728 NATURAL HISTORY MISCELLANY. 
GIGANTIC SALAMANDER FROM Cunina. — Father David, a mis- 
sionary priest of the order of Lazarists, for many years resident 
at Pekin, and an enthusiastic naturalist, has discovered in China, 
besides several new and extremely interesting species of animals, 
a gigantic aquatic salamander, allied to the great Sieboldia of 
Japan. The remains of a closely allied reptile (Andrias) are 
found in the tertiary fresh water deposits of Central Europe. 
New Hapirar or HELIX LINEATA. — Among the North Ameri- 
can landshells that are remarkable for a wide range of distribu- 
tion is the little Helix (Hyalina?) lineata of Say, already credited 
with a range in latitude from ‘Gaspé to Texas,” with a longitude 
from the Atlantic to “ New Mexico.” I was much surprised to find 
specimens in a box of Helices recently collected on the banks and 
in the neighborhood of Salmon River, Idaho, and sent to me by 
Henry Hemphill, Esq. The internal peripheral teeth I should 
judge to be coincident with varical development or periodical 
growth, and rather eccentric in occurrence and number; not al- 
ways being in “pairs” * — but sometimes showing only one.—R. 
E. C. STEARNS. 
New EnxromoLocicaL Boogs.— The 14th fasciculus of Mul- 
sant’s “Opuscula Entomologica” is just published. The 3rd vol- 
ume of the “Natural History of the Hemiptera of France” will 
be ready in a few days, and will contain four tribes. M. Mulsant 
has published the new edition of his “ History of the Lamellicorns 
of France,” as well as the Ist part of the “Staphylinide.” A 
new edition of the “ Iconography and Natural History of Larve — 
of Lepidoptera,” by MM. Duponchel and Guenée, is about to be 
issued: the work gives descriptions and figures of a great number 
of the larve of European Lepidoptera, of course including Eng- 
lish species; these figures are contained in ninety-three plates, 
excellently coloured: the work is published in forty fasciculi, at 
one franc each. Of the Iconography and Description of unpu 
lished Lepidoptera of Europe, by P. Milliére, twenty-five fasciculi 
have been published, and these contain more than a thousand de- 
scriptions of larvee, pupe and perfect insects, with the plants on 
which the larve feed, and other details of their life-history: the 
work is worthy the support of all lovers of the science; nothing 
*Vide eai and Bland’s Land and Fresh Water Shells of North America, Part I, 
p. 82, fig. 84.—Smithson. Pub. 
