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BATS. 



Dr. LeConte has also published in the same number some observations on the 

 North American species of bats, of which he enumerates and describes the fol- 

 lowing : 



Vespertilio Noveboracensis, ....... .Linn. 



" cinereus, Palesot de Beauvais, 



U crepuscularis, LeConte, 



" fuscus, Palesot de Beauvois, 



H Carolinensis, Geoff. Se Hilaire. 



" currsinus, Leunnenck. 



" phaiops, " 



" Caroli, 



" pulverulentus, " 



" subulatus, Say, 



" lucifugus, LeConte, 



" Georgianus, Cuvier, 



" macrotis, LeConte. 



" pallidus, " 



Rhinopoma Carolinense, St. Hilaire. 



Dr. LeConte remarks that all the Bats he has seen, have an uncertain number of 

 transverse wrinkles or plaits on the outer portion of the ear, and have the toe3 

 furnished with rather long and fine hairs, as it were fimbriated, hence these two 

 marks are omkted as furnishing no good specific characters. All of the American 

 bats except the Molossus (Rhinopoma,) belong to the same genus, the trifling 

 difference in the number of the teeth does not afford a sufficient reason for con- 

 sidering them as different. 



NEW HESPEROMYS. 



Dr. LeConte has described two new species of Hesperomys. the H. cognatus and 

 H. gracilis ; these two appear to have been confounded with the Northern H. goa- 

 sypinus. They are found in Georgia and Michigan. 



TAPE WORMS. 



Dr. Leidy has published, in the Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences, a list of 

 all the tape worms which have come uuder his notice, both in man and in various 

 animals. It is curious that he has never yet met with the Dibothrium latum 

 (Bothriocephalus latus.) 



MOSSES. 



A valuable addition to the flora of the United States, has been given (I.e.) 

 by Mr. Thomas P. James, being a list of those mosses not described in Gray's 

 Manual, some of them being new species, amounting in number to forty-seven. 



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ARTIFICIALLY COMPRESSED CRANIA. 



The singular custom practised by the Flat Head Indians of the North "West, 

 of artificially compressing their skulls, is one of the most curious of all the barba- 

 rous customs, adopted by savage tribes. This unnatural operation, our artistic 

 Canadian traveller Mr. Paul Kane remarks: not only does not appear to injure the 



