3870 Notices of New Books. 



" The ill fame under which this genus labours in roost parts of the 

 world where it is known, attends it here. An indefinite dread of its 

 being in some way hurtful generally prevails, perhaps mainly depend- 

 ant on its repulsive aspect and stealthy motions. It is however per- 

 fectly harmless ; feeding on insects and berries. I have already men- 

 tioned the contents of the stomach in one specimen that I examined; 

 in another this viscus, a membranous sac, nearly as long as the trunk, 

 contained nothing of an animal nature, but only some pulpy berries, 

 and several stony seeds closely like those of a grape. 



" One which I captured with a hair noose, indeed, on being turned 

 into the lizard-box, seemed to manifest hostility to the Anoles which 

 were there ; these fled from it, and the gecko appeared to have a de- 

 sire of pursuing, for it crept towards one and another with a stealthy 

 step, the belly and head being on the ground, like a cat watching a 

 mouse. Yet these actions might be nothing more than the manifes- 

 tation of caution on being put into unwonted circumstances. 



" While thus engaged, it ever and anon licked its lips with its pro- 

 truded tongue, an action common to all our Geckotidae. The ordi- 

 nary length of the species is about nine inches." — p. 158. 



c The Annals and Magazine of Natural History] No. 64, dated 



April, 1853. 



The papers in this number are intituled : — 



' Kemarks on British Plants.' By Charles C. Babington, M.A., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



( On the Chitonidae.' By William Clark, Esq. 



' Additional Character of the Shell of the Cyclostomatous genus 

 Alycaeus of Gray, with descriptions of its Animal Inhabitant — of a 

 fourth Species — and of other new Indian Cyclostomata ; also remarks 

 on an unrecorded Character in Diplommatina.' By W. H. Benson, 

 Esq. 



' On the Animal of Myochama anomioides.' By Albany Hancock, 

 Esq. 



'On the Germination of the Resting Spores, and on a form of Mov- 

 ing Spores in Spirogyra.' By Dr. W. Pringsheim. [Translated from 

 the ' Flora ' of August 14 and 21, 1852, by Arthur Henfrey.] 



' Description of Rhopalodina, a new form of Echinodermata.' I>\ 

 J. E, Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S., &c. 



