860 General Notes, — [Sept 
nio aberti, Conrad q 
(1850). Unio lamarckianus, Lea (1852). Unio popenot, Call (1885). 3 
—R. Ellsworth Call. ee 
Chinese liver-fluke. One snail examined by her was the hosto! | 
at least ten thousand young Distome, while another individual d 
had the liver almost wholly replaced by a Redia of the samè 
parasite. | a 
r. A, G. Bourne gives (Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1886 [1887)) y 
a preliminary account of some Indian earth-worms belonging ® 
the families Perichætidæ and Moniligastridæ. Eight belong t 
Se genus Perichæta, one to Perionyx, and seven to Moniligas®’ 
The species of Perionyx (P. saltans) has the power of leaping - 
into the air when touched. Bourne says that the huge emi 
worm mentioned by Darwin as occurring on the Nig 
turns out to be a species of Moniligaster described by Pert" — 
M. deshayesii, . 
The first part of the fourth volume of Bronn’s “ Klassen e 
Ordnungen der Thierreichs” has appeared. The volume re 
Crustacea —Bernhard Rawitz has a paper (Ar ch. f article 
is tł b e most important poin juted 
— gland consists, in reality, of ‘ib (not one) conv opet 
5 E WO PA a short distance behind the exte 
duct. 
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