No. 406.] REVIEWS OF RECENT LITERATURE. 827 
Mononychus vulpeculus Fabr.,” by James G. Needham ; * Notes on 
the Physiology of Regeneration of Parts in Planaria maculata," by 
C. C. Lemon ; and * The Structure of the Eye of Scutigera (Cer- 
matia) forceps," by Josephine Hemenway. Miss Hemenway does 
not refer to Packard’s paper on the eye of S. forceps, and errs in 
stating that there is but one American Scutigera ; other species 
have been described by Wood, Meinert, and Bollman. 
No. s, August, 1900, contains; “ Abnormalities in the Cestode 
Moniezia expansa, I,” by C. M. Child; and “A Description of the 
Male of Peripatus Eisenii Wheeler," by Augusta Rücker. Miss 
Rücker's paper is No. 5 of the Contributions from the Zoblogical Labo- 
ratory of the University of Texas, a series that already proves the wis- 
dom of the university authorities in their choice of a director. 
Notes. — The discovery of Moringuoid eels in American waters, 
by Dr. T. N. Gill and H. M. Smith (Science, Vol. XI, p. 973), is a 
matter of considerable interest. They find that the group is repre- 
sented in the American tropics by four genera : Moringua, Aphthal- 
michthys, Leptoconger, and Gordiichthys. 
Parts I-II, Vol. XXIII, of Zermeszetrajzi Fiizetek contain many 
papers of entomological interest. Among these mention may be 
made of Forster’s *Odonaten aus New-Guinea, Part II,” “Les 
espèces du genre Troides appartenant aux collections du Musée 
National Hongrois," by Horvath et Mocsáry, with three magnificent 
plates, and a * Catalogus Tabanidarum orbis terrarum universi," by 
Dr. Colomannus Kertész. 
The giant hydroid Brachiocerianthus (Monocaulus) imperator, de- 
scribed by Allman from the Challenger collections, has again been 
taken in Japanese waters and minutely described by Miyajima 
(Journ, Col. Sci. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, XIII, Pt. II). In the long dis- 
cussion and comparison with Mark's B. urceolus the reader is led to 
infer that the latter is also a Japanese species instead of Dens - 
tropical form from the extreme eastern Pacific. No indication is 
given as to the habitat, nor that it was taken by the Agassiz 
“ Albatross ” expedition of 1891 in the Panama district. 
No. 4 of the fifth volume of the American Journal of A hysiology 
contains the following articles: “On Uric Acid Formation after 
Splenectomy,” by L. B. Mendel and H. C. Jackson; “On the — 
phorus Content of the Paranuclein from Casein,” by H. C. Jackson ; 
“Further Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis and the Nature 
