386 General Notes. [April 
agrees a chlorophyll-like pigment (called metachlorophyll 
by Mr. Poulton) in the blood. By means of a micro-spectro- 
scope the most characteristic absorption-band of the pene 
together with its resemblance to chlorophyll, was shown. 
well-known American entomologist, Mr. A. R. Grote, has ee 
presented by His Highness the Duke of Saxe Coburg-Gotha 
(brother-in-law of Her Majesty the Queen) with the large Silver 
Medal, Princeps Musarum Sacredos, for Art and Science. The 
January number of the Wiener Ent. Zeit. contains the second 
and concluding part of the Supplement to the Monograph of 
the Œstridæ by Dr. Brauer. In this part the characters of the 
fully-developed larvæ are discussed, and an analytical table of 
the genera given. There is also an analytical table for deter- 
mining the genera of the adult insects. 
ZOOLOGY. 
of Novaia Zemlia.—Anton Stuxberg contributes to 
the fifth volume of the scientific renj of the “ Vega” expedi- 
tion a review of the fauna of Novaia Zemlia. Of the sixteen 
mammals he enumerates two lemmings, one wolf, two foxes, the 
_ polar bear, and the reindeer as terrestrial; all the others are ma- 
rine. The birds number forty-one. The fishes are not enumer- 
ated, but one is struck with the relative proportions of the different 
orders of Hexapods. Of these the Diptera number eighty-two, 
the Hymenoptera forty-six, and the Collembola sixteen out of a 
total of one hundred and fifty-four. The only Myriapod is a spe- 
cies of Lithobius. The Arachnids number forty-eight. Of the 
Crustacea only the era are included. Of these there are 
ninety-six, sixty-one of this number being Amphipods. he 
Chztopods are one hundred ane twenty-three in number, the 
true Molluscs one hundred and twenty, the Echinoderms thirty- 
seven. The total is seven hundred and forty-two species. 
Pelagic Fauna of German Lakes.—Dr. Otto Zacharias read 
a paper at the late meeting of German naturalists and physicians 
in Berlin on the pelagic fauna of the North German lakes. The 
results of the exploration of fifty-six bodies of water were that 
iere Was a great similarity between their pelagic fauna and that 
e Swiss and Northern Italian lakes. Some novelties were 
a new species of Ceriodaphnia, two of Bosmina, etc. 
he: Pagu of his collections shows that there is a consider- 
PES similarity between these North German lakes and those of 
ur Northern States, so far as pelagic invertebrates are concerned. 
The Structure of Fungia.—Mr. Gilbert C. Bourne, who has 
been enabled by a grant of funds to visit the East Indies, gives 
in the January number of the Quarterly Fournal of Microscopical 
—— a re of a species of 
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