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to the labors of others, is to be given in a second memoir on the 
»anatomy and development of Limulus siren in course of 
preparation.—d. S. Packard, Fr. 
ZOoOLocicaAL News.—A number of papers on he Hymenop- 
tera and Coleoptera of the United States, by Messrs. E. Norton 
C. A. Blake and Dr. Horn, are in course of publication in the 
Transactions of the American Entomological Society of Phila- 
delphia. A detailed and fully illustrated account of the develop- 
ment of Palemonetes vulgaris, by Mr. Walter Faxon, appears in 
the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy ——Mr. 5. 
H. Scudder, of Harvard University Library, Cambridge, has 
nearly ready for publication by the Smithsonian Institution an 
index to all genera hitherto proposed in zoölogy, whether for 
recent or fossil animals. It is to be based upon the “ Nomen- 
clators”” of Agassiz and Marschall, and the indexes to the 
Zoological Record. Prof. Allen Thompson, in Mature, con- 
rms the statement that the scorpion commits suicide by stinging 
itself in the middle of the top of its head. The early stages 
of the Ccecilians, or blind snakes, have recently been discussed 
by Peters, according to Mature. An observer in Cayenne saw, 
according to Herr Wrzensniowski, of Warsaw, a female Cecilia 
compressicauda give birth, in water, to two young onesalive. The 
Russian observer, on receipt of the alcoholic specimens, found in 
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the oviduct five more young ones. The young had no trace o 
lateral gill openings like those discovered in Zpicrium glutinosum 
of Ceylon, but it has external bladder-like gills, like those of 
Notodelphys ovifera. ‘Hence these blind amphibia should, when 
young, be looked for in water. Cwcilia oxyura has branchial clefts 
but no external gills, while C. rostrata of the Seychelles has 
neither branchial clefts or a swimming tail, or any scars showing 
the former presence of external gills. 
ANTHROPOLOGY. g 
ANTHROPOLOGICAL NEWS. — The pea | emka of the 
It was jego as the Father tribe. 
Among the Smithsonian Copi Vocabularies, now in 
charge of Major J. W. Powell, is a e one of the Caddo, No. 
444, by Dr. D. J. Macgowan, taken in 
All that remains of this once ai ‘tribe are gathered on- 
the Witchita agency, in the Indian Territory. The agent, Mr. A. 
C. Williams, reports their numbers at 467 persons, Scion : 
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