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ig oa frre Sabellacea, and Hriographidea, are character- 
AB and 52 new species are described. The 
ban oh ae teretielta osed, at least give evidence of a careful study of 
these difficult fore though sometimes the generic characters seem too 
slight. As most of ‘these genera, with the same or closely allied species, 
are likely to oceur on our own coast, the work will form, with the older 
Ww 
scriptions are in Latin, and the work is thus rendered accessible to all. 
The illustrations are very full, nearly every Hoge being see ie = 
though sometimes stiff, are in the main e xcellent, 
10. On Collections of Bones of recent Ritileanoies 5 in y easy in me 
stone near Howe's Cave; by Wa. A. AntHony. (From a letter to one of 
the Editors, dated Franklin, Del. Co., N. Y., Aug. 15, 1866.)—On my way 
to Albany last week, in n compan with Prof. Orton of Antioch college, I 
Stopped at ‘“‘ Howe’s Cave,” and there learned that at a stone Pipaadhe about 
a quarter of a mile distant, the workmen had struck into a fiss Il 
with the bones of rattlesnakes. We ashi the spot, found cha bones 
iiehis which had fallen from the top. Among these fragments are pas- 
Sages worn smooth by long usage and now filled with the bones of the 
former inhabitants. 
e rock forming the sides of the fissure is in some places covered with 
an rete Sage of carbonate of lime an inch or more in thickness. 
the quarry told us that they had found deposits of bones that required a 
man ten minutes to remove with a shovel, and from m n observation 
T have little reason to doubt his statement. ‘These raed pie that the 
number of — that inhabi ted iis cavern must have been enormous. 
Onhopta of Mexico and the Antilles is the preface states, 
mainly on the collections and observations “ author, H. de Saussure, 
but in part, also, on Mexican specimens from Mr, Sallé; others 
tom Cuba from oey of Havana, and aa from the United States, 
for comparison, received from Mr. Edw orton of Connecticut. The 
i: Boks sstatieens Serres, Vou. XLII, No, 125,—Serr., 1866, 
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