400 THE AMERICAN NATURALIST. [Vol. XXXVIII. 



on the mammals by J. L. Bonhote. In the considerable list of species 

 reported there are a new species of small carnivor, a new bat, a new 

 squirrel, and three new species of rats. C. Swinhoe reports on some- 

 thing over 250 species of moths, of which seventeen are new. Two 

 land planarians, one of which is new, are described by F. F. Laidlaw, 

 who also reports on the dragonflies. Three new diptera pupipara 

 are recorded by Speiser. G. A. Boulenger reports 85 species of 

 batrachians and reptiles, six of which are new. The tiger beetles 

 are described by H. C. Robinson. 



The second part contains nine short papers : four on insects, two 

 on fishes, and one each on mollusks, the mouth funnel of a tadpole, 

 and a fossil elephant tooth. In a report on the non-operculate pul- 

 monates W. E. Collinge gives a full account of the anatomy of a new 

 and very large species of Atropos ; and in J. Johnstone's paper on 

 the marine fishes, an interesting description of a new species of 

 Periophthalmus is given. Its life on the mud fiats out of water and 

 its burrows are fully described and illustrated. The fact that when 

 in the air it does not respond to the report of a gun led to the con- 

 clusion that it was absolutely deaf. Its eyesight both in water and 



The tw^o fascicles were accompanied by a supplement containing 



Davison's Anatomy of the Cat.— As an introduction to the study 

 of zoology and particularly to mammalian anatomy, Davison^ has 

 prepared an account of the anatomy of the cat. The volume, which 



torily brief and in consequence it is deficient as a description of the 

 anatomy of a type and as an introduction to comparative study. 

 Although brevity may have been the aim of the author and certain 

 defects may therefore have been unavoidable, others are present in 

 the volume for which no such excuse can be found. Thus the 

 description of the gastrocolic omentum as a dosed sac is wholly mis- 

 leading, and the grouping together of the corpora quadrigemina, 

 optic thalami, and corpora striata as basal ganglia counteracts what 

 has been gained for these bodies from the standpoint of comparative 

 anatomy. The facial nerve is placed without quahfication among 

 the pure motor nerves, and the circumvallate papillae of the tongue 

 are noted as eight to twelve in number, as in man, though the figure 

 iDavison, A. Mammalian Anatomy with special Reference to the Cat. Phila- 

 delphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 8^, xii + 250 pp., 108 figs. 



