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Poisonous serpents are said not to exist in New Caledonia, contrary 
to the statement of Hoffmann in Bronn’s Zhierreich. Dr. Troues- 
sart (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, Vol. XXIII, No. 11) believes that 
Neelaps caledonicus was derived by Hoffmann by misreading Giinther’s. 
Neelaps calonatus from New Grenada. 
The Zoantharia of the Magellanic Region have been reported on 
by Dr. O. Carlgren, and published by Friederichsen & Co. of Ham- 
burg under the general title of Hamburger Magelhaensische Sammel- 
reise. Thirteen new species and three new genera are described. 
A new enemy to the grasshoppers, which for several years have 
been devasting Argentina, has developed in the shape of a scarabrid 
beetle belonging to the genus Frox, which has taken to eating the 
eggs. 
Albinism in a squirrel is illustrated by photographs in Bull. Soc. 
Zool. France, Vol. XXIII, No. 11, by L. Petit, in the case of a brown 
squirrel which is about 50 per cent albino and nearly evenly marked. 
Mr. W. S. Calman has published an exhaustive review of the litera- 
ture on the reproduction of the Rotifera in Matural Science. 
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How a squash plant gets out of the seed, How a candle burns, 
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Some tent-makers, What is nature-study? Hint on making collec- 
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