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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Kolliker notes the general distribution among the Annelids 
of the bacillar corpuscles described by ClaparMe and other 
observers. These bodies are always contained in cells of cha- 
racteristic aspect^ found usually in the branchiae or locomotive 
appendages. Similar cells, without rod-like corpuscles or other 
specialized contents, have been observed by Kolliker in various 
species of Polynolij in Psammathe fusca, and an undetermined 
Nereid. Cells containing corpuscles he describes from SpfuBVO- 
dorum peripatus, Aonxs foUosa, and Phyllodoce, tlie cells or their 
contents presenting, in each case, slight peculiarites. But in no 
instance could a thread be detected within the corpuscles. Kol- 
liker considers that these structures partake of the nature of 
unicellular glands. 
The same investigator sums up the results of a number of 
observations on the sensory organs with which the integument 
is furnished in several Polychcata. These occur as variously 
formed hairs or papillae, to which nerves are supplied — the 
modification of tactile function which each subserves being, in 
all probability, modified by its special position. 
Claparede contributes a memoir on the Polychceta of Port 
Vendres, situate at the foot of the Pyrenees, on the shores of 
the Mediterranean, He describes about thirty new species, 
five of which belong to as many genera. Amended diagnoses 
of several previously known genera are suggested. The author 
also touches on other genera and species hitherto imperfectly 
characterized or made the subject of controversy. All the 
Annelids described in this memoir are littoral. The author^s 
researches, undertaken during the summer of 1863, were 
unhappily interrupted by illness. They form, nevertheless, a 
valuable contribution to the literature of the subject. 
Ehlers distinguishes the following families of Nereidea:- 
Amphinomea, Sav. 
Chrysopetalea. 
Aphroditea, Sav. s. str. 
Phyllodocea, Gr. s. str. 
Alciopea. 
Hesionea, Gr. 
Syllidea; Gr. 
Eunicea, Gx\ 
Lycoridea, Gr. 
Nephthydea, Gr. 
Glycerea, Gr. 
The new family Chrysopetalea is thus characterized : — 
Chrysopetalea, Ehlers. Prestomium conspicuously furnished with eyes 
and tactile appendages ; the peristomimn with tactile cirri the hody-somites 
with similar appendages j palpi on the hack of each segment. 
Besides his new genus, Chry sop et alum, Ehlers would refer to 
this family Paleanotus and Bhawania of Schmarda. Here, 
also, he places (with a query) Palmyra (Sav.), which, with 
Kinberg, he excludes from the Aphroditea. Kinberg^s division 
of the Aphroditea into six subfamilies (Aphroditacea, Iphionea, 
Polynoina, Acdetea, Siyalioaina, and Pholoidea) he seems disposed 
