118 Recent Literature. [ February, 
ers a notion of the size and power of the creature by which in the 
eastern hemisphere the prophet Joel, who left us the first entomo- 
logical monograph ever written, was so impressed. 
NATURAL History AnD GEoLocy IN BonEemia.—We have re- 
ceived for notice several important works, containing many litho- 
graphic illustrations, upon the botany, natural history, palæon- 
tology and geology of Bohemia, by several scientists of Prague, 
entitled, Archiv fiir die Naturwissenschaftliche Landesdurchfor- 
schung von Böhmen, edited by Profs. Koristka and Krejei, who 
contribute several topographical and geological memoirs to the 
first volume, which appeared in 1869. Dr. Fric writes on the fos- 
sils of the chalk formation, and C. Feistmantel discusses the 
geology of the coal basin of Bohemia, while Dr. Celakovsky 
contributes a lengthy prodromus of the flora of Bohemia; Herr 
Lokaj catalogues the beetles; Alfred Slavik, the land and fresh- 
water molluscs, and E. Barta, the spiders. In the second volume, — 
published in 1873, the prodromus of the flora is continued; and 
Dr. Fric enumerates the vertebrates and crustacea, and describes — 
the river fisheries of Bohemia. The third part of the prodromus 
-of the flora appeared in 1875, and in 1876 was published Rosicky’s _ 
Myriopoda of Bohemia. . = 
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Worthen; it has sessile eyes. Karl Feistmantél’s Coal basins iN | 
different localities of Bohemia; Vala and Helmhacker’s iron ores — 
in the region of Prague and Beraun, and Helmhacker’s geolog 
cal description of portions of Bohemia, with a valuable work by 
Dr. G. C. Laube on the geology of the Erz mountains of Bohe 
mia, are all valuable and fully illustrated; but undoubtedly 
excite a very considerable degree of interest among American- 
geologists. The works can be obtained of Fr. Rivnac, the pub- 
lisher, at Prague, Austria. 
KIRBY'S Synonymic CATALOGUE OF BUTTERFLIES. — The appear 
-ance of the supplement to this work warrants some notice of on 
-1 A Synonymic Catalogue of Diurnal Lepidoptera, By W. F. Kirey. London, 
DA Supplement, March 1871—June, 1877. London, 1877, 8vo. pp. 883- y3 
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