574 Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 



racters of Embia, a genus of Insects allied to the White Ants, ( Termites ,-J with 

 Descriptions of the Species of which it is composed. By J. O. Westwood, Esq. 

 Three species, under the generic titles of Embia, Oligotoma, Olyritha, are 

 characterized, and illustrated by an uncoloured plate drawn by Westwood. 



XIX. De Marchanteis. Auctore Tiioma Taylor. Written entirely in 



Latin, and giving the characters of the " Genera et species quas mihi fort una 



obtulit." Illustrated by four uncoloured plates XX. On a New Arachnide 



uniting the genera Gonyleptes and Phalangium. By the Rev. F. W. Hope. An 

 Arachnide contained in the collection of the late Adrian Hardy Haworth, re- 

 markable for its long hinder legs, proposed as the type of a new genus by Mr 

 Hope, Dolichoscelis (Jo\i%cc and (thsko;) and dedicated to Mr Haworth, D. 



Haworthii. Illustrated by an uncoloured plate XXI. On the Erigonece, 



a tribe of the order polygonacea. By George Bentham, Esq. Illustrated 



by four plates of Erigeron, Chorizanthe, Mucronea. XXII. Observations on 



the Species of Fcedia. By Joseph Woods, Esq. This paper chiefly illustrates 



the subdivisions of Decandolle, taken from the structure of the fruit 



XXIII. Remarks on some British Ferns. By David Don, Lib. L. S. As- 

 pidium Dumetorum must be erased from Brit. list. ( See our Botanical Intel- 

 ligence) — Nephrodium rigidum Mr Don considers a good and well-marked spe- 

 cies. For some remarks on Asplenium Filix Famina, see. Botanical Intelligence — 

 Cystea Dentata, a good species, peculiar to the Scottish Alps, the Welsh plants 

 being considered only varieties of C. fragilis — Cystea regia is considered dis- 

 tinct from C. Alpina. There is now no British station for this plant, the ori- 

 ginal one at Low Layton no longer existing, and the Welsh specimens belong to 



C. fragilis XXIV. Descriptions of Five New Species of the Genus Pinus, 



discovered by Dr Coulter in California. By David Don, Lib. L. S. Collected 

 by Dr Coulter, who has spent ten years in the investigation of the natural his- 

 tory of Mexico and California. These pines are described from imperfect spe- 

 cimens, which prevent the characters being completed ; there is, however, little 

 doubt that they are distinct. They will all prove hardy, and we trust will soon 



be raised in this country XXV. Some account of the Galls found on a species 



of Oak from the Shores of the Dead Sea. By Aylmer Bourke Lambert, 

 Esq. The " Mala Insana" of Hasselquist, and proved to be identical with the 

 galls of commerce, and growing on the Quercus infectoria. Illustrated by a 



coloured plate XXVI. On several New or imperfectly understood British 



and European plants. By Chari.es C. Babingtqn. Mr Babington is convin- 

 ced of the distinctness of Erica Mackaiana. Seventeen species are noticed, and 

 annotated on. 



The Edinburgh New PhilosophicalJournal. Conducted by Profes- 

 sor Jameson. October 1836, January 1837- Edinburgh, A. 

 and C. Black. 8vo. (Continued from p. 402.) 



Zoology. 



1. R. Jameson, Esq. Assistant- Surgeon, \0th Regiment of Foot Notes on 



the natural history and statistics of the island of Cerigo and its dependencies. 62. 

 Continued from the last Number of the Philosophical Journal, and devoted to the 

 zoology of the island. The departments are treated of separately, a few 

 paragraphs being devoted to each — Invertebrate Animals. Very slight notice 

 is taken of these, and insects are passed over as " requiring more space than 

 can be at present afforded." A remark is made that molluscous animals 



