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ZOOLOGICAL LlTEllATOllE. 
ADELARTimOSOMATA. 
PlIALANGID/E. 
‘ Lucas notices the discovery by Lespes in the cave of L’llerm/near Foix, 
of an Arad) ni do icinaihable for tlie great development of its cheliccra and 
the peculiar formation of the last joints of these organs. He proposes to 
describe it as forming a new genus under the name of Lhermia simiipcs. 
Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1806, p. xliv. 
Scotolcmon querilhad^ sp. n., Lucas, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4*^ sCr. tome vi. 
p. 210, pi. 3. fig. 1, from caverns in the department of the Tarn. 
ClIELIPERIDAi. 
F. Low notices his having found 2 specimens of Clielifer loideri (Koch) 
adhering symmetrically to the hind legs of a TJlidia erythropldhalma (Fall.). 
One of them repeatedly resumed its position on the legs of the fly after being 
partially narcotized with ether. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. in Wien, xvi. p. 944. 
Tlie occurrence of 6 and 8 Chelifers upon house-flies is noticed byS. Stevens. 
Proc. Ent. Soc. 1806, p. xxvii. ^ . 
ACAEINA. 
Giebel has published (Zeitschr. ges. Naturw. xxiii. pp. 306-371) Nitzsch’s 
manuscript observations on the Acarina infesting the feathers of certain birds. 
The notices indicate the general characters of the parasites and the special 
mode of their occurrence, but none of the species are named. The number 
of species of birds referred to is 24, scattered through all orders. 
C. PoBEUTSON has described a minute parasitic species of this order 
found by him in the veins and other parts of the circulatory system of the 
pigeon. In general form the species somewhat resembles the parasite found 
by Montagu in the cellular tissue of the gannet, and named by him Cellidaria 
bassani. Journ. Micr. Sci. n. s. vi. pp. 201-203, cum.Jigg. 
B]-:ck records the occurrence of an Acaride, probably a Cheyletus^ which 
produces eggs agamically. He obtained three generations in about five 
months ; all tlie individuals produced were females. Trans. Micr. Soc. Lond. 
xiv. pp. 30-34, pi. 0 ; also Zoologist, 1806, pp. 230-240. 
Ehrenbehg notices the occurrence of mites (Tyroglypims domestieus) in 
abundance within vessels containing the strongest acetic acid. Sitzungsber. 
Ges. naturf. Freunde zu Berlin, February 10, 1804. 
Ilydrachna glohosa. Lucas mentions the occurrence of pupae of this species 
in considerable numbers attached to the abdomen of Dyttcus marginalis be- 
neath the wings. The beetles were taken near Metz, and as many as T2 of 
the ITydrachnce were found attached to a single beetle. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 
1800, p. x. 
Phytopus vitis, sp. n., H. Landois, Zeitschr. fiir wiss. Zool. xiv. p. 363, 
taf. 30-32, causing a peculiar deformity of the leaves of the vine. 
TAHDIGBADA. 
11. GiiEEFE (Arch, mikrosk. Anat. ii. pp. 102-131) publishes an 
elaborate memoir upon the animals of the genns MacrobiotuSj 
preccclecl by an historical summary of our knou^leclge of the Tar- 
