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plants and animals; a committee of ornithologists for the birds, of ento- 
ists for the insects, etc. ese committees being composed of ex- 
perts in the various branches, will not find it difficult to discuss and pass 
manent by vote upon the name of each contested genus or species. 
these decisions be respected, and let the names of those who will not 
_ abide by them be placed upon a new edition of that black-book which 
liyxavs kept of old,—the list of Damnati! _ 
2, Les genres Loriope et Peltogaster, H. Rathke; par W. Litsexore, 
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Professeur de Zoologie A Upsala en Svéde. pp. 35, 4to, pl. 3. (Extr. 
by Cavolini, and in more recent times Rathke, who considered them 
% worms, probably Entozoa, and instituted the genus Peltogaster for 
“ait reception, describing two species, P. paguri and P. carcini. Die- 
Placed them among his Myzelmintha, and formed a new genus, 
Pachybdella, for P. carcini, These forms were made the subject of dis- 
- UUSSIo royer, Steenstrup, O. Schmidt, and Lindstrom, who agreed 
- With Cavolini in referring them to the Crustacea, but could only conjec- 
p. leit more intimate relations, although suggesting those with the 
» the Lerneidz, or the Bopyride. From a study of their 
larvae M,. Liljeborg now ascertains their true place to be among the Cir- 
; ies. 
Within the body of Peltogaster paguri, Rathke found a minute Tetra- 
deeapod, scarcely a line in length, which he considered to have been 
exe M. Liljeborg has now cleared up the difficulty. In examining 
Paltogaster taken from the abdomen of Pagurus pubescens, he found 
vel oe ye Mother sac-like body filled with Loriopes, which might 
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be the Bopyride, to which family indeed the Loriope must now 
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aly illustrated, fate ine deouriphicth of the Turbellaria and Rotatoria 
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mira additionally clear by woodeuts showing the shape of the head 
distribution of the ocelli, A review is given of the genera of 
