438 General Notes. 
rupted series to the lower Lias, and that the ancestor of the liassie 
Glypheas may be recognized in the triassic species described | 
under the name of Pemphix sucuri. In the Annals and Magi- 
sine of Natural History, C. Spence Bate describes Eryonicus caais, 
a blind transparent abyssal crustacean allied to Willemeesia, and 
dredged by the Challenger in 1675 fms. off the Canaries, The 
first pair of pereiopoda are long, with a narrow slender chela, the 
dorsal surface is elevated, and the pleon folded against the ventral : 
surface of the pereion. . It has a well-developed fan-tail, and it 
life the alimentary canal is bright red and the hepatic lobes yt 
low. Mr. E. J. Miers writes on the genus Ocypoda. He ae 
mits ten-well-established species. Zhe Annals and Magazine f 
Natural History, contains a valuable article upon the Entomisciee, 
by Dr. R. Kossman. This writer asserts that, notwithstanding 
the statements of Fraisse and Giard, all the Entoniscide m 
separate sexes, and the females carry their ova in paired brood 
females reside in a sac upon the crustacean they infest, and 
only after a separation of this sac that their structure can be 
out. The Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Se for J 
be the larva of Lzmulus mollucanus (See NATUR 
292.) It is sufficiently evident from the drawing am 
that this is more probably, as the author finally believed, 
pede larva. The colors of /dotea tricuspidata are dest 
figured by C. Matzdorff in the Jenaische Zeitschrift für 
of blind subterranean Isopod and Amphipod Crustacea 
obtained from a well in New Zealand; the Isopod is re 
for having only six pairs of appendages to the seven tho 
ments, seven being the normal number. 
smail, so that it cannot climb a glass. Habitat Mexico. 
Mag. Nat. Hist.—A number of communications reS 
sea-serpents have appeared in Nature, and also in Fo 
and we have heard privately of other cases. 
they becoming that we wonder that the bones of so o a 
animal do not turn up on the sea-shore either of t * skeptic i 
World. Until these be forthcoming we shall be a w gents 
the existence of this shadowy organism——4 "eY © 
Ceecilians or blind snakes has been discovered ea of 
ganyika, East Africa, and described by G. A- Bou 
