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However, the “ American Naturalist’’ tells us that a careful examination of 
the papers left at the Smithsonian Institution by the late Dr. Stimpson has 
revealed the existence of the complete MSS. of his final report on the 
Crustacea of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition as far as the end of 
the Anomoura, with beautiful figures of one hundred and thirty-seven of 
the new species. It was supposed that these had perished with Dr. Stimp- 
son’s other MSS., and with the collections they described, in the great 
Chicago fire. It hopes they will soon be published. 
A New Tcenia from Rhea Americana. — At a recent meeting of the Phila- 
delphia Academy of Sciences, Dr. Chapman called the attention of the 
members to a new species of taenia which he had found in the alimentary 
canal of the Rhea Americana. According to Diesing there exists in the 
Struthio a taenia, but as no description is given he could not say whether the 
species are the same. It is very probable, however, that they are so. If 
future investigation should show this to be correct, it will offer another 
illustration of closely related forms having the same entozoa. The taenia 
from the Rhea varies from nine to ten inches in length. Its head measures 
^3 of an inch in breadth and ~ of an inch in length (to beginning of first seg- 
ment). The head is provided with four suckers. The cervical segments are 
rounded off at the articulations, but the mature ones are serrated. The geni- 
tal aperture is lateral, and alternates from side to side. Sometimes there 
will be as many as five successive segments on one side exhibiting these 
apertures, and then five will be seen on the opposite side of the next five 
successive segments. The penis could be protruded by compression, and the 
vagina readily seen. From the fact of the head being rather thickly set 
upon this species, the name Tcenia tauricollis was proposed for it. 
The Mammals of the Assyrian Sculptures. — The Rev. W. Houghton, who is 
a well-known contributor to this journal, recently read a paper on the above 
subject before the Society of Biblical Archaeology (May 2, 1876). Beginning 
with the order Quadrumana, Mr. Houghton said two species were repre- 
sented. He referred to the absurdly human appearance of the monkeys of 
the sculptures : the face is that of a man with a fringe of whiskers round it 
neatly trimmed, but one figure more true to nature indicates the species of 
monkey — viz., Presbyter entellus , the Hoonuman of India, or some closely 
allied species. There was also another species, the Macacus Silenus. The Assy- 
rian word for monkey was u-du-mu, the same as the Hebrew, word Adam , 
“ a man ; ” compare our 11 anthropoid ape.” Of the order Ferce there are 
mentioned the lion, the hyena (in Accadian Lig-bar-ra 7 “striped dog”) ; the 
bear, Ursus syriacus, especially as being of various colours, and the leopard. 
Other wild animals were the hare, Lepus sinaiticus ( ka-zin-na , u face of the 
-desert ”) ; the wild bull, which was clearly a Bos and not a Bubalus, most 
probably Bos primi genius of the tertiary period; the wild goat (Capra sinaitica ), 
-the Asiatic steinboc or ibex; the wild sheep (Caprovis orientalis ), the wild 
•deer ( Cervus mesopotamicus ), and other species, Cervus elaphus and Cervus 
Maral, or Persian deer ; the gazelle (G. Dorcas ) ; the wild ass (Equus hemip - 
pus) ; the elephant (Elephas indicus) ; the rhinoceros, or, as it is called on the 
black obelisk of Shalmaneser, u the ox from the river Saceya ;” and the wild 
boar (Sus sci'ofa). 
