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Annales des Sciences Naturelles. 



f ** JV. a metamorphose complete. 



f A . •, ■ i ( Fourmilions. 



Myrmel omdes \ . , , 

 ' ( Ascalaphes. 



PLANIPENNES...J fHemerobes. 



j Osmyles. 



J Nymphes. 



L Hemerobius ! Corydales. 



j Chauliodes. 



Sialis. 

 I Raphidies. 

 I Mantispes? 

 fNemopteres. 



Panorpates I Bittaques. 



Panorpes. 

 Borees. 

 " Phryganes. 

 Mystacides. 

 Trichostomes. 



Phryganides i Sericostomes. 



' Phyacophiles. 

 Hydropsyches. 

 Psychomyies. 

 I Hydroptiles. 

 Of Sialis two species are described — one of tbem for the first time, and illus- 

 trated by good figures. The larva is aquatic, but the pupa is terrestrial — an 

 anomalous fact first observed by Roesel, and confirmed by Pictet. But, says 

 Pictet, I have been much astonished to find, in spring, these larvae at from six 

 to eight feet from the water buried in a very dry earth, at the root of trees. They 

 lived there with other terrestrial larva?, and also with those of a Colymbetes, 

 which appears to have the same habits. On finding these larva, not doubting 

 but that they were true terrestrial species, I reared them in the earth. They 

 lived at least fifteen days before their metamorphosis, and did not seem to have 

 been injured. This fact, which is interesting as a trait in the economy of the 

 genus, is important in the history of respiration. It is indeed the first instance 

 of insects with external respiratory appendages breathing the atmosphere. The 

 structure of these appendages is usually such, that they can fulfil their functions 

 only when in a moist condition ; if left dry they shrivel and become useless. I 

 had reason, therefore to be astonished when I saw such larva live so long a time 



uninjured in a very dry soil Brandt, Remarques sur les nerfs stomato-gas- 



triques ou intestinaux (nervus sympafhicus seu nervi reproductorii,) dans les 

 animaux invertebres. A translation from the German of an elaborate memoir in 



the third volume of" Memoires del'Academie Imperialedes Sciences." Poi- 



SEUILLE, Recherches sur les causes du mouvement du sang dans les vaisseaux capil- 

 laries Analyse des travaux anatomiques, physiologiques et zoologiques pre- 



sentes a, VAcademie des Sciences pendant le mois de Fevrier 1836. Of these no- 

 tices we need specify the following only : Jacquemin's Recherches sur le deve^ 

 loppement des Mollusques ^-Peltier sur les animaux -microscopiques — who de- 

 nies the accuracy of Ehrenberg's observations on polygastric animalcules, and 

 does not agree with Dujardin either, — affording a proof at least of the difficulty 

 of microscopical inquiries in the ablest hands, and their great liability to decep- 

 tion Duvernoy, Memoiresur quelques p articular ites des organes dela degluti- 

 tion de la classe des oiseaux et des reptiles Dumeril, Observations sur less 



mouvemens de la langue chez les Cameleons. 



