390 Scientific Intelligence. 



\n otIuM- workb,* that Pocillipora is a true Polyp, and not 

 all KM I to M'dUpora luid other Ilydroid corals, is again insisted 

 and thf relations of the rociUiporul^- to certain fossil ooi 



amount" of cireM^n\^sUuat7o'n/^ Fro.n ^ Fuvositid!p, as^i' 



also in having pcrEirate walls, and doubtless ouglit to be sep.i 

 at least a*^ a distinct family, which ha'^, perhaps, closer nl 

 with Madreijoraceay] A number of now corals are also des 

 and, in the Addenda, some additional new Gorgonida. 



In Xo. 7, lists are given of the species found in each of tl 

 nal ilivision^ of the west coast, with their range, etc , and 5' 

 cases special local li=;t'^ are added. In the Panamiaii F.hii 



that zoological province. The platen are cliietly .lr\M{.. : 

 Gorgonacea, and two of them illustrate the S| 



Feabody Ac<nh ., ., ^^ _ ., 



I and Third Annmd Report^i of th> Truisk>.^ ';/ 

 s.>0 and 1H70, Saleui, M.. 



abody AC(i<ibm>/ or ^avnr^, for JS(>!t 

 leived March, 1^71.— Tliis report con 

 •asion of dedication of the Museum, 





of a specimen of linssui palpvhrom Owen (V) taken lr<mi m^ 

 st(una('h of a hake at Man^dicsler, Mass., — a ^pecicb not betoa- re- 

 corded from our coast. Prof. E. D. Cope contribut(.>- a ('ataK\!:ue 

 of Batrachia and Reptilia obtained bv .1. A. .McXiel in Xican>-n;^. 

 and another of those obtained 1)y C. J. Maynard in Flonda: m 

 the former article he describes a new lizard and a new genn- aiui 



.^,. ..^.^^^..^^z {Manculus remifer). Prof. A. S. P^*^'''?''' 

 gives a list of the Insects collected at Pebas, Ecuador, by 1 rot - 

 Orton, and describes a new species of Attacus [A. A}naz"i<"''- 

 Mr. S. I. Smith contributes a list of the Crustacea coUecterl i'} •'• 

 A. McNiel in Central America, and describes a number ol ii*^^^ 

 species belonging to the genera, Zeptopodia, Ozms, ^^'"'' ,j" 

 Gebia, Atya (2 sp.), Enatya (new genus), Leander, and | Y','"jjj" 

 Several species in the collection appear to be identical with ^^t] 4 

 species. The omission of the precise dates of publication ot ttu'^ 

 descriptive papers is inexcusable. The report is merely aai 



* On the Affinities of the Tabulate Corals, in Proc. Amer. Assoc, for A v. 

 Science, 1867, p. 148 ; also Proc. Essex. Institute, vi, p. 90, 1869. ^^^ new 



f Since the printinor of these remarks (April, 1870), a ''^^''-Y^j.^°a^^p„t under 

 genus of recent tabulated corals has been described bj Mr. W. fe- *-e , ^^^ 

 the name of Favositipora Deshayesii (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. v K^^^^ 

 pi. 17, 18, Nov.. 1870). This remarkable form combines a 'complete ^^^ 

 structure of the interior, like Favosites, with the ordinary structure oi -a 

 in other respects, thus fully confirming the views quoted above. 



