Miscellaneous. 71 



On the Si/noni/mi/ of the Genera of EuryalidoD. ■ 

 % Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. 



Having occasion to examine and determine the Eed-Sea Eadiata 

 presented to the British Museum by Mr. M'Andrew, I had occasion 

 to use MM. Dujardiu and Hupc's work, Tlic following corrections 

 and additions to his synonymy occurred to me. They chiefly arise 

 from the almost universal habit of French zoologists to ignore the 

 works of any other country. In the ' Synopsis of the British Mu- 

 seum ' for 1840 I gave the characters of the families and genera ; 

 80 there is no excuse for their iiot being quoted. 



Euryalidae, Gray, Syn. Brit. Mus. 1840, p. 63, = Euryalidies, Du- 

 jardiu & Hupe, 18G2, p. 292. 



I. EuKYALE, Gray, Syn. B. M, 1840, p. 62. Eanjnle, pars, Link. 



Trichnster, Agassiz, Dujardin & Hupe, 1862, p. 300. 

 1. Eur //ale pahniferufi. Lam. 



II. AsTROPHYioN, Gray, Syn. B. M. 1840, p. 62 ; Muller & Troschcl, 



Liitken, Duj. & Hupi', 1862, p. 301. 

 Gorgonocephalus, Leach, Zool. Misc. 

 1. Asitrophyton verrucoswn, Lam. &c. 



III. Laspalia, Gray, Syn. B. M. 1840, p. 64, with characters. 

 Asterochema, LUtken, Addit. ad Hist. Opliiur. 1851), p. 255 ; 



Dujardin & Hupe, Echinod. p. 2!)6. 



1. Lasjxdia olir/acfes = Asterias oliyactef!, Pallas. Asterochema 

 oligactes, Liitken, I.e.; Dujard. & Hupe, p. 297. Ophiura 

 cirrosa, Say. Tricliaster leptocladia, Mus. Paris. 

 Euryale s^implex. Gray, Encycl. Metropol. 



West Indies and Central America. 



IV. Natalia, Gray, Syn. B. M. 1840, p. 64. 



Asteroporpa, Liitken, Addit. ad Hist. Ophiur. 1859, p. 152. 

 1. Natalia anmdata. 



Asteroporpa anmdata, Liitken, 7. c. p. 159, t. 5. f. 4 ; Dujardin 

 & Hupe, Echinod. p. 298, t. 2. f. 6. 

 Central America. 



On a New Species of Paradoxornis. By the Abbe A. David. 



Father Heude, Missionary at Shanghai, busies himself actively in 

 studying and collecting the natural productions of the province in 

 which he dwells. Among the birds in his collection which he showed 

 me as 1 passed through that city there are several which do not yet 

 figure in the ornithological catalogues of the Chinese Empire. Of 

 these I observed one which is particularly interesting, belonging to 

 that curious group of Insectivora with a stout and compressed beaJc, 

 which is represented in Eastern Asia by the genera Conostoma, 

 Cholornis, Paradoxornis, and ISuthora. 



The bird in question appears to me to be intermediate between the 

 last two genera, and may, perhaps, form a new genus, I place it 

 provisionally in the genus Paradoxornis, of which it presents the 

 principal characters. 



