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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
is among the Carnivorous Mammalia that Tanice abound. Dr. 
Krabbe had the opportunities of consulting the specimens of 
Eudolphi and Creplin, as well as those described by Wedl. He 
describes many new species, and gives excellent illustrations of 
the more characteristic portions of each species. There is also 
appended (p. 352) a list of the 112 birds examined, with a list of 
the Tanue found in each, and a list of authors on the subject. 
MHntosh, W. C. On the structure of the British Nemerteans 
and some new British Annelids. Trans. Boy. Soc. Edin. 
vol. XXV. pp. 305-433, pis. 4-16. 
The first part of this memoir is an important contribution to 
our knowledge of the anatomy of the Nemertean worms. 
Melnikow, N. Ueber die Jugendzustande der Tcenia cucume- 
rina. Ai’chiv f. Naturg. xxxv. 1. Bd. pp. 62-70, Taf. 3. 
Metschnikoff, E. Bemarques sm' les Echinoderes. Bull, de 
TAcad. Imp. des Science de St. Petersbourg, tome xiv. No. 4, 
pp. 351-353, Sept. 1869. 
Points out some mistakes in Greeff^s paper on Echinoderes, 
and mentions that some of the details given by GreefF of Des- 
moscolex and Trichoderma were as interesting as novel. 
•. Studien iiber die Entwickelung dcr Ncmcrtiiien. Mem. 
Acad. Imp. d. Sc. St. Petersbourg, t. xiv. No. 8, 1869, 
pp. 49-65, tab. 9. 
This is the latter portion of a memoir, by the same author, on 
the development of the Echinoderms. 
Schneider, A. Noch ein Wort iiber die Muskelii der Ne- 
rnatoden. Zeitschr. f. wissensch. Zoologie, xix. Bd. 2. Heft, 
Juli 1869, pp. 284-286. 
Steenstrup, Jap. Om Jord-Fladormens (Planaria terrestris, 
O. F. M.) Forekomst i Danmark. Videnskab. Meddel. fra 
den Naturhist. For. Kjobenhavn, 1869, pp. 189-194. 
On the recent occurrence of P. terrestris in Denmark. 
Willemoes-Suhm, B. von. Helminthologische Notizen. Zeit- 
schr. f. wissensch. Zoologie, xix. Bd. 3. Heft, 6 Sept. 1869, 
pp. 469-475, Taf. 35. 
1. On the development of Schistocephalus dhnorphus, Creplin. 
2. On an hermaphrodite of Ascaris heteroura, Crep. 3. On the 
genus Ophiostomum, Bud. 
Cestoidea. 
Krabbe (/. c.) describes the following new species : — 
Tcenia socialis, p. 258, figs. 1, 2, from Uria troito\ T, sternina, p. 259, figs. 
7,8,9, from Sterna macroura\ T. dudecacautha, p. 261, figs. 11, 15, from 
Larus mimUus j T. luriucij p. 261, figs. 16, 17, from Laras tridaclylus \ T, mi- 
