490 Bibliographical Notice. 



The synonyms of the genus and species are as follows : — 



Alcyoncellum, sp., Quoy & Gaimard; not Blainville, 'Zoophytes,' 1832, 



nor 'Manuel,' 1834. 

 Alcyoncellum, Milne-Edw,, Lam. An. s. Vert. ed. 2. ii. 389 (1836) ; 



Bowerbank, British Sponges, i. 174. 

 Alcyonellum, Owen (misprint). 

 Euplectella, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii, 203 (1841); Trans. Linn. Soc. 



xxii. 117. 



1. Euplectella speciosa (Venus's Flower-basket). 



Alcyoncellum speeiosum, Quoy & Gaimard, Voy. Astrolabe, iv. 302 

 (Zoophytes, t. 26. f. 5); Lam. Anim. s. Vert. ii. 389. 



Euplectella aspergillum, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. iii. 203, t. 13. 



Alcyoncellum aspergillum, Bowerbank, Brit. Sponges, i. 177- 



Alcyoncellum corbicula, Valenc. Mus. Paris; Bowerbank, British 

 Sponges, i. 176. 



Hab. Philippines. 



2. Euplectella cucumer, Owen, Trans. Linn. Soc. xxii. 117, 

 t. 21. 



Hab. Seychelles. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 



The Record of Zoological Literature. 1865. Vol.11. Edited by 

 Albert C. L. G. GtJNXHER, M.A., M.D., Ph.D., F.Z.S., &c., 

 Van Voorst, 1866. 



Our readers, from the review which we last year gave of the first 

 volume of this work, will know that the " the object of the ' Record ' 

 is to give, in an annual volume, reports on, abstracts of, and an index 

 to, the various zoological publications which have appeared in the 

 preceding year ; to acquaint zoologists with the progress of every 

 branch of their science in all parts of the globe ; and to form a re- 

 pertory which will retain its value for the student of future years." 

 In all these respects the second volume fully bears out the promise of 

 the first. The * Record ' is, in fact, invaluable ; and zoologists owe 

 a debt of gratitude to Dr. Giinther and his coadjutors for the able 

 way in which they carry out the task which they have proposed to 

 themselves, and for the benefit which they thus confer upon their 

 brother naturalists. The volume now before us contains a brief 

 (necessarily very brief) summary of all that has been written in 1865 — 

 the cream, in fact, of no less than 35000 pages of zoological literature. 

 It consists of a bulky octavo of 800 pages, and thus exceeds in size 

 the 'Record' for 1864 by nearly one fourth. The reports on the 

 Coelenterata and Protozoa, which were omitted in the first volume, are 

 now supplied for the year 1864 as well as for 1865. A slight change 

 has been made in the list of Recorders : Dr. Cobbold and Mr. J. Reay 

 Greene have ceased to take part in the work ; and the cooperation 

 of Dr. E. P. Wright has been secured, who has taken in hand 



