500 
VERMES. 
III. mSCOPHORA. 
Veruill, a. E. Synopsis of the North American Fresh- water Leeches. 
In BairtVs Report of the U. S. Oomm. of Fisheries for 1872-1873, 
pp. 000-080. 
New species; — Macrohdella {Philohdella, &u\)g. u.) floridana, p. 009 
(Florida) ; Scmiscolex grandis, p. 072 (Connecticut, Michigan, &c.) ; 
Clepsine occidentalism p. 685 (Colorado) ; Ichihyohdella milnerim p. 687 
(Michigan). The same author contributes a list of leeches in F. V. 
Hayden's Report of the U. S. Geological & Geographical Survey of the 
Territories, 1874, p. 623. 
Hirudo lineata (0. F. Miill.), formerly erroneously considered to be a 
Clepsine, is a species of Nephelis, and probably = N. quadristriata, Gr. ; 
Buddelund, Fork. Sk. Naturf. xi. pp. 424 & 425. 
IV. TURBELLARIA. 
1. Dieck, G. Beitrage zur Entwickelungsgeschichte der Nemertinen. 
Jen. Z. Nat. viii. p. 500-521, pi. xviii. & xix. 
2. Graff, L. Zur Kenntniss der Turbellarien. Z. wiss. Zool. xxiv. 
pp. 123-100, pis. xiv.-xix. 
3. Hallez, P. Sur les glandes accessoires m5,les de quelques auimaux 
et sur le role physiologique de leurs produits. CR. Ixxix. pp. 47 & 
48 (abstract in R. Z., 3, ii. p. li.) 
4. Hubrecht, a. a. W. Aanteekeningen over de Anatomie, histologie 
en ontwikkelingsgeschiedenis van eenige Nemertinen. Utrecht ; 
1874, (Diss. inaug.) 58 pp. 3 pis. 
6. Macintosh, W. G. A monograph of the British Annelids. Pt. I. 
The Nemerteans (1873), pp. 1-98, pis. i.-x. [The portion issued in 
1874 has not yet been seen by the Recorder.] 
6. WiLLEMOfis-SuHM, R. VON. On a land-Nemertean found in the Ber- 
mudas. Ann. N. H. (4) xiii. pp. 409-411, pi. xvii. 
The first portion of Macintosh's monograph of the British Nemer- 
teans contains some introductory chapters (habits, food, &c.), a review of 
the scientific history of the group, and the anatomy of the Anopla^ after 
the author’s own researches, though with frequent critical references to 
his predecessors. 9 plates give splendid illustrations of the 27, species 
among the 31 recognized as British. A more detailed account of the 
work is unavoidably deferred. Of the species figured, the following are 
new: — Tetrastemma rohertiance, pi. iii. fig. 1 ; LineUs lactens (Mont., MS.), 
pi. V. fig. 3 ; Micmra fusca, pi. vi. figs. 3 & 4 ; Borlasia elizahetluem pi. vii. 
fig. 1 ; Ainphiponis hastatus, pi. viii. fig. 2j A. hioculalus, ibid. fig. 3. 
Hubrecht (4) describes the anatomy and histology of the dermo- 
muscular layer, of the trunk (proboscis) and its including sac, of the 
digestive tube, the vascular and nervous systems, and the reproductive 
