32 Oral Information on the Origin of the Gorkhas. 
went to Kaskee ; a second to Suthoon ; a third to Pyoong ; and 
the eldest remained at Newacote. 2 | 
Any information connected with these mountaineers may be con- 
sidered interesting, from the uncouthness and peculiarities of the 
people, as well as from the obscurity in which their early history is 
involved. 
Barry’s Hote, 17th June 1829. 

SCIENTIFIC REVIEWS. 
Crustacés de la Micdatcrarmmaces et de son Littoral, decrits et Li- 
thographées par PouyporE Roux, Conservateur du Cabinet 
d’ Histoire Naturelle de la Ville de Marseille. Levrault, Paris, 
1828. 
Tuts work is well conceived ; for much advantage is derived to 
natural history by the description of the productions of individual 
spots. By this means, England or France would become better- 
known, and we should have works on which more care would be 
bestowed, and more useful than these compilations which so rapidly 
succeed one another in metropolitan towns, without any benefit to 
science. The Crustacea of the shores of the Mediterranean, will be 
published in 4to., in about 36 livraisons, at six francs each. We 
have examined the first two numbers, and been much pleased with 
the general execution of the work. 
The first number contains the Lambrus Mediterraneus, (Roux ;) 
the Eurynome Aldrovandi, (of which Risso had examined the 
young,) he considers to be the same, and he also refers to it the 
Cancer Macrochelos of Herbst, figured by Aldrovandi and Seba :— 
the Calappa Granulata, Desm.; of this species, the only one of 
its genus that frequents the European seas, Mr. Risso has describ- _ 
ed a variety of a pale rose colour, with white feet, and brown nails: 
—the Amathia Rissoana, (Roux ;) our author has named this ad- 
dition to the European Crustacea after Mr. Risso: its characters 
are, testa ovato-trigona ; fronte spinis duabus discedentibus ; dorso 
tredecim-aculeato; pedibus manibusque levibus, rubescentibus ; 
corpore lutescento. ‘There is another new species, the Squilla Ce- 
risit, (Roux,) (Corpore fulvo, supra levi ; pollicibus bidentatis-; 
cauda rubra, spinosa, canaliculatd,) described from specimens 
brought from Corsica, and named after Lefebvre de Cerisy, a con- 
tinental entomologist. 
The second livraison strengthens the good opinion we had form- 
ed of the first. To the figures which the author had previously 
given, as those of the.species, and of the abdomen relative to the 
