80 Miscellaneous. 
corymb is covered with a considerable number of little mammillated 
stalks like small radicles. It comes from Guadeloupe. The analo- 
gous species from the Straits of Malacca has its corymb a little 
inflated like a cushion, which has caused the author to call it M. 
circinata ; its stalks are higher. A second Indian species, with the 
corymb perfectly flat, has the cells longer, which renders the stalks 
more spinose. The author names it M. expansa. 
In conclusion, the author remarks that ‘the balancing or repro- 
duction of the forms of different species of animals, from either side 
of the hemispheres, enters into the grand law which was already 
recognized and expounded by Buffon, who established the fact that 
the species of the same genus almost always differ under the same 
latitudes, eastern or western.’”’—Comptes Rendus, June 4, 1860, 
p- 1008. 
Note on some Parasites of Lulus terrestris. 
By M. pv’ UpveKkem. 
The parasites met with by the author in Julus terrestris are—an 
Infusorium, a Cryptogamous plant, and two Nematode worms be- 
longing to the genus Rhabditis. It is to the latter that M. d’Udekem 
has particularly directed his attention. He has especially studied the 
generative organs,—an important subject when we consider the dis- 
pute which has arisen with regard to the reproductive system of the 
Nematoda, between Nelson, Meissner, Schneider, Bischoff, and Cla- 
paréde. His results agree especially with those obtained in other 
Nematoda by Nelson, Thompson, and Claparéde. As regards the 
fecundation of the eggs, the author refers it to an epoch when the 
egg is not surrounded by any membrane. There is therefore no 
occasion for the existence of a micropyle, an orifice which Meissner 
asserted that he had discovered in the ova of Ascaris mystax. M. 
d’Udekem succeeded in observing, in the spermatozoids of one of 
these Rhabdites, amceboid movements similar to those indicated by 
Schneider and Claparéde in other Nematode worms.—Bull. de 
l Acad. Roy. de Belgique, 2me série, vii. No. 8. 
On a new Species of Bird (Chloronerpes sanguinolentus). 
By P. L. Scuater, M.A. 
Olivascenti-brunneus: pileo coccineo: dorso toto aurescente, 
colore sanguineo perfuso: alarum superficie inferiore nigri- 
cante, albo tessellata : rostro et pedibus nigris. 
Long. tota 5°8, alee 3°4, caudee 2°6. 
Omoa. 
Rare ; frequents small, dense bushes. 
This apparently unnamed Chloronerpes is closely allied to C. olea- 
gineus of Mexico and C. fumigatus of 8. America, but is distinguished 
by its blood-stained back and smaller size.—Proc. Zool. Soc. Jan. 
25, 1859. 
