188 Scientific Intelligence. 



fact that material of this nature could be driven the distance 

 from the volcano to the city testifies to the violence of the erup- 

 tion.) l. v. p. 



8. Report on the Eruptions of the Soufriere in St. Vincent 

 in 190 J, and on a Visit to Montagne Pel'ee, in Martinique, Parti; 

 by Tempest Anderson and John S. Fleet. Phil. Trans. Royal 

 Soc, Series A, vol. cc, pp. 353-553, pis. 21-39. — The first part 

 of the report by Doctors Anderson and Fleet contains the follow- 

 ing chapters : Physical Features and Geology ; the Eruption of 

 May 7th ; the Eruption of May 18th; Rains ; Geological Effects 

 of the Eruptions ; Previous Eruptions of the Soufriere ; the Sou- 

 friere and Montagne Pelee ; Comparative study of the Pelean 

 type of Eruption ; General Sequence of volcanic phenomena in 

 the Antilles and Central America in the early part of 1902. The 

 account is full of interest and the illustrations are of very high 

 order. 



9. Megablattina Sellards (iion JBrongniart) : A Correction. 

 (Communicated by E. H. Sellards.) — The name 3£egablattina 

 proposed for a new genus of cockroaches from the Coal Measures 

 in the April number of the current volume of this Journal, p. 312, 

 I now find to be preoccupied, having been applied by Brongniart 

 in 1885 to an insect from the Saarbrucken Basin, Germany, previ- 

 ously described by Goldenberg under the hemipterous genus 

 Fulgorina. I now suggest for the American genus the name 

 Archoblattina. 



Yale Museum, May 5, 1903. 



10. The Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive 

 Archipelagoes. Edited by J. Stanley Gardiner. Vol. I, Part 

 IV, pp. 347-471, 43 figs., 4 pis. — This completes the first volume 

 (this Journal, xiii, 321 ; xiv, 74; xv, 240). Appendices B and C 

 conclude Mr. Gardiner's valuable reports on the Coral Reefs. 

 Others on the Cephochorda and Lithothamnia are of especial 

 interest. C. F. Cooper gives two species of Amphioxus, — the 

 West Indian Asymmetrum lucayanum (Andrews), which is very 

 common, and the new and rare form, Heteropleuron Maldivense ; 

 also some undetermined larvae. R. C. Punnett gives interesting 

 results of his study of the "Meristic variation" of the group, 

 showing that increase in number of gonads is associated with 

 decrease in number of segments, and suggests that genetic selection 

 may prove a factor of importance in modifying these features. 

 M. Foslie reports nine forms of the little known calcareous algse 

 (Lithothamnia), none having ever before been recorded from the 

 area between the Red Sea and the East Indies. H. Gadow and 

 J. S. Gardiner give a list of twenty-six birds. F. E. Beddard 

 records three species of earthworms, one of which is new. L. A. 

 Borradaile continues his study of the marine crustaceans, report- 

 ing on the Brachyura, proposing one new genus Selwynia, type 

 Selwynia Imvis new, and the Cirrepedia. W. F. Lanchester 

 reports on the Stomatopoda. k. j. b. 



