1887] : Zoology. 393 
CrusTAcEA.—Pelseneer gives a list of one hundred and ninety- 
seven aga actually known from Belgium. 
Dr. W. ooks’s description of the “ Challenger” Stomato- 
pods has ae peered: with other papers, in the volume of 
“Selected Morphological Monographs” just issued by the Johns 
Hopkins University. It is a paper of one hundred and sixteen 
quarto pages and sixteen plates. The collections embraced only 
fifteen species of adults, but of these eight proved to be new. 
Together with these is described a new mantis-shrimp from 
North Carolina,—not embraced in the “ Challenger” 
—under the name Lyszosquilla (Coronis) excavatrix. The great 
value of the paper lies in its wealth of descriptions of larval 
forms by which Dr. Brooks has been able to rearrange the genera 
on a phylogenetic basis. In this connection it may be mentioned 
that last summer Dr. Brooks was successful in obtaining the eggs 
of a species of mantis-shrimp (Gonodactylus) in the Bahamas. 
Unlike ‘all other crustaceans, these forms deposit their eggs, and 
do not carry them about with them. In this case the eggs were 
laid in the cavities of the coral-rock, and readily hatched in 
captivity. 
Mr. Pascoe faerie! ay es at the Linnzan Society speci- 
mens of a Balanus in which several individuals had united their 
shells into a common tube, aaa where the outer valves of each 
animal had lengthened, forming a series of irregular subsidiary 
tubes radiating from the apex of the primary one. 
ARACHNIDA.—Nalepa has a long and well-illustrated paper on 
the anatomy of the Tyroglyphid mites in vol. xcii. of the Sz#- 
sungsberichte of the Vienna Academy. 
TunicaTa.—M. Giard notes the oe of the yore 
Distaplia rosea Della Valle and Diazona hebridica Forbes and 
Goodsir on the French seaboard. 
FisHes.—M. A. Smith Woodward has investigated the anat- 
my and scientific position of the Liassic Selachian, Sgua/loraja 
Daty ondjia. Certain individuals, presumably Setiaten, are with- 
out the cephalic spine. He proposes a new family, to be placed 
between Pristiophoridz and Rhinobatid 
r. Ramsey describes the common few fiik of Port Jackson 
as new, under the name o neglecta, and points out the 
differences between it and S. antarctica Castlenau and S. a 
Lacépéde, the species to which it has previ viously been referred. 
Evidence is also given that Callionymus reevesii is not the female 
of C. curvicornis. 
Mr. Ogilby, of Sydney, describes Pimelopterus meridionalis. 
REPTILES AND BATRACHIA. —Mr. G. A. Boulenger describes as 
new three South African tortoises, T. trimeni, T. smithii, and 
T. fiski, all allied to T. geometrica. 
