr. Alex. 



Prior, c^et ? , Jamaica (Prior). 



10. valida, nob. ; — Hyperbsena reticulata, Benth. I. c. 50 ; 



— Pachygone Domingensis, Eichl. (in parte) I. c. 198. — 

 In Antillis : v. s. in herb. Hook. $ , Jamaica (Purdie) . 



11. longiuscula, nob. — In Cuba: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 



?,Cuba (Wright, 1854). 



12. cuneifolia, nob. — In Cuba: v. s. in herb. Hook. <^, 



Cuba (Wright, 1853) ; ? , Villa Monte Verde (Wright, 

 1104) ; in herb. Mus. Brit, c^ et ? , Cuba (Wright, 1853). 



13. crebriflora, nob. — In Cuba: v. s. in herb. Mus. Brit. 



c^et ? , Cuba (Wright, 1855). 



14. banisteriafolia, nob. ; — Cocculus banisterisefolius, A. 



Rich. Ann. Sc. Nat. xvii. 136; PFalp. Rep. i. 95;— Coc- 

 culus oblongifolius. Mart, in Fl. Beibl. xxiv. Append, ii. 43 ; 

 Walp. Rep. ii. 748 ; — Pachygone oblongifolius, Eichl. Mart. 

 Fl. Bras, xxxviii. 197, tab. 47. fig. 1. — In Brasilia, v. v. $ 

 in sinu Jurujuba, prov. Bio de Janeiro : v. s. in herb. Mus. 

 Brit. (^ , Rio de Janeiro (Bowie). 



15. Columbica, nob.; — Pachygone Columbica, Eichl. I. c. 



198.— In Colombia. 



[To be continued.] 



XX. — On the Muscular Force of Insects. (Second Note.) 



By Felix Plateau*. 



It will be remembered that in my former note on the muscular 



force of insects, I arrived, by determining the relations between 



the mean weights pulled, pushed, or raised by a great number 



• Abstract, communicated by the author, from the * Bulletin de I'Acad. 

 Roy. de Belgique/ 2* serie, tome xxii. For the former note see * Annals/ 

 February 1866. 



