225 JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, 
Group BEMBIDIID2. 
No. 1644 —Awnillus pallidus, n.sp.—Sub-depressed, shining, pale 
testaceous, bearing many minute sete, and short, erect, grayish 
hairs; eyes invisible. The genus has but one other species (A. 
cecus), found near Bordeaux and Toulouse. 
Length, #; breadth, + line. 
Sea Beach, Taieri—S. W. Fulton. 
REVIEW. 
Se eee) 
A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (Vertebrata). By T. Jeffery 
Parker, B. Sc. Lond., Professor of Biology in the Univer- 
sity of Otago. Macmillan and Co., 1884. 
The present volume will be welcomed alike by teachers and 
students of biology, for it supplies a long-felt want in the text- 
books of this branch of science. It aims at being a continuation 
of the zoological part of Huxley and Martin’s “ Elementary 
Biology,” the book which has contributed so largely towards the 
rapid advance of the study of biology. 
The work contains directions for the dissection of six verte- 
brate animals, viz..—The lamprey, skate, cod, lizard, pigeon, and 
rabbit. These types have been chosen not only on account of 
their importance, but also because they are, for the most part, 
readily obtainable at any time of the year. The book is, of 
course, written primarily for English students, but almost the 
whole is available for the use of students in New Zealand. The 
pigeon and rabbit are easily obtainable everywhere, and the 
description of these two types occupies more than half the volume, 
The account of the lizard may be used for the examination of 
one of the New Zealand species, and so also the description of 
the cod will serve as a sufficient guide for the study of a native 
bony fish. The New Zealand species of skate (Raja nasuta) will 
serve excellently instead of the English species, indeed part of 
the description seems to have been taken from it. A species of 
lamprey (Geotria chilensis) is found in several of our rivers, and 
may be used in place of the English species described. 
The description of each of the types is divided into two parts. 
First the skeleton is described, and then follow the directions for 
dissection, with a description of the structures exposed at each 
stage. The directions are clear and well arranged, and the 
descriptions accurate, each point of structure to be observed hav- 
ing a paragraph to itself, numbered so as to facilitate reference. 
A special account of the nervous system of the skate is added, 
as this type presents special advantages for the study of the ver- 
tebrate nervous system. The book is most admirably illustrated 
by seventy-two figures of a very useful character. Almost all of 
them are new, those illustrating the nervous and circulating sys- 
tems are specially good, though some of them present a wealth 
of details, which would show to greater advantage if the figures 
were of a somewhat larger size. 
