1058 General Notes. [October, 
which appears to be formed by the union of two——M. Poirier 
and Rochebrune have carefully described Lophobdella quatrefagesi, 
a hirudinean which resides in the mouth of Crocodilus vulgaris, 
cataphractus and leptorhynchus, and also upon the lingual papil- 
læ of Gymnoplax egyptiacus and in the pouch of Pelecanus cris- 
pus and onocrotalus. 
Mollusks —Dr. Carl Grobben contributes to the Arbeiten aus 
dem Zo6l. hist. Univ. Wien, 1883, the results of his studies of the 
urinary and generative organs as well as of the body-cavity of the 
Cephalopoda. Herr Von Vincenz Hilber (Sitz. der Ki 
Akad. der Wiss. Wien, 1883) describes the land-snails of China, 
gathered by Ludwig V. Loezy, geologist of Count Szechenyis 
expedition. Twenty species are detailed, of which eleven are 
given as new. The memoir is accompanied by a complete bibli- 
ography. 
logues the species found in the Baltic and North seas. Thirteen 
species, in eight genera, are enumerated, including a 
virens, nov. gen, and sp. In another article in the same issue © 
Müller describes Longipedina paguri, a copepod which resides in 
d 
of the heads of both, from above, below, and laterally r pt 
examples of A. cinerea, from various parts of Spain and Po oi à 
as well as from Morocco, were examined, and the species 1S 
of which is evident, is common at Smyrna, when the T yi 
examined were collected, and Dr. Bedriaga believes that 
prove to be really A. strauchi, The skull and soft parte ot 
Naja has been found in Tunis, A fine example 1.55” long W% 
taken by M. Valery-Mayet at the well of El-Aia. : the 
. Mammals.—M, Paul Albrecht, in a communication pane 
Anthropological Society of Brussels, describes the. Fossett 
fossette ” of the skull of mammals. He finds that this and 
Situated between the right and left cerebellar papers 
marked externally by a protuberance, is common to vi marst- 
general. M. Albrecht has found it in the monotreme > detik 
Pials, edentates, ungulates, Cetacea, Sirenia, Carnivora, pe skull 
Insectivora, bats, and most monkeys. The thickness ws 
