
604 REVIEWS. 
the fine style in which the ies is issued. ‘The colored lithographic 
surpassed, a 
We trust the publishers will al encouraged to continue the work, so 
that every species of butterfly, eee with its caterpillar and chrysalis, 
in our territory, may set for its portrait. When completed and bound, it 
l make a beautiful ornament ee the centre table. The present num- 
ber figures various species of Argynnis, Colias, and Apatura. Published 
by the American Entomological Society, Philadelphia. $2.00 a Part. 
REVIEW OF THE SCANDINAVIAN PUBLICATIONS IN NaTuRaL History 
DURING 1867 AND PART OF 1868. By Dr. Lütken of Copenhagen. — Prof. 
Reinhardt has described two new species and one new genus of fresh- 
water pninkes, Tachyplotus (new genus) Hedi emanni from Billiton and Heli- 
cops assimilis R., from Lagos Santa, both illustrated by woodcuts. 
rther gives us the first good figure ever published of the true Delphinus 
delphis, and in a postscript to the eee a sens by Mr. Hallar, the 
- surgeon of a whaling cruiser, near Iceland in 7, he demonstrated the 
identity of the “ Strypireydr,” .of the Ainan iin the little known 
Balenoptera Sibbaldii. The cranium, atlas and os hyoideum of this parne 
of whale are described in detail erg sin A.B as contrib- 
uted an interesting paper on tw cies of truly symmetrical (biat 
erally formed) jelly-fishes, ai ‘i ritli: but forming a new genus, 
Dipleurusoma; the typical species was observed by the author in the 
emertes, from his own picike and those of his father (Pronn 
Chr. Boeck i in Christiania a). He points out the various errors committed 
central mass (or brain), which consists of an outer, reddish, granular 
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Myodes, and probably one of the American species, thus pa se 
American stamp on the primitive fauna of this island; this mamma bein 
that country, nor by others. Mr. Warming, a young botanist lately 
turned from a three years sojourn in Brazil, in the house of Dr. Lam 
Lagos Santa, has opened a series of “Symbolæ ad Floram Brazilie cen- 
tralis cognoscendam.” The introduction, illustrated by two physiotyp- 
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