ane s : General Notes. [May 
robe Leidy’ s Gordius subspiralis as being really G. aguaticus, 
- whilé the species described by the American author under the 
latter name is something else. Leidy’s Gordius robustus is prob- 
ably G. violaceus Bair 
U. Drago a (Bull. Soc. Ent. ltal; xix., 1887) a new 
eee and species of Oligochete worm (Epithelphusa catanensts), , 
hich occurs as a San: on the gills of the Sicilian land-crab 
| Thelphusa fluviatilis. It belongs to the family Enchytrzidz. 
Kennel has a paper (Zool. Fahrbuch, ii.) on the Jand-leeches of 
tropical America, enumerating three species, of which Cy/icobdella 
, coccinea belongs to a genus before known from the same region, 
while Lumbricobdella schefferi is a new genus, as well as a new 
species. The paper goes considerably into habits as well as struc- 
ture, but contains no reference to Dr. Whitman’s recent she on 
the land-leeches of Japan, epi noticed in these colum 
R. von Lendenfeld notices (Zool. Fahrbuch, Sha occurrence 
of Tænia ecchinococcus in Australia, and concludes, he 
culiarities of its distribution, etc., that the dingo, or ‘dative dog, 
is largely responsible for its dissemination. 
pagan: —At the meeting of the Linnzan Society of Lon- 
don a paper was read by Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, of Leiden, upon the 
rare barnacle Dichelaspis pellucida Darwin. The genus Dich- 
of the Indian Ocean. Darwin obtained his specimens from the 
scales of one of these Hydrophidz, and since his description was 
published no other specimen has been recorded until the present 
one, which was likewise ae attached to another of these snakes 
from the Mergui Archipela 
Maurice Leger desepioes ‘dhe Sci. Nat., VII., i.) two cases of 
monstrosities in the spiny lobster (Palinurus). In one instance 
the antennula of one side is terminated by three flagella, while 
in the other the fourth left thoracic foot has three branches 
arising from the coxa, each with the normal number of joints. 
In cases like these it seems difficult to draw any pa mor- 
phological conclusions, for in zoology teratology does not seem 
to have the value it has in botany. The paper is illustrated with 
a well-drawn plate. 
Garpini has a paper on the anatomy of the Cypridina, illus- 
_ trated by five plates, in the nineteenth volume of the “ Bulletin 
of the Italian Entomological Society.” The paper is chiefly 
riptive, and enters but little into comparisons. 
Birps.—The second English specimen of the Harlequin duck 
(Cosmonetta histrionica) was taken in Northumberland in Decem- 
ber last. It is normally a member of the Arctic fauna, being 
cireumpolar i in its range. 
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