364 Magazine dc Zoologie. 



Arachnida. — Ohsei-vntions sur les arancides du genre Hersilia, 

 et description de denx espcces nouvelles npparfenant « ce genre par 



M. H. Lucas. This is followed by a monograph of the genus Pa- 



chylosceUs by the same naturalist ; who in pi. 15 describes a new 

 species of AlUis from the neighbourhood of Paris, named A. venaior. 



Insecta Plates 139 and 140 represent Scarahceus Anubis, a 



fine species allied to Scar. T'yP^'O" and Goliath from Brazil. Mo- 



nographe du genre Pamborus, par M. H. Gory, with figures of all 



the ascertained species. Notice stir les meiamoiyhoses des coleop- 



teres du genre Telephorus, par E. Blanchard ; and this lady con- 

 tributes also a notice of the larva of Slaphylimis olens in pi. 165. 



Meloe collegialis is described and figured by Audouin in pi. 



169, a species with considerable marks of afiinity to the M. excava- 



tus of Leach. Car alms basilicas from Porto-Rico, a very fine 



insect, occupies pi. 170, erroneously numbered 169 in the letter- 

 press ; and the genus Bryaxis is fully ilbjstrated in pi. 171. 



Radiata. — The only paper in this class is entitled Recherches sur 

 '« cause ordinaire de la phosphorescence marine, et description du 

 Noctiluca miliaris, par M. Suriray, already noticed in our Vol. i. 

 p. 491.* 



* First part of a monograph on the Trachyderides, by M. Diipon Jeune, 

 seems well and carefully done. Figures are given of the species, and 42 on 24 

 plates are now published. We shall recur to this memoir on its completion- 



