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Verhaxdluxgen der K. K. Zoologisch 

 Botaxischex Gesellschaft (Vienna, 1894, parts 

 1 and 2). — On the Tracheons System of Locusta 

 viridissima , by Dr. Victor Nietsch, with plate. — 

 Contributions to the Diplopoden Fauna of the 

 Tyrol, by Dr. Carl Verhoeff (Myriapoda), with 

 plate and figures in the text. A new sub-genus 

 and some new species are here described. — Herr 

 Christian Lippert describes and figures two new 

 Myxomycetes, one of these being the type of a new 

 genus, Kleistobolus. — Dr. Franz Werner contributes 

 his second article on the Herpetology of East 

 Algeria, in which he enumerates the reptiles and 

 batrachians of that district, while their habits and 

 geographical distribution are likewise discussed. — 

 Dr. Carl Rechinger communicates another con- 

 tribution to the Flora of Persia, based on the 

 collection, made in 1SS4, by J. A. Knapp, in the 

 province of Adserbidschan, the present list dealing 

 with Ranunculacea, Berberidece, Papaveracece and 

 Fumariacece . — Dr. Carl Fritsch contributes his first 

 instalment of the Flora of the Balkan Peninsula, 

 with special reference to Servia. — Dr. Verhoeff 

 has yet another article on Myriapoda, entitled : 

 Contributions to the Anatomy and Classification of the 

 Julidece, with two plates and figures in the text. A 

 critical article on the Lepidopterous Fauna of Galicia, 

 is given by Dr. St. Klemensiewicz. — A sixth con- 

 tribution on Lichenology, by Prof. E. Kernstock, 

 and a paper, by Dr. Franz Werner, on the Reptilian 

 and Batrachian Fauna of the Ionic Islands, conclude 

 the two parts under review. 



Bulletix de l'Academie Imperiale des 

 Sciexces (St. Petersburg, New Series, iv., Parts i. 

 and ii.). The Genus Sparganium : Systematic Descrip- 

 tion of the Species and Remarks on their Distribution, 

 by K. F. Meinshausen. Seventeen species of Bur- 

 reed are here enumerated and described, preceded 

 by general remarks on their habits. — The piece de 

 resistance in the two parts under notice is, how- 

 ever, a paper by Professor Sars, on Caspian 

 Crustacea : Contributions to the knowledge of the 

 Carcinological Fauna of the Caspian Sea (English 

 text), Part i., Mysidce, with eight plates, Part ii., 

 Cumacea, w T ith twelve plates. As was to be expected, 

 several new species are published. An interesting 

 fact also is that this latter order, which is exclu- 

 sively marine, is well represented in the Caspian 

 Sea. — On Chlorophyl Corpuscles of Seeds and Seedlings, 

 by A. Famintzin, with a plate. The question as 

 to whether the chromatophores, to which the 

 green [colour of young embryos is due, are found 

 in ripe seeds or not, has hitherto been much 

 contested. Bredow and other botanists maintain 

 that this is the case, and that they are only difficult 

 to detect because they become colourless, while 

 on germination they again become green and 

 constitute the green chromatophores of the seedling. 

 On the other hand, Sachs and others contend that 

 ripe seeds are devoid of chromatophores, and that 

 on germination these green bodies are produced 

 directly out of the colourless plasma. Our author 

 has set himself the task to solve this interesting 

 question, and he has investigated the seeds of the 



common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) with this 

 object in view, and he adduces abundant evidence 

 which goes to prove that chromatophores are 

 present in ripe seeds in the form of minute 

 shrivelled-up bodies, and that the chromatophores 

 of seedlings are exclusively built up from the 

 former. The same author further states that 

 during his investigations on the seeds of the sun- 

 flower, he discovered that the chromatophores 

 contained two new pigments, green and yellow, 

 w-hich are soluble in water, but not in ether or 

 alcohol ; and he thinks they are closely allied 

 to xanthophylline and chlorophylline. — Dr. J. 

 Victor Rohon has an article, On the Know- 

 ledge of the Tremataspides. Upper Silurian fish- 

 remains from Oesel, which were sent to the 

 Imperial Academy of Sciences, were placed in the 

 hands of Dr. Rohon, and determined by him to 

 belong to the genus Tremataspis. Two excellent 

 plates accompany this important memoir. — Experi- 

 mental Studies on the Lymphatic Glands of Invertebrates, 

 by A. Kowalevsky, deal with the Mollusca, Crustacea, 

 Arachnidex , Myriapoda and Insect a. 



Feuilles des Jecxes Naturalistes (Paris, 

 September, 1894). M. Dollfus continues his paper 

 on The Geology of Spitzbergen. — M.. J. R. de 

 Rusunan contributes a paper on The Marine Algce 

 of Finistire. — M. G. Coutagne discusses the 

 Cyclostomas of the French fauna. Of these oper- 

 culate land-shells, in addition to the two well- 

 known old species, Cyclostoma elegans andC. sulcatum, 

 another species, C. asteum, has to be admitted. 

 This was described originally by M. Mabille in the 

 "Revue et Magasin de Zoologie," 1875, page 147, 

 under Bourguignat's MS. name. M. Coutagne 

 states that he entertained considerable doubt as 

 to the validity of the specific name, and he 

 observes, with much truth, that so many varieties 

 have been raised to specific rank during the last 

 thirty years, that one considers with suspicion 

 names, many of which may, possibly, be perfectly 

 entitled to specific rank. The species under con- 

 sideration had hitherto shared in this suspicion 

 until he received, together with some other shells, 

 some specimens of Cyclostoma, some of which were 

 referred to C. elegans, while others at once proved 

 to be the other species, C. asteum. Both forms 

 occurring together indiscriminately, without the 

 slightest gradation connecting them, M. Coutagne 

 is of opinion that this species has to be recognised 

 as a member of the French fauna. Such a state- 

 ment, emanating as it does from so cautious a 

 student of the mollusca as M. Coutagne, will 

 rescue the species from the obscurity in which it 

 would otherwise be liable to remain. 



BOLLETTIXO DEI MUSEI ZOOLOGIA ED AXATOMIA 

 CoMPARATA DELLA R. UxiVERSITA (Turin, 1894). 



— Dr. E. Festa, who has visited Palestine for the 

 purpose of collecting natural history specimens, 

 has certainly not been idle during his travels, and 

 the Museum of the Royal University of Turin has 

 been much enriched with his zoological captures, 

 which embrace almost every class of the animal 

 kingdom. The present volume contains the interest- 

 ing narrative of his voyage, and the following 

 memoirs by specialists testify to the all-embracing 

 energy of this indefatigable traveller. Dr. M. S. 

 Peracca, on the Reptiles and Amphibia; Dr. E. 

 Giglio-Tos, on the Hemiptera ; Signor Flaminio 

 Baudi, on the Coleoptcra ; Dr. Festa himself on the 

 Birds ; M. A. Dollfus, on the Isopod Crustacea. Dr. F. 

 Sacco continues his monograph of the Tertiary 

 Mollusca of Piemont and Liguria. 



