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THE ANNALS
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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY,
INCLUDING
ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, ann GEOLOGY.
(BEING A CONTINUATION OF TIE ‘ANNALS’ COMBINED WITH LOUDON AND
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YOL. XVI.—FOURTH SERB aunsonia Institg;
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Where peril waits the bold adventurer’s tread,
The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne,
All, all to us unlock their secret stores
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CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI.
[FOURTH SERIES. }
NUMBER XCI.
I. Notes Introductory to the Study and Classification of the
Spongida. By H. J. Carrer, F.R.S. &c.—Part I. Anatomy and
ery ielareye re later Phe iis 5% aie etaeye& » pierre chores) eave nuele ern etn cates ere
II. On the Development of the Caleispongie. By Ex1as Mrerscu-
NT OMRG) CE IAPOAL)) have: oroiniaserarei~ syareiote otpselire ate diate eyerstas: eleieetei ayy
III. Note on an apparently new Parrot from Cardwell, N.E. Aus-
tralia. By Freprrick M‘Coy, Professor of Natural Science in the
WW macerteys OL NUCID OUTING, in sser0e aie atejese ieiviers aires syevgord male s(min 6 96
IV. Additions to the Australian Cureulionide.—Part VIII. By
ERANGCISs, Pasco, BLS. ce. 3 (Plated ie sic «sere deinen safe up oe >
V. Descriptions of some new Shells from Kerguelen’s Island. By
Epear A. Smiru, F.Z.8., Zoological Department, British Museum,
VI. Descriptions of new Species of Crustacea collected at Kergue-
len’s Island by the Rev. A. KE. Eaton, By Epwarp J. Mrrrs, Zoolo-
gical Department, British Museum «0. 0c he cece ee ences
VII. On Hyalonema cebuense. By Dr. A. B. Meyer
ooo eee neee
On the Fauna and Flora of Kerguelen’s Island (a letter addressed
to the French Minister of Foreign Affairs), by M. Lanen; On
Androgynous Diptera, by Dr. Loew; The Blind Fish and some
of the associated Species of the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, pro-
bably of Marine Origin, by Mr. F, W. Putnam; Note on Veo-
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balena marginata...... Hi size) Gua ave aleceley MO MStarS AW 6: Cacelecern sis 78—80
lv CONTENTS.
NUMBER XCIl.
Page
VIII. On the Position of Sagitta, and on the Convergence of Types
by Pelagic Life. By M. A. GIARD .......ceeeeeseeerees adds 81
IX. Observations on the Genus Platycrinus. By Fort-Major
THOMAS AUSTIN, F.G.S. 40 fis decas neernesu dems yes Raine hoe 90
X. List of the Species of the Homopterous Genus Hemispherius,
with Descriptions of new Forms in the Collection of the British
Museum. By Arrour Garpiner Butirr, F.LS., F.Z.8., Xe.
(Plato EV): ai nics os once de oo vein od wpa lee ebaieya aie etter ete 92
XI. On a Tertiary Pleurotomaria. By FreprericK M‘Coy, Pro-
fessor of Natural Science in the University of Melbourne.......... 101
XII. A List of the Gasteropoda collected in Japanese Seas by
Commander H. C. St. John, R.N. By Epear A. Smira, F.Z.8.,
Zoological Department, British Museum...........00eeeeeeeeees 103
XIII. Descriptions of three additional Species of Crustacea from
Kerguelen’s Land and Crozet Island, with Remarks upon the Genus
Paramera. By Epwarp J. Miers, Zoological Department, British
MuseiMIy Sites os > Sieitte! stegeiste ayers ne unsiatcncteere ats iatele’ atoiat toning. asi 116
XIV. Description of a new Species of Solenella from South Pata-
gona, By HpG a As SMTP SN IZ20, ., ss «mls» viayelai erates etm naman merece 118
XV. On the Embryogeny of Lamellaria perspicua. By M. A.
(GTA BID ate. 0 sche size wae ikiel O ote oye aero epecss eae o ehie aie eee 119
XVI. Description of a very large Species of Scotophilus from
Western Africa. By G. E. Dopson, M.A., M.B.......... ican 122
XVII. Gigantic Squid on the West Coast of Ireland. By A. G.
Mors, Assistant Naturalist in the Museum of the Royal Dublin
OCOD Fa scrrieeke Wee c soe alas wtne hiamobane Sse eee elalaneits a ce lwinne oe eee 123
XVIII. Notice of two new Species of Mammals (Propithecus and
Hemicentetes) from Madagascar, By Dr. ALBERT GUNTHER, F.R.S.
LOE RE Cac POR ee pact RARE Ince RRMA OLGER REPRE NEE GS Gon Siciac oy 8 125
XIX. Notes Introductory to the Study and Classification of the
Spongida. By H. J. Carrer, F.R.S, &e.—Part II. Proposed Clas-
sification Of the Sponsida .\.”... S'crejqn «cle dela s tvs ba ale behaves ee 126
On the Occurrence of a Superorbital chain of Bones in the Arboricole
(Wood-Partridges), by James Wood-Mason, of Queen’s College,
Oxford ; On the Helminthological Fauna of the Coasts of Brit-
tany, by M. A. Villot; On the Action of Borax in Fermentation
and Putrefaction, by M. J.-B. Schnetzler ; Investigation of the
Phenomema of Digestion in Insects, by M. Félix Plateau; On
the Stracture and the Development of the Sting and Ovipositor
of some Hymenoptera and of Locusta viridissima, by Dr. H.
102) Th Aine oP PRATHER Cr hiro tae rtl Wine So ey 145—154
CONTENTS. Vv
NUMBER XCIII.
XX. On the Primary Origin of the Sexual Products. By M.
EE QRMGANN EOL terres etelaeateetcleon cuenta cvectedsecoserees son's 157
Page
XXI. Note on Entomostraca from Kerguelen’s Land and the
South Indian Ocean. By Grorer Srrwarpson Brapy, C.M.Z5S.,
Professor of Natural History in the College of Physical Science,
IN Grp SEL GOTT EVTG 5) sos sso a. n/c: a xpeiscla wie's oye! uefanel o's Srenesto tn an isha en/ie 162
XXII. Revision of the Subfamily Pericopiine of the Lepidopterous
Family Arctiide, with Descriptions of new Species. By ARTHUR
GARDINER BUTLER, F.L.S., FiZS., &Gi -. evs ice wne sence ecc eens 165
XXIII. Notes Introductory to the Study and Classification of the
Sponpida. » By H. J. Cantmm, FURS. Ger eco ta cee ee 177
XXIV. Descriptions of two new Species of Marginellide from the
Cape-Verd Islands. By EpGar A. Smiru, F.Z.8., Zoological De-
partment, Britich® Misedmts sf. S015 een dete see stele e sen hae = ween 200
XXV. Brief Observations on the Anatomy of Comatula. By C.
Semper. With an Addendum by W. B. Carventer, M.D., LL.D.,
MOOEG iptee Contd Var aheiav ee EM cick vine eoetstale © Aiale alge extoesseumenbeteraiate 202
XXVI. Descriptions of New Genera and Species of New-Zealand
Coleoptera—Part I. By Francis P. Pasconr, F.LS. &c. (Plate
Be ste tetas ties acetate ecw eRe Wiad roast uta a aie «Wt Sranaess ica s 1a scat ete 210
XXVII. On a new Sponge of the Genus Luffaria, from Yucatan,
in the Liverpool Free Museum. By THomas Hieern, of Huyton.
EATON Vals ioe stale (eave Wista nik Su kloee ania aint viele see talons « mista Wie 223
XXVIII. Description of a new Species of Pigeon from the Karen
Hills. By Artuur, Viscount WALDEN, P.Z.S., F.R.S. ......06-- 228
XXIX. Descriptions of some Leporine Mammals from Central
Asia by rir ArHnn® GUNTER EUS. Gi sa o's soccer sees nese 228
XXX. Description of a new areas of Taphozous from Labuan.
ByGe .Wospan, NAMB, FSU. G&G). oc cea toca sable ees 232
Descriptions of two new Species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the
Family Arctiide, by A. G. Butler, F.L.S. &e.; Lacerta muralis
cerulea—a Contribution to the Darwinian Theory, by Dr.
Theodor Eimer; New Tertiary Plewrotomaria, by Frederick
M‘Coy; Note on the Larva of a Longicorn Beetle (Clytus quadri-
punctatus, Fabr.), by Chas. O. Waterhouse ; Note on Cossypha
pyrrhopygia, Hartlaub, by R. Bowdler Sharpe, F.Z.S8, &ce. 288—236
NUMBER XCIV.
XXXI. Notes and Descriptions of some new and rare British Spi-
ders. By the Rev. O. P. Campriner, M.A., C.M.Z.S. (Plate
XXXII. Descriptions of new Species of Vespertiionide. By G.
Bec lesOn NL Aa NEES... Eig O00: 55 oui s cen 'og ues va bao sal, LOO
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XXXIII. Descriptions of new Species of Geckotide in the British-
Museum Collection. By A. W. E, O'Suaueuyressy, Assistant in
the Departments of Natural History ..........0sscccesecsences 262
XXXIV. Notice of the Occurrence of another Gigantic Cephalopod
(Architeuthis) on the Coast of Newfoundland, in December 1874.
By As Be VigRREii 6 | Lio ote Sige ion sere at oe tae weet Beet eats 266
XXXV. On a new Genus and some new Species of Graptolites
from the Skiddaw Slates. By H. AtteynE Nicuo son, M.D., D.Sc.,
F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History in the University of St.
Andrews,..(Plate ViDE.)<..s,. 2.-t010,) «iuthesetectie he nlelege ol cate eee 269
XXXVI. On the Structure of Amphicentrum granulosum, Huxley.
By Ramsay H. Traquarr, M.D., F.G.S., Keeper of the Natural-
History Collections in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art.
(Gace ©.) Baa AG ania Siac OSI far OIA IA Ura DAWN Nie a 273
XXXVII. Descriptions of some new Asiatic Mammals and Che-
lonia. By Joun ANDERSON, M.D., Calcutta...........0.c.eeees 282
XXXVIII. Further Contributions to the Ornithology of Australia.
Evie OREN 1G OM) EES. oa" «sche Sis, 5:1 sini a) gels (ois! aise envene @] rane enone 285
Proceedings of the Royal Society ..........00cceeeereennecccacs 287
On a new intermediate Type of the Subkingdom Vermes (Poly-
gordius ?, Schneider), by M. Edmond Perrier; On the Develop-
ment of the Spinules in the Scales of Gobius niger (Linn.), by ——
M. L, Vaillant; On the Larval Forms of the Bryozoa, by M. J.
Barrois; On the Migrations and Metamorphoses of the Marine
Endoparasitic Trematodes, by M. A. Villot; Bathybius .. 295—3804
NUMBER XCV.
XXXIX. Contributions to the Study of the chief Generic pA
of the Paleozoic Corals. By JamMEs THomson, F.G.S., and H.
ALLEYNE Nicnotrson, M.D., D.Se., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural
History in the University of St. Andrews .........+.seeeusseees 305
XL. Descriptions of new Mammalia from Persia and Baltchistan.
By Wi (BURN ORD, HOES. 1. o65 ci vive soos + o.2's chneminlahelnln ieieteigts 309
XLI. Descriptions of new Species of New-Zealand Fish. By F.
W. Hutton, Curator of the Otago Museum .........0eseeeeeees 313
XLII. On a new Genus and Species of Trap-door Spider from
South Africa. By the Rev. O. P, Campriner, M.A., C.M.ZS., &e.
(Plite 2X5) inet ee tae spotele wists fe er detate mae desnuchs wa suckers elielatehy ctee niaiaee 317
XLIII. On the true Nature of the so-called “Bathybius,” and
its alleged Function in the Nutrition of the Protozoa, By G. C.
WiALEr CH, MOD). 2, roves er cycttiey ste rsusieis acs Giese kesaols eas a) esata 322
XLIV. Description of a supposed new Actinwra from the Dafla
Hills. By Major H. H. Gopwiy-Avsren, F.R.G.S., F.Z.S., &c.,
Deputy Superintendent, Topographical Survey of India .......... 339
CONTENTS. Vil
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XLY. On some new or undescribed Species of Crustacea from
the Samoa Islands. By Epwarp J. Miers, Zoological Department,
British Museum 341
©) Aare) ® es A) a. ae » a oe Rie are) De 8,8 8) By a) alice 0.8.80 ele 6:0 ae vs e086
XLVI. Description of a new Species of T'richoglossus from Fiji.
By E. L. Layarp, Esq., F.Z.S., Consul for Fiji and Tonga ........ 344
XLVII. Conspectus of the Suborders, Families, and Genera of
Chiroptera, arranged according to their Natural Affinities. By G.
Pr desen, MEA. MiB. Luss, GG Suis Ga cabias wey sinters 345
XLVIII. On the “Cow-fish ” ( Twrsio metis) of the Sounds on the
West Coast of Otago, New Zealand. By F. W. Hurron, Curator
of the, Otago Museum, Danedinit.isiciiccctl. ale ses Seales ited baa 307
XLIX. On the Geological Structure of the Amazons Valley. By
FLOPS OPP AMES OREON «5 0c giacafe's + d)enel so Sie as nik ated ok erala b-oanowie 359
L. Note on Linotrypane apogon. By W.C. M‘IntosH ......,. 369
LI. On a new Species of the Genus Eupetomena. By Joun
RFC OME EUS) citVhiiacte- 34 ove ohn stokaptiaal eA ee ca teele, POSTS Soe as 370
New Book :—Figures of Characteristic British Fossils, with Descrip-
tive Remarks, by W. H. Baily, F.L.S., F.G.S., &. &c. Part IV. 371
On some Lepidoptera with Terebrant Trunks, destructive of Oranges,
by M. J. Kunckel; Corals at the Galapagos Islands, by L. F.
Pourtalés ; On the Development of the Pulmonate Gasteropoda,
ENE UIOL ys ave raiaituiace ae shee nor ciaigieicie ene! sides alee sd 372—376
NUMBER XCVI.
LIZ. On a Young Specimen of Pelagonemertes Rollestoni. By H.
N. MosExey, Naturalist on board H.M.S. ‘Challenger.’ (Plate XI.) 377
LIII. On three new and curious Forms of Arachnida. By the
Rev. O. P. CamBrincE, M.A., C.M.Z.S., Hon. Memb. N.Z. Inst.
PEPE racy. tarctsitiieiataalas wceaie areneree we st Ales Fs Os ee ee elnoe 383
LIV. North-Sea Dredging. By Joun Lrcxensy, F.G.S., and
pie Tem UNEEREE AT Tadsye 8c cars iees) se" vic) wisi.o axel SPmtanioune «wai tteraner rade aoe oak 390
LV. On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Southern Africa, with
Descriptions of new Genera and Species. By ARTHUR GARDINER
Herc Ree Eeleraeyen dl Arse wOE Cs «| «) «01 asa er oheceteet slabetalavelels sha Bidets. o.«,eeeee 394
LVI. Relation of the Canal-System to the Tubulation in the
Foraminifera, with reference to Dr. Dawson’s ‘ Dawn of Life.’ By
ERP, CLA eB Ss O0C a gore ele wo, oe new blere olen ole @ sale ne eee 420
LVII. Contributions to the Study of the chief Generic Types
of the Paleozoic Corals. By James THomson, F.G.S., and H.
ALLEYNE Nicuotson, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural
History in the University of St. Andrews. (Plate XII.).......... 424
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LVIII. On the Bower-birds of Australia, with the Description of
a new Species. By JoHN GouLD, FLRS. .. 0... cece eee eee eee 429
New Books:—The Micrographic Dictionary, a Guide to the Exami-
nation and Investigation of the Structure and Nature of Micro-
scopic Objects, by J. W. Griffith, M.D. &c., and Arthur Henfrey,
F.RS., F.LS., &c., Third Edition, edited by J. W. Griffith
and Professor Martin Duncan.—A Monographic Revision and
Synopsis of the Trichoptera of the European Fauna, by Robert
MTiachlam: os vinnie cvign 2.0.0 taahenn giro a rae aaa 430, 452
On the Development of the Heteropoda, by M. H. Fol; On the
Sexual Reproduction of the Vorticellians, by M. Balbiani; The
Effect of the Glacial Epoch upon the Distribution of Insects in
North America, by Aug. R. Grote, A.M.; On the Reproduction
of the Hels, by Ms\@. Dareste a3. ije Sines yes eine © 5m 435—443
PLATES IN VOL. XVI.
Puate I. New Genera and Species of Australian Curculionide.
II. Development of the Calcispongie.
IlI. Forms of Spongida.
IV. Tegmina of Hemispheerius.
V. New Genera and Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera.
VI. Luffaria Archeri.
VII. New Graptolites.
VIII. New and rare British Spiders.
IX. Structure of Amphicentrum granulosum.
X. Mogeridgea Dyeri.
XI. Pelagonemertes Rollestoni.
XII. Amplexus and Zaphrentis.
XIII. New Forms of Arachnida.
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MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
[FOURTH SERIES. }
Ne eencer enn cores son per litora spargite museum,
Naiades, et circtim vitreos considite fontes:
Pollice virgineo teneros hic carpite flores:
Floribus et pictum, diva, replete canistrum.
At vos, o Nymphz Craterides, ite sub undas;
Ite, recurvato variata corallia trunco
Vellite muscosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas
Ferte, Dee pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo.”’
WV. Parthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1.
No. 91. JULY 1875.
I.—Notes Introductory to the Study and Classification of
the Sponcipa. By H. J. Carrer, F.R.S. &e.
Part I. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY.
[Plate HI.]
Prefatory Remarks. -
In prefacing these “ Notes” with a few observations, the
first thing that occurs to me, as a spongologist, is that I have
lost my lexicographer by the death of the late Dr. J. E.
Gray, of the British Museum. With him perished my lexi-
con, my aider and abettor in the study—in short, my kind and
dear friend, whose heart overflowed with humanity, and whose
imperishable works testify to one of the most active and saga-
cious intellects that ever existed. Alas! how little consolation
is there in this statement !
These ‘ Notes” will be divided into Three Parts, the con-
tents of which will be respectively as follows :—
1. The Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongida.
2. A proposed Classification of the Spongida into Orders,
Suborders, and Families.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 1
2 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
3. A further Division into Subfamilies, Genera, and Species
so far as our knowledge extends; to which will be added a
shoyt commentary.
As regards the First Part, this is almost entirely abridged
from my own observations, which have been long since pub-
lished in the pages of the ‘Annals’ cx eaxtenso; hence my
former papers will be constantly referred to, for supplying
more extended and more satisfactory information than can be
embodied in an introduction.
The Second and Third Parts rest chiefly on my study and
arrangement of the general and private collections at the
British Museum, where every specimen has been microscopically
examined and the microscopical elements delineated, and will
include in addition rough sketches and preliminary descriptions
of the most typical and striking specimens, together with the
register-number of the specimen and my own private running
number, which has also been attached. This of course has
been a work of patience and time rather than one of difficulty ;
but it has led to a general acquaintance with the Spongida which
could not otherwise have been obtained, at the same time that
it has enabled me to make the classification given hereafter,
which I found absolutely necessary before I could put the
general collection at the British Museum into any kind of
order that might be practically useful.
In my General Arrangement, so far as orders and sub-
orders are concerned the way to me was clear; but I
cannot say so much for the families, and still less for the
subfamilies, genera, and species, which require a far wider
range of specimens in much better condition than those which
I have had at my command, although probably the largest
and finest collection in the world. Still, from what is here-
after stated, it will be seen that we may have to wait so long
for the latter that it is desirable to begin with what we possess,
correcting the errors as more and better specimens are accumu-
lated, since the characters which I have assigned as the limit
to a group to-day appear to be often upset by a new specimen
examined on the morrow ; hence the late Dr. Gray was wont
to observe respecting the Spongida, that “ an accurately illus-
trated description of a species is the best contribution that can
be made to the subject in its present state.”
Our knowledge of the Spongida is altogether in its infancy ;
and hence I have called my observations ‘ Notes,” viewing
them only as preparatory to what hereafter may become
entitled to a more comprehensive term—at the same time
seeing that it is necessary to make a beginning!
Again, as regards arrangement, I have availed myself,
and Physiology of the Spongida. 3
according to my need, of what others have done before me, just
as the devotees of one religion that follows another not only
make use of parts of the ritual of the foregoing religion, but
also the material of its edifices to aid in promulgating their
views, without acknowledging either one or the other. At
least, such may be seen in the East; and the policy of this
course is evident and permissible if the means are justified by
the end. There is, however, this difference, viz. that I do not
omit the acknowledgment from want of inclination, but from
want of time and to avoid confusing the reader.
Further, it should be remembered that this proposed Classi-
fication is not to be viewed as a dictionary in which a small
_ amount of preliminary knowledge is required to serve its
purpose, nor as a Classification that has been undergoing re-
vision for centuries. Every one knows that a mariner almost
always waits for a pilot to steer his vessel into port; and so
it is with classifications. A general knowledge may enable
the student to master the larger divisions, but when he arrives
at the smaller ones a much more intimate acquaintance is
required to guide him to the object he may wish to obtain.
There is no “ royal road,” as it is termed, to this; and if, for
instance, in an old and continually revised botanical classifica-
tion this is necessary, how much more so is it in a classification
of which there is only an attempt to lay the foundation.
Lastly, the subject is actually repulsive from its difficulties (as
will be seen hereafter) ; but one who is determined never takes
this into consideration : in short, as an old friend used to say
to me, ‘‘ When you are tired, then is the time to exert yourself
if you wish to get beyond others; for this is the point where
most people stop, and it is astonishing how little further will
then place you at the head of the poll,’—which is but
“Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.”
SPONGIDA.
The term “ sponge” is so generally accepted and of such
great antiquity that it needs no excuse for preference ; but as
there are many kinds of sponges which more or less differ
from that to which the term “‘sponge”’ is commonly applied,
it is necessary to add some terminal affix by means of which
all kinds may be added under the same name. ‘Thus, if from
the Greek word o7royyos (sponge) we form a patronymic in the
neuter plural, we get “ Spongida,’’ which, meaning “ Zoa
Spongida” (for the animality of sponges is now established),
seems to me the best form that can be adopted for this purpose.
1%
a Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
It may be said to be not so applicable as the term “ Porifera,”
which has also been used for sponges; but in the promulga-
tion of knowledge of whatever kind, as well as of opinion, it
is an established principle not to scare away by new names
and new things, but to retain as much as possible of the old,
that the human mind may be tempted to receive that which
under an unaccustomed appearance it might reject. Thus
many a good system has never been generally adopted, because
it has involved an entirely new nomenclature.
A sponge, in the common acceptation of the word, is the
fibrous portion or skeleton of a pulp-like mass, and is analogous
to the fibrous skeleton or support of a vegetable whose pulpy
or soft parts have been washed or rotted away by putrefaction
(ex. gr. hemp); only, in the first instance the fibre is horny
(that is, of an animal), and in the latter woody (or of a vege-
table nature). The skeleton of the sponge of commerce 1s
resilient ; but that of many Spongida is not so; and there are
some in which it is glass-like and rigid; while in others it is
altogether wanting, there being apparently no skeleton at all,
and the whole mass, with the exception of the dendriform
plexus of the excretory canal-system, is a simple pulp.
Sponges grow only under water and in the sea, all over the
world (that is, as far as our geographical discoveries have
extended), in the torrid as well as in the frigid zones; but
as with plants and animals, so with sponges, particular ones
are only to be found in particular localities. ‘Thus the sponge
of commerce is chiefly obtained from the Levant &c.
Again, they grow on hard bodies, such as rocks, or on soft
ground, such as sand or mud: the rocks may be in deep or
in shallow water; and so may be the soft ground. When
growing on rocks, they for the most part fix themselves by
flat expansion or root-like extension to the upper or under
surface ; and when on sandy or muddy ground, by root-like
extensions alone projected into the sand or mud. When
growing on the under surface of the rock towards shore or
in submarine caverns, they may be pendent ; and this is their
wonted position and chief habitat ; but when on the ground or
on the surface of the rock, they are of course erect. Although
for the most part preferring fixed objects, some kinds are found
growing over shells which, from their kind, never could have
been stationary ; and some on the fronds of Fuci, which never
could have been still, but ever waving in the Laminarian
zone.
Again, some sponges grow both on the under and upper
surfaces of rocks respectively of this zone, others in similar
positions further out in the shallow seas, and others similarly
and Physiology of the Spongida. 5
situated in the deep seas. None of these in such positions,
therefore, can be obtained by the dredge; and it is only when
growing in such parts of the Laminarian zone that, as the tide
leaves them uncovered, they can be obtained by the hand,
unless gathered by divers from the rocks of the shallower seas,
who then restrict themselves to such species as are likely to
meet with a general and not a particular sale in commerce.
Those alone which grow on the ground can be scraped off by
the dredge or such like means; and the rest, if not obtained
directly by the hand, come to us accidentally from the parts
where they grew. ‘The latter are for the most part broken off
from their place of growth in deep water by having become
““ heady,” or too heavy to be held on by the root, or by violent
storms when growing on rocks in shallow water, after which, in
either instance, they may be carried about in the sea by currents
for a longer or shorter time, until they are finally thrown upon
the shore by the waves, wherein they become more or less
injured by trituration. Aiter stranding on the beach they may
be picked up at once and preser ved—or they may be drawn into
the sea again and again, and thus washed along the beach as
the wind changes, up and down, backwards and forwards,
buried and unburied in the sand and pebbles repeatedly, even
for years, until they come into the possession of the collector.
In the first instance more or less of the flesh or soft parts
may remain upon them ; but in the second, of course, nothing
will be left but the skeleton ; and in this state, for ‘the most
part, they at last find their way into our museums, picked up,
perhaps, on some Survey by one.
“ Who loves to roam along the shore,
Where none have ever walked before.”
Hence it may be easily conceived that, such specimens
being analogous to a deciduous tree in winter, no further
description of them can be given than that which the bare
skeleton permits. Again, as it is in the deeper water (from
its stillness), and for the most part probably in submarine rock-
caverns, pendent from the roof or projecting from the sides,
that sponges attain their largest dimensions, so the larger
specimens in our museums may be assumed to have come
chiefly from these localities, and in the way and state above
mentioned. At the same time, it should be remembered that
there are several “ land-locked”” places where the sea is ever
more or less calm; and therefore the same stillness which
exists at great depths, and is so favourable to large growth,
may be found in comparatively shallow water.
Notwithstanding all this, the Laminarian zone of our coasts,
6 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
which is being beaten upon almost unremittingly by boisterous
waves, frequently in the most tempestuous weather, is crowded
with various species of Spongida, but all more or less dwarfed
from such exposure. '
Besides marine there are also freshwater sponges; and
these grow in tanks, lakes, and rivers, on rocks, branches and
roots of trees, and aquatic vegetation generally, where they
may be subject to be left uncovered and dry for several months
of the year.
ForMS THAT MAY BE ASSUMED BY SPONGES.
The forms that may be assumed by sponges are very
numerous and very different, not only in the mass, but in the
individual ; since, although a species may be recognized by the
form which it generally assumes, yet it may assume other forms
so different that it would be hazardous to decide on this alone.
Still the old practice in the description of a sponge was to
deal with the form only ; nor can we do without it now; but
the addition of the elementary composition, which came in
with the improvements of the microscope, has furnished us
with the means of correcting the mistakes to which this was
liable. Yet the absence in the Spongida of any expression
visible to the naked eye, as the flower on a plant or the calice
on a coral, will ever be commensurately disadvantageous in
the description of sponges. Indeed, as will be seen hereafter,
little is to be achieved without the aid of the microscope,
since, as before stated, the same species may assume different
forms, and unfortunately the same elementary composition
may also be accompanied by different forms, while, there being
certain classes of forms which appear to be evolved out of
each other, two species may assume the same form and there-
fore at last be only determinable by the microscope.
All this shows that the form of sponges is not less Protean
than their soft parts will hereafter be found to be; and hence
their study presents difficulties in the way of classification
and species-determination to which no other branch of natural
history is equally subject.
As, however, the means of designating sponges was origi-
nally and necessarily restricted to their forms and the likenesses
they bore to some well-known objects, this means obtained con-
siderable development; so that the following Table, although
a little differently arranged, presents very little new in this
way, and is intended to supply the student with the means
not only of determining, but of describing a sponge so far as
its general form may be concerned.
(For private use I also possess
and Physiology of the Spongida. 7
the accompanying Table of
delineations corresponding to the names in the text: Plate III.)
Table of Forms that may be assumed by Sponges.
I. Massive sessile, or spreading horizontally.
IL. Subpediculated or contracted at the base.
a. Simple.
b. Lobed.
a. Simple.
b. Lobed.
Til. Masses branched.
= a
a, Simple.
b. Lobed.
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c. Dendritic.
d. Anastomosing. {
a. Palmate. (
b. Lobed. |
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d. Patella-like. L
V. LHollow.
VOL:
a. Crateriform.
b. Vasiform.
ce. Funnel-shaped.
d, Trumpet-shaped.
e. Tubular.
Ff. Obconie.
Masses foliated.
a, Simple.
b. Lobed.
c. Plicate.
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or
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or
Compressed.
Sessile or
Stipitate.
Massive
or
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Sessile or
Stipitate.
Circular
or
Oval
or
Compressed.
Sessile or
Stipitate.
Compressed
or
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or
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or
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Sessile or
Stipitate.
Massive or compressed.
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Horizontai.
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or
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or
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proliferously.
Single
or
Grouped
or
Proliferous.
d, Proliferous.
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Observations.
Although the above Table includes most of the forms as-
sumed by sponges, still it must not be inferred that it contains
all; hence the student can add others to it at discretion.
Again, the same species, as above stated, may have several
forms. ‘Thus the massive form of a species may rise into a
bunch of digital processes; these may again become branched
into a tree-like or globular head, after which the branches may
unite laterally or by their ends anastomosingly. Or the digital
processes may be all on the same plane, simple or branched,
&e.; they might then coalesce partially, so as to present a
fenestrated or clathrous form, or, being single and straight,
might unite laterally throughout so as to assume a fan-shape.
After which the fan-shape has a tendency to assume a con-
choidal form (like that of a clam-shell) and finally, becoming
more and more concave, to meet on each side, join up, and thus
form a vase, in which there is often a hole at the bottom from
the union not being complete.
In this way a simple may pass into a complicated form, and
thus many different forms be produced from evolution (see
“ Beitrag zur Morphologie und Verbreitung der Spongien,”
von N. Miklucho-Maclay, Mém. Acad. Imp. des Sci. St.
Pétersh. 1870, ¢. xv, no. 3, Pat, 1).
CoMPOSITION OF SPONGES.
Skeleton generally.
The general structure of the skeleton is reticular ; and this
may be compact or open, tough or tender; but under this
state it may assume any of the forms above mentioned, each
of which is not always an indication of a particular species ;
for in many instances the same species may assume several
different forms, as has just been shown.
Minute Structure of the Skeleton.
The element of which the skeleton is composed may be
termed “ fibre ;” and this is of two sizes, viz. large and small.
The large fibre is the oldest, and generally grows vertically
or in a direction more or less radiating from the base, in
accordance with the general form of the sponge; while the
smaller fibre, which is the younger of the two, unites the
large fibres obliquely or transversely. In the skeleton of
some species there 1s such a uniformity of growth that no
and Physiology of the Spongida. 9
lines of large fibre can be distinguished; and thus a simple
reticulation goes on from the base to the circumference, pre-
senting a simple gradation in size from the oldest to the latest-
formed portions.
The fibre may be glass-like, horny, or spiculous—that is
(in the latter case), composed almost entirely of spicules bound
together by a minimum of sarcode.
(Spicules are siliceous or calcareous bodies, according to
the nature of the sponge, which are developed by the sponge
itself, and vary greatly in form, being for the most part linear
and pointed at each end, as will be more particularly described
hereafter.)
Again, the glass-like fibre contains a core of spicules; and
the horny may be cored with a fine granular substance or with
foreign bodies or spicules respectively.
Thus the fibre consists of two distinct parts, viz. the wall
and the axis or core.
There is no difficulty in distinguishing between the glass-
like and the horny fibre; but there is frequently a difficulty
in determining between the horny cored with proper spicules
and the spiculous fibre, since the horny substance is com-
posed of the same material as the film which binds together
the spicules of the spiculous fibre; and therefore the distine-
tion is only one of degree, viz. that of whether the spicules
or the horny substance forms the chief part of the fibre.
Still, for the sake of classification, it will be found by-and-
by necessary to make the distinction. When horny, the
horny matter preponderates ; when spiculous, the spicules.
The axis or core, however, is evident in all. Thus in the
glass-like fibre it consists of proper spicules (‘“ proper spicules ”
are spicules that are formed by, and peculiar to, the species) ;
while in the horny fibre the core may consist of a fine, uni-
formly granular, tubular membrane or sheath everywhere
anastomosing and the same, or of foreign objects which, in
some parts, may be so scanty that the fibre for the most part
is horny throughout; or the core of foreign objects may be
so general as to form the axis in every part of the fibre, so
that there are many degrees between these two extremes; or
the core may consist of foreign objects and “ proper spicules ”’
mixed together, or of proper spicules alone. Lastly, as before
stated, in the spiculous fibre not only the axis, but the whole
fibre is composed of ‘ proper spicules”? held together by a
minimum of hardened sarcode, which from its thinness is
almost imperceptible, while the fibre thus composed is, when
dry, opaque and white, :
In addition to the core, the fibre is sometimes echinated
10 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
with “ proper spicules ” ; that is, the latter have only one end
fixed in the surface of the fibre, or otherwise, being in the
core, project through the fibre to a considerable extent. Thus
the core of the fibre may consist of one form of “ proper
spicules’ and the echination of another; or the form of the
spicule a little modified may be the same in both; or the core
may consist of foreign objects together with an echination of
“ proper spicules,” as before stated.
Finally, the core may be generally or partially continuous
(that is, interrupted).
Extremities of the Fibre.
The basal or radical ends of the fibre are of course fixed to
the rock or other hard object on which the sponge may be
erowing, or projected into the sand or mud at the bottom of
the sea, as the case may be; so that it is with the circum-
ferential ones that we are now chiefly concerned.
The circumferential ends may terminate in simple anasto-
mosis on a level with the surface; or the larger fibre may
project in attenuated tag-like conical ends permeated respec-
tively by a single horny hair-like filament, or filled with an
axis of foreign bodies and surrounded by a dense anastomosis
of simple small fibre, which, branching off into a more open
reticulation at the circumference or base of the cone, joins
that of the neighbouring tags. Or the tags may present
themselves in the form of spines filled with an axis of
“ proper spicules”? instead of foreign bodies —or in the
form of monticules cored with one or more large spicules,
which thus form the axis, and project a considerable distance
beyond the summit like a hair or bunch of hairs. Or the
large fibre may end in a dermal reticulation which may be
surmounted by naked tufts of ‘ proper spicules” that, when
large, come into contact with each other and thus form a
continuous incrustation more or less densely hirsute.
Such are the usual modes of termination ; but of course they
are subject to great modification.
Sponges with no Skeleton.
In some sponges, as before stated, there is no fibrous
skeleton, and no apparent agent of support beyond the den-
driform canal-system and the spicules ; while in others there
is not only no fibre, but also no spicules, nothing but the
sarcode and the dendriform canal-plexus.
and Physiology of the Spongida. 11
Nature of the Foreign Bodies.
The “ foreign bodies ”’ of the core chiefly consist of grains of
sand mixed more or less with siliceous and calcareous spicules
of other sponges (entire or fragmentary), of the spicules and
calcareous structures of Echinodermata, of Diatomacee, and
of minute Foraminifera—indeed, any thing of this kind,
especially calcite in a minute columnar or prismatic form,
banded with hair-brown, yellow, and amethystine colours,
originally derived from the disintegration of thin bivalve
shells allied to Pinna. At first I was at a loss to account for
the origin of these little prisms; but finding them in certain
kinds of sponges from all quarters of the world, especially
from Port Jackson in Australia, and at last in direct con-
nexion with some specimens of Crenula phasianoptera which
had been overgrown and enclosed bodily by the sponge itself,
their general occurrence, rhombohedral prismatic form, and
banded colours were thus explained.
Spicules.
The spicules, as their name implies, are pointed, siliceous
or calcareous bodies produced by the sponge itself, of an
infinite number of forms, varying in accordance with the species,
and extending from a simple linear one, pointed at each end,
to the most complicated figure.
At first it would appear that the spicule is produced in the
homogeneous or intercellular sarcode (that is, the basis or
original living slime in which every part of the sponge is
developed and imbedded), as it is present and of such a large
size comparatively in the ovum even before the latter becomes
elongated into the embryonal form, as well as in the inter-
cellular sarcode of the adult sponge, that in either case there
is no cell approximately large enough to contain it. But
since, in some instances, it can be followed during part of its
development (that is, from the time it is first recognizable to
that in which it is considerably enlarged), while still within
the parent or mother cell (‘Annals,’ 1874, vol. xiv. p. 97, pl. x),
it may be assumed that all spicules are initiated in a mother
cell, however soon after they may get into the intercellular
sarcode. ‘Thus the spicule appears to arise, within a mother
cell, from a granule which, for convenience, will be termed the
“ spicule-cell,” which cell becomes extended linearly in oppo-
site directions, or immediately begins to put forth more or
less points in a radiating direction, whereby what is called
12 Mr. H. J: Carter on the Anatomy
the central canal of the spicule is formed; and upon the
tubular prolongations as they extend is deposited, in concentric
layers, the siliceo- or calcareo-albumimous material of which the
spicule may be composed, the extremity of the tubule or
central canal only becoming covered when the fundamental
form of the spicule is completed. Hence the spicule always
has a central canal, which remains hollow in the siliceous ones,
but in the caleareous spicules appears to me to be filled up
by the same material of which the spicule itself is composed ;
while in some large, robust, acerate siliceous spicules, too, it
is often diminished to an almost imperceptible line in the
centre, although comparatively wide towards the extremities—
thus showing, in some instances, a tendency to become filled
up in the same way as the calcareous spicules.
That the spicule is developed from a central cell is often
confirmed by the presence in some sponges of more or
less abortive attempts at elongation, whereby globular or
elliptical bodies of considerable size are formed through the
deposit of concentric or successive layers of siliceo-albuminous
material upon a central or elongated cell as the case may be,
which for some reason has remained stationary, although it
has continued to develop successively the layers of which the
normal linear form is composed.
When once the spicule can be recognized, it is not difficult
to follow its further development, which goes on par? passu
with the extension of the central canal, linearly or in a radiating
manner, as before noticed. If the spicule has a decided linear
shaft, this makes its appearance first, and the radiating branches
appear afterwards at one of its extremities ; so that the primary
form of a shafted spicule would always be a straight line.
At least this is what may be seen among the spicules in the
ovum of Tethya cranium (‘ Annals,’ 1872, vol. ix. p. 429,
pl. xxii. fig. 16). But while the central canal goes on ex-
tending itself as the spicule grows larger, it never goes beyond
what may be termed the fundamental form of the spicule,
which is thus determined by the central canal. All orna-
mental or subsidiary parts, such as the spines &c., are sub-
sequently added, probably after the spicule has left the mother
cell and has got into the intercellular sarcode, as shown by
the central canal never extending into them. But still it may
be a question whether they are not all dnztiated by the central
canal, and thus appear to be evolved like any other develop-
ment which cannot be traced backwards beyond a certain
yoint.
We shall find by-and-by that, besides the spicules especially
and Physiology of the Spongida.. 13
belonging to the skeleton, there are others as especially be-
longing fo the sarcode or the soft parts, which will be described
in connexion with this portion of the sponge-structure, to
which they are so intimately attached that, when the sarcode
drops off the skeleton from putrefaction, they for the most
part go with it—thus still further reducing our means of
describing the entire sponge from the skeleton alone.
As the known forms of the skeleton-spicules of sponges
are exceedingly numerous, it may fairly be inferred that with
the discovery of new species of sponges these forms will be
found to be almost infinite. At the same time, as they are of
much consequence in specific distinction, it becomes necessary
to adopt some classification of them whereby the memory may
not only be aided in this respect, but assistance may also be
given in describing new ones.
Under these circumstances I have framed the following
Table, in which the known forms of the skeleton- -spicule
are divided into three groups, viz. linear, radiating, and
ramular, each of which is based upon a fundamental form out
of which its divisions, subdivisions, genera, and species may
be evolved. The fundamental forms will be found in the
woodcuts; and their modifications, in accordance with the
text, will be delineated hereafter in separate Plates, when
the species are noticed to which they respectively belong.
It has been already stated that the development of the
spicule commences in a granule or minute cell, which on
elongating would give the “linear group,” or on immediately
radiating would give the “radiating group,” or, by elongating
first and then branching off radiatingly at one or both ends,
as the case might be, would give the “ramular group.’
Thus the Table of Forms would be based not on mere arti-
ficial arrangement, but absolutely on the development of the
spicule. That it should be viewed as complete even up to the
forms with which we are already acquainted is by no means
wished ; but that provisionally it offers a beginning to what
must in this respect be ultimately accomplished is all that can
be expected.
My kind friend the late Dr. J. E. Gray being well aware
of the importance of this subject in studying the Spongida
communicated a valuable paper upon it (“Annals,’ 1873, vol. xii.
p- 203), to which the reader is referred for the views he has
therein enunciated.
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Position of Surface-Spicules.
Where a spicule which has a point projects beyond the
surface of the sponge to which it belongs, that point will be
always outermost; but, of course, where both ends of the
spicule are equally obtuse or bulb-like, an obtuse end must be
outermost.
Still, as sponges are wont to seize with their sarcode any
minute object that may impinge upon their surface, it is
possible that, if this be a pointed spicule with one obtuse
end, tle latter may be outermost. But here the spicule does
not belong to the sponge, it is a foreign object; and thus it
becomes very desirable to distinguish between such foreign
objects and the “ proper spicules’ of the sponge, so that the
former in the description of the species may not be set down
as part of the spicule-complement.
Monstrosities.
Again, spicules are much subject to monstrosity; and
therefore it is very desirable to find out the staple form first,
and describe or figure this, after which the others may be
figured as monstrosities.
Development of the Fibre.
Although the fibre appears to originate in a cell which puts
forth buds or processes (‘Annals,’ 1872, vol. x. p. 107, pl. vii.
fig. 5, c,d, e) in plurality, and these in juxtaposition may, by
elongation and anastomosis, produce a uniformly reticulate
structure whose simple tubular core may be continuous and
without foreign objects, like the “ fine, uniformly granular ”
one above mentioned, still the final enlargement of the fibre
by concentric layers throughout its whole course must be derived
from the intercellular sarcode in which it is imbedded, just as in
that of the spicule, whose substance being siliceo-albuminous
renders the process identical with the formation of the glass-
like fibre.
But although the extension of the fibre and the spicule
respectively may be produced by a linear bud-like growth of
the original cell in the first instance, these cells do not appear
to me to be afterwards identified by their products, as Fritz
Miiller and others have fancied from the corneo-stellate form
of the fibre in Darwinella aurea= Aplysina corneostellata (see
‘Annals,’ 1872, vol. x. /. c. antew). Hach structure has its
peculiar origin and product distinct from the other.
So far we can understand the formation of the “simple fibre”
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without foreign bodies in the core; but when we find fibre
cored with foreign objects or “ proper spicules,” we have to
assume that the original germ, which for convenience we will
term “ horn-cell”’ (in accordance with what has already been
stated of the horn-cell in the Hydractiniade, whose functions
are analogous, ‘Annals,’ 1873, vol. xi. p. 6, pl. i. fig. 7), is at
first living and plastic, when, ameba-like, it may take in foreign
bodies, and, having arranged them in a linear or branched
form, then proceed in the way mentioned to anastomose with
the branches of other similar horn-cells, and thus finally pro-
duce a reticulated structure with a core of foreign objects as
continuously throughout its whole course as the “fine granular
tube” in the fibre without foreign objects, subsequently in
like manner receiving, concentrically, additional layers from
the intercellular sarcode of the sponge.
There is much more to commend this theory to our notice
in the microscopical examination of ‘the fully developed fibre
itself, which need not be mentioned here; at the same time,
it is impossible to conceive how foreign objects or “ proper
spicules’ can become the core of horny fibre unless by some
such hypothesis as that above stated.
Having thus described the spicules and the fibre of the
Spongida, it is desirable to notice here that as there are sponges
which only possess siliceous spicules, these will be termed
“‘Siliceous Sponges,” while others which only possess calca-
reous spicules will be termed ‘‘Calcareous Sponges.”
Again, as the fibre may be either glass-like with proper
spicules, or horny alone, or horny with foreign bodies, or horny
with proper spicules, or composed of spicules only, the terms
“vitreous,” ‘ horny,” “arenaceo-horny,” “ spiculo-horny,”’
and “ spiculo-fibre ”’ will be used for these kinds respectively ;
while there is yet another modification, as before stated, in
which the core may consist of foreign bodies and proper
spicules mixed.
Dissolution of Fibre and Spicules.
I have already noticed the disappearance by wasting or
decay both in the siliceous and calcareous spicules, together
with that of the glassy fibre (‘Annals,’ 1873, vol. xi. p. 456
et seq.) ; but I omitted to notice that the “ proper spicules ”
of the spiculo-horny fibre also disappear after the same
manner, leaving nothing in many instances but their central
canals, with a fragment perhaps of the entire shaft in some
i of their course, frequently in the middle (thus looking
ike a cotton-reel upon long spindles), which at first appeared
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to me like a new form of spicule; hence I mention the
fact. The horny sheath or part of the fibre remains; but
the spicules of the core almost entirely disappear.
Sarcode.
The sarcode of sponges may be generally defined to be the
pulp-like part in which all the rest of the structures are not
only imbedded, but from the original slime of which all have
been developed, and is analogous to the soft parts of other
beings, filling up the insterstices of and enclosing the skeleton
or organ of support, thus giving more or less roundness to
the surface of the whole mass. But as it is for the most part
extremely delicate in structure, the cessation of life almost
renders it semifluid, whereby it runs off the skeleton in some
eases like oil. Being, too, of an albuminous nature, it col-
lapses like glue when dried upon the skeleton in its fresh state,
or coagulates upon it when placed in spirit. Both are pre-
servative means in which the altered sarcode, so long as it is
kept from putrefying (when it becomes exposed to the ravages
of fungi), will last as long as the horny parts of the skeleton ;
but of course, on drying, its structure is greatly obliterated,
although not so much so when coagulated and contracted by
the astringency of spirit.
Tender and delicate, however, as the structure of the sarcode
and its soft contents are, especially in the calcareous sponges
(where there is no horny fibre, and therefore nothing to hold
the spicules together but the living sarcode), we may observe
the calcareous sponges growing upon the under surface of
rocks on the sea-shore to increase in size and develop their
forms there in the midst of daily washing by the falling
and rising of the tides, to say nothing of the accompanying
waves which are often rendered more or less boisterous by
the wind; while if //fe were to be abstracted for an instant
they would go to pieces immediately, just as “ diffluence ”
takes place in animalcules under similar circumstances, or as
a bunch of iron-filings kept together by a galvano-magnetic
current falls to pieces when the circle is broken. Such is the
power of life in keeping together the particles of which these
living structures (which crumble to pieces under the finger
and thumb when dry) are composed !
In using the term “ sarcode” for the pulp-like part of
sponges generally, it must be understood to imply that it is
compounded of many parts, each of which requires a particular
description.
Thus, when we come to examine the sarcodic mass micro-
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scopically, we shall find that its base is composed of a granu-
liferous, almost transparent, living substance like jelly. It
is this living, locomotive, apparently structureless substance,
to which I have before alluded, which holds all the rest to-
gether, and, originating in its simplest form in the ovum, as
will be shown hereafter, finally evolves all that is subsequently
developed in the sponge.
Of its living nature we, of course, can have no idea except
from its manifestations; and of these I can offer no better
description than I gave in the ‘Annals’ for 1849, vol. iv.
(pp. 87 & 91, pl. iv. fig. 2), in the following passage, which
will be found at p. 91 :—
“Tf a seed-like body [of Spongilla] which has arrived at
maturity be placed in water, a white substance will, after a
few days, be observed to have issued from its interior through
the infundibular depression on its surface, and to have glued
it to the glass ; and if this be examined with the microscope,
its circumference will be found to consist of a semitransparent
substance, the extreme border of which is extended into digital
or tentacular prolongations, precisely similar to those of the
Protean, which in progression or polymorphism throws out
parts of its body in this way (pl. iv. fig. 2,c). In this semi-
transparent substance may be observed hyaline vesicles of
different sizes, contracting and dilating themselves as in the
Protean (fig. 2,d); and a little within it the green granules,
[germs] so grouped together (fig. 2, e) as almost to enable the
practised eye to distinguish zm s’tw the passing forms of the
cells [‘‘ spherical cells”? of the seed-like body] to which they
belong. We may also see in the latter [these “‘cells””] ther
hyaline vesicles with their contained molecules in great com-
motion, and between the cells themselves the intercellular
mucilage (fig. 2, f).” The “intercellular mucilage” is the
“semitransparent substance ’’ above noticed, and for which |
have above used the term “ intercellular sarcode.”’
For another description of the “ intercellular mucilage”’ see
p- 87 of ‘Annals’ (7. c.). Thus in 1849 attention was directed
to this primordial plasma.
The sareode proper (for thus the “intercellular mucilage ”
might be designated) envelops the whole of the fibre, and,
fillmg up the interstitial spaces of the skeleton, forms an
areolar structure, which is densely charged with the “ ampul-
laceous sacs,” the ‘ova of the sponge,” “muscular cells,”
together with various other kinds of cells not yet described
if even recognized, and the “ flesh-spicules ;” while the mass
generally is traversed by the inhalant and exhalant or excre-
tory tubular branched systems—the former descending from
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20 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
the ‘ pores”’ on the dermal surface to the ampullaceous sacs,
and the latter leading from the ampullaceous sacs in little
radicles, which uniting and interuniting at length form a large
canal that opens on the dermal surface in the ‘‘vent.”
Hence we shall have to examine each of these parts in
particular, and thus pass from the general to the minute struc-
ture of the sarcode, in doing which it will be advantageous to
divide the latter into that of the surface and that of the in-
terior—the former under the term of ‘ dermis,” and the latter
under that of the ‘ body.”
Dermis.
The dermal surface of sponges varies with the species: it
may be uniformly smooth, or uniformly irregular, or uniformly
hispid, aculeated, and even prickly, soft or hard; while in
composition it may be sarcodic, horny, spiculous, or sabellous ;
but the chief points to remember are that the dermal sarcode
or cuticle is supported for the most part by a subjacent reticular
structure or framework, composed of one or more of these con-
stituents, in the interstices of which the pores are situated, and
here and there the vents, scattered singly or in groups.
This reticular framework when soft is formed of anasto-
mosing fibre composed of elongated, spindle-shaped, granuli-
ferous, nucleated, gelatinous cells, which lie parallel to each
other (the “muscular cells” to which I have alluded, and
which will be more particularly described hereafter)—or of
simple horny fibre—or of horny fibre with a core of foreign
bodies (the so-called arenaceous fibre)—or of horny fibre with
a core of “ proper spicules ” (spiculo-horny fibre)—or of fibre
composed almost of proper spicules alone (spiculo-fibre)—or
of arenaceous fibre bearing foreign bodies on its outer surface
as well as internally—or of spiculo-horny fibre or spiculo-
fibre bearing respectively tufts of proper spicules on its external
surface, so as to present a hirsute appearance, or with the same
tufts so enlarged as to come into contact and thus to form a
continuous incrustation ; or, indeed, there may be no fibre at
all but a smooth membraniform envelope composed of horny
sarcode imbedding spicules of the species horizontally placed
with respect to each other like a textile fabric, as on many of
the deep-sea sponges dredged up on board H.M.S. ‘ Porcu-
pine,’ but always leaving apertures for the pores and vents
respectively.
The “reticular framework,” again, is supported on, if not
given off from, the dermal extremities of the main or vertical
lines of fibre of the skeleton, which may terminate at once ona
& te ete
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level with the surface by simply anastomosing with each other
through the intervention of the reticular framework of the
dermis—or in an intricate reticulated structure with a core of
foreign objects, which projects in a conical form beyond the
surface—or in the same way, with a core of proper spicules
assuming the form of an aculeation. These aculeations, again,
may be separate or connected by prominent lines of fibre
passing directly between them, which, bearing respectively a
fold of the dermal sarcode, thus give a polygonally divided cel-
lular aspect to the surface. Or the aculeation may be rounded
-by the projection of tufts of proper spicules based upon the
reticulated fibre of the dermis. Indeed the aculeation always
partakes of, and is modified in form by, the nature and com-
position of the dermal reticular framework.
Again, it should be remembered that, although these parts
may be frequently bare (that is, uncovered by sarcode) in the
fresh as well as in the dry specimen, they were originally in-
vested by it, and only became denuded through wear and tear
or natural withdrawal of the sarcode.
Body.
Having already described the skeleton and the sarcode
generally, together with the ‘‘ sarcode proper” or intercellular
substance, as the basis in which all the other structures are
imbedded and, as before stated, out of which they are all
elaborated, also having described the “dermis,” we shall
now direct our attention to those parts of the sarcode of the
body which have hitherto only been enumerated, beginning
with the
Ampullaceous Sacs.
When the sponge is fed with carmine or indigo, which of
course can only be effected during its active, living state, the
colouring-matter with the water is drawn into the substance
of the sponge through the pores in the dermis, when also the
former becomes arrested on the surface of the areolar cavities
of the sponge, at points which present a globular or sac-like
rounded form. ‘To these points I have heretofore given the
name of “ ampullaceous sacs,” because I found them in Spon-
gilla (where | first saw them) of a globular form with a distinct
sphinctral opening. They are exceedingly numerous, and may
be said, comparing small things with great, to hang about the
branches of the excretory canals like grapes in a bunch of
this fruit.
The aperture in this assumed sac (for the sarcode, which is
probably of the “ intercellular”’ kind, is too subtle to present
22 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
a distinct cell-wall) is circular and evidently sphinctral, inas-
much as it has the power of dilating and contracting itself,
while, by adjusting the focus of the microscope to the interior,
when the aperture is open, in sttu, wnder water, and in an
active living condition, cilia may be observed in a state of
undular vibration.
Thus, watching the particles of carmine as they pass from
the water through the pores, they appear to reach the interior
of the ampullaceous sac through the opening just described.
And still keeping our eye on the sac, we may observe
that, after a time, certain of the coloured particles are trans-
ferred en masse into a circumjacent branch of the excretory
canal-system, whence they immediately get into the main
trunk, and are ejected at the vent; so that it must be assumed
(for it has not been demonstrated) that there is a second or
excremental aperture in the sac here, as in that of the
calcareous sponges, unless the material is extruded into
the excretory canal through an extemporized aperture, after
the manner of an Am@ba. The ampullaceous sac in the
siliceous sponges is, for the most part, globular, but may be
subglobular and sac-like of different shapes. In diameter it
is about 1-600th of an inch in the siliceous sponges, and the
body of the spongozoon (about to be described) from 1-6000th
to 1-3000th of an inch in diameter, both ampullaceous sacs
and spongozoa being by far the largest in the calcareous
sponges.
Spongozoa.
So far our observation has been limited to what takes place
in the ampullaceous sac generally. We have now to see what
the organs in the sac are that receive the colouring-matter ; and
to ascertain this we have only to tear up a portion of the thus
coloured sponge with needles, when we shall observe that the
particles of carmine are in monociliated conical bodies, which
in juxtaposition form a pavement-like structure round the inner
surface of the sac, from which their cilia vibrate into its in-
terior, For these bodies singly I have proposed the name of
“ spongozoon ”’ (‘Annals,’ 1872, vol. x. p. 45).
Moreover we observe that in the active living state, or just
after the spongozoon has been scratched out from the body of
the sponge (for it soon passes into an amorphous amceboid
condition), the spongozoon has a definite form, as the late
Prof. James-Clark, of America, first pointed out in the calca-
reous sponge called Lewcosolenia botryoides ; and in another cal-
careous sponge, viz. Grantia compressa, I find it to consist ot
around or conical body, from which projects a long bacilliform
and Physiology of the Spongida. 23
tube somewhat inflated at its extremity, where the neck of the
inflation is surrounded by a sarcodice frill ; and from its summit
proceeds a long cilium (altogether not unlike the pistil and
corolla of a flower), while in the body may be observed a
granuliferous sarcode containing a nuclear organ and one or
two “contracting vesicles,” which, carrying out the simile,
would be analogous to the seed-vessel of the flower.
Big. 2:
Fig. 1. Common form of spongozoon in Grantia compressa.
Fig. 2. Not unfrequent form: a, body ; b, nucleus; ¢ c, contracting vesicles ;
d, granules of sarcode ; e, grains of food; f, rostrum ;; g, collar ;
A, cilium. :
Scale 1-4th to 1-6000th of an inch.
The conical bulb-like portion has been called the “ body ;”
the bacilliform tube, the “rostrum” or beak ; the sarcodie frill,
the “collar,” in the midst of which is the inflated end of the
rostrum and the cilium.
This, then, is the form of the spongozoon of Grantia com-
pressa in its active living state; and that it is the animal of
the sponge may be assumed from no other body or cell in
the sponge taking in the colouring-matter *.
That the particles of colouring-matter pass into the ampul-
laceous sac directly through the pore has been demonstrated
by the presence of a continuous line of colouring-matter having
been seen to exist between the pore on the surface and the
ampullaceous sac (‘ Annals,’ 1874, vol. xiii. p. 437) ; and that
subsequently it may pass into the body of the spongozoon
through the rostrum or beak (by the side of the cilium, as
in such flagellated Infusoria generally) seems most probable,
* It must not be thought that the colouring-matter requires to be so
minutely divided as for its particles to be almost imperceptible, since the
“rostrum ” is so expansible that it will often admit the spores of Algze
into the “ body ” of the spongozoon, especially at the end of the breeding-
season (say June), when the form of the spongozoon generally also appears
to be best developed.
24 Mr. U. J. Carter on the Anatomy
although from the polymorphic nature of the body it seems
also not impossible that, on impinging upon its surface, it
might be ¢ncepted after the manner of Ameba ; but from what
part of the spongozoon it is eected remains to be discovered.
To describe the organ into which the colouring-matter
first passes as a “sac” might appear objectionable, as, in its
active living state, there is nothing but the globular form and
sphinctral opening to support this view; but if we recur
to the contents of the seed-like body (winter-egg or statoblast)
of Spongilla, it will be found that they consist of a number
of “spherical cells” respectively charged with germiniferous
bodies, each cell of which with its contents, as the young
Sporgilla grows out of the hiliform opening of the seed-like
body, becomes developed into an ampullaceous sac, when the
spherical cell ceases to be demonstrable, from the commence-
ment being so subtle in nature that, on placing a portion of
the contents of the dried seed-like body in water, it 1s rapidly
distended by imbibition, bursts, and disappears. Thus it
may be assumed that there is a subtle film which holds the
spongozoa together in the living Spongilla, just as the spherical
cell contains the germs from which the spongozoa are developed
in the seed-like body ; and so far we are warranted in using the
word “sac.” ‘That this cell in the dried seed-like body might
pass into a living plastic state is confirmed by the germinating
of the rest of the substance itself of the seed-like body, which
was equally dry, returning to this state—to say nothing of
the entire sponges which, on the walls of the tanks of Bombay,
return to life at the commencement of the “ rains,” after having
been exposed above water for several months to the scorching
heat of a tropical sun. The body-substance of a dried Geodia,
which I picked up on the southern shores of Arabia, manifested
polymorphism on being moistened with water several months
afterwards. But all who are acquainted with the habits of
the Infusoria &c. are familiar with this phenomenon.
It should also be remembered that the sarcode and all its
soft contents when living are more or less polymorphic, and
that therefore at one time they may present one form, and at
another another.
Thus the spongozoon among the rest, when observed imme-
diately after the Grantia compressa has been torn to pieces for
microscopical examination, resembles that above delineated ;
but after a short interval it may be seen to be moving about
the field in the form of an Ameba, as before noticed, and with
or without the cilium, thus totally unlike the original form.
Indeed this power of polymorphism may enable the spongo-
zoon to assume so many phases that it would be absurd to
ee
and Physiology of the Spongida. 25
attempt to describe them all; but when the observer knows
that they are the result of a polymorphic property, he will
not be surprised at seeing them differ entirely from the shape
which the spongozoon presents in the active living sponge in
situ or, at all events, immediately after it has been eliminated
for observation under the microscope by tearing a portion of
the Grantia compressa to pieces for this purpose.
The spongozoon has its analogue, if not its identity, in the
solitary Infusoria, both marine and freshwater, first pointed out
and described by the late Professor James-Clark in America
(Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1866, vol. i. pt. 3, pls. 9 & 10;
reprinted in the ‘Annals,’ 1868, vol. i. p. 133); 1m one speci-
men of which, viz. Codosiga pulcherrima (figs. 23 & 24h), the
“‘ reproductive organ ”’ is indicated—equal to our “nucleus.”
Development of the Ampullaceous Sac and Spongozoa.
See ‘Annals,’ 1857, vol. xx. p. 26 &c., pl. i., and 1874,
vol. xiv. p. 400, pls. xx., xxi., & xxii. figs. 2, 23, for descrip-
tions and illustrations respectively.
Ovum.
For a description and development of the Ovum, see ‘Annals,’
1874, vol. xiv. pp. 321-389, pls. xx., xxi., & xxii.
Spermatozoa.
See ‘Annals,’ 1874, vol. viv. p. 105, pl. x.
Not being satisfied with my search after the spermatozoa of
sponges, I began earlier this year (1875) to examine Glrantia
compressa, with the following results :-—
On the 29th of April, 1875. Gathered some branches of
Ptilota bearing Grantia compressa, placed them in sea-water
on the spot, brought them home, and in three hours after
gathering examined fragments of six, good, large living spe-
cimens successively, torn to pieces in sea-water, and placed
under }-inch focus with high ocular. Ova generally about
3-6000ths of an inch in diameter (that is, a little less than
double the size of the spongozoon), actively polymorphic, and
all the parts visible and well-marked but the germinal vesicle.
No appearance of spermatozoa either in cells, free, or about
the ova.
On the 5th of May, 1875. The same. Ova generally now
about 7-6000ths of an inch in diameter, and all parts, including
the germinal vesicle, well defined. No appearance of sperma-
tozoa.
26 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
On the 12th of May last year (1874). The same. Ova
about 7-6000ths of an inch in diameter, passing and having
passed in many instances into the embryonic state (Gastrula,
Hickel). No appearance of spermatozoa. Living and active
specimens of this gathering were also examined on the 13th,
14th, and 15th respectively, with the same results.
On the 16th of May, 1874. The same, but with more
embryos. No appearance of spermatozoa. Living and active
specimens of this gathering were also examined on the 17th,
with the same results.
On the 18th of May 1874. The same in every respect.
Living and active specimens of the same gathering were ex-
amined on the 20th, when the spermatic-looking bodies, loose
and apparently dead (figured in plate x. fig. 21 /.¢.), were
observed.
On the 25th of May 1874. The same in every respect, with
the exception of more embryos and fewer ova, but no sperma-
tozoa.
So far, therefore, as my own observations are concerned, I
cannot say with certainty that I have yet seen the spermatozoa
of any sponge.
The little calcareous sponge Grantia compressa has been
chosen for examination, from the following circumstances,
viz. :—that it is very hardy, grows on branches of Ptilota
midway between high and low-water marks, may therefore
be obtained twice a day and thus gathered without injury ;
while its breeding-season is now determined; hence, perhaps,
where it abounds, it furnishes the best sponge for discovering
the spermatozoa.
Epitomism of the Ampullaceous Sac.
Thus, then, the “‘ampullaceous sac’ is an epitome of the
whole sponge, in so far as it has an inhalant and an exhalant
aperture, and contains the spongozoon or animal of the sponge
in plurality, which again has ¢ts oral and anal apertures respec-
tively, together probably with all the other organs in its body,
capable of nourishment and reproduction.
Pore-System and Dermal Cavities.
The pore-system may be divided into the “ pores” on the
surface, and the “ subdermal cavities”” with which they are
immediately connected ; while each division, being equally
important, will be separately described.
and Physiology of the Spongida. 27
Pores.
The pores are situated, as before stated, in the sarcode cover-
ing the interstices of the dermis, which sarcode is not a homo-
geneous substance, but composed of a number of polymorphic
nucleated cells or bodies of a particular kind (‘Annals,’ 1857,
vol. xx. p. 24, pl. 1. figs. 6 & 7; 7b. 1874, vol. xiv. p. 336).
These cells, together with the intercellular sarcode which unites
them into a common membranous expansion, have the power
of separating from each other, so as to extemporize circular
holes or pores, and close them wherever and whenever it may
be requisite. The average size of a pore is about 1-100th inch
in diameter.
It may open inwardly into a minute canal or into a
“subdermal cavity.” When the former is the case, the
canal in some instances, as before noticed (‘Annals,’ /. c.), goes
direct to the subjacent ampullaceous sac; but as the latter
are much more numerous than the pores and for the most
part deeply situated throughout the structure of the sponge, it
may be assumed that the original pore-canal sends off branches
to supply them respectively. On the other hand, when the
pore opens into the subdermal cavity, it may do so singly or
in variable plurality.
In some instances the pores are not generally distributed
over the surface, but chiefly limited to certain cribriform
aree, each of which forms the summit of a prominent
pustular eminence. ‘These eminences, although separated
from each other, are plentifully scattered over the surface of
the sponge; and while the pores are open and in active
operation the pore-area thus formed presents an expanded
convexity, but when they are closed it is conical, puckered,
and contracted.
In some instances, again, the dermal layer, together with
the subjacent sponge-structure, is prolonged into mastoid (teat-
like) or tubular appendages, which thus not only increase the
extent of the pore-arez, but specialize it, so as to indicate
that these parts in particular are appropriated to the inhalant
function.
Subdermal Cavities.
In 1857 (‘Annals,’ vol. xx. p. 25), in my account of the
development of Spongilla from the seed-like body, the “ sub-
dermal cavities,” as they are more or less united together, have
been termed the “cavity of the investing membrane”? (J. c.
pl. i. fig. 1,666). In 1864 Dr. Bowerbank directed attention
28 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
to this structure under the term of “ intermarginal cavities ”’
(Bos: vol. tap: 100).
The subdermal cavities are situated immediately under the
pores, which thus open into them; and presenting a much
more open or cavernous structure generally than that which
lies inside them, they are easily recognized in a section of
the sponge perpendicular to the surface, where they at once
point out the side on which the pores are chiefly situated, in
contradistinction to the opposite or vent-bearing surface, whose
margin is comparatively without them.
The subdermal cavity has an hourglass-shape, in some
sponges at least ; and the constricted portion is furnished with
a sphinctral diaphragm of sarcode which still further divides
them into two chambers, viz. an outer one, which is imme-
diately under the pores, and an inner one, which is extended
canal-like into the sponge. (For illustrations of this in Pachy-
matisma Johnstonia, Bk., see ‘Annals,’ 1869, vol. iv. p. 12 &c.,
pl. u. figs. 9-12.)
Being an essential part of the pore or inhalant system, they
of course exist in all sponges, although perhaps most strongly
marked in the siliceous ones; while the dermal sarcode which
covers them, having, as before stated, the property of opening
or closing its pores, can by this sphinctral power convert the
subdermal cavities into closed or open chambers as required,
to say nothing of the more powerful sphincter of the hour-
glass constriction of the cavity itself, which may act in unison
with the pores, or as a check upon them when they admit
material that ought to have been rejected.
How these cavities terminate inwardly—that is, whether,
after branching out, their radicles are directly, or indirectly
through the medium of the ampullaceous sacs, connected with
those of the excretory canal-system (to be presently described),
or whether some terminate one way and some the other—re-
mains to be shown. (See a description and figure of the sub-
dermal cavity, ‘Annals,’ 1869, vol. iv. pl. vil. figs. 15, 6 & 9.)
As the sponge increases by additional layers to its surface,
new subdermal cavities must be continually formed, as the
old ones become obliterated by passing into the more compact
areolar structure of the interior.
Exeretory Canal-System and Vents.
The excretory canal-system commences in radicles among
the ampullaceous sacs, which radicles pervade the body of the
sponge and, uniting with each other plexus-like, form branches
that finally terminate in a large trunk, which opens on its
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and Physiology of the Spongida. 29
surface in what has been called the “ vent” or “osculum,”
which varies in size, but for the most part is en and con-
spicuous. In what way the ends of the radicles communi-
cate with ampullaceous sacs in the siliceous sponges has not
been satisfactorily explained ; but from their opening out of
these sacs so directly and conspicuously in the calcareous
sponges, it may be inferred that this is the case also in the
siliceous ones. Be this as it may, the function of the system
is to carry off the excrementitious matter of the sponge, as
may be observed in the young Spongilla (which at first has
only one canal-system, and therefore only one vent) after it
has been fed with carmine or indigo.
The opening in which the main trunk of the canal-system
terminates may be on a level with the surface, or more or less
raised above it by a mammiform (nipple-like) or tubular pro-
longation of the dermal structure entire, or of sarcode alone ;
but whether of dermal structure generally or the sarcode
alone, the opening is always provided with a sphincter, which
may be closed or opened as required. This is similarly situated
in some sponges to the sphincter of the subdermal cavity of
the pore-system (that is, a little below the surface), but differs
from the latter, of course, in not being covered by the pori-
ferous sarcode of the dermis. Where the prolonged vent
consists of sarcode alone, the opening of course is at its
extremity.
Occasionally the vents appear in little groups, distinctly
although irregularly disposed; sometimes they are arranged
in a petaloid form, and sometimes stelliformly—that is, with
little gutters running to them radiatingly, in the dried state,
which are converted into canals by the dermal sarcode during
life.
They are situated on the inner aspect of the excavated or
tubular sponges, and always on the depending or inner side
of flabellated expanded forms, which, on becoming frondose
and sinuously plicated, cause the depending sides to vary with
the sinuosities—so that the vents are found in patches, some-
times on one, sometimes on the other side, as determined by
the undulation of the frondose expansion.
Sometimes the opening of the vent is accompanied by a
row of spicules, arranged round the orifice so as to lean towards
each other in a conical form when the opening is closed, and
vice versd when it is dilated.
Although the excretory canal-system is single in the em-
bryonal sponge, it becomes multiplied as the latter increases
in size; so that the surface of a large sponge may present
several vents , each of which is generally the outlet of a distinct
30 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
system or plexus; while the vents may exist here and there
singly and separate or in groups, where their size and number
indicate those of the system with which they are respectively
connected. Moreover the sponge has the power of opening
them at one place and closing them at another; while in
abnormal states their currents may even be reversed. The
notion that each vent represents one “ person ” or individual
sponge is not always correct, as I have shown in the young
Spongilla, wherein a second vent is occasionally produced,
thus forming two for its excretory canal-system (‘ Annals,’
1857, vol. xx. p. 31). Among the calcareous sponges, too,
Grantia compressa may have one, two, three, or more vents
to its cloacal cavity &c. One vent therefore does not always
represent one “ person.”
Function of the Pore- and Vent-Systems respectively.
As the function of the pore-system is to admit nourishment
to the interior of the sponge, so that of the vent- or excretory
canal-system is to carry off the refuse. Hence in sponges
growing horizontally, like the fungus Polyporus, the pores
are generally on the upper and the vents on the lower
surface ; but when sponges grow (as they usually do) on the
under surface of rocks, the mammiform or tubular prolonga-
tions are directed downwards and terminated by the vents.
Where the sponges are tubular, as before stated, the vents
open on the inner side of the tube, which has thence been
called by Dr. Bowerbank the “cloaca.” But whether the
sponge be tubular, and thus provided with one great cloacal
opening, or whether flat and provided with several, each
kind of vent is but the termination of a cavity into which
many minor vents have previously opened ; so that the great
cloacal or general vent is but a modification of the smaller and
much more common kind.
For a detailed description of the function of the pores and
vents, under the appellations of “afferent” and “ efferent
canals,” see my account and illustrations of the development
of Spongilla from the seed-like body, ‘Annals,’ 1857 (vol. xx.
p. 27 et seq.). But a special study of every thing connected
with the pore- and vent-systems respectively throughout the
Spongida is much to be desired; for there is yet much to be
revealed concerning their functions.
Flesh-Spicules.
As there is a class of spicules entirely connected with the
and Physiology of the Spongida. dl
skeleton, so there is one as exclusively connected with the
sarcode of the sponge; hence the latter has been called “ flesh-”’
in contradistinction to the “ skeleton-spicule.” They are
objects for the most part of singular beauty, from their often
complicated and symmetrical forms, of infinite variety, of
microscopic minuteness, and dispersed, without any appreciable
regularity or constant quantity, moreor less abundantly through-
out the sarcode. One or more forms may exist in the same
sponge, and thus they become of much importance in specific
distinction ; but as they do not exist in all sponges, this ad-
vantage is not general; while their extreme minuteness, causing
them to fall through the skeleton when the sarcode in which
they are imbedded putrefies and becomes washed out, as small
pebbles pass through the meshes of a large net, still further
deprives us, as before stated, of their specific aid in most of
the sponges, which never come to hand in any other form than
the skeleton.
Where they are present, they may be of use in giving greater
firmness to the sarcode—that is, by acting as a kind of sub-
skeleton; hence Dr. Bowerbank has called them “ retentive
spicules :” but as they are frequently absent, and, indeed, the
skeleton-spicules, too, in some sponges, the latter can evidently
do without them, so we must look for some other bond of
union for the sarcode; and this, which may be found in the
contractile power that it possesses during life, but which
immediately disappears on death, is well exemplified in the
calcareous sponges, as before stated, where these, the tenderest
of all sponges when dry, grow upon rocks in the midst of the
boiling surf during their lifetime.
To describe the forms of these beautiful little flesh-spi-
cules in detail, in a general introduction to the classifica-
tion of the Spongida, would be out of place; and there-
fore the student must seek for this in the description of the
sponges respectively to which they belong, while now they can
be only noticed in a general way ; and as with the “ skeleton-
spicules,” so here, it seems best to give a Table of the com-
monest known forms which the flesh-spicule may assume, that
the student may to a certain extent become acquainted with
them, and thus prepared to describe others which he may
afterwards discover. Descriptions, however, at best are very
inadequate to the purpose ; and therefore I hope to add here-
after tabular delineations of both the skeleton- and the flesh-
spicules, as before stated.
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Observations.
It is not intended that this Table should be considered com-
plete even for all the known forms of the flesh-spicule ; but it
may aid the memory in retaining an acquaintance with most
of them; and as with the Table before given of the “ known
forms ”’ that may be assumed by the skeleton-spicule, so here,
also, this may aid the student in describing new ones of the
flesh-spicule.
Specific Value of the Flesh-Spicule.
A few remarks here are necessary as regards the specific
value of the flesh-spicule, since, as the same form of skeleton-
spicule is often found among the normal spicule-complement
of different species of the Spongida, or with such slight and
almost inappreciable differences that they are of no use speci-
fically, so it is with the flesh-spicule.
Although the navicular or shuttle form of the equianchorate
and the simple minute bihamate are common to several very
different kinds ‘of sponges, there is no form so common or so
diversified, perhaps, as the tricurvate or bow-shaped spicule,
which in many instances is a simple minute acerate so like
the skeleton-spicule that it might be easily mistaken for a
young form of the latter.
Itis under this form that the tricurvate often appears in
sheaf-shaped bundles, each bundle of which is developed in a
separate cell (see “ Mother Cell of the Spicule,” ‘Annals,’
1874, vol. xiv. p. 100, pl. x. figs. 3-9), and so numerous in
some instances that it would appear to afford a characteristic
feature, if it did not so happen that the sheaf-shaped bundle
is common to so many totally different kinds of sponges. It is
therefore desirable to remember that this is the tricurvate
spicule which, after the bundles have been eliminated from the
mother cell into the structure of the sponge generally, may
attain a somewhat more recognizably tricurvate form.
It is also desirable to notice that sponges are often densely
charged with minute transparent globules, which have such a
siliceous aspect that, if it were not known that the Hypho-
mycetous Fungi (Mucor and Botrytis) sooner or later destroy
the whole of the sarcode, or soft parts of the sponge, under the
least humidity, and thus fill it with their sporules, these little
transparent bodies might be taken for a part of the spicule-
complement of the sponge. If, however, there should be any
doubt on the subject, and the parent filaments or mycelium ot
the fungus be not observed, the doubt may be got rid of by
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36 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
boiling a bit of the sponge in nitric acid, or exposing it to a
red heat, which will destroy every thing but the siliceous
elements of the sponge.
Muscular Cells.
In many sponges, especially in the harder and tougher
species, chiefly about the dermal layer, there are long fusiform
cells, whose central contents are a nucleus and several granules.
These cells are often united together longitudinally, in the
form of a cord, to. form the dermal reticulation, or are massed
together so as to form a densely tough, contractile cortical
layer. Their shape contrasts strongly with the globular cells
in the dermis, as may be seen by my figures (‘Annals,’ 1872,
vol. x. p. 107, pl. vu. figs. 10 & 11); while they so closely
agree in shape &c. with the fusiform cells of “ unstriated
muscle,” that I have provisionally called them ‘ muscular.’
IT have not been able to make an extended examination of
them; but having often met with them in various sponges and
in different parts of the sponge, especially in the Pachytragia,
it is to be hoped that some one will give his attention to
the subject specially, for their general elucidation, as well
as that of many other cells of the sarcode whose specific
forms and functions have yet to be particularly described and
determined.
Colour of Sponges.
The most prevalent colours of sponges are different shades
of tawny yellow and brown; but they may be snow-white
or jet-black, golden or bright yellow, scarlet or crimson,
ereen, blue, violet, carmine, and purple, passing into the dark
neutral tint of writing-ink—indeed, all the colours of the
rainbow.
Still the prevailing colour of the horny skeleton-fibre is
tawny yellow, brown, or grey; but this is no indication of the
original colour of the sponge when invested with its natural
sarcode, since in fresh specimens of the officinal sponge the
surface most exposed to the light may be black, that less
exposed (viz. the sides) purple, and the lower part, which is
excluded from the light, almost colourless, or partaking only
of the light tawny yellow tint of the interior of the body—a
tint derived from the horny skeleton, which, being the only
part retained in the officinal sponge, presents the well-known
“ sponge-colour.”
Thus, in this instance, the colour is confined to the dermal
and Physiology of the Spongida. 37
sarcode, and is most intense where most exposed to the light,
becoming less so in the lower parts; this is the case in all
sponges, whether the colour be continued into the sarcode of
the body or confined to the surface.
The colouring-matter may be diffused through the sarcode
like a dye, or in small pigmental granules ; the granules may
be diffused generally, or confined in pigment-cells, or both,
as if the former had been derived from the latter. Or the
colouring-matter may be confined to the spongozoa, which,
again, may only partake of it where most exposed to the light,
or possess it generally throughout the body. Lastly, the ova
on approaching the embryonal state may become coloured ;
and, in most instances, where the spongozoa and the ova are
coloured they present an intensified tint of the sponge to
which they belong ; so that in a red- or yellow-coloured sponge
the ova, when advanced in development, may be recognized
generally by being intensely red or yellow, as the case may be,
Yetin some cases they appear in the midst of a tawny-yellow-
coloured sponge as opaque white bodies when they attain their
embryonal state (see ‘Annals,’ 1874, vol. xiv. p. 331).
- The same species of sponge may assume different colours ;
thus Grantia clathrus, Sdt. (= Clathrina, Gray), may in some
instances be vermilion-red, in others sulphur-yellow, and in
others grey-white, which is the most usual: here the colour
is general, and seated in the “ granules.” Esperia macilenta,
Bk., of our coasts, although generally tawny yellow, is some-
times vermilion-red.
The colour, again, may be “fast”? or permanent, or fade
after death, and on drying or preservation in spirit disappear
altogether, or leave a grey or brown tint only. Again, some
calcareous sponges (Ulathrina) which are opaque white while
living, become brick-brown when killed by bemg thrown into
fresh water ; while others (Grantia nivea) retain their opaque
snow-white colour under all circumstances. The cause of this
has not been explained.
Then, again, the tawny-yellow colour of the officinal sponge
of the shops, which, as before stated, is due to that of the horny
skeleton-fibre of which it is alone composed (which fibre is
analogous to the fibre of wool or that of the cocoon of a silk-
worm), is no indication of the colour of the skeleton-fibre
throughout the Spongida; for it may be of all shades, from
colourless, grey, to brown, yellow, and deep dark amber ; while
in one instance at least (Spongia flabelliformis, Pallas; Lan-
thella, Gray), where the soft parts are madder-brown and the
fibre deep amber, there are layers of carmine-coloured cells
38 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Anatomy
intercalated with those of the fibre, thus presenting a beauti-
ful appearance under the microscope.
Lastly, the colour may be. due to the presence of a para-
site, as in the cerulean sponge of the rocks here (Budleigh-
Salterton), which only appears in patches about half as
large as the nail of the finger, but always of a sky-blue colour,
possessing a pin-like spicule, and accompanied by a minute
Oscillatoria in the form of short bacillar filaments like those
colouring the Red Sea, in whose granules the pigment is seated
which gives the blue colour to the sponge while fresh, though the
blue fades greatly on drying. The green colour in Spongilla
also sometimes depends upon the presence of an Anabina, but as
often comes from its own granules; while Halichondria in-
crustans is often pervaded and rendered pink by a minute alga
whose cells, both fresh and dry, present a beautiful red Flori-
dean colour ; indeed the mere contact of a red seaweed with
a sponge may be followed by the latter assuming a similar
tint.
The most striking colour which I have seen among the
sponges is the carmine of the Suberites Aleyonium purpureum,
Lam., from Australia, and Vioa Johnstonii, Sdt., from the
Adriatic, whose spicules are very much alike, and in both of
which the colour is exquisite and permanent.
Starch.
Starch, impalpable, diffuse, or amorphous, and in the common
potato form of grains, although much more compressed, is
common in Spongilla and probably in sponges generally ;
the latter form is even found in the ovum or seed-like body
(‘Annals,’ 1859, vol. iii. p. 334, pl. 1. fig. 7). Still it is very
necessary, in examining marine sponges for starch, to be sure
that the latter does not come from a neighbourmg Fucus,
whose cells are always pregnant with starch-grains, and very
apt to be cut open when minute and intimately connected with
the sponge under microscopical examination.
SIZE OF SPONGES.
Some sponges are always diminutive, others only so when
they are young. In some places the same species may be
only found in small amorphous fragments, while in others it
may attain a large size with definite form. The largest size
that a sponge may attain under favourable circumstances (that
is, unmolested &c.) is almost indefinite ; so that the size of a
and Physiology of the Spongida. 39
specimen, unless very large or very small and of definite form,
goes for nothing specifically.
All the calcareous sponges are small, and many diminutive,
even when full-grown ; while many species of siliceous ones
have been found of very large dimensions. Thus, while the
cavity of Grantia ciliata may when full-grown only admit a
pin’s head, a small child might sit down in the great suberitic
siliceous sponge called “ Neptune’s cup.” Dr. Bowerbank, in
a note written to my friend the late Dr. J. E. Gray, mentions
a massive sponge (Suberite, mzh?) nearly as large as a “military
drum ;” and the crown of another from Belize, in the Bay
of Honduras, “3 feet across.” The well-known “ Neptune’s
cup,’ just mentioned, also belongs to the Suberitida. Mr.
Clifton, again, in a note to Dr. Gray (which I possess), states
that he has seen specimens of a branched sponge (Aos
Cliftoni, Gray) on the beach in South Australia, after a storm,
““6 feet long.” In the British Museum there are many species,
too, of totally different sponges, massive, excavated and fron-
dose, or flabelliform, of comparatively gigantic growth; but,
as I have before stated, they are only indications of the size
that some sponges may attain, and therefore of little or no
value specifically. Still the smallest and most amorphous
fragment of a sponge which presents a new set of spicules
should not be overlooked. That called “‘Acarnus innominatus,
Gray,” I first found on a large specimen of Hetyon sparsus,
Gray, from the West Indies, ina fragmentary state not larger
than the human nail (‘Annals,’ 1871, vol. vu. p. 273, pl. xvii.
figs. 4-6), a specimen of which as large as the human head
was afterwards presented to the British Museum, from Ceylon,
by Mr. Holdsworth.
PARASITISM.
As no living being is exempt from parasites, so the sponges
have theirs. Algz, po-ypes, cirripedes, and crustaceans live
in and on them respectively, as I hope to show hereafter in a
separate and illustrated communication. One parasite in
particular, for which I have proposed the name of Spongio-
phaga communis (‘ Annals,’ 1871, vol. viii. p. 830), so entirely
replaces and simulates the sarcode of the original sponge, in
Hircinia especially, that, but for its occurrence in many other
sponges of a totally different kind and in different parts of
the world, it might (as it has been) be considered part of the
sponge itself.
40 Mr. H. J. Carter on the Spongida.
FossiL SPONGES.
In a paleontological and geological point of view, it might
be assumed that all the orders of sponges to be hereafter men-
tioned existed as far back, at least, as the Upper Greensand
of the Cretaceous system, not only from the resemblance of
entire forms, but from actual identification of the spicules and
other elementary parts themselves. These, besides being found
in the powder of many hollow flints, exist at Haldon Hill,
near Exeter, promiscuously and abundantly in a distinct
stratum of fine sand—the former in direct connexion with
the fossilized sponge, and the latter in a drift-accumulation.
This has long been known; and what I have stated re-
specting the representatives of the orders will be found in
the figures &c. of my paper on the subject, published in
the ‘Annals’ of 1871 (vol. vil. p. 112, pls. vii. to x. inclu-
sive). It is true that all the orders are not represented
by the bare spicules and fragments of glassy fibre therein
illustrated; but sufficient, I think, to justify our assuming
that the others, which can only be recognized by a frag-
ment of the entire fibre respectively, may hereafter be found
in this very interesting, but very little worked, : field of
discovery.
What took place in the Cretaceous Period is taking place
at the present day, especially in the deep sea, as evidenced
by the “ dredgings”” of H.M.S. ‘ Porcupine,’ which indicate,
through the specimens now with me, that about 100 miles
north of the Butt of Lewis, in 632 fathoms (station no. 57),
there must be a bed of sponge-spicules of many kinds,
portions of which are rounded by the currents into pebble-
like forms, which one day may become the nuclei of flints
or rounded portions of sandstone respectively, like those
now scattered over the Cretaceous area; while the bed it-
self may become, like that in the Upper Greensand of Haldon
Hill, a heterogeneous mass of sand and fossil sponge-
spicules. So also a recent specimen of the same “ dredgings,”
figured in the ‘ Annals’ (1873, vol. xii. pl, 1. figs. 1 & 2), con-
sisting, at least, of seven different sponges congregated together
in a very small space on a bunch of dead Lophohelia, points
out how “ the powder of hollow flints”’ is often found to con-
tain a heterogeneous mixture of spicules in addition to those
which belonged to the original sponge, and thus defies all at-
tempts, in many instances, to specialize the latter.
[To be continued. |
On the Development of the Calcispongie. 41
Il.— On the Development of the Calcispongie.
By Exvias MetTscunikorr*.
[Plate IL]
DuriNnG my residence at Messina in the spring of 1868 I
made some observations on the development of Sycon ctliatum
(Sycandra raphanus, Hiick.), which | have not hitherto pub-
lished, because I did not consider them sufficiently completet.
But now, since the appearance of Hiickel’s ‘Monograph of
the Calcispongie ’}, I feel compelled to publish my investiga-
tions. The reasons which have moved me to hesitate no
longer in doing this will be clear enough from what follows.
I hope that my memoir, small as it is, will not be passed
unnoticed by the readers of Hickel’s three-volume monograph,
inasmuch as it is devoted exclusively to developmental history,
z. e. to that department of zoology the great importance of
which in morphological questions seems to be now generally
recognized. With regard to the special case before us, that
of the Calcispongiz, the important part of developmental
history is strongly insisted upon by Hiickel; but unfortunately
the investigations of that naturalist relating to this subject
are so defective that a fresh treatment of the matter has
become a pressing necessity.
I pass now to the description of my investigations. When
we examine transverse sections of sexually mature Syca,
we observe beneath the entodermal lining a great number of
ova and embryos in very different stages of development.
The total and regular segmentation takes place in the same
way as is described by Hiickel in Sycyssa Hualeyt and Leucul-
mis echinus. We have only to remark that a small so-called
segmentation-cavity (Pl. II. fig. 2,c) is formed, which, how-
ever, soon disappears (fig. 3). As the result of the process
of segmentation a roundish embryo (fig. 4) is produced, on
which a great number of small cells are to be detected. I
could not succeed in discovering any process of differentiation
in the embryo, for-which reason the question of the origin of
the germ-lamelle must remain undecided. Evidently the
stages are too quickly passed through for them to be accurately
observed. I must therefore pass on at once to the description
* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the ‘ Zeitschrift fiir wissen-
schaftliche Zoologie,’ Band xxiv. (1874), pp. 1-14, pl. i.
+ [have already given a short account of them in my annual report
upon the progress of developmental history, printed in Russian.
t ‘Die Kalkschwimme: eine Monographie.’ 38 vols. Berlin, 1872.
In this paper I shall only quote the first volume of this work.
42 M. E. Metschnikoff on the
of the formed larva, which has already been observed in the
same species by Lieberkiihn, and in the nearly allied Dunster-
villia corcyrensis (Sycandra Humboldtii, Hick.) by Oscar
Schmidt. In agreement with these naturalists, especially the
latter, I have found all normally developed swarming Sycon-
larvee divided into parts of nearly equal size, only one of
which appeared to be composed of vibratile cylindrical cells,
and the other of unciliated spherical cells (fig. 5). The
former portion constituted a sort of hemisphere containing in
its interior a central cavity of no great size, in the vicinity of
which a great number of very fine brown pigment-granules
were accumulated (fig. 5, q).
If two or three specimens of sexually mature Syca are
kept only for a few days in small glass capsules, the larvae
swarm out in great quantities in order to become further de-
veloped, @. e. to attach themselves. 'To observe the subsequent
processes, all that is necessary is to put a few object-bearers at
the bottom of the glass capsules, so that they may serve as
points of adhesion for the larvae; but even without this
precaution the adherent young sponges may be detected, as
they adhere to all objects existing in the vessels, even the
smallest.
The first process of postembryonic development consists in
the complete disappearance of the central cavity, by which
the upper (¢.e. the vibratile) half of the larval body is per-
ceptibly reduced in size (fig. 6)*. Then commences the fusion
of the spherical cells of the hinder part into a compact mass—
only one row, of the spherical cells in immediate contact with
the vibratile epithelium, being an exception, as these still
retain their integrity for a considerable time (figs. 6, 8, 9, @).
The larve often attach themselves even during this stage ;
but not unfrequently they continue for some time longer in
their swarming activity, but without being thereby hindered
in their development. As one of the most important processes
occurring in this, the formation of the calcareous spicula must
be specially noticed. The rather brownish, unciliated, compact
mass of the hinder portion is the place in which the skeletal
structures originate; to be convinced of this, one need only
glance at figs. 7 and 8. It must also be mentioned as worthy
of notice that at first only long rod-like spicula are formed ;
so that at this early stage our Sycon passes through a state
which is persistent in the genus Sycyssa, a fact which may be
of significance in phylogenetic considerations.
The principal thing in the metamorphosis is that the un-
* The above-mentioned brown mass of granules collected into a central
aggregation, as shown in figs. 6-8,
—
Development of the Calcispongie. 43
ciliated (posterior) half becomes converted into the skeleton-
forming layer; whilst the anterior* ciliated section draws
back into the interior of the larval body, to form the entoderm.
That the half of the body consisting of what Hickel calls
flagellated cells actually draws back into the interior is con-
vincingly shown by comparing with each other the four larval
stages represented in figs. 5 to 8. It will be seen that in each.
stage it projects less and less, while the skeleton-forming layer,
on the contrary, becomes proportionately larger. In order to
obtain a notion of the mode in which the ciliated half retracts
itself, we must examine larvee which have adhered rather
early, ¢. e. before the formation of the skeleton. In these we
can see that, while the hinder half has altered very little, the
anterior ciliated section becomes invaginated in the interior
of the body (fig. 9), by which means, of course, an aperture
(aperture of invagination, fig. 9,0) is produced at the upper
pole. The ciliated hemisphere consequently forms a sac-like
body, which appears to be surrounded by the skeleton-forming
layer. It appears from the next following stages that the
aperture of invagination just mentioned does not pass directly
into the definitive osculum, but becomes entirely effaced.
Hence, in its further development, the young adherent sponge
appears as a perfectly closed body, in which two principal consti-
tuents may be clearly distinguished (fig. 10). Externally there
is the skeleton-forming layer, in which several rod-like spicules
are enclosed; in the interior, on the contrary, there is a closed
body, which represents the entoderm. The walls of the latter
appear so thick that for a time one is unable to detect any
cavity ; this comes later into view, when the double-layered
wall becomes formed into a vesicle. In the sponge three days
old, represented in fig. 11, I could already observe an internal
cavity (fig. 12,c), but it was still very narrow and small.
It was only in a larger Sycon, six days old, that a consider-
able cavity was to be seen; it shimmered through the body-
walls even in the living animal (fig. 13). When this same
animal was treated with acetic acid, the two vesicularly inflated
layers} (fig. 14,@,6), as well as the internal gastro-vascular
cavity (fig. 14,c), could be most clearly distinguished. In
this stage, the latest that I have seen, no buccal aperture was
yet formed; on the other hand, three-pointed spicules were
already present.
* As regards the designations “ before” and “behind” I agree, upon
developmental historical grounds, with Lieberkiihn and Schmidt, but not
with Hackel.
+ It is to be remarked that I could detect no cilia on the entodermal
cells of this stage.
44 M. E. Metschnikoff on the
From the preceding it follows that the two principal layers
of the sponge-body are founded already in the body of the
larva, and, further, that the upper ciliated half of the body is
converted into the entoderm, and the lower unciliated half into
the layer surrounding the entoderm.
Having now communicated the facts of my investigations,
the question may be put, How far can the results obtained
by me be brought into accordance with Hiickel’s statements ?
At pp. 84 and 216 of his work this naturalist gives the fol-
lowing short summary of the developmental phenomena in
the Calcispongize:—“ From the egg is produced, in consequence
of total regular segmentation, a simple spherical or elongated
round body, which is at first composed of homogeneous spherical
cells. Then there is produced in the interior of the cell-agere-
gate a small central cavity (the stomach), which, breaking
through outwards, forms an orifice (the osculuwm or buccal
orifice). The surface becomes covered with cilia; and then
the embryo swims about as a free larva (planula) for a long
PUGS. es The body-wall (of the larvee) consists of two
layers of cells, entoderm and exoderm. ‘he inner layer, or
entoderm, consists of a layer of unciliated cells; the outer
layer or exoderm consists of a layer of ciliated cells (flagellate
cells).”” Then “the larva falls to the bottom, and attaches
itself. The attachment takes place at the pole of the longi-
tudinal axis, opposite to the buccal orifice (aboral pole), by a
flat or peduncular surface of adhesion, which from this time
forth forms the base of the sponge-body. The flagellate cells
of the exoderm now retract their flagellar filaments, coalesce
to form the syncytium, and begin to secrete their interior pro-
toplasmic products, the calcareous spicules. ‘The cells of the
entoderm, on the contrary, which were previously not ciliated,
stretch forth each a long vibratile process, and thenceforward
line the surface of the stomach as a flagellate epithelium.”
This description therefore runs quite differently from that
given by me above; for according to Hickel the skeleton-
forming layer (exoderm, Hiick.) originates not from the un-
ciliated cells, but from so-called flagellate cells provided with
long cilia; and the converse is the case with the entoderm,
which Hiickel derives from spherical cells, whilst, according
to my observations, it takes its origin from the ciliated (or
flagellate) cells. This is the chief difference in our state-
ments, the elucidation of which will here be attempted.
Hiickel describes the larve of four species of Calcispongie,
of which those of Sycyssa Hualey? exhibit the greatest analogy
with the larve of Sycon, masmuch as they appear to be com-
——_
Development of the Calcispongie. 45
posed of two dissimilar halves (only one of which is clothed
with cilia). But as, according to Hiickel, the course of deve-
lopment agrees in essentials in different Calcispongie, we must
deal with his representation as general.
With regard to the first stages (embryonic development),
my observations are in accordance with those of Hickel; but
this only renders the difference as to the later states more
remarkable. Besides that according to Hickel the internal
cavity in the larve is always lined with a particular layer of
spherical cells, whilst Oscar Schmidt and myself detected
nothing of the kind, Hiickel’s description deviates most
widely from mine with respect to the postembryonic deve-
lopment. He makes no mention either of the invagination of
the ciliated layer or of the hypertrophy of the unciliated
layer ; the whole metamorphosis is supposed to be reduced to
this—that the ciliated exoderm retracts its flagellar filaments
and becomes converted into the so-called ‘ syncytium,” while
the entoderm of the larva acquires cilia in order to furnish
the so-called flagellate epithelium. The reason why these
views are so directly opposed to mine is easy to find, if we
earefully peruse the chapter on the developmental history of
the Calcispongiz (pp. 328-338). From this it appears that
Hiackel never observed the postembryonic development in the
sponges, but has invented it & priort. 'The following passage
is very instructive :—‘“The conversion of the swimming
Gastrula into the youngest and simplest attached state, which
we will call Ascula, appears to take place very rapidly and
has not yet been observed. The changes occurring therein
may, however, be directly inferred from the comparison of the
Ascula and Gastrula(!).. The attachment of the latter takes
place at the aboral pole of the longitudinal axis, at the end
opposite to the buccal orifice. The flagellate cells of the
dermal lamella suspend their vibratile movements, retract
the flagellar process, and lose their slender cylindrical form,
flattening and spreading out into the extending intestinal
surface. The unciliated entodermal cells, on the other hand,
divide repeatedly and then become converted into flagellate
cells, each of them extending a filiform flagellum from its
proximal end, or that turned towards the stomachal cavity”
(p. 337). But even this is not all! Hickel says that he
has ‘ inferred ” (erschlossen) the metamorphosis of the Calci-
spongize from the comparison of the Gastrula with the Ascula
(7.e. “the youngest and simplest attached stage”’); but no-
where does he give either a description or a figure of even a
single actually observed Ascula! From this we may infer
that he has really never seen an Ascula; for otherwise he
46 M. E. Metschnikoff on the
would have said something about it, especially seeing that in
general he describes his subjects diffusely and circumstantially
(as, indeed, may be seen from the quotations just given). It is
evident that he has compared the free-swimming larva with a
young but on the whole fully-formed sponge, without con-
sidering that in this way he might very easily be led astray,
as in fact has happened. The most remarkable circumstance
is that, in several parts of his monograph, Hickel puts forward
his ‘directly inferred transformation.” as an actually existing
fact, and not as a more or less probable hypothesis. Thus,
for example, he says at p. 160, “I give the name of syn-
cytium in the Calcispongiz to the whole mass of tissue which
is produced by the fusion of the cells of the exoderm of the
ciliated larva ;” and at p. 216, “ Each cell of the entoderm
stretches forth a long vibratile process &c.’’ In these cases
he forgets entirely that he has never seen either the fusion or
the extension of the cilia*. Is this the philosophical “ method
of scientific investigation ”’ so celebrated by Hiickel, and for
the non-employment of which the embryologists (ontogenists)
are so severely blamed by him? (p. 472).
I now pass to the question how far the developmental
history of the Calcispongiz can be made available for the
comparison of the principal layers of these organisms with
those of other animals. In this respect Hickel has arrived
at a settled conclusion. He regards as one of the most im-
portant results of his work the statement that the two layers
of the sponge-body are homologous with the ectoderm and
entoderm of the Coelenterata. By the ectoderm (or exoderm)
he understands the so-called syneytium—that is, the skeleton-
forming outer layer of the sponge, whilst he characterizes the
flagellate epithelium as the entoderm. He gives this con-
clusion as the result of his vestigations in developmental
history. Thus he says, for example :—‘ The relationship of
* IT must indicate the following passage as exceedingly naif :—‘The
structure of the flagellate cells of the exoderm in the Gastrula is exactly
similar to that of the flagellate cells of the entoderm in the fully developed
Calcispongia”’ (p. 835). And yet this striking agreement did not suffice
to raise any doubt in Hackel as to whether his @ priori conception of the
germ-lamella represents the truth.
+ It is truly surprising to read how this method has been employed in
the representation of the Ascula, Protascus, Protospongia, and other form-
stages invented by Hackel. Thus, for instance, it is said at p. 339 :—
“Formerly I supposed that all Calcispongiz in their earliest youth pass
through the characteristic form of the Protolynthus. But I must now
add as a limitation that 7 many cases the transition from the Ascula to
the Olynthus takes place not through the Protolynthus but through the
Protospongia.” All these conclusions are assumed without any single
fact ascertained by observation being cited in their support.
—EE———
Development of the Calcispongie. 47
the Sponges to the Ccelenterata, and the comparison of the
‘water-vascular system’ of the former with the ‘ gastro-vascular
apparatus’ of the latter, which Leuckart first indicated, has
then been demonstrated (?) more circumstantially and firmly
established by developmental history in my memoir ‘ Ueber
den Organismus der Schwimme’ &e. I therein proved that
a true homology really exists between these two systems of
canals, and that the wall of these canals in the Sponges,
as well as in the Hydromeduse, Ctenophora, and Corals, is
formed from two originally different cell-layers or lamella—
namely from the exoderm, which represents the outer, and
the entoderm, which‘represents the inner germ-lamella of the
higher animals. I further demonstrated that these two primi-
tive formative membranes show the same characters in the
ciliated larva developed from the egg in both the groups of
the Coelenterata and Sponges” (p. 214; see also p. 33). As
we have seen that one of the principal momenta in the deve-
lopmental history of the Calcispongiz, the metamorphosis, was
not observed but constructed & priort by Hiickel, and further
that this construction is contradicted by facts, of course the
just cited opinion as to the germ-lamellz of the sponges must
also be subjected to a thorough revision.
I will first consider Hiickel’s statements, and then pass to
the expression of my own views. Hiickel has expounded his
theory most completely in the last section of his first volume
(“Philosophie der Kalkschwiimme’’). We find there the
following passages :—“ If we compare the coarser and finer
structural characters of Hydra and Cordylophora.... with
the corresponding structural characters of Olynthus*, we can-
not but be astonished at the striking agreement which occurs
even in minute details” (p. 460). Now in what does this
astonishing agreement consist? ‘1, the simple stomachal
cavity with buccal orifice; 2, the composition of their stomachal
wall of two lamelle, the ciliated entoderm and the unciliated
exoderm ; 3, the composition of the entoderm of flagellate
cells” (p. 460). The differences cited by Hiickel are as
follows :—‘‘ 1, the constitution of the exoderm, the cells of
which in Hydra and Cordylophora develop urticating capsules
and neuro-muscular processes, but in Olynthus fuse into the
“syncytium ; 2, the cirelet of tentacles of the former, which is
wanting in the latter; 3, the different origin of the sexual
organs.” = It will be seen at once that in the first three points
an homology of the entoderm alone can be spoken of, since for
f+ By Olynthus Hickel understands a simple, solitary calcareous sponge
with double walls (ectoderm and endoderm), and with a spacious sacci-
form “ stomachal cavity.”
48 M. E. Metschnikoff on the
the agreement of the outer layer only the absence of cilia, a
negative and unimportant character, has been cited. But as
regards the differences, the different structure of the outer
layer must be placed in the first rank. Hickel endeavours to
get over this difficulty, saying :—“ but this [difference in the
structure of the exoderm] is to be regarded as a secondary histo-
logical differentiation of the two divergent groups” (p. 460).
Although he cites no evidence of this, he has no hesitation in
explaining the ‘‘ differences in anatomical structure between
the simplest hydroids and the simplest sponges ”’ as ‘‘of quite
subordinate significance” (p. 460). But is it really so insigni-
ficant that the outer layer of the sponge exclusively produces
all skeletal formations, whilst in the true Ccelenterata these
are never developed from the ectoderm, but always from the
cutis (therefore from the mesoderm) ? Where do we know of
any examples of an epithelial tissue (to which the ecto-
derm of the Coelenterata belongs) serving as the seat of the
formation of a calcareous skeleton? These are questions for
an answer to which we may seek in vain from Hiickel.
Let us return to Hickel’s argumentation :—At p. 461 we
read as follows :—“Of the greatest significance is the onto-
geny of Cordylophora, which perfectly agrees with that of
Olynthus.” Unfortunately Hickel knows so little of the
ontogeny of Olynthus, that he has no right to say any thing
about this ‘‘ perfect agreement.” As we have seen, Hickel
has invented the metamorphosis of the Calcispongiz (without
hitting upon the right thing), in doing which he evidently
took the agreement with the Hydroida as his starting-point,
instead of arriving at it as a result. In my opinion the meta-
morphosis “ directly inferred” by Hiickel is nothing more than
a cast (Abklatsch) from the well-known metamorphic history
of the Hydroida. Hickel says with particular emphasis that
“the Planula and the Planogastrula are perfectly alike in both
animals ;” but that proves nothing so long as neither the
origin nor the metamorphosis of the ciliated larva has been
observed*.
Hiickel may repeat, as often as he pleases, that he was the
first to demonstrate the homology of the two lamella of the
Sponges and Ceelenteratat ; but every critically thinking natu-
ralist will at once see that this is not the case, and that in
* The transformation of his “morula” into the swimming larva has
not been observed by Hiickel any more than by myself; he has neither
described nor figured any transition-stage ; nevertheless he feels justified
in filling up the existing gap @ priori, without, however, expressly
saying so.
t See the above-cited quotations from p. 214, and, further, pp. 33, 456,
and 470.
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Development of the Calcispongie. 49
reality Hickel has furnished no proof at all of the homology
of the ectoderm and the skeleton-forming layer. But it would
also not be difficult, by the aid of facts already sufficiently
well known, to convince ourselves that no such homology
exists in nature. We need only take into consideration the
known points in the developmental history of the marine sili-
ceous sponges*. It is known that in the embryo of these
animals the whole cell-mass divides into two portions, of which
the outer becomes the ciliated epithelium, whilst the cxner takes
on the character of a skeleton-forming cell-aggregate. The
topographical position of this inner cell-mass (beneath the
ciliated layer), the circumstance that it appears as an aggregate
of compact spiculigenous elements, and, further, the fact that
these cells never appear as ciliated epithelial cells, furnish us
with sufficient data for rejecting their supposed homology with
the ectoderm of the Ceelenterata. ‘To this of course must also
be added the argument above cited, that the ectoderm of the
Coelenterata never produces skeletal structures, which always
appear as derivatives of the cutical layer. I have designedly
left out of consideration the facts observed by me in the deve-
lopmental history of the Sycon, in order to show that by careful
consideration of the known material it is impossible to arrive at
the erroneous notion of the agreement of the skeleton-forming
layer with the entoderm. But if we will also consider the
facts above described, we shall see at once that the develop-
ment of the Calcispongizw is likewise opposed to Hiickel’s
interpretation. It was established that it is the hinder un-
ciliated half that furnishes the calcareous skeleton, and con-
sequently that the skeleton-forming elements never appear in
the form of flagellate or ciliated epithelial cells, which are
characteristic of the ectoderm of the Coelenterata.
From the reasons adduced, I venture to draw the conclusion
that the skeleton-forming layer of the sponges, or the so-called
“syncytium,” of Hickel, does not represent the ectoderm, but
the skeleton-forming layer of many other animals, especially
* See, e. g., the investigations of Lieberkiihn. I have myself made
some observations upon the development of the siliceous sponges, which
I shall publish elsewhere. Here I limit myself to the remark that the
larvee of four genera (Reniera, Esperia, Raspailia, and an undetermined
genus) are essentially of similar structure. As an example I have figured
the larva of Reniera (Plate II. fig. 15), which is chiefly distinguished
from the others by the presence of a posterior circlet of cilia. I have
observed the metamorphosis in an Esperia. The external epithelial layer
is gradually lost, so that for a time the young sponge appears to be com-
posed of an irregular aggregation of parenchyma-cells. It is only subse-
quently that the so-called ciliary baskets ( Vimperkorbe) appear, in the
form of closed spheres, which as yet are in no way connected with each
other.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4. Vol. xvi. 4
30 M. E. Metschnikoff on the
Coelenterata and Echinodermata, and consequently belongs to
the domain of the middle lamella (mesoderm, Hiickel). Be-
sides the points cited, the fact that the cells of the middle
lamella in both the Coelenterata and the Echinodermata (at
least in the young state) are exceedingly changeable, may also
be adduced in favour of this view. ‘Thus, for example, we
see that the naked amceboid cells of the skeleton-forming layer
in the larvee of Echinoderms move about in the body-cavity,
and, in consequence of active movements, collect in particular
spots, e. g. in the stone-canal.
In order to explain my view still more clearly, I will here
compare with each other three objects which are at the first
glance very similar. If we examine the three figures here given
(A, B, C), we observe that all three consist of a one-layered
tS
\N
fig. A represents an embryo of Reniera, B an embryo of Sertularia,
and C an embryo of Echinus.
sphere, densely packed with a compact cell-mass. If it were
possible in the comparison to take only such data into considera-
tion, we should say (as Hiickel actually has done with regard
to the planule of the Sponges and Hydroida) that all the three
embryos are perfectly homologous, and especially that all three
have originated in a similar manner. It is only the close ex-
amination of subsequent stages that shows us that the homo-
Development of the Calcispongiz. 51
logy can be accepted only for two embryos. The one-layered
external envelope is in all three cases the dermal layer, which
afterwards becomes covered with cilia and represents an epi-
thelial tissue, which may be “characterized throughout as the
ectoderm. In the siliceous sponges this layer is only of short
persistence ; it disappears during the transformation into the
attached form. In the Hehini also the ectoderm is only
provisional, at least upon many parts of the body. In the
Hydroida, on the contrary, it persists throughout life, as is
sufficiently well known. ‘The inner cell-mass, in our three
cases, experiences the following alterations: in the siliceous
sponges it furnishes (at least for the most part) the skeleton-
forming layer, becoming converted into the so-called syneytium
of Hiackel; in the Hchini it plays a perfectly similar part,
although the cellular elements here retain their individuality ;
but it 1s quite otherwise in Sertularta (and the Hydroida in
general), m which the cell-mass, although similar in appear-
ance, becomes the entoderm.
The conclusion at which I have arrived is, that the syn-
cytium corresponds to the skeleton-forming layer of the Echi-
nodermata (and Ccelenterata), whilst the ectoderm (in the
siliceous sponges) appears as a provisional structure confined to
the larval stage. (With regard to the inner layer (4) of our
three embryos, a still more profound analysis may be instituted ;
we may elucidate the question as to the homology of this layer
by the consideration of the mode of origin of the mesoderm.
But this we shall pass over, so as not to depart from the prin-
cipal theme, especially as at the moment several important
facts are still insufficiently known.)
What, then, is the position of the Calcispongie in relation
to the question of the germ-lamelle ? With regard to this
order in general nothing definite can be said at present, as the
larvee of different representatives of the order appear to be con-
structed in various ways, while the history of the metamor-
phosis is known only in the case of a single species. But if we
take this species alone into consideration, we may, by compa-
rison with the better-known siliceous sponges, obtain an un-
derstanding of many circumstances. Above all it must be
borne in mind that the larvee of four genera of marine siliceous
sponges observed by me always have a gap in the ectoderm at
the posterior end of the body through which the skeleton-
forming layer projects outwards. Now this baring, which,
indeed, is very peculiar, occurs in a still greater degree in the
Sycon-larvee, which is in connexion with the weak development
of the ciliated layer. The latter, instead of forming a sphere
as in so many other animals, remains only in the form of the
4¥
52 M. E. Metschnikoff on the
segment of a sphere, which is afterwards invaginated to con-
stitute the entoderm. Of the four larvee described and figured
by Hickel, that of Sycyssa Hualeyi is most nearly allied to
the Sycon-larve, although the former is strikingly distinguished
by the presence of a layer of spherical cells lining the internal
cavity. How the metamorphosis takes place in this and in
the other three cases (Ascetta mirabilis, Asculmis armata, and
Leuculmis echinus) I cannot say in the present state of our
knowledge.
After what has been said, I need hardly say particularly
that all the inferences founded by Hickel upon the “ homology”
of the sponge-larvee (Grastrula) with the larvee of other animals,
collapse of themselves, because they are destitute of all solid
grounds.
In conclusion, I will make one or two remarks upon the
question of Coelenterism, but without entering into any detailed
discussion, as I have elsewhere (in the concluding chapter of
my “Studien tiber die Entwicklung der Medusen und Sipho-
nophoren,” appearing simultaneously with this paper*) treated
this question in detail. Here I will only endeavour to show
that the opiions expressed by Hiickel are by no means capable
of shaking my theory as to homologies of the ccelenteric ap-
paratus, inasmuch as they for the most part rest upon miscon-
ceptions. Hickel’s course of thought is as follows :—1, “ the
true body-cavity,” which occurs only m the Vermes{, Echino-
dermata, Arthropoda, Mollusca, and Vertebrata, ‘‘ always ori-
ginates by acleaving of the mesoderm ;” 2, “ as the mesoderm
is entirely wanting in the sponges, there can be no body-cavity
in them—nor does it occur in the Ceelenterata;” 3, “ the
true body-cavity can never, like the intestinal or stomachal
cavity, be surrounded by the entoderm;” 4, “ consequently
also the cavities of the gastro-canal-system in the Sponges and
Acalephs are not body-cavities, butan intestinal cavity” (p.469).
To this I must object :—1, the body-cavity in many animals
* Zeitsch. fiir wiss. Zool. Band xxiv. (1874) pp. 15-83.
+ This theory is that the gastrovascular apparatus of the Coelenterata
corresponds to the complex of organs which in the Echinodermata its formed
from the lateral diverticula of the primitive intestine. Consequently the
peritoneal cavity with the water-vascular system is to be regarded as the
homologue of the gastrovascular system. This theory is supported by a
whole series of facts, as is more particularly explained in my memoir just
cited.
t It may here be mentioned in passing that the notions accepted by
Hickel of the Vermes aceelomi and V. caelomati by no means possess the
importance which that naturalist ascribes to them. The Nemertina and
Microstomea have a “ true body-cavity ” as well as several Trematoda, at
least in the states of redize and sporocysts.
Development of the Calcispongie. 53
does not originate by cleaving of the mesoderm, and may even
exist without it; thus, a body-cavity exists in several larve
of Coelenterata in the space between the ectoderm and ento-
derm; 2, the Sponges possess the mesoderm in the form of
the skeleton-forming layer (see above) ; 3, the inner cavity of
the Echinodermata (which Hickel regards as a true “ body-
cavity’’) is enclosed by the entoderm, as it is produced as
a derivative of the primitive intestine. Thus we see that
Hiickel’s three fundamental opinions will not hold good; and
for this reason the fourth point remains without a foundation.
The whole question of Ccelenterism turns upon the idea of
the body-cavity. As soon as we without further consideration
conceive the inner cavity of the Vermes, Echinodermata, &c.
as a‘ true body-cavity,” we place ourselves upon false ground ;
for that which in different animals acts as a body-cavity, re-
presents structures which are morphologically quite different.
Thus we see that in the Echinoderm-larve a spacious body-
cavity is formed which stands in no genetic connexion with
the definitive cavity of the body ; the latter originates in the
interior of the so-called lateral disks, which, in the last resort,
take their origin from the primitive intestine. The Ceelenteric
apparatus is to be paralleled with the peritoneal cavity of the
definitive Echinoderm-body, not with the body-cavity of the
Echinoderm-larva.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE II.
Fig. 1. Portion of a transverse section through the Sycon-tube with two
segmented germs.
Fig. 2. A segmented germ with segmentation-cavity (c).
Fig. 5. A somewhat later stage.
Fig. 4. Portion of a transverse section with an embryo.
Fig. 5. The free-swimming larva: g, aggregation of granules.
Fig. 6. A later larval stage: d, individual cells; g, aggregation of granules.
Fig. 7, Afree-swimming larva with skeleton-formation already commenced.
Fig. 8. A somewhat further developed larva: d, individual cells.
Fig. 9. An attached larva without calcareous skeleton . 0, orifice of in-
vagination (half diagrammatic) ; d, individual cells.
Fig. 10. An attached larva with calcareous spicules: a, outer; 6, inner
layer.
Fig. 11. Ae pouty Sycon, three days old.
Fig. 12. A similar stage, treated with acetic acid: a, b, as in fig. 10;
c, gastrovascular cavity.
Fig. 13. A young sponge, six days old.
Fig. 14. The same treated with acetic acid: a, 6, c, as in figs. 10 & 12.
Fig. 15. A free-swimming larva of Reniera from the Crimea: e, outer
ciliary layer; m, inner skeleton-forming cell-mass.
54. Prof. F. M‘Coy on a new Australian Parrot.
IIT.—Note on an apparently new Parrot from Cardwell,
N.E. Australia. By Freperick M‘Coy, Professor of
Natural Science in the University of Melbourne.
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
GENTLEMEN,
My attention was called several months ago by Mr. Lead-
beater, the skilful taxidermist to the National Museum at
Melbourne, to the apparently new characters of a small parrot
of the genus Cyclopsitta very nearly related to the C. Coxent,
one of the newly described species from the same part of
Australia, the distinguishing characters separating it from
which he so correctly appreciated that I wish, if the species
is as yet undescribed, to name it after him, as a recognition
of his acute observation. J have since searched all the records
available tome; and failing to find any indication of any such
species, I beg to send you a descriptive note of it.
Cyclopsitta Leadbeateri (M‘Coy).
Spec. char. Rich dark green above, lighter below; wing-
feathers blackish, with the outer webs of the primaries and
secondaries bright blue above, two pale yellow transverse
bands below;. under wing-coverts bright green; a golden-
yellow small patch on each side concealed by the closed wing,
and a small dull orange-red patch at inner edge of tertiaries,
the outer webs of which and wing-coverts are of the same
green as the back; a dark vermilion-red transverse oblong
patch on forehead, from which a greenish blue broad band
extends, including the eye, over the ear-feathers towards the
outer edge of the auriculars, changing slightly to opal-purplish
hue. The male only differs in having a transverse patch of
red, as in C. Coxen?, through the ear-feathers, dividing the
blue above from that below. Biull and feet blackish horn-
colour.
Length 5 inches 3 lines, wing from shoulder 3 inches 3 lines ;
length of bill along gape 7 lines; depth of both mandibles
8 lines; tarsus 64 lines.
The general size, shape, and colouring is nearly like that
of C. Coxeni; but it is somewhat smaller, and has in both
sexes an oblong patch of red on the forehead just over the
cere. It differs also in habitat, frequenting the scrubs more
than the C. Coxeni does. It seems to be rather rare at
Cardwell, where the specimens described were collected for
the Melbourne Museum by Mr. Broadbent.
April 19, 1875.
—
On Additions to the Australian Curculionide. 55
1V.—Additions to the Australian Curculionide. Part VIII.
By Francis P. Pascor, F.L.8. &c.
AMYCTERIN.
Alexirhea singularis.
CYLINDROCOSYNIN2®.
Lycosura, Nn. 2.
bispinosa.
MOoLyTINz&.
Syagrius, n. g.
fulvitarsis.
RHADINOSOMIN2.
Euthyphasis, n. ¢.
acuta.
Acalonoma, n. g.
reducta.
ERIRHININ2.
Clisis, n. g.
modesta.
Agestra rubiginea.
Cydmea selligera.
notaticollis.
Dicomada murina.
Methone, n. g.
ornata.
Antyllis togata.
Myossita sublineata.
ATTELABIN®.
Kuops pulchella.
ANTHONOMIN.
Orchestes perpusillus.
CIONIN#E.
Nanophyes maurus.
CRYPTORHYNCHIN A,
Melanterius carinicollis.
fugitivus.
—— floridus.
Teutheria, n. g.
insculpta.
Mecistocerus denticulatus.
Salcus elevatus.
latissimus.
fEthreus, n. g.
cicatricosus.
BARIDINZ.
Platyphzeus, n. g.
—— lyterioides.
Alexirhea singularis.
A, sat breviter ovata, fusca, griseo-varia; rostro crasso, rugoso-
punctato, in medio profunde canaliculato; prothorace setoso-
tuberculato, longitudine fere duplo latiore, in medio sulcato,
margine postico supra scutellum producto; elytris breviusculis,
subcordatis, costis alternis setoso-tuberculatis, singulis postice
tuberculo majore instructis, regione suturali griseis; corpore
infra nigro. Long. 43 lin.
Hab. Perth, Swan River.
The prothorax of this curious species is longitudinally
grooved in the middle, the groove behind opening out into a
flat space, which is produced to form a short triangular spine
[Meee iy § ie
covering the scutellum.
LYCOSURA.
Rostrum cylindricum, validiusculum, apicem versus sensim incras-
satum ; scrobes subterminales, arcuate, ad marginem inferiorem
56 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to
oculorum currentes. Oculi rotundati, subtenuiter granulati.
Scapus ad partem posteriorem oculi attingens ; funiculus articulis
duobus basalibus longioribus, eequalibus, ceteris gradatim bre-
vioribus, ultimo obconico; clava ovalis, distincta. Prothorax
oblongus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Seutellum distinctum. Elytra
convexa, elongato-cordata, prothorace multo latiora, basi truncata,
humeris paulo obliquis. Pectus antice late emarginatum. Cove
antice contigue; femora in medio incrassata, mutica; tibie
flexuose, antice longiores; tarsi articulo tertio late bilobo.
Metasternum elongatum. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus
ampliatis.
The long scape and form of the rostrum are characters indi-
eating an affinity with the Cylindrorhinine ; but the normal
length of the metasternum would, in strict accordance with
Lacordaire’s system, rather point to a connexion near the
Hylobiine. It will, however, I think, be more natural to
place it with the former.
Lycosura bispinosa. Pl. I. fig. 9.
L. ferruginea, squamis griseis, plurimis piliformibus, irregulariter
vestita; rostro capite parum longiore, modice arcuato; prothorace
latitudine manifeste longiore, basi apiceque fere sequali, lateribus
rotundato, dorso lineis duabus albescentibus ornato ; elytris basi
prothoracis multo latioribus, sulcato-punctatis, interstitiis con-
vexis, tertio postice in spinam acutam horizontalem producto, apici-
bus perparum divergentibus, subacuminatis, fascia arcuata pone
medium maculaque prope apicem, e squamis minus condensatis
formatis, notatis. Long. 5 lin.
Hab, Albany.
SYAGRIUS.
Rostrum modice elongatum, arecuatum ; scrobes premediane, oblique,
infra rostrum currentes. Ocul ovales, grosse granulati. Scapus
oculum haud attingens; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulis extus
gradatim crassioribus. Prothorav lateribus rotundatus, basi
rectus ; lobis ocularibus nullis. Scutellum invisum. Elytra
cylindrica, prothorace haud latiora. Coxe postice rotundate ;
femora mutica, antica majora; tibie flexuose, mutice; tarsi
breves, latiusculi; uwngriculi liberi. Abdomen segmentis duobus
basalibus ampliatis, sutura prima distincta.
This curious Curculionid is very similar to certain species
of Anchonus ; but, viewed geographically, it is doubtless allied
to the rare genus Steremnius, from which it is at once dif-
ferentiated by its rounded, not transverse, posterior coxe, and
elytra not broader than the prothorax. I have seen but a
single example, sent to me by Mr. French, of the Melbourne
Botanic Garden.
the Australian Curculionide. 57
Syagrius fulvitarsis.
S. oblongo-parallelus, niger, sparse setulosus; capitis fronte bi-
tuberculata, inter tubercula breviter lineatim sulcata; rostro
prothorace paulo breviore, dimidio basali grosse lineatim punctato ;
antennis fulvo-ferrugineis, funiculi articulo basali breviusculo,
secundo duplo longiore, ceteris transversis et ad apicem gradatim
crassioribus ; prothorace latitudine longitudini sequal, supra
rugoso, in medio tuberculis duobus parvis instructo ; elytris pro-
thorace vix duplo longioribus, pone basin supra subito elevatis,
irregulariter tuberculatis, et grosse impresso-punctatis ; corpore
infra nigro, segmentis duobus basalibus abdominis grosse punc-
tatis ; aig fulvo- ferrugineis. Long. 2 lin.
Hab. Wien-wien (Richmond River).
EUTHYPHASIS.
Caput subcylindricum ; rostrum capite paulo brevius, parallelum ;
scrobes flexuose, infra oculos desinentes, apicem versus laterales.
Scapus arcuatus, oculum attingens; funiculus articulis quatuor
basalibus obconicis, a primo gradatim brevioribus, tribus ultimis
transversis; clava ovata, acuminata. Prothorax oblongo-sub-
cylindricus, basin versus sensim latior. H/ytra elongata, prothorace
basi haud latiora, humeris obliquis, singula in spinam acutam pro-
tensa. Femora vix pedunculata; cove antice in medio pectoris
locate. Cetera ut in Rhadinosomo.
Most of these characters are diagnostic, and differentiate
the genus from Lhadinosomus, to which it has, however, a
most unmistakable resemblance. The eyes are round as in
Rhodinosomus (not oval) ; and, owing to the rostrum not being
dilated at the tip, the scrobes are not apparent above.
Euthyphasis acuta. Pl. I. fig. 3.
E. fusiformis, ferruginea, squamis fulvescentibus sejunctim tecta ;
collo haud constricto ; rostro latitudine sesquilongiore ; antennis
ad apicem nigricantibus; prothorace in medio lineatim dense
squamoso; scutello minuto; elytris striato-punctatis, punctis
approximatis, lateribus ad medium parallelis, deinde sensim
attenuatis, singulis macula mediana oblique subcurvata notatis ;
corpore infra griseo-squamoso. Long. 4 lin. (rostr. incl.).
Hab Swan River.
ACALONOMA.
Canut subcylindricum, modice elongatum ; rostrum capite vix longius,
crassiusculum ; scrobes submediane, oblique, infra rostrum desi-
nentes. Oculi subrotundati. Scapus brevis, oculum attingens ;
funiculus articulo primo ampliato, secundo obconico, ceteris bre-
vioribus; clava distincta, elliptica. Prothorav oblongus, basin
58 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to
versus sensim latior, basi rotundatus. Scutellum angustum.
Elytra elongata, basi prothorace haud latiora, humeris obliqua,
apicibus angulato-divaricata. Pedes ut in precedente. Abdomen
segmentis duobus basalibus quam tribus sequentibus vix longi-
oribus.
Although there is a considerable gap between this genus
and the preceding, I have little hesitation in regarding it as
an ally. Lacordaire has referred Rhadinosomus to his tribe
“ Brachydérides ’’—an unsatisfactory position in my opinion,
as it is not adelognathous, and there is nothing resembling it
in any of the adelognathous groups to which the ‘“ Brachy-
dérides”’ belong. [am inclined to consider that Rhadinosomus
and the two genera here described constitute a distinct and
isolated subfamily, which will be found, like Methypora
(another anomalous genus), to have a place near Aterpine.
Acalonoma reducta. Pl. I. fig. 2.
A, fuscescens, vel ferruginea, squamositate grisea plus minusve
2 4 Bt ante: ae
tecta; capite, rostro prothoraceque aliquando nigris, crebre
punctatis; antennis subferrugineis ; elytris prothorace quadruplo
longioribus, pone medium utrinque leviter rotundatis, striato-
‘s) Avene ae : 2 5 Z :
punctatis, interstitiis modice convexis, sutura aliquando nigra ;
corpore infra nigro, crebre punctato, punctis squamigeris. Long.
27 lin.
Hab. Swan River.
CLISIS.
Rostrum tenue, arcuatum ; scrobes medians, rectee. Scapus anten-
narum oculum vix attingens; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo
primo elongato, ad apicem clavato, quatuor ultimis transversis ;
clava majuscula, distincta. Oculi rotundati, grosse granulati.
Prothorax basi rotundatus. lytra subovata, prothorace paulo
latiora, humeris haud productis. Pectusexcavatum. Cowe antice
basi contigue. Mesosternum integrum. Femora clavata, postica
dentata. Tarsi articulo tertio late bilobo. Ungues simplices.
The genus Bagous has also a pectoral cavity not extending
behind the anterior coxee ; but then its tarsi are filiform. The
species described below is covered with minute scales, so that
its sculpture is completely masked; in rubbed specimens,
however, the prothorax is seen to be closely punctured, and
the elytra have lines of punctures but are not striate. I place
the genus in aline with Hrirhinus ; but its immediate affinities
are not obvious.
Clisis modesta.
C. elliptica, fulva, squamulis argenteis omnino tecta; rostro pro-
thorace paulo longiore; funiculi articulo primo quam duobus
Mee a
the Australian Curculionide. 59
sequentibus conjunctim longiore ; prothorace subtransverso, utrin-
que paulo rotundato, basin versus sensim latiore ; scutello tri-
angulari; elytris regulariter convexis, lineatim punctatis, inter-
stitiis latis planatis. Long. 12 lin.
Hab. King George’s Sound.
Agestra rubiginea.
A, rufo-fulva, setulis subaureis leviter induta; rostro basi paulo
compresso ; scrobibus premedianis ; funiculo articulo primo quam
secundo fere duplo longiore; prothorace transverso, sat dense
punctato, in medio linea levi subnotato ; elytris striato-punctatis,
interstitiis modice latis, subconvexis ; corpore infra tenuiter piloso ;
abdomine segmentis duobus basalibus modice amplatis, sutura
prima bene determinata; coxis intermediis magis approximatis ;
femoribus dente minuto acuto armatis. Long. 12 lin.
Hab, King George’s Sound.
In A. suturalis, the type of the genus, the scrobes begin
nearly in the middle of ‘the rostrum, the intermediate coxze
are comparatively rather widely separ rated, and the two basal
segments of the abdomen are unusually short, and their suture
nearly obsolete ; to which it may be added that the femora are
more decidedly toothed. In both species the rostrum is thicker
or compressed at the base, but is of the same width through-
out anteriorly.
Cydmea selligera.
C. breviter elliptica, atra, sat dense albo-, medio elytrorum pro-
thoraceque fusco-squamosa ; rostro nigro, minus tenuato; antennis
ferrugineis; prothorace transverso, basi latiore ; elytris sub-
cordatis, leviter striato-punctatis, humeris callosis ; pedibus ferru-
gineis, sparse albo-squamulosis. Long. 1 lin.
Hab. Champion Bay.
Allied to C. pusilla; but in that species the prothorax is
less transverse and tolerably straight at the sides, and the
coloration is different.
Cydmea notaticollis.
C. breviter ovata, fusca, sat dense squamosa, prothorace utrinque
albo, elytrisque, presertim basi, sublineatim albo-ornatis ; rostro
fulvo, basi apiceque nigris ; antennis tenuioribus, funiculi artieule
primo quam duobus sequentibus longiore ; prothorace transverso,
basi latiore; elytris subcordatis, striatis ; pedibus fulvis; corpore
infra dense niveo-squamoso. Long. | lin.
Hab. Western Australia (Perth).
This is a very distinct species, being in the character of its
coloration quite dissimilar to its congeners.
60 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to
Dicomada murina.
D. ovata, fusca, squamis argenteis griseo-nebulosis sat disjunctim
tecta ; rostro capite fere triplo longiore; antennis ferrugineis ;
prothorace in medio magis convexo ; stutello nigro; elytris sub-
cordatis, fortiter striatis, interstitiis squamis in series tries in-
structis ; corpore infra dense albo-squamoso. Long. 1} lin.
Hab. Champion Bay.
Readily distinguished by its deep strie and the disposition
of the scales on their interstices.
METHONE.
Rostrum cylindricum, apice latius ; scrobes median, oblique, infra
oculos currentes. Antenne funiculi articulo basali crassiore,
secundo longiusculo, ceteris brevibus, gradatim crassioribus ; clava
ovata. Oculi ovales, tenuiter granulati. Prothoraw transversus,
basi rotundatus ; lobis ocularibus nullis. Hlytra obovata, pro-
thorace manifeste latiora. Femora incrassata ; cove intermediz
fere contigue; tibiw intermedize flexuose. Abdomen segmentis
duobus basalibus ampliatis, suturis tertio quartoque rectis.
This genus is like Dicomada in habit; but the abdominal
segments are not curved at the sides, the intermediate cox
are approximate, and the scrobes are oblique ; notwithstanding,
I think it should rank close to that genus.
Methone ornata.
M., rufo-ferruginea, squamis concoloribus aliisque albidis plagiatim
notata; rostro prothorace duplo longiore, basi subseriatim punc-
tulato; funiculo breviusculo; prothorace fortiter transverso, in
medio minus squamoso, utrinque albo-plagiato; elytris striato-
punctatis, interstitiis vix convexis, uniseriatim setosis, singulis
plagis magnis duabus, una basali, altera pone medium oblique
sita ; corpore infra sat dense opalescenti-squamoso. Long.1+ lin.
Hab. King George’s Sound.
Antyllis togata.
A, rufo-castanea, ad latera albo-squamosa; rostro prothorace vix
longiore, modice robusto ; antennis ferrugineis; funiculi articulo
secundo quam primo multo breviore ; prothorace fusco, sat con-
fertim punctato; elytris striato-punctatis, interstitiis latiusculis,
vix convexis ; corpore infra leviter albo-squamoso. Long. 14 lin.
Hab. Adelaide.
The coloration of the elytra is variable, the white sometimes
forming bands, more or less interrupted, on the disk. The
genus is known by its six-jointed funicle.
the Australian Curculionide. 61
Myossita sublineata.
M. oblonga, depressiuscula, fulvescens, leviter albo-pilosa ; capite
inter oculos postice impresso; rostro prothorace breviore, apicem
versus parum latiore; prothorace longitudine latitudini squali,
utrinque modice rotundato, tenuiter punctulato; elytris sub-
parallelis, striato-punctatis, punctis distinctis, approximatis, inter-
stitiis alternis perparum elevatis; geniculis infuscatis. Long.
23 lin.
Hab. Albany.
Like M. tabida, but narrower, the rostrum less dilated
towards the apex, the elytra more parallel at the sides, and
the alternate interstices very slightly elevated, the other inter-
stices more hairy, so as to give the elytra a somewhat striped
appearance.
Euops pulchella.
E, gracilis; capite prothoraceque eneo-fulvis, irregulariter punctatis ;
oculis nigris, approximatis ; antennis fulvis, clava articulis prace-
dentibus conjunctim longitudine quali; scutello «neo; elytris
nitide fulvis, regione suturali sneis, basi apiceque infuscatis,
fortiter striato-punctatis; corpore infra fulvo, metasterno fusco ;
pedibus fulvis. Long. 12 lin.
Hab. Port Bowen.
A very distinct species. The head and prothorax together
are nearly as long as the elytra; the eyes are large and frontal,
but not contiguous.
Orchestes perpusillus.
O. obovatus, niger, opacus; rostro prothorace breviore ; antennis
articulis duobus basalibus ampliatis, flavis, ceteris clavaque
nigris; prothorace transverso, utrinque rotundato, tenuiter sat
confertim punctato; elytris amplis, postice latioribus, striato-
punctatis, punctis approximatis, interstitiis convexis; pedibus
breviusculis, femoribus tibiisque anticis incrassatis. Long. 1 lin.
Hab. Champion Bay.
Like O. saliceti, but rather larger and less convex, with a
broader prothorax, and shorter and stouter legs, especially of
the anterior pair. ‘The species of Orchestes have hitherto been
supposed to be confined to the northern hemisphere.
Nanophyes maurus.
N. obovatus, niger, nitidus, tenuiter albo-pubescens; rostro pro-
thorace paulo longiore, basi sulcato; scapo articuloque primo
funiculi flavidis, ceteris clavaque nigris; prothorace transversim
conico, subtiliter punctato; elytris subcordatis, striato-punctatis,
62 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to
interstitiis latis, convexis ; femoribus basi testaceis, infra dente
minuto acuto instructis. Long. 1 lin.
Hab. South Australia.
Smaller and shorter than N. lythri, and very differently
coloured. It is the only species of this genus yet recorded
from Australia. [N. ferrugatus, Blanch., from ‘Tasmania, is
referred to Cvionus in the Munich Catalogue. |
Melantertius carinicollis.
M. breviter ovalis, fuscus, subopacus, squamis piliformibus flavican-
tibus adspersus ; rostro prothorace sesquilongiore, omnino tenuato,
basi seriatim punctato, scrobibus infra rostrum cito currentibus ;
antennis ferrugineis ; funiculi articulis duobus basalibus elongatis ;
prothorace transverso, antice constricto, fortiter longitudinaliter
corrugato, in medio carinato; elytris cordatis, sulcato-foveatis,
interstitiis carinatis, tertio quintoque magis elevatis ; femoribus
minus crassis. Long. 3 lin,
Hab. Cape York.
In this very distinct species the ocular lobes are less promi-
nent than in the more typical forms.
Melanterius fugitivus.
M. obovatus, ferrugineus, squamis ochraceis dense plagiatim tectus ;
rostro prothorace parum breviore, basi crassiore, squamoso ; funi-
culi articulis duobus basalibus elongatis ; prothorace modice trans-
verso, apice sat subito constricto, in medio minus squamoso ; elytris
subtrigonatis, striato-punctatis, punctis rotundatis subapproxi-
matis, interstitiis vix convexis ; corpore infra fusco, sparse albido-
squamoso; femoribus dente magno subcylindrico armatis ; tibiis
apice haud ampliatis. Long. 23 lin.
Hab. Swan River.
Allied to WM. cinnamomeus, but, inter alia, a shorter and
stouter rostrum, thicker at the base; the tibiz longer and
straighter, &e.
Melanterius floridus.
M. obovatus, rufo-ferrugineo squamosus, elytris lete ochraceo-macu-
latis ; rostro prothorace breviore, basi vix incrassato; funiculi
articulo basali quam secundo fere duplo longiore; prothorace
transverso, antice vix constricto, basi latiore, confertim punctato ;
elytris subcordatis, tenuiter striatis, striis punctis subremotis
notatis, interstitiis praecipue posticis elevatis ; femoribus anticis
dente minusculo, posticis dente magno armatis; tibiis brevibus,
compressis, valde flexuosis, apice ampliatis. Long. 2 lin.
Hab. Adelaide.
Also allied to M. einnamomeus; but differently coloured,
the Australian Curculionide. 63
larger and closer scales on the elytra, which in part cover the
striz ; the tibie shorter and more compressed.
TEUTHERIA.
Caput globosum; rostrum mediocre, cylindricum, arcuatum, apice
haud latius ; scrobes preemedianse, infra rostrum currentes. Ocult
subrotundati, grosse granulati. Scapus gradatim incrassatus ;
funiculus articulo primo ampliato, secundo obconico, ceteris
transversis, gradatim brevioribus et crassioribus ; clava distincta,
ovata. Prothorax subconicus, lobis ocularibus nullis. Hlytra
subcordata, basi reflexo-marginata. Pectus canaliculatum. Cove
antics basi contigue. Mesosternum horizontale, haud canalicu-
latum. Metasternum brevissinum. Femora sublinearia, mutica ;
tibice rectee, breviuscule ; unguiculi connati. Abdomen segmentis
duobus basalibus ampliatis. Corpus ellipticum.
This genus, like Melantertus, belongs to Lacordaire’s “Cléo-
gonides ;” but it can scarcely be said to be allied to any of their
genera.
Teutheria insculpta.
7. valde convexa, nigra, nitida; rostro piceo, striato-punctato,
prothorace paulo breviore; antennis pallide ferrugineis; pro-
thorace grosse punctato-impresso ; elytris fortiter striatis, striis
punctis elongatis notatis, interstitiis elevatis; tibiis tarsisque
piceis; abdomine segmentis duobus basalibus grosse punctatis,
punctis squama alba minuta instructis. Long. 17 lin.
Hab. Albany.
The following Table will show the diagnostic characters
of the genera allied to Melantertus ; they are all Australian.
Claws free.
Hraeirumaperiectly sttaebb. acs... nadine cove e ns ace Euthebus.
Rostrum more or less curved. -
BENE OAESCLY AACOLEU rials icles oon 6 vie see as ele aie Melanterius.
Eyes more or less finely faceted.
Anterior tibize with two mucros
Anterior tibize with one mucro.
Anterior coxze contiguous.
Rostrum as broad at the tip as at the base .... Lybeba.
Rostrum gradually narrowing to the apex .... Ende, —
Anterior coxze not contiguous ..........+. .... Psydestis.
Claws united at the base ........ cece sence een eeees Teutheria,
bn chet ND Ret ae Diethusa.,
Mecistocerus denticulatus.
M. niger, dense griseo-squamosus ; capite parvo, inter oculos fovea
ovali profunde impresso ; rostro tenuato, nitide fusco-castaneo ;
antennis ferrugineis; funiculi articulo secundo quam _ primo
64 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on Additions to
sesquilongiore ; prothorace (¢) antice ampliato-rotundato, apice
constricto, basin versus paulo angustiore, ( 9 ) dimidio basali late-
ribus parallelo, antice haud ampliato ; scutello parvulo, rotundato ;
elytris oblongo-cordatis, punctato-striatis, punctis striarum squama
majuscula repletis ; corpore infra sparse squamoso ; pedibus anticis
in mare sat valde elongatis; femoribus intermediis et posticis
infra dente acuto armatis, femoribus anticis infra denticulis
plurimis irregulariter aspersis; tibiis anticis denticulis in series
duas ordinatis; tarsis anticis fimbriatis, articulo basali elongato.
Long. 36, 95lin.
Hab. Port Bowen (Queensland).
The male of this species differs in several particulars from
the female: in the former the club of the antenne is cylin-
drical, in the latter it is shorter and thicker towards the tip,
or oblong-obovate ; the male has the fore legs unusually long,
with a number of small spine-like teeth beneath the femur
and tibia, the tarsus is also finely fringed with rather long
hairs at the side ; in the female these parts are of the normal
character. In some specimens there are one or two pale in-
definite semilunar marks on the elytra. The genus in general
appearance is like Macromerus and its allies, but is distin-
guished by the pectoral canal being bounded behind by the
metasternum, not by the mesosternum as in the great majority
of the Cryptorhynchine.
Salcus elevatus.
S. breviter ellipticus, valde convexus, niger, squamulis piliformibus
griseis adspersus; rostro prothorace longitudine vix squali ;
antennis ferrugineis; funiculi articulis duobus basalibus longi-
usculis, longitudine equalibus ; prothorace longitudine fere duplo
latiore, sparse punctulato; elytris lineatim impresso-punctatis ;
femoribus infra canaliculatis, anticis dente parvo instructis.
Long. 33-43 lin.
Hab. Port Bowen.
This species has the femora grooved beneath, a character
also present in S. globosus (the type), but it is wanting in
S. dorsalis and the following species. S. globosus is much
less convex, the prothorax is closely punctured, and the scales -
are much smaller and less hair-like. In all the species of the
genus the scales on the tibie are arranged in widely separated
lines.
Salcus latissimus.
S. modice convexus, latissime ovatus, niger, squamulis minutis valde
adspersus ; rostro validiore, prothorace longitudini vix squali,
apice magis dilatato; antennis ferrugineis; funiculi articulis
duobus basalibus clongatis; prothorace longitudine fere duplo
the Australian Curculionide. 65
latiore, subtilissime punctulato; elytris lineatim impresso-punc-
tatis; femoribus muticis, haud canaliculatis. Long. 33-4} lin.
Hab. Port Bowen.
A remarkably broad species, the breadth of the elytra
exceeding their length. ‘The first abdominal suture is not
traceable, or rather is replaced by a large, deep, irregular
impression.
JETHREUS.
Caput rotundatum; rostrum rectum, subulatum, basi excepta nudum ;
scrobes subbasales ad partem inferiorem oculi desinentes. Ocule
antice approximati, tenuiter granulati. Scapus brevis; funiculus
articulis duobus basalibus elongatis, tertius usque ad septimum gra-
datim brevioribus et crassioribus; clava distincta, breviter ovata.
Prothorax transversus, dorso planatus, lateribus verticalis, apice
haud productus, basi bisinuatus, lobis ocularibus fere obsoletis.
Scutellum distinetum. Hlytra oblongo-subcordata, supra depressa,
prothorace latiora, apicibus rotundata. ima pectoralis in meso-
sterno mitreformi terminata, apice cavernosa. Pedes mediocres ;
femora modice elongata, mutica; tibiew subcylindrice, recte, vel
intus paulo bisinuate, apice extus spina recta instructe ; tarsi
articulo tertio ampliato, profunde bilobo ; waguicult subdivergentes.
Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus majoribus, sutura prima
arcuata.
An isolated form, which I can only suggest may be found
to have Menios and Mitrastethus as remote allies. To these
genera it is approximated by its straight rostrum, short scape,
general character of the underparts, except that the meta-
thoracic episterna are rather narrow; and to Mitrastethus
somewhat in outline, but not otherwise. The peculiar arma-
ture of the tibie may belong possibly to only one sex. The
elytra of the only exponent of this genus are marked with
brown lines, caused by the dark approximate punctures in the
sulci, and each elytron has a brown oblong spot, to the naked
eye apparently depressed or contracted like a scar. I am in-
debted for my specimen to Mr. Masters.
Aithreus cicatricosus. Pl. I. fig. 8.
i, ellipticus, fuscus, supra sat dense, infra pedibusque densissime
griseo-squamosus ; rostro nitide piceo, prothorace multo breviore ;
antennis ferrugineis; prothorace apice valde angusto, squamis
rotundatis paulo sejunctim tecto; elytris suleato-punctatis, punctis
approximatis, interstitiis paulo convexis, quinto sextoque in medio
macula oblonga fusca notatis, apicem versus paulo prominulis.
Long. 6 lin.
Hab. Lord Howe Island.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4. Vol. xvi.
qn
66 On Additions to the Australian Curculionide.
PLATYPH XUS.
Cuput parvum ; rostrum subulatum, arcuatum, apice latius ; scrobes
postmediane, parum oblique, ad oculum currentes. Scapus cla-
vatus, oculum haud attingens; funiculus 7-articulatus, articulo
basali longiusculo, ceteris sensim brevioribus, ultimo solo trans- _
verso, in clavam continuatis. Oculi modice angusti, fortiter
eranulati, infra contigui. Prothorawx latus, depressus, apice tubu-
latus, basi bisinuatus, lobis ocularibus haud prominulis. Elytra
depressa, prothorace haud latiora. Pygidiwm tectum. Pectus am-
pliatum, integrum. Cowe antice approximantes. Pedes brevi-
usculi ; femora clavata, obsolete dentata ; tibie recte ; tarsi bre-
viusculi. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus conjunctis, sutura
in medio arcuata.
A genus allied to the Brazilian Parallelosomus, but differing
in its broader outline, very coarsely faceted eyes contiguous
beneath, more subulate rostrum, and scrobes commencing
behind the middle. In habit it is like Lytertus complanatus,
but longer. This is one of the most interesting discoveries
of Mr. Masters.
Platypheus lyterioides.
P. rufo-castaneus, subnitidus, setulis albis valde adspersus; rostro pro-
thorace longiore, basi subseriatim punctato ; prothorace ampliato,
subtransverso, ante medium utrinque fortiter rotundato, apice
valde constricto, supra sat crebre leviter punctulato; elytris
suleato-punctatis, interstitiis subplanatis, rude punctatis ; corpore
infra punctis adsperso, singulis setam albam gerentibus, Long.
4 lin.
Hab. Gayndah.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE I.
[Most of the figures on the Plate refer to species published in previous
parts of these “ Contributions.” ]
Fig. 1. Aésiotes leucurus, X11. p. 278.
Fiy. 2. Acalonoma reducta, XVI. p. 58.
Fig. 3. Euthyphasis acuta, XVI. p. 57.
Fig. 4. Isacantha congesta, VILL. p. 98.
Fig. 5. Ocynoma antennata, XII. p. 234.
Fig. 6. Embaphiodes pyxidatus, XIII. p. 419.
Fig. 7. Scolyphrus obesus, XII. p. 413.
Fig. 8. Atthreus cicatricosus, XVI. p. 65.
Fig. 9. Lycosura bispinosa, XVI. p. 56.
Fig. 10. Head of Dicomada murina, XVI. p. 60.
Fig. 11. Head of Olanea nigricollis, XI. p. 193.
Fig. 12. Head of Xeda amplipennis, XL. p. 192.
Fig. 18. Head of Agestra rubiginea, XVI. p. 59.
Fig. 14. Head of Faryzeta musiva, XI. p. 192.
On some new Shells from Kerguelen’s Island. 67
Fig. 15. Head of Cydmea viridula, IX. p. 188. .
Fig. 16. Head of Erytenna consputa (Trans. Ent. Soc. 1870, p. 196)*.
Fig. 17. Head of Pheodica fulvicornis, XIII. p. 386.
Fig. 18. Ae and side views of the head of Glaucopela unicolor, XIII.
p. 885,
Fig. 19. Pore leg of Melanterius floridus, XVI. p. 62.
Fig. 20. Fore leg of M. fugitivus, XVI. p. 62.
Fig. 21. Fore leg of Diethusa fervida, XI. p. 185.
V.—Descriptions of some new Shells from Kerguelen’s Island.
By Epear A. Sait, F.Z.5., Zoological Department,
British Museum.
Tue following species form part of the collections made at
Kerguelen’s Island by the Rev. A. E. Eaton, the naturalist
sent by the Royal Society with the British expedition for
observing the recent transit of Venus. Only those species
are here mentioned which are apparently undescribed, as it is
purposed to publish elsewhere complete and detailed accounts
of all the specimens obtained at the island. Of Mollusca the
number is small, comprising only about twenty species; but
of these the proportion of new forms is large, and several of
them very remarkable discoveries.
1. Struthiolaria mirabilis, sp. nov.
Testa ovata, tenuis, imperforata, leviter turrita, alba, epidermide
tenuissima fugaci olivaceo-alba amicta ; anfractus 63, convexius-
culi, superne anguste planulati, lente accrescentes, longitudinaliter
oblique arcuatimque crebre plicati (plicis inferne ad suturam vix
attingentibus) ; liris spiralibus prominentibus supra plicas undu-
latis (in anfr. superioribus 7-8, in ultimo circiter 22, illis infra
medium simplicibus) succincti ; apertura longitudinis totius circiter
4 equans ; columella arcuata.
Operculum corneum unguiculatum, inferne costis duabus a nucleo
unguiformi divergentibus munitum, superne medio longitudinaliter
unisulcatum, concentrice striatum.
Long. 42 mill, diam. 22.
Hab. Swain’s Bay, Kerguelen’s Island.
But a single specimen of this very remarkable shell was
obtained by Mr. Eaton. This unfortunately has the labrum
so much broken away, that it is impossible to describe the
form of the aperture and the nature of the basal channel.
However, the animal and operculum agree in all respects ex-
* Figured in forgetfulness of its not having appeared in the ‘Annals.’
Be
0°
68 Mr. E. A. Smith on some new
ternaily with Struthiolaria ; and although the shell has more
the general aspect of Buccinum, there can be no doubt of its
true location. The species which compose this genus are
strong thick shells ; this, on the contrary, is particularly tragile,
and clothed with a very thin deciduous epidermis.
2. Buccinopsis Eatont, sp. nov.
Testa elongato-ovata, turrita, tenuis, levis, pallide livido-fuscescens,
haud nitens; anfractus 6? (apice fracto), reliqui 4 perconvexi,
lente accrescentes, leves, incrementi lineis flexuosis insculpti,
sutura profunda fere canaliculata sejuncti ; apertura ovata, longi-
tudinis totius circiter 4 equans; columella levis, polita, medio
leviter arcuata, versus basim obliqua; canalis latissimus, per-
brevis, vix recurvus; labrum simplex, tenue.
Operculum ovatum, concentrice plicato-striatum, nucleo laterali, vix
terminali.
Long. 56 mill., diam. 27 ; apertura long. 27 mill., diam. 14.
Hab. Royal Sound and Swain’s Bay, Kerguelen’s Island.
This is a very remarkable species, and chiefly characterized
by the smooth convex whorls, which are destitute of all sculp-
ture and ornamentation with the exception of the lines of
growth. The suture is particularly deep, and almost amounts
to a canaliculation. Around the short cauda of the body-
whorl, from a little below the middle of the columella, runs a
carination (which frequently occurs in species of Bullia), and
joins the basal channel near the lip.
The operculum is peculiar in that the nucleus is not terminal
as in Buccinopsis Dalet, but situated on the inner side about
one tenth of the entire length from the extremity, and just
at this point the outline is interrupted by a slight sinus. It
consists of one whorl, which gradually increases by concentric
layers well defined by the lines of growth; the inferior surface
is somewhat thickened along the outer edge—that is, that oppo-
site the nucleus. Such slight differences are scarcely sufficient
to warrant a generic separation.
3. Trophon albolabratus, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-fusiformis, turrita, alba ; anfractus 6, primi duo (nucleus)
leves, ceeteri convexi, liris spiralibus (in anfr. superioribus 4-5,
in ultimo circiter 13) wqualibus subequidistantibus cincti, et
lamellis foliaceis numerosis subconfertis et prominentibus instructi ;
apertura superne ovalis, infra in canalem prolongata, intus satu-
rate fusca, longitudinis teste circiter 2 equans; labrum intus
sublate albo marginatum, leviter expansum; columella medio
parum arcuata, basi obliqua, eallo inferne crassiusculo, superne
tenui labroque juncto induta, ceruleo-alba, margine interno fusea ;
Shells from Kerguelen’s Island. 69
regio umbilici leviter rimata ; canalis angustus, obliquus, paululum
recurvus, modice elongatus.
Operculum flayo-corneum.
Long. 40 mill., diam. 18; apertura long. 24 mill., diam. 11.
Hab. Swain’s Bay and Royal Sound, Kerguelen’s Island.
The nearest ally of this species appears to be 7. philip-
pranus of Dunker, which is found in the Straits of Magellan,
at Cape Horn, and the Falkland Islands. From this species
it differs in having the whorls rounded above, and not flattened
or excavated, the penultimate is larger and more elevated, the
body-whorl is more inflated below the middle and not pro-
duced into such an elongated cauda, and the canal is shorter
and the aperture rather larger, the longitudinal lamelle are
more prominent and not nearly so numerous.
4, Littorina setosa, sp. nov.
Testa imperforata, ovato-turrita, tenuis, pallide rosea, circa medium
anfractuum linea spirali rufa cincta, epidermide fugaci villosa vel
setosa olivacea induta; anfractus 6, convexi, superne aliquanto
tabulati, sutura profundiuscula discreti, ubique spiraliter et oblique
minute punctato-striati ; apertura subquadrato-circularis, longitu-
dinis totius 4 equans; columella perparum arcuata, ad basim
leviter patula; labrum simplex.
Operculum paucispirale, ovatum, superne acuminatum, tenuissimum,
flayo-corneum.
Long. 14 mill., diam. 83; apertura long. 7 mill., diam. 5.
Hab, Swain’s Bay, Kerguelen’s Island.
The epidermis which clothes this species is of a very de-
ciduous nature; it is minutely hairy, the hairs being disposed
in obliquely longitudinal series showing the layers of increase.
5. Rissoa Kerguelent, sp. nov.
Testa ovata, semipellucida, vitrea vel lactea, ad apicem pallide
rubescens, tenuis, imperforata ; anfractus 5, convexi, politi, sutura
angustissime marginata divisi; apex obtusus; apertura ovata,
superne acuminata, longitudinis totius ;5, adequans; peristoma
continuum, leviter incrassatum et expansum.
Operculum paucispirale, corneum, simplex.
Long. 3 mill., diam. 14.
Hab. On a sponge, Kerguelen’s Island.
This pretty species is of a glassy texture, sometimes streaked
longitudinally with opaque white. The whorls are divided by
a narrowly margined suture, and below it there is a faint
depression; the first two whorls form an obtuse apex; and
the penultimate is large.
70 Mr. E. A. Smith on some new
EATONIA, gen. nov.
Testa forme rissoide ; apertura subcircularis; peristoma simplex,
continuum, margine labrali haud incrassatum.
Operculum ovatum, pauci- vel unispirale, nucleo subterminali a
latere columellari paululum remoto, infra ossiculo prominenti a
nucleo exsurgente et versus marginem columellarem extenso
munita,
There are two genera which have affinity to the present
one—Jeffreysia and Rissoina. With Jeffreysia it agrees in
the form and character of the aperture, but differs in having
the nucleus of the operculum not lateral, but situated within
the margin and towards the lower end—in fact, agreeing
in this respect with Rissoina (see Adams, ‘Genera of Recent
Mollusca,’ vol. ii. pl. 35. f. 1, a@& 6), but distinguished from
it by the absence of the basal faint channel of the aperture
and the lack of any incrassation to the labrum.
The operculum of Jeffreysia is composed of concentric layers
(as in Purpura), commencing from a nucleus situated on the
margin of the inner or columellar side; and the ossicle or
rib proceeds ‘‘from the nucleus in the direction of the outer
margin” (Jeffreys, ‘ Brit. Conch.’ iv. p. 58; in the figure, /.c.
pl. 1. f. 3, it is apparently the reverse).
In Katonia the operculum is spiral, consisting of one or
more whorls, the nucleus is situated within the margin and
about one fourth the entire length from the lower end, and
the ossicle is directed towards the ¢nner margin.
I feel much pleasure in associating with this group the
name of the Rev. A. E. Eaton, who worked so indefatigably
in collecting specimens during the expedition.
6. Hatonia kerguelenensis, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-conica, tenuis, olivaceo-nigrescens, versus labrum palli-
dior semipellucida, vix rimata; anfractus 6, convexi, leves parum
nitidi, incrementi lineis striati, sutura simplici sejuncti; apertura
fere circularis, longitudinis totius ;5, equans; peristoma simplex,
continuum, in regione umbilicali leviter incrassatum et vix
reflexum.
Operculum ovatum, intus concavum, nucleo posteriore sed haud ter-
minali, crassiusculum, margine externo lira incrassatum, unispirale,
supra incrementi lineis valde striatum, infra ossiculo elongato a
nucleo exsurgente munitum.
Long. 3 mill., diam, 12.
Hab. On a sponge, Kerguelen’s Island.
This species was found in company with Rissoa Kerguelent.
It is of a very different form, the spire being conical, the last
Shells from Kerguelen’s Island. 71
whorl shorter and a trifle broader; and it also differs in colour.
In general aspect it resembles very much several species of
Hydrobia; but the operculum will at once separate it.
7. Hatonia caliginosa, sp.nov.
Testa ovata, modice tenuis, nigra, vix rimata; anfractus 44, convexi,
leeves, vix nitidi, sutura simplici discreti, incrementi lineis obso-
lete striati ; apertura fere circularis, superne paululum acuminata,
longitudinis totius 4 fere equans ; peristoma continuum, levissime
incrassatum, in regione umbilicali albidum, aliquanto reflexum, et
versus basim parum effusum.
Operculum ei Z. kerguelenensis fere simile.
Long. 2 mill., diam. 1.
Hab. Swain’s Bay, Kerguelen’s Island.
This minute shell has a simple style of sculpture. It is of
a very black olive-colour, with a nearly circular aperture, the
peritreme of which is black outwardly and whitish in the colu-
mellar region.
8. Hatonia subrufescens, sp. nov.
Testa ovata, leviter conica, tenuis, semidiaphana, vix rimata, sub-
rufescens, versus labrum albida; anfractus 44, lente accrescentes,
conyexi, sutura subprofunda divisi, leves nisi incrementi striis
tenuiter sculpti; apertura subcircularis, longitudinis teste 1
paulo superans ; peristoma continuum, ad marginem columellarem
leviter incrassatum et reflexum, rimam umbilicalem indistinctam
effingens.
Operculum ei £. kerguelenensis fere simile, sed ossiculo fortissimo
munitum.
Long. 14 mill., diam. 2.
Hab. On a sponge, Kerguelen’s Island.
The reddish colour of the upper whorls is attributable to
the dried remains of the inhabitant.
9. Skenea subcanaliculata, sp. nov.
Testa minuta, orbiculata, depressa, tenuis, subdiaphana, albida, late
profundeque umbilicata ; spira minime elevata; anfractus 3},
sublente accrescentes, perconvexi, ad suturam valde incurvati, fere
canaliculati, leves nisi incrementi striis levissime sculpti ;
apertura subcircularis, leviter obliqua; peristoma continuum,
simplex.
Operculum subcirculare, paucispirale, nucleo fere centrali.
Diam. max. 12 mill., diam. min. 1, alt. 3.
Hab. On a sponge, Kerguelen’s Island.
72 On some new Shells from Kerguelen’s Island.
Some specimens are of a faint reddish colour in the upper
whorls ; but this may be from the dried animal within. ‘The
whorls are very much incurved at the suture, so much so that
almost a channel is produced.
10. Scissurella supraplicata, sp. nov.
Testa heliciformis, spira brevi, anguste perforata, tenuis, semipellu-
cida, alba, epidermide caduca crassiuscula pallide olivacea amicta ;
antractus 3, primus ? (abruptus), secundus convexiusculus,
superne aliquanto planulatus et radiatim arcuate plicatus, ultimus
magnus, paululum supra medium carina duplici tenui (cum
scissura continua) succinctus, supra carinam radiatim arcuate
plicatus, infra eam incrementi lineis striatus ; apertura maxima,
irregulariter circularis, ad marginem basalem levissime expansa ;
peristoma continuum, scissura profunda angusta.
Operculum corneum, 4
Diam. max. 14 mill., diam. min. 1, alt, 1.
Lab. Swain’s Bay, Kerguelen’s Island.
The deep narrow slit is situated between the two thread-
like keels, as is the case in several other species. The oper-
culum is too far within the aperture to allow of examination.
11. Solenella gigantea, sp. nov.
Testa elongato-ovalis, postice subrhomboidalis, parum inequilateralis,
postice longior, aliquanto ventricosa, versus marginem posticum
compressiuscula, epidermide nitidissima (vel fusco- vel flavo-
olivacea) induta, incrementi lineis concentricis (interdum promi-
nentibus) ornata, et striis paucis tenuissimis et confertis ab um-
bonibus usque ad medium lateris antici radiata, intus alba, iri-
descens ; margo dorsalis utrinque leviter declivis, ventralis vix
arcuatus ; extremitas lateris antica brevioris paululum supra me-
dium leviter acuminato-rotundata; postica superne subrostrata,
medio leviter sinuata; dentes cardinales postice circiter 32, an-
tice 11 ; pallii impressio perprofunde sinuata.
Lat. 62 milly long. 32, crass. 19.
Hab. Royal Sound, Kerguelen’s Island.
This magnificent species is by far the largest yet described
of this genus, and is at once known from the other three
species by its difference of form. The posterior end pouts in the
same manner as in the North-American Yoldia thracieformis.
‘The epidermis im young and half-grown specimens is of a
bright yellowish olive colour; but in the adult shell it becomes
of a dark olive-brown, and is much eroded in the umbonal
region ; it is slightly reflexed within the margin of the valves.
The few radiating contiguous striations towards the anterior
end furnish another very distinctive character.
Mr. E. J. Miers on new Species of Crustacea. 73
12. Yoldia subequilateralis, sp. nov.
Testa ovalis, postice acuminata, subzequilateralis, postice paululum
brevior, convexiuscula, epidermide olivacea vel flavo-olivacea
induta, concentrice rugose striata, utrinque umbonibus ad margi-
nem subventralem striis paucis subgranosis radiantibus insculpta,
utrinque leviter hians, intus czeruleo-alba ; margo dorsalis utrinque
multum declivis, antice levissime convexo-arcuatus, postice fere
rectus; margo ventralis ubique arcuatus; latus anticum late
rotundatum, posticum subacuminate productum ; fovea ligamentalis
parva triangularis; dentes cardinales utrinque 11; sinus pallii
latissimus parum profundus.
Lat. 34 mill., long. 23, crass. 9.
Hab. Swain’s Bay, Kerguelen’s Island.
I know but one species which approaches the present one
somewhat closely, namely Y. Hightsiz of Couthouy. From this,
however, it is well distinguished by its difference in form. By
reference to Jay’s figure upon which Y, Hightsid is founded
(for no description is given ; Cat. Shells, 1839, ed. 3, pl. i. f. 12
& 13), it will be perceived that a very inequilateral shell is
there represented, with a much excavated posterior dorsal slope ;
on the contrary, Y. subequilateralis is almost equilateral, with
a straight posterior dorsal acclivity.
VI.—Descriptions of new Species of Crustacea collected at
Kerguelen’s Island by the Rev. A. E. Eaton. By Epwarp
J. Mirrs, Zoological Department, British Museum.
THE Crustacea collected at Kerguelen’s Island (exclusive of
the Entomostraca, which have not yet been examined) amount
to ten species, seven of which are here described for the first
time. One of these, Serolis latifrons, is mentioned (but not
characterized) by A. White, in the ‘List of Specimens of
Crustacea in the British Museum ;’ and examples from the
Auckland Islands have long existed in the Collection.
Dynamene Eatoni, n. sp.
Convex, smooth, naked, with the sides of the pereion nearly
parallel. Cephalon transverse, deeply encased within the first
segment of the pereion ; its front with a thin raised marginal
line. Eyes very small. Segments of the pereion narrow, of
equal width above; the seventh segment produced backward
on the sides over the front of the first (real) segment of the
pleon. Segments of the pleon (the last excepted) coalescent,
74 Mr. E. J. Miers on new Species of Crustacea.
with the lines of union indicated on the sides by incised lines ;
last segment of the pleon convex, with the sides nearly straight,
and with a rounded emargination at its extremity, which is
about as wide as deep. Rami of the lateral appendages of the
pleon subequal, oval, entire, reaching nearly to the notch at
the extremity of the terminal segment. Colour reddish or
greyish brown, with darker spots.
Length of the largest specimen nearly ? inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Island, Swain’s Bay and Royal Sound.
Serolis latifrons.
Serolis latifrons, White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 106 (1847).
Convex, with a series of impressed lines and punctulations
near the posterior margin of each segment. Segments of the
pereion with the posterior margin sinuated, acute at the ifero-
posterior angle, but not greatly produced backward (as in some
species of the genus). ‘Terminal segment of the pleon large,
subtriangular, with a semicircular notch at its extremity, with
a high longitudinal central carina extending from the base of
the segment to the terminal notch, and with a less-elevated
carina on either side, rising near and continued for some
distance parallel to the base of the segment, then curving
backward and terminating before reaching the lateral margin.
Rami of the lateral appendages of the pleon narrow-acuminate,
the outer one very small, not half the length of the imner
ramus. Colour brown, with irregular paler patches.
Length about 1 inch.
Hab, Kerguelen’s Island, Royal Sound; Auckland Islands,
Rendezvous Cove (Lieutenant A. Smith, R.N., Brit. Mus.).
Lystanassa Kerguelent, n. sp.
Smooth. Eyes not visible. Superior antenne subpyriform,
with the first joint large, robust, the second and third joints
short; the secondary appendage short. Inferior antenne
slender, longer than the superior, with the last two joints of
the peduncle longer than the preceding. Gnathopoda weak ;
the first pair short, subchelate ; the second pair longer, with
the dactylos rudimentary. Second pair of pereiopoda with
the coxe emarginate behind, and produced backward at the
infero-posterior angle. ‘Third segment of the pleon produced
backward at its infero-posterior angle into a narrow subacute
lobe.
Length 4 inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Island, Royal Sound.
Mr. E. J. Miers on new Species of Crustacea. 75
PARAMGRA, n. g.
Melita, Dana (nec Leach), U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust. p. 911 (1852).
Mera (part.), Spence Bate, Cat. Amphipod. Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 181
(1862).
Superior antenne exappendiculate, but little longer than
the inferior. Gnathopoda subequal, well developed ; dactyios
closing along the inferior margin of the palm. Posterior pair
of pleopoda with the rami very unequal, the inner ramus short
or rudimentary. ‘'Telson cleft nearly to the base.
This genus will apparently include Melita Fresnelii, Au-
douin, and Melita tenuicornis, Dana, which latter species
is placed by Mr. Spence Bate provisionally in the genus
Mera.
Paramera australis, n. sp.
Smooth, without dorsal carine. Eyes subreniform, black.
Antenne about half as long as the animal, slender ; first and
second joints of the peduncle of the superior antenne about
as long as the cephalon, third joint short; inferior antenne
with the first to third joints short, the fourth and fifth longer.
Gnathopoda with the carpus narrow at the base, enlarging
anteriorly ; propodos with the sides nearly parallel, obliquely
truncate at the extremity; dactylos short, slightly arcuate.
Third, fourth, and fifth pairs of pereiopoda with the coxe
transverse, small; the basa longer, with the inferior margins
rounded. First three segments of the pleon with the inferior
margins rounded, minutely serrulate. Antenne, gnathopoda,
pereiopoda, and rami of the pleopoda with short hairs.
Length $ inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Island, Royal Sound.
Podocerus ornatus, n. sp.
Antenne subequal, very robust, clothed with long hairs ;
peduncles with the last two joints much longer than the pre-
ceding, subequal. Superior antenne with a small secondary
appendage. Second pair of gnathopoda the largest, with the
carpus short; the propodos large, ovate; the dactylos strong
and arcuate. Pereiopoda subprehensile, with the tarsus flexible.
Rami of the pleopoda with a series of short spines. Segments
of the pleon somewhat produced backward, with the posterior
margin rounded. ‘'Telson small, simple, conical. Colour pale,
with very numerous small black spots.
Length 3% inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Island, Swain’s Bay.
76 Dr. A. B. Meyer on Hyalonema cebuense.
Nymphon gracilipes, n. sp.
Very slender, clothed with very short hairs. Legs very
long. Head and neck of equal length, together about as long
asthe body. First (mandibular) pair of palpiform appendages
three-jointed, terminating in slender chele ; second pair five-
jointed, the first jot very small, the second the longest, the
remaining joints very hairy; third (ovigerous) pair eleven-
jointed, the first joint very short, second, third, and fourth
longer, fifth very long, sixth to tenth gradually decreasing in
size, the eleventh minute. Legs with the first and third joints
very short, the second rather longer, the fourth to sixth very
long, the seventh and eighth (first and second tarsal) subequal,
straight. Claws two, one very small.
Length 4 inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Island, Royal Sound.
Nymphon styligerum, n. sp.
Rather robust, hairy; legsshort. Head sessile, very thick.
First (mandibular) pair of palpiform appendages rudimentary
or abortive, a single joint only being developed ; second pair
five-jointed ; third (ovigerous) pair ten-jointed, with the first
three joints short, the fourth and fifth longer, the sixth to the
ninth short, the tenth quite minute. Legs with the first three
joints very short, the next three joints longer, the seventh (first
tarsal joint) minute, the eighth (second tarsal) longer, curved.
Claws two, unequal. Abdomen terminating posteriorly in a
long styliform process.
Length +; inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Island, Royal Sound.
Should the form of the first pair of palpiform appendages
prove constant, this species would probably constitute the type
of a new genus allied to Achelia, Hodge.
ViI.—On Hyalonema cebuense. By Dr. A. B. Murer.
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
DEAR Sirs,
Messrs. Higgin and Carter describe and figure, in the last
number of your Journal (June, p. 377, plate xxi.), Hyalonema
cebuense, a new hexactinellid sponge from Cebu, Philippine
Islands. It is just a year now that I sent the enclosed photo-
graph to the late Dr. J. E. Gray. I received this photograph
Dr. A. B. Meyer on Hyalonema cebuense. 77
from a friend in Cebu, Mr. Hepp, who had taken it himself from
the specimen, which was inthe possession of Mr, Legaspi there,
a native known to possess a large collection of shells &ce., which
I examined myself when on Cebu in 1872. I expressed
the wish to Dr. Gray that he might describe or notice the
sponge, as apparently distinct from all the other new forms
which I had brought home from there (viz. Meyerina clave-
jformis, Crateromorpha Meyert, Rossella philippinensis, and
Labaria hemispherica), all described by Dr. Gray; but Dr.
Gray ‘did not venture to notice the sponge from the photo-
graph,” and I, of course, still less. My exertions to get the spe-
cimen itself from Cebu were in vain till now ; but if you will
compare the photograph, which it would be perhaps interesting
to reproduce in your Journal as a woodcut*, with the figure of
Hyalonema cebuense on plate xxi. (/. ¢.) the identity of both is
not to be overlooked a moment. ‘The habitat of this species,
“Cebu,” as stated by Mr. Higgin, seems to be confirmed
hereby. But I do not believe that these sponges are obtained
there by diving, but only by dredging in a similar manner as
I described it shortly in your Journal for January 1874, which
note affords occasionally a more detailed account.
R. Natural History Museum, Very respectfully,
Dresden, June 6, 1875. A. B. MEyYer.
Note by Mr. Hiaarn.
DEAR SIR,
I have the pleasure to return to you Dr. Meyer’s letter of
the 6th inst., with the photograph attached to it, and thank
you much for sending it for my perusal.
I think there can be no doubt that the sponge photographed
is an example of Hyalonema cebuense; it 1s, however, ap-
parently in a very decayed condition, and seems to have
entirely lost the beautiful latticework surface shown in the
Liverpool-Museum specimen.
It is satisfactory to have the locality of the Liverpool sponge
thus confirmed; and we may hope that other examples will
have been obtained by H.M.S. ‘Challenger ’ during her recent
dredging-cruise amongst the Philippine Islands.
Huyton, I am, dear Sir,
June 17, 1875. Yours very faithfully,
To Dr. Francis. THOMAS HIGGIN.
* [ As, from the note which Mr. Higgin has bad the kindness to append
to this paper, there cannot be the slightest doubt as to the identity of this
specimen with his H. cebuense, we do not consider it necessary to reproduce
the photograph.—Eps. ]
78 Miscellaneous.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the Fauna and Flora of Kerguelen’s Island. (A letter addressed
to the French Minister of Foreign Affuirs.) By M. Laney.
Capetown, Feb. 22, 1875.
I nave the honour to transmit to you an article from a Capetown
newspaper containing some interesting information on the fauna and
flora of Kerguelen’s Island, communicated by Dr. Kidder, a naturalist
attached to the American Expedition for observing the transit of
Venus on that island.
From Dr. Kidder’s investigations it appears that there exists on
Kerguelen’s Island only one species of bird which is not web-footed ;
this is the sheathbill (Chionzs alba); it feeds on the shell-fish and
sea-weeds left on the shore by the tide. On the other hand, aquatic
birds are very numerous. The green-winged teal is found in great
abundance; its flavour is exquisite. Among the sea-birds observed
are :—17 species of petrel ; 2 of albatross; 3 penguins ; and a very
large variety of Lestris catarrhactes, which, although web-footed,
feeds only on birds and eggs.
The insects are very few. Some wingless Diptera and red Acri-
didz are found on the leaves of the cabbage. The only Invertebrata
provided with wings which have been discovered by Dr. Kidder are
various species of Coleoptera; he has seen neither Hymenoptera,
Hemiptera, nor Diptera.
There are neither Reptilia nor Batrachia, but a great many Crus-
tacea and a few Gasteropoda.
Only one species of fish has been found in the lakes. It seems to
belong to the family Gadidze, but is of small dimensions.
The class Mammalia is scarcely represented at Kerguelen. The
sole mammal (not amphibious) met with is the common mouse,
which was doubiless introduced from some vessel. As regards am-
phibia—seals, sea-elephants, sea-leopards, sea-lons, &c., which
formerly abounded there, have been so hunted by the American
whalers that they have become very scarce.
The flora of the island is poor but singular; some of the plants
which grow there are met with in no other part—among others
Lyallia kerguelensis (the only species of a genus incert: sedis), Colo-
banthus kerquelensis, and Triodia kerguelensis. The Kerguelen cab-
bage and tea-plant (Pringlea antiscorbutica and Acena affinis) ofter
to seamen a valuable remedy against scurvy. Dr. Kidder has dis-
covered some plants not described in Dr. Hooker’s work published
after his exploration in the years 1839 to 1841. He brings from
Kerguelen 28 boxes of botanical specimens.
The Rey. Mr. Eaton (naturalist to the English Expedition) and
Dr. Naumann (naturalist to the German Expedition) will, no doubt,
make a more complete collection; for they will prolong their stay
several months.
Miscellaneous. 79
The area of the island is about 100 miles in length by 40 in
breadth.— Comptes Rendus de VAcad. des Sciences, tome 1xxx.
pp. 1224, 1225.
On Androgynous Diptera. By Dr. Lonw.
The occurrence of characters of the two sexes in different parts of
the body of insects has been noticed chiefly in those orders which
are generally collected, and more especially in the Lepidoptera.
Nearly 30 years ago (in 1846) Dr. Loew described (Stett. ent. Zeit.
vii. p. 302) an androgynous specimen of Beris nitens, Latr., in which
the head, thorax, wings, fore legs, and left middle and hind legs
presented male characters, while the abdomen with the genitalia and
the right middle and hind legs were female. This case, which is not
mentioned in Hagen’s list of known hermaphrodite insects (Stett. ent.
Zeit. xxii. 1861), has hitherto stood alone in the order Diptera.
Dr. Loew now describes another androgynous Dipteron, namely an
example of his Synarthrus cinereiventris, a species of the family Do-
lichopodidee from Texas. He describes in considerable detail the
distinctive characters of the two sexes of this species, which are com-
bined in the hermaphrodite in a way hitherto unrecorded for any
insect, the head, body, and wings being entirely of normal female
structure, whilst the whole of the legs display the peculiar characters
of the male sex fully developed.— Zeitschrift fiir die gesaminten Natur-
wissenschaften, Neue Folge, Band x. 1874, pp. 75-79.
The Blind Fish and some of the associated Species of the Mammoth
Cave, Kentucky, probably of Marine Origin.
Mr. F. W. Putnam, in an article published in the Bulletin of the
Essex Institute, vol. vi. no. 12, 1874, remarks as follows on the
origin of some of the present inhabitants.
That many or, with two or three exceptions, nearly all of the
thirty or forty species of vertebrates, articulates, mollusks, and still
lower forms, including a few plants, now discovered in the caves of
Kentucky, are of comparatively late introduction, is probable from
the tact that they are so closely allied to forms living in the vicinity
of the caves. But that the blind fishes, the Chologaster, and a
few of the lower forms of articulates, such as the Lernean parasitic on
the blind fish, may have been inhabitants of the subterranean
streams for a much longer period, is worthy of consideration on the
following grounds :—
First, the blind-fish family has no immediate allies existing in
the interior waters *, the only species of the family, in addition to
* In common with others I have considered the Heteropygii as be-
longing to the same order with the Cyprinodontes; but I now have, from
further information of their structure, doubts as to their close association
with that group. This subject will be presented on another occasion.
80 Miscellaneous.
the three found in the Mammoth Cave, being known at present only
from the rice-ditches of the low coast of South Carolina.
Second, the Lerneean parasite is much more common on marine
fishes than on strictly fluviatile species, and is more decidedly a
marine than a freshwater form. These facts may therefore be
taken as at least indicating the probability of the early origin of
some part of the great cave-system of the region of the Ohio val-
ley ; and while there may be nothing in the present structure of the
caves to indicate their having been formed in part while in contact
with salt water, the supposed erosion of the limestone and the
modification of the early formed chambers by later action should
be carefully considered before it can be denied that the caves
were, in some slight part, for a time supplied with marine life.
Until a specimen of Chologaster, or some other member of the
family, has been obtained in the external waters of the Ohio valley,
it is hardly logical to regard the family to which the blind fishes
belong as one originally distributed in the rivers of the Ohio valley,
and afterward becoming exterminated in the rivers and only existing
in two such widely different localities as the coast of South Carolina
and the subterranean streams of the south-western States. That
marine forms of life are found in our freshwater lakes and rivers is
known to be the case. The specimen of a shrimp exhibited was
secured in the Green River, near one of the outlets of the Mammoth
Cave. The fact that in some of the waters of Florida fishes
once marine are now confined to freshwater lakes of comparatively
recent formation, and that in the St. John’s river, and others of
that State, many marine and freshwater species are found associated,
are evidence of the change that may take place in the habits of
some marine animals, while a recent announcement of the Gobiosoma
found in the Ohio river* is another instance of a marine fish living
in fresh waters.—Sitlliman’s American Journal, May 1875.
Note on Neobalena marginata f.
In the ‘Annals’ for October last (p. 316) an awkward mistake
has crept into the abstract from one of my letters to Dr. Gray,
published by him as a paragraph. It is the skull of the calf of
Neobalena marginata that is 2 feet 3 inches in total length, not the
calf itself.
Wellington, New Zealand, James Hector.
January 19, 1875.
* Putnam, “Notice of Gobiosoma molestum from the Ohio,” Amer. Nat.
vili. Feb. 1874. ;
+ [We are requested by Dr. Hector to state that the above correction
would have been made at an earlier date, but for the unfortunate circum-
stance that it was enclosed in a letter addressed to Dr. Gray which arrived
in England after his death.—Eb. |
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No. 92, AUGUST. 1875.
VIII.—On the Position of Sagitta, and on the Convergence
of Types by Pelagic Life. By M. A. Grtarp*.
No animal has been more frequently shifted from one syste-
matic division to another than Sagitta. Some have regarded
it as a degraded vertebrate, and have placed it beside Amphi-
oxus; others have considered it a heteropod mollusk; Oscar
Schmidt declares that it “is neither a true annelid nor a legi-
timate mollusk”’+; Leuckart, Schneider, and Claus approxi-
mate it to the Nematoidea.
Hickel, in his ‘Generelle Morphologie,’ also places the
Chetognatha among the Nemathelmintha, and, further, he
takes up the idea of Meissner with regard to the relationship
of Sagitta and the Vertebrata. If we make a perpendicular
section of the tail of a fish, we see clearly, he says, that the
trunk of a vertebrate is formed originally of four antimera,
and not of two. The primitive form of the lower Vertebrata,
like that of the Nematoidea, is the eutetrapleural interradial
form. Thus we may put forth, with some appearance of rea-
son, the hypothesis that the Vertebrata have issued from the
Chetognatha by a progressive metamorphosis, whilst the
Nematoidea have been produced from them by a retrograde
metamorphosis.
Since the admirable researches of Kowalevsky upon the
* Translated by W. 8. Dallas, F.L.S., from an article in the ‘ Revue des
Sciences Naturelles,’ tome iii. March 1875, communicated by the Author.
+ The Doctrine of Descent and Darwinism, p. 57.
Ann. & Mag. N. List. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 6
82 M. A. Giard on the Position of Sagitta, and on
embryogeny of the Ascidia, Hiackel has modified his opinions
upon this point: but we may say that the Sagitte were a
badly chosen group among the Nematoidea for the support of
this theory; for we do not find in them the four muscular
bundles mentioned by Hickel, and their body is formed rather
of two antimera.
On the other hand, the four primitive antimera occur with
wonderful distinctness in the tail of the larvee of certain Ascidia
(Perophora Listert) ; and even in some adult Ascidia they are
clearly indicated by the quaternary symmetry of the buccal
aperture.
Kowalevsky has himself expressed his opinion as to the
position of Sagitta in the animal tree: he does not hesitate to
place the Cheetognatha among the true Annelides*.
Before examining these various opinions more closely, it
seems necessary to enter upon some general considerations
which will enable us the better to appreciate the causes of
their divergence.
One of the most difficult problems of modern zoology, and
indeed that which must now-a-days preoccupy every thinking
naturalist, is to determine in every peculiar arrangement of an
organism what belongs to heredity, and what must be attri-
buted to adaptation. Such inquiries present immense difficul-
ties, and can only be fruitfully attempted with groups of which
the embryogeny is sufficiently known. I speak, of course, of
stratological embryogeny, which only dates from ten years
back, and the general importance of which is unfortunately
not understood by all who are engaged in zoological investi-
gation. Every anatomical investigation that is not made with
the object of elucidating this new embryogeny, is a work which
may certainly possess some interest, but one which is no longer
of our epoch, and even loses an enormous portion of its value.
However, all naturalists of any merit have always been sus-
tained in their efforts by a philosophical idea; and, although I
may thereby subject myself to bitter criticism, I regard the
memoirs of a Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, a Wolf, or a Kowalevsky
as having contributed much more to the progress of science
than the anatomy of the cat by Straus-Durckheim, or that of
the tortoise by Bojanus.
We shall endeavour to show what enormous influence the
external conditions of existence may have upon the form of
an animal, what astonishing resemblances may result from the
action of identical causes upon originally different organisms.
It will be the eternal glory of Lamarck that he was the first to
* Nablioudenia nade rajvetierne Brachiopoda. Moscow, 1874, p. 34,
note,
the Convergence of Types by Pelagic Life. 83
bring into the light this power of ethology. It will be the
glory of Darwin that he has shown how much this action of
the surrounding media is increased by natural selection, the
idea of which is essentially inseparable from that of adaptation,
selection at a given moment being determined by the limits of
this adaptation.
We shall see hereafter how, in the particular instance of the
Cheetognatha and in some other interesting cases, pure adap-
tive analogies have been taken for relations of affinity. With-
out pretending to give a complete solution of these questions,
which are too complex to be treated lightly, we shall esteem
ourselves fortunate if we have indicated the nature of certain
difficulties, and thus contributed to clear the road which our
successors will have to traverse.
Convergence of Types by Pelagic Life.
In a previous memoir* I have dwelt upon the convergence
of types by parasitism, and pointed out that this mode of ex-
istence gradually brought about in the most diverse animals
organic modifications so profound as to cause the disappearance
not only of the characters of orders and classes, but even of
those of the great divisions or subkingdoms. Without the
clue furnished by embryogeny we might easily be led to create
families and genera including animals belonging to groups so
distinct as the Trematoda, the Nudibranchiate Mollusca, the
Cirripedes, and the Isopod and Copepod Crustacea. Since
then, during the Scientific Congress at Lille, I have had the
extreme satisfaction of learning that these opinions were shared
by one of the most distinguished embryogenists of our time,
Professor Carl Vogt. This eminent philosophical zoologist,
without any knowledge of the memoir to which I have alluded,
enunciated the same proposition, supporting it by precisely the
same examples (Sacculina, Entoconcha, Redic).
Opinions of the same nature have also been expressed by
Professor Martins (of Montpellier), one of the few French
naturalists who have been able to understand the modern spe-
cific movement in the biological sciences. He says} :— I
cannot refrain from observing that the appearance of the same
morphological type (of the same animal, so to speak) at various
grades in the scale, is another argument in favour of commu-
nity of origin combined with subsequent modifications. ‘The
* Revue Scientifique, July 11, 1874, 4° année, 2° série, no. 2, pp. 32 &
33.
+ See C. Martins, ‘La Création du monde organisé d’aprés les natura-
listes de la nouvelle Ecole,’ p. 15.
G*
84 M. A. Giard on the Position of Sagitta, and on
type of the monkey with hands and with a prehensile tail ap-
pears first of all in the chameleon—a reptile which does not creep
but climbs, and twists its tail round the branch that bears it.
This type reappears among the marsupials in the phalangers
and opossums, among the rodents in the couendous (Syne-
theres), and among the plantigrade carnivores in the kinkajou
(Cercoleptes), to become multiplied, diversified, and terminated
in the prehensile-tailed monkeys of South America, such as
the sapajous, howling monkeys, and spider monkeys. The
flying dragon, among reptiles, is the first appearance of an
animal which sustains itself in the air by means of a membrane
stretched upon the sides of the trunk. The flying phalanger
or Petaurista among marsupials, the flying squirrel among the
rodents, and, lastly, the Galeopithecus or flymg lemur are re-
petitions of the same morphological type from the reptiles up
tO) thes prIMaLes. wate te In the gradual evolution of living
creatures, notwithstanding profound differences of organization,
the same media and the same needs have induced the develop-
ment of the same forms, which heredity has fixed and main-
tained by the reproduction of the species.”
It will be seen that the learned Professor takes especially
as examples organic arrangements relating to vital peculia-
rities of secondary rank. ‘Thus we may say that some
animals, such as the chameleon, the opossum, &e., present the
same ethological type, rather than the same morphological type
in the true sense of the word. It is the same with other
animals with still more superficial resemblances due to
direct mimetism, and not to parallelism of vital conditions*.
The action of surrounding media is of course exerted from the
exterior towards the interior, and does not succeed in modify-
ing the morphological type in creatures which are already
strongly differentiated until after a very long time, and only
with the aid of very imperious physiological necessities. As a
matter of course, however, these physiological necessities are
powerless of themselves to induce the convergence of types ;
and whilst we render all justice to our immortal Lamarck,
we must not lose sight of the part played by natural selection
in the preservation of the forms which are best adapted to a
detinite ensemble of external conditions.
One of the most energetic factors of this convergence is
certainly, as has already been said, parasitism, and especially
parasitism in its most absolute form—that is to say, that which
* See, for more details upon the resemblances due to mimetism, my
‘Recherches sur les Synascidies,’ pp. 58 e¢ segg. The interesting mves-
tigations of Wallace and of some other zoologists are far from having
exhausted this subject, which for many reasons deserves to be investi-
gated afresh, ;
the Convergence of Types by Pelagic Life. 85
is combined with the permanent fixation and complete depen-
dence of the parasite with relation to the affected organism.
Parasitism in this sense produces results such that the zoolo-
gist, furnished only with the resources of anatomy and pure
morphology, could never have referred certain animals to their
true place in the classification.
But there are other groups of ethological conditions
which, without acting in so remarkable a manner, neverthe-
less induce very interesting typical convergences, especially
when they affect simple or feebly differentiated organisms. We
shall pay attention at present only to pelagic life, and seek to
determine with precision what are the modifications that this
mode of existence may induce in the animals of various classes
that are subjected to it. This will enable us to appreciate the
value of the reasons which have led zoologists to place Sagitta
im one group or another of the animal kingdom.
Pelagic animals are those which live in the open sea,
generally near the surface of the water, and rarely approach
the shore, upon which, however, they are sometimes cast by
the winds. We find animals leading such an_ existence
throughout the whole zoological series, from the Protozoa to
the Vertebrata. If we leave out of consideration superficial
currents and climatal zones, these animals live under very
uniform and at the same time very special conditions, the
action of which must impress upon the organism certain pecu-
har features, which may succeed in masking the morphological
type, especially in the Invertebrata.
The characters of adaptation proper to pelagic life are :—
1. An extreme transparency of all the tissues, which ren-
ders the animal completely invisible, and enables it to escape
easily from its enemies. ‘This transparency exists in animals
belonging to ‘the most diverse groups. We observe it in the
Noctiluce, the Siphonophora, the Medusze, the Ctenophora,
the Heteropod and Pteropod Mollusca, the Salpe and Pyro-
somata; in Sagitta, Tomopteris, and Alciope ; and, lastly, in
the Leptocephali among’ fishes.
2. The considerable development of certain organs of the
senses, which often constitute the sole visible points of the
animal. In general it is the eyes that present an enormous
development with relation to the rest of the organization, as
may be observed in a great number of the examples just
cited; sometimes also the auditory apparatus, as in the
Meduse and the Appendicularie, and in Mysis, in which this
apparatus is situated upon the caudal lamine.
3. A reduction of the digestive tube, which becomes consi-
derable, although without being so marked as in parasitic
86 M. A. Giard on the Position of Sagitta, and on
animals. Not to mention the numerous examples of this
reduction that may be found among the Meduse and Cteno-
phora, we meet in other groups with an atrophy of the diges-
tive organs which may even reach complete disappearance
absolutely, as in the Rhizostomes. This is what occurs, for
example, in the curious genus Monstrilla, one of the pelagic
Copepod Crustacea; the nucleus of the Salpe and Appen-
dicularie also represents a perfectly rudimentary state of the
digestive tube of the Tunicata, if it be compared with the
intestinal mass of the animals of that group which lead a
sedentary life (Ascidia). The same may be said of the
digestive tube of Carinaria, Firoloides, Atlanta, &c., when
compared with that of the ordinary Gasteropoda. Finally,
the Sagitte also present an excessively reduced digestive
tube, which occupies only a small portion of the length of the
body.
This reduction of the digestive system in pelagic animals
is evidently in relation with the precarious existence of these
creatures, which are constantly pursued by numerous enemies.
A voluminous stomach would impede their progress, which
is generally very rapid, and would diminish the transparency
which protects them.
4, A considerable development of the organs of generation
and great fecundity. Here again it is sufficient, in order to
ascertain this fact, to compare in the same group the pelagic
animals with those which live attached. In Appendicularia,
for example, the genital mass is much more voluminous than
in the Ascidia, taking the proportion of this mass to the total
volume of the body of the animal. This excessive multiplica-
tion of the pelagic animals must be attributed to the numerous
chances of destruction to which creatures so badly protected
are exposed, just as in the case of the parasites, among which
the same fact is also observed.
5. A great number of pelagic animals present the pheno-
menon of phosphorescence, such as the Noctiluee, many
Meduse, the Pyrosomata, and Phyllirhoé bucephala. ‘This
phosphorescence, which is manifested especially when the
animals are excited or alarmed, no doubt acts as a protection,
and stops the pursuit of some enemies*. I have not remarked
that the Sag?tte are endowed with any such means of defence,
which, moreover, is far from being peculiar to pelagic
animals.
6. As an ethological character frequently observable in
pelagic animals, we must cite social life: we know what
* Panceri and De Quatrefages have made the very interesting observa-
tion that phosphorescence is under the control of the nervous system.
the Convergence of Types by Pelagic Life. 87
numerous bands are almost always formed by the Noctiluce,
Meduse, Ctenophora, Sagitte, Copepod Crustacea, Mysides,
Pteropod Mollusca, &c.
It is evidently the resemblances of adaptation that Sagitta
presents to Amphioxus, to the Heteropoda, and to Tomopteris
and other Annelida, that have determined zoologists to place
the Cheetognatha sometimes among the Vertebrata, and some-
times with the Vermes, at a time when neither their anatomy
nor their embryogeny was sufficiently known.
The arrangement of the nervous system evidently removes
all possibility of an immediate approximation of Sagitta and
the Vertebrata. Leydig and Kowalevsky have justly indi-
cated that the nervous system resembles that of the Mollusca.
It may also be compared to that of the Annelida; and in
this there is nothing surprising, from what we now know of
the close relationship (demonstrated by embryogeny) between
the group of Annelida and that of Mollusca (Brachiopoda,
Chitons, Dentalia, &c.).
On the other hand, this same nervous system removes the
Sagitte from the true Nematoids ; and their attempted approxi-
tion to Chetosoma does not appear to be completely justified
by what we know of the organization of the latter.
The presence of chitinous sete is another character in
common with the Annelides ; and indeed, from the anatomical
point of view, the only serious argument that we can oppose
to those who would unite the Sagitte with ringed worms is
the absence in the former of any metameral structure, even in
the embryo. This character, on the other hand, approximates
the Cheetognatha to the phylum of the Mollusca, or, in a more
general way, to the ancient animals from which have been
derived on the one hand the Mollusea and on the other the
Annelida. The presence of the vibratile disk and of the
lateral invaginations also reminds us of the arrangement
observable in groups allied to those inferior types of which we
are speaking—for example, in the Rotifera or in the embryos
of certain Annelids.
The very peculiar embryogeny of Sagitta (formation of a
secondary general cavity), however, does not allow of our
placing them directly among either the Mollusca or the
Annelida. It is, in fact, a dilated embryogeny (without the
formation, either primitive or secondary, of a nutritive vitellus)
which is the indication of high antiquity of the type. It may,
however, be the case that the development of the Annelides,
which is not sufficiently known, represents the condensed
form (with nutritive vitellus) of the evolution of the Cheeto-
gnatha.
88 M. A. Giard on the Position of Sagitta, and on
Thus it seems to us advisable to leave the Sagitte in a
special group, which, under the name of Chetognatha, must
take its place at the base of the phylum of the Annelida, of
which this group represents a divergent branch adapted for a
pelagic existence.
Other examples will show still better the practical import-
ance that may attach to speculative considerations such as
those which we have expounded with regard to the convergence
of types by pelagic life.
The illustrious Von Baer, in a memoir dated last year, has
endeavoured to demonstrate that the Ascidia and the Salpe
are Mollusca presenting the same typical structure as the
Heteropoda; but the smallest acquaintance with the develop-
ment of these animals suffices to prove, as we have endeavoured
to do elsewhere, that the resemblance between a Biphora and
a Firoloides is a result of adaptation, and that the analogies
of the Tunicata with the Gasteropoda are no more real than
those which have been attempted to be established between
the same animals and the Lamellibranchiata*.
Forbes thought he could find great affinities between the
larvee of the Ascidia and the Hydroida. On the other hand,
Carl Vogt formerly placed the Ctenophora among the Mol-
luscoida. An English naturalist, Macdonald, taking up a few
years ago these ancient ideas, gave the following classification
of the Molluscoida :—
Mo.Luuscorpa.
Curvature primitively hemal,
prec a ie finally meurel "wc. © ac Ascidiozoa.
e x < J ve ps evs : \ Brachiopoda
of the body. Curvature simply neural .... Wlayy ©
Intestine straight and communicating with the cavity
OWNER OM Vaart at im den + ane lek ae ce vauonmer eis Ctenophora,
Macdonald regards the Ctenophora as a central type, from
which are derived on the one hand, by progression, the Mol-
luseoida, on the other, by degradation, the Hydrozoa. This
curious classification also has evidently for its starting-point
false homologies due to adaptation, which have appeared to
the author of more importance than the fundamental differences
presented by the embryogeny of these animals. The com-
parison of the pelagic types (natatory Tunicata, Ctenophora,
and Hydroida) is evidently the starting-point of these lucu-
brations, which look as if they were a century old, and never-
theless were published in 1864.
* See Giard, ‘“ Embryogénie des Ascidies, et l’origine des Vertébrés,”
Revue Scientifique, 4° année, No. 2, July 11, 1874.
the Convergence of Types by Pelagic Life. 89
Under other circumstances adaptation to pelagic life causes
certain adult animals to resemble embryonic forms of other
animals belonging to higher types, or produces apparent
analogies between larval forms pertaining to different groups.
In his fine work on the Metamorphoses of Man and Animals
(1862), M. de Quatrefages, speaking of the Amphioxus, says:—
“Tt is allowable to ask ourselves whether this animal, which is
placed in the lowest rank of Vertebrates, and which in many
respects approaches the Annelida Errantia, is really a perfect
animal. In some parts of its organization it reminds us of
the Ammocetes of our brooks. May it not be the larva of
Petromyzon marinus or of some other species?” In 1867,
in a memoir upon this singular vertebrate, M. Bert insisted
on the facts which show that it is an adult creature; and in
the same year Kowalevsky gave a complete embryogeny of
it. Nevertheless in 1871, at the Academy of Boston, in
presence of Louis Agassiz, the question whether Amphioxus
is not the larva of a Myxinoid fish was discussed over
again *,
We have several times observed, in the neighbourhood of
Boulogne, troops of young Clupee of astonishing transparency,
and resembling the Leptocephali in general aspect. Now it
is well known that zoologists have not yet completely solved
the question whether these Leptocephali are or are not adult
forms. Gull and several other ichthyologists assert that they
are embryonic forms; Peters, on the contrary, affirms ¢ that
they cannot be regarded as the embryos of the Cepole or of
other fishes. According to Gill, Leptocephalus Morrisii is the
young of Conger vulgaris, Hyoproprus messinensis belongs to
Nettastoma melanura, and Stomasunculus is the larva of a
Clupeoid f.
If such questions are difficult to solve in the case of animals
so high as the fishes, it will easily be understood how much
greater are the difficulties met with by the zoologist when he
tries to establish the true homologies which may exist between
the larvee of the lower animals.
It seems to me that one of the most important and necessary
investigations for the progress of embryogeny would be to
distinguish what is due to heredity and what is the result of
adaptation to pelagic life in embryonic forms, such as the larvee
of the Echinoderms, the Pilidiwm of the Nemertians, the Actz-
notroche, Mitrarie, Cyphonautes, certain larve of Planarie,
* Similar difficulties occurred formerly with regard to Phyllosoma,
Cuma, &e.
+ Monatsb. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1864, p. 399.
{ Proce. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1864,
90 Fort-Major T. Austin on the Genus Platyermus.
Annelides, &e. Upon organisms still so slightly differentiated
external conditions act in a very energetic manner ; and their
action is multiplied by heredity in creatures with a free
and dilated embryogeny. We must therefore keep watch
against the apparent homologies which often mask real
but yet only slightly marked differences of organization—
“When we have to do with the starting-point of an angle,
no modification in the divergence of the lines is indif-
ferent.”
Among those who will read the preceding pages there are
some who will regard such researches as rash, as useless
theories, or as facile dissertations; so great is even still the
infatuation of certain naturalists for the exaggerations of the
Cuvierian school, and for the ideal and artistic morphology
of some of his successors. We have nothing to urge against
those who persist, in contempt of embryogenic data, in seeking
in adult forms for supposed. homologies of connexion and an
arbitrary plan determined beforehand. One cannot discuss
matters with a partisan. ‘To those who pretend that it is
easy to reason upon known facts, and who prefer to seek and
store up in their memoirs histological details and observations
in descriptive anatomy, we say with Professor Hiickel :—
“Whoever has good eyes and a microscope, assiduity, and
patience may now-a-days acquire a certain notoriety by micro-
scopical discoveries, but without therefore deserving the name
of a naturalist. This title must be reserved for the man who
endeavours not only to see the particular facts, but also to
grasp their ethological bond.”
IX.— Observations on the Genus Platyerinus.
By Fort-Major Tuomas Austin, F.G.S.
HAvine for a long time remarked the anomaly of retaining in
the genus Platycrinus those species which deviate from the
typical character in having the mouth, or anal orifice, or
whatever the office the aperture may have been intended to
perform, placed Jaterally or nearly so, whereas the typical
species and some others have the centre of the ventral dome
elevated into a tube from one to two inches in height, it is
therefore proposed to remove those species with eacentrical
apertures into a new genus, retaining Platyerinus levis and
all those with proboscidiform central tubes in the original
genus.
Fort-Major T. Austin on the Genus Platycrinus. 91
By the proposed arrangement the two genera would stand in
the following order.
PLATYCRINUS.
Platycrinus levis. Platycrinus trigintidactylus.
striatus. spinosus.
-— elongatus.
The generic formula of Platycrinus would be as follows :—
Central dorsal plate pentagonal, whole and undivided ; lateral
or perisomatic plates five; ventral dome or proboscidiform
mouth (?) elevated, rismg in the centre to a column of some
considerable height.
The formula of the dorsal part of the proposed new genus
resembles Platycrinus in the number of lateral plates, but in
shape they are somewhat different. The upper or ventral
surface, however, is quite dissimilar, and presents a striking
contrast to the elevated ventral elongated cone of Platycrinus—
it being covered in with four, five, or more plates which are
only slightly elevated above the upper margin of the periso-
matic or lateral dorsal plates, while the mouth, anal orifice, or
whatever its office may have been, is situated in the widest
interradial space, and it is mostly on a level with the base of
the arms, but never in the centre of the dome, and it could
have been but slightly protruding.
It is proposed provisionally to name the new genus MEpusA-
CRINUS; and it contains the following species :—
Medusacrinus mucronatus. Medusacrinus mammillatus.
rugosus. —- granulatus.
tuberculatus.
The accompanying drawings of a specimen of each genus
will convey a better idea of their characters than any written
description. In each case they are represented without arms.
Platycrinus levis. Medusacrinus mucronatus.
a, Anal or oral tube. b. Mouth or anal orifice.
92 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispheerius.
X.—List of the Species of the Homopterous Genus Hemi-
spherius, with Descriptions of new Forms in the Collection
of the British Museum. By ARTHUR GARDINER BUTLER,
HLS, EZ: Wee
[Plate IV.]
THE beautiful little genus of Fulgoride known by the name
of Hemispherius is particularly interesting, from its general
resemblance to the Coleopterous genus Coccinella ; this simi-
larity is best exemplified in H. flavimacula, H. cruentatus, and
H. flavus, all of which, to an inexperienced eye, might pass for
ladybirds.
Of the forty-two species now known to science, the types
of no less than thirty-four are in the Museum collection, whilst
we possess at the same time four other described forms, thus
showing a deficiency of only four of the species hitherto named
by naturalists. Under these favourable circumstances I thought
it would be well to give a list of the species, separating them
into sections by the colouring of their tegmina (rather than by
structural characters), in order to their easier determination
by fellow workers in the group. I am at the same time fully
aware that this arrangement of the species is not a natural
one; but I employ it as being a ready guide in the identification
of the species.
I. Tegmina red, with three yellow or green streaks on each side.
1. Hemispherius coccinelloides. Pl. IV. fig. 2.
Issus coccinelloides, Burmeister, Meyen, Reise, Nova Acta Ph. Med.
Soc. C. Leop. N. C. xvi. p. 305. n, 38, pl. 41. fig. 11 (1833).
Hemispherius coccinelloides, Schaum, Allg. Enc. Wissensch. Kunst. 1.
p. dl.
Hab. Philippines (Wood & Cuming). B.M.
Il. Tegmina piceous, with three testaceous streaks.
2. Hemispherius lunaris.
Hemispherius lunaris, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. x. p. 182. n. 134
(1870).
Hab. New Guinea (Wallace). Type, B.M.
Ill. Tegmina piceous, with two or three yellow streaks.
3. Hemisphertus villicus. Pl. IV. fig. 1.
Hemispherius villicus, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soe. ser. 3, i. p. 588. n. 9 (1863).
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). Type, B.M.
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispherius. 93
IV. Legmina clay-coloured, with two longitudinal green streaks.
4, Hemispherius teniatus. Pl. IV. fig. 3.
Hemispherius teniatus, Stil, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, 1. p. 587, n. 3
(1863).
Hab. Waigiou (Wallace). Type, B.M.
V. Tegmina black, with two cream-coloured streaks.
5. Hemispherius vittiger. Pl. IV. fig. 4.
Hemispherius vittiger, Stal, Trans, Ent. Soe. ser. 3, i. p. 586. n. 2 (1863).
Hab. Kaisa (Wallace). Type, B.M.
VI. Tegmina black and castaneous, with yellow margins.
6. Hemisphertus pulcherrimus. Pl. LV. fig. 5.
Hemispherius pulcherrimus, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, i. p. 588,
n. 10 (1863).
Hab. Batchian (Wallace). B.M.
7. Hemispherius submarginalis. Pl. IV. fig. 7.
Hemispherius submarginalis, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. x. p. 132. n. 135
(1870).
Hab. Gilolo (Wallace). 'Type, B.M.
Very like the preceding species, but broader.
VII. Tegmina piceous, with narrow fulvous margins.
8. Hemispherius nigrolineatus. Pl. IV. fig. 6.
Hemispherius nigrolineatus, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. x. p. 180. n, 129
(1870).
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). ‘Type, B.M.
VIII. Fulvous margins clouded, ill-defined.
9. Hemispherius plagiatus.
Hemispherius plagiatus, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc, x. p. 131. n. 181
(1870).
Hab. Sula (Wallace). Type, B.M.
IX. Fulvous margins broad, well-defined.
10. Hemispherius lativitta. Pl. IV. fig. 8.
Hemispherius lativitta, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. p. 130. n. 128
(1870).
Hab, Morty (Wallace). Type, B.M.
94 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispherius.
X. Tegmina piceous, with yellow external margin.
11. Hemispherius viduus.
Hemispherius viduus, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soe. ser. 3,i. p. 589. n. 11 (1863).
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). 'Type, B.M.
12. Hemisphertus collaris.
Hemispherius collaris, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. p. 131. n. 183
(1870).
Hab. New Guinea (Wallace). Type, B.M.
13. Hemispherius latipes.
Hemispherius latipes, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, i. p. 588, n. 8 (1868).
Hab. Ceram. Coll. Stal.
14. Hemispherius dilatatus. Pl. IV. fig. 9.
Hemispherius dilatatus, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soc. x. p. 188. n, 137
(1870).
Hab. Flores (Wallace). Type, B.M.
XI. Yellow marginal line leaving the costal edge of the tegmina long
before reaching apex.
15. Hemispherius subapicalis, Walker, MS. Pl. IV. fig. 10.
Frons truncate, subconical, twice as broad in front as behind,
as broad as long, nearly smooth; scutellum almost equi-
laterally triangular; tegmina rather narrow, not prominent
in front, smooth and shining: frons black, with a transverse
testaceous band at each end; collar testaceous; scutellum
black, its apex testaceous ; tegmina black, with costal strami-
neous line, which leaves the margin at basal fourth ; abdomen
brown, anus and margins of ventral segments ochreous ;
pectus testaceous; legs ochreous, femora of front pair scarlet,
tibie of last pair tipped with black.
Length 53 millimetres.
Hab. Ceram and Dorey (Wallace). Type, B.M.
Variety. Frons with ochreous bands, collar ochreous; scu-
tellum with central longitudinal ochreous line; tegmina with
subcostal line ochreous at base, but castaneous from basal
fourth to apex.
Hab, Amboina (Wallace). B.M.
x.
I, OO EE
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispheerius. 95
16. Hemispherius pullatus.
Hemispherius pullatus, Stil, Trans. Ent. Soe. ser. 3, i. p. 587. 0.7 (1863).
Hab. Ceram. Coll. Stal.
This species, although it appears to have the sutural margin
of the tegmina margined with testaceous, seems to belong to
the same section with H. subapicalis.
XII. Tegmina red, with external black submarginal band and
yellow margin.
17. Hemispherius contusus. Pl. IV. fig. 11.
Hemispherius contusus, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 878. n. 3 (1851).
Hab. Sula (Wallace). Type, B.M.
XIII. Tegmina ochraceous, with broad black external border
intersected longitudinally by a yellow line.
18. Hemispherius circumcinctus. Pl. LV. fig. 12.
Hemispherius circumcinctus, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser. 3, i. p. 586.
n. 1 (1863).
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). Type, B.M.
XIV. Tegmina unicolorous, testaceous.
19. Hemispherius chilocorides.
Hemispherius chilocorides, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 879. n. 4
(1851).
Hab. Hong Kong (Bowring). Type, B.M.
20. Hemispherius scymnotdes.
Hemispherius scymnoides, Walker, Journ. Entom. i. p. 809 (1862),
Hab. Chentaboom, Siam (Mouhot). B.M.
21. Hemispherius torpidus.
Henuspherius torpidus, Walker, Journ, Linn. Soc. i. p. 155. n. 68
(1857).
Hab. Sarawak (Wallace). Type, B.M.
22. Hemispherius flavus, Walker, MS.
General aspect and size of the preceding species, but opaque
stramineous; the scutellum stramineous, with its anterior
margin black ; tegmina with black costal margin; abdomen
96 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispheerius.
ochraceous above; ventral surface purplish brown, segments
margined with yellow.
Length 4 millimetres.
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). Type, B.M.
This species is more oval than the preceding.
XV. Tegmina fulvous.
23. Hemispherius rufovarius.
Hemispherius rufovarius, Walker, List Homopt. Ins., Suppl. p. 95
(1858).
Hab. Birmah { Stevens). Type, B.M.
24. Hemispherius bipustulatus.
Hemispherius bipustulatus, Walker, List Homopt. Ins., Suppl. p. 95
(1858).
Hab, Ceylon (Cuming). Type, B.M.
XVI. Tegmina semitransparent, reddish or greenish.
25. Hemispherius cassidoides.
Hemispherius cassidoides, Walker, Journ. Entom. p. 808 (1862).
Hab. Chentaboom, Siam (Mouwhot). B.M.
XVII.. Tegmina uniformly green.
26. Hemispherius viridis.
Hemispherius viridis, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. x. p. 138. n. 156 (1870).
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). Type, B.M.
XVIII. Tegmina greenish testaceous, with a nearly perfect black
ring on each sule.
27. Hemispherius signatus. Pl. IV. fig. 13
Hemispherius signatus, Stal, Trans. Ent. Soe. ser. 3, i. p. 587. n. 4 (1863).
Hab. Batchian (Wallace). Type, B.M.
XIX. Tegmina testaccous, with two irregular parallel transverse
black lines.
28. Hemispherius typicus. Pl. IV. tig. 14
Hemispherius typicus, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. i. p. 155, 0. 67 (1857).
Hab. Borneo (Wallace). Type, B.M.
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispherius. 97
XX. Transverse bands piceous, very broad.
29. Hemispherius fasciatus. Pl. IV. fig. 15.
Hemispherius fasciatus, Stil, Trans. Ent. Soc. ser, 3, i, p, 587. n. 6
(1863),
Hab. Mysol (Wallace). Type, B.M.
XXI. Bands very slender, the wpper one oblique.
30. Hemispherius signifer. Pl. IV. fig. 16.
Hemispherius signifer, Walker, List Homopt. Ins. ii. p. 880. n. 5 (1851).
Hab. Hong Kong (Bowring). Type, B.M.
XXII. Bands uniting behind and broad.
31. Hemispherius dubtus, n. sp. Pl. IV. fig. 17.
Hemispherius Schaumi, Walker, MS. (nec Stil).
Entire structure the same as in /Z. bipustulatus, of which it
may be a variety ; the frong is of the same fusiform shape,
scarlet, with the margins and central ridge green; the head
narrow, testaceous above; scutellum and basal margin of
tegmina greenish testaceous ; tegmina fulvous, with basal half
of costal margin and apical margin edged with black; abroad
sigmoidal black central band, and below it, connecting it with
the inner margin, a mass of congregated black atoms; two
or three brownish atoms towards the apex; venter creamy,
with the anus anda broad transverse band black ; legs reddish
testaceous, longitudinally streaked with green and black at the
knees.
Length 43 millimetres.
Hab, Ceylon, Ramboddo (Nietner). Type, B.M.
I do not know how far the species of Hemispherius are
subject to variation; so far as I have seen they seem to be
pretty constant; still, from the perfect identity in structure of
this species with H. bipustulatus, I feel some doubt of its
distinctness. The H. Schaum? of Stal is described as “ dirty
yellowish, with greenish yellow frons, a central red streak ;
hemelytra dirty subhyaline, the anterior part of costal
margin black, and a small sutural black spot, two some-
what curved oblique submedian yellow lines: length 5, width
5 millimetres. Island of Taprobana.’’ This may be another
variety.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi.
“I
98 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispheerius.
XXIII. Brownish testaceous, with paler transverse irregular bands.
32. Hemispherius cervinus. Pl. IV. fig. 18.
Hemispherius cervinus, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. x. p, 181. n, 180
(1870).
Hab. New Guinea (Wallace). Type, B.M.
33. Hemispherius Schaumt.
Hemispherius Schaumi, Stil, Efvers. Kong]. Vetensk. Akad. Forhandl.
xii. p. 191 (1855).
Hab. Ceylon.
Walker labelled an entirely distinct form in the Museum
collection as this insect (see no. 31).
XXIV. Tegmina darker or paler brown, spotted with yellow.
34. Hemispherius flavimacula. Pl. IV. fig. 19.
Hemispherius flavimacula, Walker, List Homopt. Ins, ii. p. 378, n. 2
(1851).
Hab. Hong Kong (Bowring). Type, B.M.
XXV. Tegmina piceous, with two irregular streaks on apical half
and the apical margin testaceous.
35. Hemispherius recurrens, Walker, MS. Pl. IV. fig. 20.
Structure of /1. chilocorides: frons rugulose, longer than
wide, excavated above, gradually expanding downwards ;
lateral marginal ridge not prominent, punctured ; head narrow;
scutellum triangular, nearly equilateral, with central longitu-
dinal and marginal ridges ; tegmina with prominent shoulders,
rugulose, semitransparent : body testaceous ; tegmina piceous,
apex, apical half of costal margin, a diffused subapical streak
nearly parallel to the costa, and a straight transverse dash
from the inner margin towards apex testaceous.
Length 6 millimetres.
Hab. Fowchowfoo, China (G. T. Lay). Type, B.M.
Evidently nearly allied to H. chilocorides.
XXVI. Tegmina with four irregular streaks or spots, the apex and
costal margin testaceous.
36. Hemispherius variabilis, n. sp. Pl. IV. fig. 21.
Allied to the preceding: frons longer, less excavated above,
much smoother; scutellum much wider than long, without
central ridge; tegmina much more rugose, shoulders much
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispherius. 99
less prominent: body testaceous; tegmina piceous, with the
base, apex, costal border, two ill-defined spots placed trans-
versely on basal area, and two streaks (as in the preceding
species) on apical area testaceous ; the ground-colour towards
the margins on apical half blackish; apical margin narrowly
black.
Length 6 millimetres.
Var. 'Tegmina wholly testaceous.
Hab. Japan (Fortune). Type, B.M.
Var.? Smoother than the preceding, sordid testaceous, the
pale testaceous markings obsolescent ; two subcostal black
spots towards apex of tegmina.
Hab. South Japan (G. Lewis). B.M.
XXVII. Tegmina black, spotted with scarlet.
37. Hemispherius cruentatus, n. sp. Pl. IV. fig. 22.
Frons truncate-subconical, excavated at vertex, at its lower
extremity nearly as wide as it is long, almost smooth ; head
rather broad, scutellum nearly equilaterally triangular; tegmina
rather prominent at the shoulders, slightly rugulose, opaque :
body scarlet, legs stramineous; tegmina black, shining, each
with three large rounded scarlet spots, the largest almost in
the centre, the second oval, on apical area, the smallest upon
the centre of the sutural line and almost in a transverse line
with the largest.
Length 44 millimetres.
Fab. ? (from Mr. Saunders’s collection). Type, B.M.
This beautiful little species has more nearly the aspect of
a Coccinella than any other member of the genus.
XXVIII. Tegmina unicolorous, dark piceous, castaneous, or black.
38. Hemispherius niger.
Hemispherius niger, Walker, Journ. Linn. Soe. i. p. 155, n. 66 (1857).
Hab. Malacca (Wallace). Type, B.M.
Walker gives no reason for inserting this species in his
paper on Bornean Homoptera.
39. Hemispherius concolor.
Hemispherius concolor, Walker, Journ. Linn, Soc. x. p. 181. n. 132
(1870).
Hab. New Guinea (Wallace); Java (E£. India Company).
Type, B.M.
Very like the preceding species; but darker, with narrower
7H
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100 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Genus Hemispheerius.
head and much smoother tegmina. A small example of this
species from Dorey has received from Mr. Walker the MS.
name of H. subconcolor.
40. Hemispherius tristis.
Hemispherius tristis, Stil, Trans. Ent. Soe. ser. 3, i. p. 587. n. 5 (1868).
Hab. Batchian (Wallace). Type, B.M.
41. Hemispherius Walkert, n. sp.
Hemispherius chilocoroides | sic, nec chilocorides |, Walker, Journ. Entom.
p- 808 (1862).
Hab. Siam.
This is not at all likely to be the male of Walker’s Chinese
species.
42. Hemispherius bacculinus, n. sp.
Narrow, compressed, ovate; frons truncate, pyriform, trans-
versely rugose at the sides and longitudinally depressed in
the middle, nearly twice as long as broad; head rather wide ;
scutellum nearly equilaterally triangular; tegmina almost
elliptical, appressed at the sides: frons piceous, paler on
vertex ; collar sordid testaceous ; scutellum piceous ; tegmina
deep castaneous, paler at apex and at the extreme edge of the
sutural margin; venter and legs testaceous.
Length 4 millimetres.
Hab. Borneo (Wallace). Type, B.M.
This species is even more compressed in appearance than
H, pulcherrimus.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV.
The right tegmen of the following species is figured, to show the
pattern.
Fig. 1. Hemispherius villicus, Stal. Fig. 12. Hemispherius cireumeine-
Fig. 2 coccinelloides, Bur- tus, Stal.
meister. Fig. 13. signatus, Stal.
Fig. 3. teniatus, Stal. Fig. 14. —— typicus, Walker.
Fig. 4. —— vittiger, Stal. Fig. 15. —— fasciatus, Stal.
Fig. 5. —— pulcherrimus, Stal. Fig. 16. signifer, Walker.
Fig. 6. nigrolineatus, Walker. Fig. 17. —— dubius, Butler.
Big. 7. submarginalis, Walker. Fig. 18. cervinus, Walker.
Fig. 8. —— lativitta, Walker. Fig. 19. Jlavimacula, Walker.
Fig. 9. dilatatus, Walker. Fig. 20. recurrens, Walker.
Fig. 10. subapicalis, Walker. Fvg. 21. —— variabilis, Butler.
Fig. 11. —— contusus, Walker. Fig. 22. cruentatus, Butler.
Prof. F. M‘Coy on a Tertiary Pleurotomaria. 101
XI.—On a Tertiary Pleurotomaria. By FREDERICK
M‘Coy, Professor of Natural Science in the University
of Melbourne.
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
GENTLEMEN,
Tn former ‘numbers of your Journal I have made known the
existence in the Tertiary rocks of Victoria of three species of
Trigonia, previously only known as an abundant Mesozoic
genus, and represented by a few living species in Australasian
seas, but, by its complete absence in the intervening Tertiary
periods, forming a remarkable exception to the ordinary rule
of the duration of a genus in time being always continuous.
I have now the pleasure to announce a parallel discovery,
which will, I have no doubt, be of interest to geologists and
also to zoologists occupied with the general question of the
duration of genera, as removing another conspicuous supposed
exception to the general law.
The genus Plewrotomaria, like Trigonia, is a most abun-
dant one in all the Mesozoic marine formations, but, like
Trigonia also, has hitherto been remarkable for its. sudden
disappearance at the close of the Cretaceous period and
eing entirely absent in the well-searched Tertiary forma-
tions of Europe, Asia, and America, but reappearing in our
recent seas, where it is represented by two excessively rare
species.
I have recently found in a hard brownish or yellow lime-
stone, which, from its other fossils, is undoubtedly of the
Upper Miocene Tertiary age, a fine large species of Pleuroto-
maria almost intermediate in character between the two living
ones, having the large size, more elevated spire, and more
numerous and flatter whorls of the living Pleurotomaria Adan-
soniana, but the more nearly central band of the P. Quoyana,
and having the close spiral thread, crossed by nearly equally
prominent “equidistant lines of growth, It differs from both
in its more elevated acute spire, or much smaller apical
angle, and more equal stria. It may be characterized
follows :—
Pleurotomaria tertiaria (M‘Coy).
Spec. char. Shell large, trochiform, apical angle 67°: whorls
flat or very slightly convex ; base moderately convex, with (?)
a small umbilicus; band of moderate width, in the middle of
each whorl, slightly depressed : surface with subequal promi-
102 Prof. F. M‘Coy on a Tertiary Pleurotomaria.
nent thread-like spiral striz, rather less than their thickness
apart (about ten or eleven above and the same number below
the band), about three slightly smaller on the band, reticu-
lated by arched striz, narrower, but nearly as prominent, and
slightly further apart than the spiral ones. Length about
2 inches 9 lines; proportional width 5%%; length of last
whorl 5335.
Pleurotomaria tertiaria, M‘Coy.
Rare, in a hard yellowish limestone like lithographic stone,
about 2 feet thick, interstratified with the upper part of a bed
of older basalt about 100 feet thick, on east bank of Moorabool
river, near Maude.
If this fossil had been found alone, or if the other fossils
found with it had not proved the Upper Miocene Tertiary age
of the stratum, it would in all probability deceive any geologist
into the belief of its affording evidence of Oolitic strata at
this place.
On Gasteropoda collected in Japanese Seas. 103
XIT.—A List of the Gasteropoda collected in Japanese Seas by
Commander H. C. St. John, R.N. By EpGar A. SMITH,
F.Z.8., Zoological Department, British Museum.
[Continued from vol. xy. p. 427. ]
53. Stylopsis rufo-fasciata, sp. nov.
Testa subulata, elongata, levis, nitida, sub epidermide tenui sordide
albida alba, fasciis rufis ornata; anfractus circa 12 planiusculi,
supremi 5-6 longitudinaliter plicati, omnes tenuissime obsolete
spiraliter striati, sutura parum obliqua sejuncti; apertura ovata,
superne acuminata, longitudinis totius + paulo superans ; colu-
mella aliquanto incrassata, rectiuscula, callo tenui labro juncta.
Long. 17 mill., diam. 5.
Var. Testa longe gracilior, epidermide flavida induta; anfr. 9-10.
Long. 12 mill., diam. 31.
Hab. Kast of Yesso, lat. 42° 52’ N., long. 144° 40! E., 48
fathoms, sand and mud, temperature 37°-39°. Variety, En-
dermo Harbour, lat. 42° 20’ N., long. 141° 5! E., 4-7 fathoms,
sandy mud,
There are two reddish bands in the upper whorls, and three
in the last, which are distinctly visible within the aperture.
Mr. A. Adams says that this genus “is most like Syrnola,
but wanting the columellar fold.” I have never seen a species
of this genus; but the above remark of Adams applies exactly
to this and the following species, so that probably they are
rightly placed in this group.
54. Trichotropis (Iphinoé) unicarinata, Sow. Thesaurus
Conch. iii. pl. 285. f. 10.
Hab. Yamada Harbour, 7 fathoms, bottom sand and broken
shells.
The specimens of this rare shell dredged by Capt. St. John
are 12 millims. long, and the upper part of the body-whoril 6
millims, in breadth. They are clothed with a thin horn-
coloured epidermis, which is produced from the angle of the
whorls in the form of little short spines.
59. Trichotropis insignis, Middendorff, Malacozool. Rossica,
Hepa LOC uplink. is 4,9,0; hes. Conch, ii. pl. 285.019)
Hab. Akishi, 3 to 4 fathoms.
56. Hydrobia plicosa, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-conica, fuscescens, infra suturam pallida; anfractus 6
10e * Mr. E. A. Smith on Gasteropoda
convexiusculi, longitudinaliter subdistanter plicati, et liris spira-
libus tenuibus costis interruptis ubique cincti, anfr. ultimus versus
labrum pallidus ; apertura ovata, superne leviter acuminata, longi-
tudinis totius 2 equans; columella arcuata, aliquanto reflexa.
Long. 4 mill., diam. fere 2.
Hab. Avomori Bay, north of Niphon, in 7 fathoms.
The plications are about fifteen on a whorl, reaching from
suture to suture in the upper whorls, and only to the middle
of the last, and in some specimens they are entirely absent
from it.
57. Littorina grandis, Middendorft, Malacozool. Ross. 1. p. 57.
Hab. Japan.
58. Littorina brevicula, Phil. Abbildungen, u. pl. mi. f. 10;
Conchol. Icon. x. f. 51a, b.
Littorina balteata, Reeve, l.c. f. 71a, b.
Littorina Souverbiana, Crosse, Journ. de Conch. 1862, x. p. 53, pl. i. f. 6, 7.
Hab. Endermo, Yesso.
Dr. Lischke, in his ‘ Japanische Meeres-Conchylien,’ gives
the above synonymy. After comparing the actual types of
the two latter species in the National Collection with specimens
of brevicula, I do not hesitate to say that Souverbiana is iden-
tical with the latter, and dalteata but a slight variety of it,
59. Planaxis sulcatus, Born.
Buccinum suleatum, Born, Mus. Vindobon. p. 258, pl. 10. f. 5, 6.
Planaxis buccinoides, Deshayes, Anim. s. Vert. ed. 2, ix. p. 237.
Var.= Planaxis suleata, Lamarck, 1. c. p. 256.
Var.=Buccinum pyramidale, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3488.
Var.=Planaxis undulata, Lamarck, 1. c. p. 256.
Hab. Ooshima, on the shore.
60. Lacuna unicarinata, sp. nov.
Testa parva, umbilicata, cornea ; anfractus 3, leves, primi duo parvi
convexi, ultimus superne convexus, medio carina prominenti crassa
cinctus, infra carinam aliquanto planatus ; umbilicus mediocris,
carina basi columelle juncta circumdatus; columella tenuis,
albida, paululum reflexa; apertura ovatiuscula.
Long. 3 mill., diam. vix 2.
Hab, On a littoral species of Sargassum, North Japan.
The whorls are smooth, with the exception of the very fine
lines of growth. The keel encircling the body-whorl and that
around the umbilical region are of a brownish colour.
collected in Japanese Seas. 105
61. Diala simplex, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-conica, levis, polita, tenuis, rufo-cornea ; anfractus 43
convexiusculi, superne infra suturam linea obscura marginati ;
apertura rotunde ovata, longitudinis totius circa # squans ;
columella rectiuscula.
Long. 23 mill., diam. 14.
Hab. Vat. 41° 12' N., long. 140° 45’ E., in 43 fathoms,
sand and mud.
This species is of a very simple structure. It has neither
longitudinal nor transverse sculpture, and consequently may
not belong to this genus; for Adams, in the ‘Annals,’ 1862,
vol. x. p. 298, in characterizing the genus, says “ transversim
striata vel sulcata;’’ but, on the other hand, just below on
the same page, he describes a species (D. rujilabris) which
has smooth simple whorls.
62. Diala tenuis, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-conica, spira acuta, tenuis, pellucida, cornea, infra
suturam maculis rufis ornata, interdumque lineis distantibus rufo-
articulatis cincta; anfractus 6 convexiusculi, sutura subprofunda
discreti, incrementi lineis tenuissime striati; apertura ovata,
antice leviter effusa, longitudinis totius fere 4 sequans; anfr.
ultimus ad peripheriam obtusim angulatus ; columella rectiuscula.
Long. 4 mill., diam. 2.
Hab. On a littoral species of Sargassum, North Japan.
The nearest ally of this species appears to be O. inflata,
A. Adams, from O-Sima. It is very remarkable that all the
numerous specimens of the present species which I have ex-
amined are covered with what, to an ordinary lens, appear to
be minute grains of sand, but which I believe are the egg-
capsules of something. Another peculiarity is that the majority
of the examples have a very minute species of Spzrorbis attached
to them. In form it is very like Litiopa melanostoma.
63. Cerithium (Vertagus) Kochi, Philippi, Abbildungen, 11,
; Cerithium, pl.1. f. 3; Conch. Icon. f. 26, a, 0.
Hab. Matoza Harbour, 6 fathoms, sand,
Philippi quotes “‘ Kast Africa”’ as the habitat of this species ;
and there are examples in the Cumingian collection from
“St. Nicolas, Island of Zebu, Philippine Islands, 4 fathoms,
sandy mud (H. Cuming). Most of the Japanese specimens
are more highly coloured than Reeve’s figure represents the
species, many of the tubercles beg brown.
106 Mr. E. A. Smith on Gasteropoda
64. Cerithium (Vertagus) turritum, Sowerby, Thes. Conchyl.
vol. ii. Cerithium, pl. 180. f. 101; Conch. Icon. vol. xv.
Cerithium, f. 88.
Hab. Ooshima harbour, 8 fathoms, sandy mud and broken
shells.
The Japanese forms are larger than the types from the
Philippine Islands, and of a darker colour. There is a whitish
band below the suture, the rest of the whorls purplish brown,
the nodules being yellowish ; the aperture is brownish. The
largest specimen is 25 millims. long and 6} broad.
65. Cerithium rugosum, Wood ; Kiener, Coq. Viv. pl. 15. f. 3.
Hab. Ooshima.
There is in the collection a very pretty variety of this
species from the above locality. The ground-colour is ashy
black, and the rows of nodules are connected by transverse
lirations which are white, and likewise the nodules ; those on
the body-whorl are tinged with brown.
66. Lampania zonalis, Brug.; Kiener, Coq. Viv., Cerithium,
pl. 8. f. 1; Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. xv. pl. i. f. 5, a, 6.
Hab. Ooshima.
There is one specimen only of a pretty variety of this species.
It is of a greenish ash-colour, the spiral ribs being dotted with
black ; the white infrasutural zone has one orange liration
around the middle of it.
67. Triphoris corrugatus, Hinds, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.
1843, p. 18; Voyage ‘Sulphur,’ p. 29, pl. vii. f. 7.
Hab. Cape Sima, 18 fathoms, sand and broken shells.
68. Triphoris conspersus, sp. Nov.
Triphoris conspersus, A. Adams, MS.
Testa parva, elongata, lateribus levissime convexis ; anfractus cir-
citer 16 granulorum seriebus tribus cincti (suprema albida, hic
illic fusco-maculata, mediana quam ceteris longe tenuiore, albida,
infima pallide violacea); sutura distincta, canaliculata; anfr.
ultimus infra granula carinis tribus cinctus; apertura rotunde
ovata; canalis brevis recurvus.
Long. 83 mill., diam. 2.
Hab. Cape Sima, 18 fathoms, sand and broken shells.
This is a very pretty species, and appears to be undescribed
collected in Japanese Seas. 107
hitherto, the above name being probably but a manuscript one
attached to specimens in Cuming’s collection.
69. Turritella fascialis, Menke ; Reeve, Conch. Icon. 1849,
v. f. 47.
Turritella gracillima, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1861, vol. vii.
p. 886; Otia Conch. p. 140.
Hab. Goza Harbour, 6 fathoms, sandy mud.
There can be no doubt of the identity of Gould’s species and
that figured by Reeve, although the latter gives the west coast
of Central America as the locality.
70. Crepidula grandis, Middendorft, Malacozool. Rossica, ii.
p- 101, pl. xi. f. 8-10; Schrenck, Reisen im Amurl. p. 382.
Hab. Lat. 42° 58' N., long. 145° 24’ E., at a depth of
48 fathoms, sand and stones; and at Akishi, Yesso, in
3 fathoms.
The Japanese specimens differ a little from those of
more northern latitudes, as described by Middendorff, in
being rather more rounded in form, perhaps a trifle more
elevated, and brownish within.
71. Nerita pica, Gould, Otia Conch. p. 108.
Nerita japonica, Dunker, Malak. Bl. 1860, vol. vi. p. 233; Moll. Japon.
p. 18, pl. ii. f. 28.
Neritina melaleuca, Martens, /. c. vol. vii. p. 52.
Hab. Ooshima.
The above synonymy, given by Lischke, ‘ Japan. Meeres-
Conch.’ p. 85, 1s, I think, quite correct.
72. Globulus costatus, Valenciennes; Kiener, Coq. Viv.
Rotella, pl. ii. f. 5,
Hab. Endermo, Yesso.
73. Buccinum mirandum, sp. nov.
Testa ovata, crassa, perpallide roseo-fusca, maculis rufo-fuscis pre-
sertim supra costas spirales irregulariter ornata, epidermide tenui
fugaci pallide olivacea induta; anfractus 7, superne concayi et
angulati, infra angulum concavi, longitudinaliter plicati, costis
duabus spiralibus validis supra plicas nodosis cincti, spiraliter
tenuiter sulcati, minutissimeque granoso-striati, infra suturam
aliquanto rugosi; anfractus ultimus magnus, infra costis duabus
validis nodosis, aliis 3-4 minoribus haud nodosis subequidistan-
108 Mr. E. A. Smith on Gasteropoda
tibus interrupte rufo-fuscis cinctus; apertura subovata, pallide’
fusco-lactea, longitudinis totius 4 paulo superans; labrum parum
expansum, ad carinas spirales sinuatum; columella tenuiter callosa,
alba; canalis brevis, leviter recurvus.
Long. 53 mill., diam. 25; apertura long. 29 mill., diam. 16.
Operculum ovale, nucleo prope marginem sito, incrementi lineis
striatum.
Hab. Kast Yesso, 11 fathoms.
The plications which produce nodules on the spiral ele-
vations become almost obsolete on the last half of the body-
whorl. ‘The nodules number about ten on the penultimate
whorl. The entire surface is spirally rather distantly striated,
which is plainly visible to the naked eye, and also very
minutely granosely striated, only apparent with the aid of a
lens.
74. Turbo (Marmorostoma) coronatus, Gmelin.
Turbo coronatus, Gm. Syst. Nat. p. 8594 ; Chemnitz, Conch.-Cab. v.
f. 1791-2 (corona reclusa); Reeve, Conch. Icon. iv. pl. v. f. 22;
Kiener, Coq. Viv. pl. 12. f. 2, 2a.
Turbo reclusus, Chemnitz, and Turbo spinosus, Meuschen, fide Morch,
Yoldi Cat. p. 161.
Var.= Turdo lugubris, Reeve, l.c. f. 63.
Var. = Turbo creniferus, Kiener, 1. c. pl. 34 f. 3-3.
Var. umbilicata= Turbo granulatus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. p. 3601 ; Chem-
nitz, J. c. fig. 1744-46 ; Kiener, /. c. pl. 28. f. 2.
Hab. Ooshima, on the shore (St. John); Port Natal (Dr.
Sutherland and J. Sanderson).
After a careful study of this species, I do not feel justified
in separating 7’. coronatus and granulatus, the former. being
the non-umbilicated and the latter the umbilicated variety.
Usually the tubercles are much more strongly developed in the
typical form ; but in the large series in the Museum collection
there are examples of both varieties which have the style of
tuberculation identically the same, and differ only in the
presence or absence of the perforation.
Lischke, in his ‘ Japanische Meeres-Conchylien,’ p. 88, states
that 7. coronatus has only three principal series of elevations,
whereas 7. granulatus has four. But this only applies to the
typical forms of both varieties; for there are some examples
of the former with the lower series of nodules (that is, the one
which encircles the body-whorl a little below the middle) very
slightly developed or even entirely wanting ; and, on the other
hand, other specimens (7. granulatus, “var. minor tmper-
forata” of Lischke, /.c.) have four principal series of nodules
well developed.
collected in Japanese Seas. 109
Also with 7. granulatus are found specimens having two,
three, or four most prominent series. All specimens of every
variety agree in having a scarlet apex, which is finely per-
forated; and down this perforation a fine pin can be thrust
some considerable distance in the non-umbilicated forms, and
completely through some specimens which possess the um-
bilicus.
75. Turbo (Collonia) amussitatus, Gould.
Turbo anussitata, Gould, Proce. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. vii. 1861;
‘Otia,’ p. 160.
Collonia rubra, A. Adams, MS. in Mus. Cuming.
Turbo sangarensis, Schrenck, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersh. iv. p. 409;
Reisen im Amurlande, p. 363, pl. xvi. f. 6-11.
Var. = Turbo pumilo, Schrenck, Bull. &c. p. 410; Reisen, p. 363,
Hab. Endermo Harbour, 4-7 fathoms, sandy mud ; and lat.
41° 12’ N., long. 145° 45! E., 43 fathoms, sand and mud.
A variety from Yamada Harbour, 7 fathoms, sand and
broken shells.
76. Turbo (Collonia) nocturnus, Gould, Otia Conch. p. 160.
Testa ovato-conica, sordide albida vel fuscescenti-alba, liris fusco
irregulariter punctatis ornata, imperforata; anfractus 5, convexi,
sutura subprofunda discreti, liris spiralibus (in penult. 6-7, quarum
infimis 3 sepe quam ceteris crassioribus) cincti, anfr. ultimus
infra paululum planulatus liris circiter 18 (quarum 4 circa
medium frequenter quam ceteris majoribus, iis supra basim
tenuissimis) ornatus; apertura circularis, margaritacea; colu-
mella alba, incrassata, medio unituberculata; operculum leviter
concavum, fusco marginatum, sub microscopio minutissime corru-
gatum, ad marginem unisulcatum.
Long. 61 mill., diam. 5.
Hab. Lat. 41° 12' N., long. 140° 45’ E., 43 fathoms, sand
and mud.
Great care must be taken not to confound specimens of this
species without opercula with Trochus (Gibbula) yamadanus ;
for the form, style of coloration, and general aspect are very
similar. Nevertheless the absence of an umbilicus and the
coarser spiral ribbing at once distinguish this species.
A variety from Yamada Harbour is almost entirely of a
uniform purplish brown colour, only faint indications of the
articulated dotting existing. A specimen in the Cumingian
collection is encircled at the periphery with a plain white
band.
110 Mr. EK. A. Smith on Gasteropoda
77. Liotia semiclathratula, var., Schrenck.
Liotia semiclathratula, Schrenck, Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Pétersb. iv. p. 410 ;
Reisen im Amurlande, p. 370, pl. xvi. f. 16-25,
Hab. Toba Harbour, lat. 34° 30! N., long. 136° 50’ E., ata
depth of 9 fathoms, among sand and broken shells.
The single specimen which appears to belong to this species
is a dead shell. It differs from the typical form in having the
longitudinal lirations produced beyond the periphery of the
body-whorl (except towards the labrum) to the umbilicus, and
giving the base of the shell the same cancellated aspect as the
upper parts.
78. Trochus rota, Dunker.
Trochus rota, Dunker, Malak. Bl. 1860, vol. vi. p. 238; Moll. Japonica,
p- 21, pl. iii. f. 4; Lischke, Japan. Meer.-Conch. pl. vi. f. 20, 21.
Polydonta gloriosum, Gould, Otia Conch. p. 158,
Hab. Ooshima.
A single young specimen which I have identified with this
species has the spiral lirations of the base, which is white,
dotted with pink. Dunker does not mention the colour of this
part of the shell. 7. décrenatus, Gould (syn. histrio, Reeve),
is very similar in general aspect.
79. Trochus (Gibbula) fulgens, Gould, Otia Conch. p. 160.
Trochus wridescens, Schrenck, Reisen im Amurlande, p. 356, pl. xv.
f, 19-24,
Hab. Off Cape Blunt, lat. 41° 41! N., long. 141° E., 35
fathoms.
In one of the specimens which I associate with this species
the three principal keels on the body-whorl are articulated
with brownish purple and whitish dots ; and below the suture
there are some short brownish-purple flammulations. Schrenck
mentions this articulated painting on p. 357, but not in the
diagnosis on the preceding page.
80. Trochus (Gibbula) japonicus, sp. nov.
Trochus japonicus, A. Adams, MS. in Mus. Cuming.
Testa late breviterque conica, valde perforata, albida maculis punc-
tisque fuscis variegata, ad basim alba; anfractus 6, planiusculi,
liris spiralibus granosis (infima in sutura profunda sita) cincti, et
striis obliquis insculpti; anfr. ultimus supra leviter convexiusculus,
medio acute angulatus et carinatus, infra carinam planus, lirisque
circularibus granularibus circiter 13 (una circa umbilicum quam
ceteris majore) ; umbilicus profundus, usque ad apicem attingens,
collected in Japanese Seas. 1st.
levis; apertura oblique subquadrata, intus margaritacea; columella
leviter incrassata, callo tenui labro juncta.
Diam. max. 8 mill., diam. min. 7, alt. 5.
Hab. Gulf of Yado, lat. 35° 35! N., long. 139° 48' E., 6 to
25 fathoms, soft mud and hard sand.
The keel which encircles the body-whorl runs up the spire
in the deep suture. Within the umbilicus, and adjacent to the
large granular liration which surrounds it, there is another,
but much finer one.
81. Trochus (Gibbula) yamadanus, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-conica, sordide albida, liris lilaceo-fusco aliquanto flam-
mulatim tessellatis picta, leviter perforata; anfractus 5, convex,
sutura subprofunda sejuncti, liris tenuibus spiralibus lilaceo-fusco
articulatis (in anfr. penultimo 5—6, in ultimo circiter 20) succinceti,
hic illic incrementi lineis obliquis insculpti; apertura circularis,
longitudinis totius 4 equans, margaritacea ; columella paululum
incrassata, labro callo tenui juncta.
Operculum corneum.
Long. 6 mill., diam. 44.
Hab. Yamada Harbour, lat. 39° 32’ N., long. 141° 53’ E.,
7 fathoms, sand and broken shells.
The elongate brownish-lilac spots on the lirations are situated
somewhat irregularly underneath each other, so as to form
flammulations.
82. Trochus (Gibbula) corallinus, sp. nov.
Testa corallino-rubra, minima, orbicularis, depressiuscula, profunde
sed anguste umbilicata; anfractus 4, convexi, liris spiralibus
confertis subgranulosis (in anfr. superioribus 4—5, in ultimo
circiter 20) cincti, striisque oblique longitudinalibus distantibus
insculpti; umbilicus profundus, lira magna, striis longitudinalibus
transversim sulcata, succinctus ; apertura circularis, intus tenuiter
margaritacea.
Diam. max. 3, diam. min. 21, axis 23.
Hab. Japan.
This is a very pretty little shell with convex whorls, which
are spirally striated, the interstitial lirations being somewhat
granulous. ‘This appearance is produced by their being cut
across by rather distant striations.
83. Trochus (Gibbula) redimitus, Gould, Otia Conch. p. 159.
Testa depressa, orbicularis, anguste perforata, viridi-margaritacea,
prismatica, liris spiralibus nigro articulatis ornata, ad apicem
112 Mr. E. A. Smith on Gasteropoda
alba; anfractus 43, convexiusculi, liris vel potius carinis 3-4 (in
anfr. ultimo circiter 12, iis infra medium quam ceteris tenui-
oribus) succincti; umbilicus albus, parvus; apertura magna,
circularis, margaritacea ; columella alba, supra umbilicum ali-
quanto reflexa, labro callo tenui juncta.
Operculum corneum.
Diam. max. 4 mill., diam. min. 31, axis 32.
Hab. Lat. 41° 12' N., long. 140° 45’ E., in 43 fathoms,
bottom sand and mud. |
This very pretty species is at once recognized by its green
pearly surface and the black-dotted spiral keels. The above
description shows that this species varies as regards form and
the perforation.
84. Trochus (Chlorostoma) turbinatus, A. Adams,
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 182.
Chlorostoma rugatum, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1861, vol. viii.
p. 20; Otia Conch. p. 158.
Hab. Toba, South Niphon.
The only difference I can observe between Gould’s species
and that described by Adams is, that the base of the former
is more finely spirally lirated than that of the latter, which
has only five or six strong lirations.
85. Trochus (Chlorostoma) subfuscescens, Schrenck, Reisen im
Amurtlande, p. 350, pl. xv. f. 3-10.
Hab. Ooshima and Endermo, Yesso.
86. Trochus (Chlorostoma) xanthostigma, A. Adams,
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1851, p. 183.
Trochus nigricolor, Dunker, Moll. Japon. p. 22, pl. ili. f. 2; Lischke,
Japan. Meer.-Conch. pl. vii. f. 1, 2.
Hab. Ooshima, on the shore.
Although Mr. Adams does not state in whose collection the
type of this species is, in all probability it belongs to the
Cumingian, where several specimens are labelled “ xantho-
stigma,” one of which suits the description very well with
regard to the “ basi concentrice lirato luteo-carneolo; regione
umbilicali callo luteo obtecta.” In the remaining specimens
the umbilical callosity is of a greenish colour, and the basal
spiral lirations are almost obsolete.
collected in Japanese Seas. 113
87. Dentalium sexcostatum, Sowerby, Thes. Conch.
Vor. pl. 228. 12.11.
Hab. Cape Sima, 18 fathoms, bottom sand and_ broken
shells ; Goza Harbour, 6 fathoms, sandy mud.
This fine species, the habitat of which has not been recorded
previously, is closely allied to, if not identical with, D. hexa-
gonum, Gould, from Hong Kong. The chief difference in
the latter species appears to be the lack of sculpture between
the angles, and the slightly narrower form.
88. Dentalium octogonum, Lamarck ; Sow. Thes. Conch.
vol. ii. pl. 223. f. 9.
Hab. Matoza Harbour, 6 fathoms, sand; Ooshima Harbour,
8 fathoms ; and lat. 35° 7! N., long. 136° 55’ E., 3 fathoms.
89. Dentalium semipolitum, Sowerby, 'Thes. Conch. vol. iu.
pl. 224. f. 23.
Hab. Cape Sima, 18 fathoms; Matoza Harbour, 6 fathoms.
90. Cylichna pertenuis, sp. nov.
Testa parva, leviter umbilicata, tenuissima, sordide albida, pyriformi-
cylindracea, ad verticem exigue perforata, parum nitida, longitu-
dinaliter tenuissime et confertissime arcuatim striata; apertura
superne perangusta, super verticem leviter producta, ad basim
dilatata ; columella rectiuscula, aliquanto incrassata, versus umbi-
licum paululum reflexa.
Long. 34, diam. fere 2 mill.
Hab. Lat, 42° 52' N., long. 144° 40! E., in 48 fathoms, sand
and mud ; temperature 37° to 39°.
The longitudinal striation is very minute, and only visible
under a powerful lens. The form is scarcely sufficiently pyri-
form to warrant me in placing this species in the subgenus
Sao.
91. Cylichna concinna, A. Adams, Thes. Conch. vol. ii.
p- 593, pl. 125. f. 142.
Hab. Matoza Harbour, 6 fathoms, sand.
A single specimen, agreeing in every particular with the
type of this species, with which it has been compared, measures
9 millims. in length, 33 in width.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4. Vol. xvi. 8
114 On Gasteropoda collected in Japanese Seas.
92. Volvula angustata, A. Adams, Thes. Conch. vol. ii.
p- 596, pl. 125. f. 153.
Hab. Endermo Harbour, 4 to 7 fathoms.
This species is described by Adams from a specimen from
the Philippine Islands.
93. Haminea grisea, sp. Nov.
Testa breviter cylindracea, superne subplanata, inferne rotundata,
tenuis, imperforata, sub epidermide tenui grisea cxeruleo-alba,
versus apicem luteo tincta, nitida, spiraliter minutissime et con-
fertissime striata, incrementi lineis arcuatis obsolete decussata ;
apertura superne angusta, super yerticem vix producta, basi
dilatata; columella oblique subtortuosa ; labrum tenue, verticis
medio junctum ibique incrassatum.
Long. 6, diam. 3 mill.
Hab. The same as Cylichna pertenuis.
H. corticata, Moller, is the nearest ally of this species ; but
the lateral outlines of that species are more convex, and the
epidermis is of a more yellow colour. In H. grisea the colu-
mellar portion of the body-whorl is of a yellowish colour, and
the termination of the slightly olive-grey epidermis is defined
by a blackish edge.
94, Atys porcellana, Gould, Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1859,
vol. vii. p. 188; Otia Conch. p. 111.
Hab. Matoza Harbour, 6 fathoms, sand.
A single specimen, which I refer to this species, is 123
millims. long and 6 broad. It is clothed with a very thin,
pale horn-coloured epidermis.
95. Patella nigrolineata, Reeve, Conch. Icon. vol. vi. pl. 18.
f. 43, a, b; Lischke, Japan. Meeres-Conch. pl. vii. f. 5-11.
Hab. Toba, south-east of the island Niphon.
This is the first time that this species has been recorded
from the eastern shores of Japan. Only a single example
was brought, which is the variety 4, admirably figured in
Dr. Lischke’s excellent work, figs. 7 & 8.
96. Patella pallida, Gould, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist.
1859, vii.; Otia Conch. p. 115.
Hab. Yamada Harbour, lat. 39° 32! N., long. 141° 53! E.,
7 fathoms, sand with broken shells.
Mr. E. J. Miers on new Spectes of Orustacea. 115
Two specimens from the above locality, measuring 16
millims. long, 13 broad, and 7 high.
There are two other specimens of Patella in the collection,
belonging to distinct species—the one from Nemero, Hast
Yesso, and the other from Endermo—but in such a condition
as to defy identification.
97. Chiton (Lepidopleurus) Albrecht, Schrenck, Reisen im
Amurlande, p. 283, pl. xiii. f. 7-17.
Lepidopleurus granifilosus, Carpenter, MS. in Coll. Cuming.
Hab. Endermo Harbour.
The two fine Chitons, which may possibly be a very large
variety of this species, are about 65 millims. long, and the
central valves 28 broad. They appear to differ somewhat in
the lirations on the lateral areas not being granulated, and all
the valves being distantly concentrically sulcated.
98. Cryptochiton Steller’, Middendorff, Bull. Acad. St. Pétersb.
vol. vi. p. 116; Malacozool. Rossica, p. 93, pl. i. figs. 1, 2.
Chiton amiculatus, Sowerby. C. sitkensis, Reeve. C. chlamys, Reeve.
Hab. Endermo Harbour, south of Jesso.
There is a handsome specimen of this species from the above
locality. It is of small size, about 3 inches in length; and
the dorsal surface is completely clothed with the closely packed
stars of spicules, which are mostly of a bright rust-red colour,
but here and there are small patches of a greenish tint.
XII.—Descriptions of three additional Species of Crustacea
from Kerguelen’s Land and Crozet Island, with Remarks
upon the Genus Paramera. By Epwarp J. Miers, Zoo-
logical Department, British Museum.
TuHE following species of Crustacea from Kerguelen’s Land
and Crozet Island, in the collection of the British Museum,
appear to be undescribed. The examination of a larger series
ot specimens enables me to correct an error into which I had
fallen with regard to the genus Paramera (see ‘Annals’ for
July, p. 75).
Aga semicarinata, 0. sp.
Elongate ovate, moderately convex, punctate, except upon
the anterior half of each of the segments of the pereion ; the
ge
116 =Mr. E. J. Miers on new Species of Crustacea.
punctures become larger and more numerous upon the segments
of the pleon, especially upon the last segment. yes large,
placed laterally. Hach of the seven segments of the pereion
with a faint impressed transverse line crossing it at about the
middle; the sixth segment the largest. Coxee somewhat acute
and produced posteriorly, and marked with two oblique raised
lines. Pleon composed of six segments, of which five are
very short and subequal; the sixth and last about three fourths
as long as broad at the base, with the sides converging poste-
riorly, truncate and slightly emarginate at the extremity, with
asomewhat obscure, smooth, central longitudinal carina, which
terminates before reaching the posterior margin, and a slight
depression on either side of it near the base of the segment.
Rami of the lateral appendages ciliate, not reaching to the
extremity of the segment, subequal; the outer suboval and
rounded at the extremity, the inner triangular, with the ex-
tremity broad and truncate.
Length of largest specimen 23 inches.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Land (coll. Brit. Mus.).
This species resembles 4fga serripes, M.-Edw., from the
South Seas, in its truncate caudal segment, but differs in
having the posterior margin of the thighs entire, and in the
caudal appendages being shorter than the segment and not
reaching to its posterior margin.
Serolis septemcarinata, n. sp.
Serol ‘lata White, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 106, sine descr.
( :
Depressed and rugose, especially towards the lateral margins
of the segments. Segments of the pereion acute at the posterior
angle; the fifth and sixth segments and the penultimate seg-
ment of the pleon produced backward, so that the extremity
of the penultimate segment projects considerably beyond the
base of the terminal segment of the pleon. ‘Terminal segment
of the pleon narrowed posteriorly, with the sides slightly con-
cave, with a shallow emargination at its extremity, and with
three straight longitudinal carinz on either side of the central
carina, the two inner of which are somewhat thickened poste-
riorly and terminate before reaching the margin of the segment.
Rami of the lateral appendages of the pleon short, subacute
at the extremity, the inner rather larger than the outer.
Length of largest specimen } inch.
Hab. Crozet Island (Lieut. A. Smith, R.N., Brit. Mus.).
The two inner of the lateral ridges on the last segment, on
each side of the central carina, are more prominent than the
Mr. E. J. Miers on new Species of Crustacea. ry
rest, on which account probably White named this species
S. quadricarinata.
Atylus australis.
Paramera australis, Miers, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, xvi. p. 75
(July 1875).
In the ‘Annals’ for July I established for this species a new
genus, Paramera, allied to Melita in having the inner branch
of the caudal appendages short or rudimentary, but differing
from it in the absence of a secondary appendage to the superior
antenne. The examination of a series of younger specimens
has shown that the rami of the caudal appendages are in
reality equally developed; but the inner ramus of the last
pair, being very loosely articulated with the base, is frequently
detached; this is the case with the two adult specimens in the
collection brought home by the Rev. A. E. Eaton.
The species must now be referred to the genus Atylus, and
is most nearly allied to Atylus fissicauda from Valparaiso
(Iphimedia jfissicauda, Dana, U.S. Explor. Exped., Crust.
p- 929, pl. Ixiii. fig. 4). It resembles that species in having
reniform eyes and each lobe of the telson emarginate ; but
differs as follows: the telson is much longer, each lobe is
somewhat narrowed to the apex, with the emargination very
small and placed a little laterally; the gnathopoda are subequal;
the fourth segment of the pleon is somewhat produced back-
ward over the fifth, with the posterior margin straight; and
the infero-posterior angles of all the segments of the pleon
are rounded, not acute as in Atylus fissicauda.
The name Parame@ra must still be retained for Dana’s
Melita tenuicornis, from New Zealand, unless it should prove
that this species is also mutilated in the way above described.
Melita Fresnelii (Audouin) is probably incorrectly figured
with exappendiculate superior antennee.
Nymphon brevicaudatum, n. sp.
First (mandibular) pair of palpiform appendages well deve-
loped, three-jointed, terminating in slender chele. The seventh
(first tarsal) and eighth (second tarsal) joints of the legs straight,
subequal, very slender. Abdomen terminating posteriorly in
a short process.
Length of body 7 inch.
Hab. Kerguelen’s Land (Admiralty, Brit. Mus.).
This species resembles Nymphon styligerum, described in
118 On a new Species of Solenella.
my former paper, in all particulars except the foregomg. The
specimens are nearly all females with ova, and are of much
larger size than the two specimens of N. styligerum.
XIV.—Description of a new Species of Solenella from South
Patagonia. By Evear A. SMITH, F.Z.S.
Tue following species was collected by Dr. Robert O. Cun-
ningham, the naturalist, during the cruise of H.M.S. ‘ Nassau,’
under the command of Captain R. C. Mayne, R.N., who was
sent to survey the Straits of Magellan in 1866. He dredged
it at the Otter Islands, which are situated in a channel which
branches northward from the Straits to the west of King
William IV.’s Land and east of Queen Adelaide’s archipelago.
In his book entitled the ‘ Natural History of the Straits of
Magellan,’ p. 448, this species is mentioned as a Yoldia; but
this no doubt arose from the circumstance that the specimens
were only cursorily examined, for of course the presence of
the external ligament at once distinguishes them from that
genus. All the specimens, collected and excellently preserved
by Dr. Cunningham, have been presented to the British
Museum by the Admiralty.
Solenella magellanica, sp. nov.
Testa subelliptica, postice acuminata, medioeriter ventricosa, leviter
insequilateralis, epidermide politissima, flavicante seu olivaceo-
flava amicta, intus alba, porcellana, incrementi lineis concentricis
parum rugosis et striis ab umbonibus radiantibus tenuibus antice
(interdum utrinque) sculpta; margo dorsalis utrinque declivis,
antice curvatus, postice prope umbones aliquanto excayatus, deinde
rectiusculus ; ventralis fere regulariter, sed parum, arcuatus ; latus
anticum brevius subacuminate rotundatum, posticum subbreviter
rostratum, superne leviter excavatum; lgamentum olivaceo-
nigrum, subelongatum ; dentes antici 10, postici circiter 25 ; pallii
impressio lata profunda.
Diam. longit. 19 mill., diam. transversa 35, crass. 11.
In one very old and much thickened specimen the epidermis
is of an olive colour, but im all the others it is yellowish.
From the umbones to the end of the acuminate end there
runs a faint keel, at a little distance from the dorsal margin,
and between it and the margin the valves are slightly ex-
cavated. ‘The epidermis, as is usual in species of Solenella,
is reflexed slightly within the shell. The interior displays no
trace of iridescence, but is thickened with a white porcellaneous
deposit ; and it is curious that the two most adult specimens
On the Embryogeny of Lamellaria perspicua. 119
have small pearls of this texture adhering to the centre of
each valve.
As a guide to the form of this species, I may mention that
the figure of Yoldia Woodwardi in the ‘Thesaurus Conchy-
liorum,’ vol. iii. pl. 226. f. 22, gives a very fair idea of it,
except that the umbo is situated too near the acuminate end.
XV.—On the Embryogeny of Lamellaria perspicua.
By M. A. Grarp*.
THE recent researches on the embryogeny of the Pectini-
branchiate Gasteropods relate to a very small number of types—
Paludina vivipara (Leydig), Calyptrea sinensis (Stetanoff
and Salensky), and Purpura lapillus (Selenka). It was not,
therefore, useless to undertake the study of the development
of a sufficiently abnormal group, that of the Sigaretide.
Lamellaria perspicua lays its eggs at Wimereux during the
months of February and March. This mollusk hollows out
its nest in the colonies of the compound Ascidia, from which it
derives its nourishment (Leptoclinum maculosum and Poly-
clinum succineum). The nest has been seen and described by
Hennedy and Peach. I will only add that the transparent
operculum, which closes it, presents circular and concentric
strie, indicating that the female turns on herself during ovi-
position, as also do a large number of nudibranchiate mollusks.
Each capsule contains, besides the normal eggs, a certain
number of rudimentary eggs, which serve at a later period for
the nourishment of the embryo. The ovarian egg presents a
vitelline membrane; the deposited egg is quite destitute of it.
Its contents are formed chiefly of tatty globules, which do not
allow one to see the germinal vesicle. Just as segmentation
is about to commence, a spot of a dull white colour appears at
the surface of the egg, to disappear soon after. The egress of
the polar corpuscles could not be observed.
The egg separates into two parts, of which the largest divides
in its turn into two and then into three. We have thus four
spheres—namely, a large one (the still undivided primitive
sphere) and three small ones. ‘These four spheres are not
uranged in a cross, but in a tetrahedron, like four cannon-
balls forming a pile. In the portion situated between the
points of contact of the four spheres, each of them gives birth
* Translated by W.S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the ‘Comptes Rendus,’
22nd March, 1875, p. 7386.
120 M. A. Giard on the Embryogeny
to a much smaller cell, with finely granular protoplasm. Thus
is effected the separation of the plastic vitellus from the nutri-
tive vitellus. The plastic spherules have a nucleus and a
nucleolus, and they soon multiply rapidly ; while the number
of large nutritive spheres augments, on the contrary, with ex-
treme slowness. The plastic spherules not only form a mass
at one point of the egg, as has been already described and
figured in Vermetus,.but they invade and cover up all the
nutritive vitellus, forming the ectoderm. The nutritive spheres,
the division of which takes place less rapidly, give origin to
the endoderm. All this process resembles very closely that
which has been observed in certain worms (for example in
Euaxes) by Kowalevsky.
After segmentation the first modification that takes place
is a thickening of the ectoderm, at a point near that where
this lamella finally closes (prostoma). This. thickening be-
comes covered with vibratile cilia and hollowed by a cavity
(cephalic vesicle). At the same time the definitive mouth is
formed by an invagination of the ectoderm situated on the
anterior third of the embryo, below the cephalic vesicle. The
cephalic expansion soon divides into three lobes, a median and
two lateral lobes, forming a sort of trefoil open below where
the buccal opening is situated. The median lobe is covered
with very fine vibratile cilia; the lateral lobes are bordered by
a row of large cylindrical cells provided with much longer
cilia, The embryo turns rapidly on itself in the mucus which
fills the nest. It absorbs the rudimentary eggs, and, even under
the microscope, the matters proceeding from the diffluence of
the neighbouring embryos. Some cells detach themselves from
the ectodermic lamella in the median lobe, and emit pro-
cesses which unite them on the one hand to this lamella and
on the other to the cesophageal invagination. This is the first
rudiment of the middle lamella that will produce the vascular
system.
The lateral lobes soon become considerably developed, and
unite to form an irregularly quadrangular ciliated collar, of
which the lateral parts become forked and are formed at a
later period into elegantly pigmented vela. No traces of
tentacles are to be seen.
The foot is derived from a thickening of theectoderm situated
under the mouth; this thickening is ciliated at its free extre-
mity. The nervous system appears under the form of an infla-
tion of the ectoderm situated on each side at the point of
junction of the lateral lobes with the cephalic vesicle; the
two inflations afterwards approach the median line and are
of Lamellaria perspicua. 121
united by a commissure which becomes shorter and shorter.
The eyes are formed at the inferior angle of these inflations,
at the expense of the ectoderm ; their development progresses
part passu with that of the subcesophageal nervous centres ;
at the time of hatching they enclose two refractive vesicles. The
otocysts appear at the base of the foot at the time of the
formation of the latter, and before the existence of any
nervous organ; their wall is composed of very small cells
belonging to the ectoderm.
As soon as the stomach is differentiated at the expense of
the endoderm, its cavity and the lumen of the cesophagus are
lined with very delicate vibratile cilia. At the same stage
we see, on the right side of the embryo, a rounded mass of
large cells, which will form the kidney. The residue of the
endodermic spheres not differentiated is pressed back to the
lower extremity of the embryo, and gives origin, not to the
liver, which originates from the stomach, but probably to the
genital organs. I have not been able to follow the formation
of these last organs or of the anal gland, which is much deve-
loped in the adult Lamellaria.
The cavity of the mantle is formed by a very rapid deve-
lopment of the secretory pad of the shell. The pallial con-
tour is pigmented with brown and yellow. The dorsal part
of the mantle is finely ciliated. Above the digestive tube and
along the lower part of the foot we find some contractile sinuses,
the first indications of a circulatory system.
The preconchylian invagination, the general importance of
which in the Mollusca was first pointed out by Ray Lankester,
is not so strongly marked in Lamellaria as in certain nudi-
branchs (Dendronotus arborescens, Goniodoris nodosa) in
which I have had the opportunity of observing it. Wesee in
the lower part of the embryo, at that stage when the cephalic
vesicle begins to be differentiated, the ectoderm become hollow
very slowly and leave a thin cuticle free, which is the rudiment
of the first shell. The cushion which borders this invagina-
tion ascends by degrees along the embryo, in the same way as
a wave of liquid propagates itself, at the same time that the
bottom of the invagination resumes its original form and
position, The thickness of the cushion keeps the embryo
away from the shell; and the ectodermic cells continuing their
secretion, a second shell is formed inside the first, but closely
applied to the body of the embryo. The first shell is of a
nautiloid form, and presents two dorsal and two lateral keels ;
it resembles the shell of Atlanta. ‘The second shell is more
simple, and resembles in its appearance that of Carinaria,
122 On a new Species of Scotophilus.
or of the embryos of the Nudibranchs. These two shells are
united at their apertures by means of a very thin membrane.
They have the same relations to each other and the same rela-
tive signification as the nauplian cuticle of the embryos of the
Cirripedes and the carapace of the Archizoéa enclosed under
that cuticle. I do not think that the second shell is the origin
of the calcareous shell of the adult Lamellaria. I have been
unable to ascertain this fact by direct observation; for the
nautiloid embryos, after having swum some days in the aqua-
riums, die without undergoing any other transformation.
The embryogeny of Lamellaria takes considerable time for
its accomplishment (two or three weeks). The larve break
down with great rapidity when they are removed from the
mucus which bathes them. Nitric acid has been of great
service to me in these delicate researches.
XVI.—Description of a very large Species of Scotophilus
from Western Africa. By G. K. Dosson, M.A., M.B.
Scotophilus gigas, n. sp.
Ear-conch and tragus like those of S. borbonicus, Geoftr. ;
but the internal basal lobe of the ear is more rounded and its
inferior horizontal margin is straight, not im the least degree
concave; the upper third of the outer margin of the conch is
slightly but distinctly concave; and the tragus has the narrow
ridge, proceeding from the base of its inner margin across its
front margin, as well developed as in S. Temminckit.
Wings to the metatarsus near the base of the toes; last
two caudal vertebre and half the third last vertebra free.
Fur above deep chestnut, beneath yellowish white. The
fur on the upper surface is short and does not extend any-
where upon the membranes, terminating by a well-defined
line, and not extending posteriorly as far as the root of the
tail; beneath, the wing-membrane is thinly covered as far as
a line drawn from the elbow to the knee-joint, and a band of
fur passes outwards, posterior to the forearm, to the carpus,
as in Vesperugo noctula. ‘The face in front of the eyes is
nearly naked.
Upper incisors with a posterior horizontal expansion of the
cingulum, as in S. borbonicus ; lower incisors crowded. ‘The
other teeth as in S. Temminckit.
Length (of an adult female preserved in alcohol), head
and body 4°6 inches, tail 3°6, tail free from membrane 0°35,
Mr. A. G. More on a Gigantic Squid. 123
head 1°45, ear 0°9, tragus 0°45 x 0°1, forearm 3°4, thumb 0:7,
second finger 5°75, fourth finger 4:15, tibia 1°4, foot and
claws 0°75.
This is by far the largest species of the family Vespertilio-
nide yet described, its forearm exceeding that of Vesperugo
molossus (hitherto known as the largest species) by half an
inch, and exceeding by quite one inch the forearm of the
largest species of Scotophilus.
Hab. Lagos, west coast of Africa. Type in the collection
of the British Museum.
XVII.— Gigantic Squid on the West Coast of Ireland. By
A. G. Mors, Assistant Naturalist in the Museum of the
Royal Dublin Society,
SEVERAL accounts having lately appeared in print respecting
a very large cuttlefish which was lately captured off Boftin
Island, Connemara, I have to offer a few notes made on those
portions of the animal which fortunately were preserved by
the care of Sergeant O’Connor, and by him forwarded to the
Museum in Dublin.
This giant cuttle or squid was caught on the 25th of
April by the crew of a “corragh,” a shght narrow rowing-
boat constructed of hoops and tarred canvas, such as is much
used for line-fishing on the west coast of Ireland. The animal
was found basking on the surface ef the sea, and was attacked
by the fishermen, who could not bear to think that so much
good bait should be lost. Not until after a laborious chase
and some danger, the arms were one by one dissevered, and
at last the head. The body, being too unwieldy, was allowed
to sink.
From the portions thus brought ashore, Sergeant O’Connor,
being much interested in matters relating to fishing-operations
and natural history, preserved what he could; and, in this
instance, but for his care the whole prize might have been
converted into bait for long-lines. A good part of both
tentacles, one short arm, and the great beak entire, with some
of the surrounding flesh attached, have reached Dublin; and
there remains very little doubt that we have now to deal witha
second example of the famous Architeuthis dux of Steenstrup.
So little is known of the original specimen, and so imperfect
are the fragments now obtained, that the identification must
tor the present remain incomplete. Enough, however, remains
124 Mr. A.G. More on a Gigantic Squid.
to show that our present specimen is quite distinct from the
American Megaloteuthis Harveyt (Kent), which is described
as having minute suckers on the margin of the tentacular
club. The closely packed small suckers in six rows just
below the main suckers of the palm offer another distinctive
character, as do also the few small sessile suckers which are
scattered along the length of the otherwise smooth peduncle
in our specimen.
The following few particulars may be worth placing on
record :—
Tentacles 30 feet long when fresh (14 and 17 feet can still
be made up from the pickled pieces). A few distant, small,
and nearly sessile suckers occur at long intervals along the
inner surface of the peduncle. The club, measuring 2 feet
9 inches in its present shrunken state, is occupied in the centre
of the palm by two rows of large stalked suckers nearly 1 inch
in diameter, fourteen in each row; an alternating row of
fourteen smaller suckers (4 an inch in diameter) occupies the
margin on each side of the palm: thus there are twenty-
eight large 1-inch suckers in the middle, and the same number
of 4-inch suckers along the outside edge. These outer suckers
are each armed with a denticulated bony ring of some twenty-
eight teeth pointing inwards ; and no doubt the large inner
suckers were similarly furnished; but their rings had fallen
out or had been removed before the specimens were examined.
Just beneath where the large suckers end there occurs a
cluster of small suckers, 32; of an inch in diameter ; and these
are arranged closely in six transverse rows for about 5 inches
along the now narrowing wrist of the club; only a few of
the uppermost of these are furnished with denticulate rings ;
the greater number, like the few small suckers of the peduncle,
are sustained by rings with an entire or smooth edge. Above
the large suckers of the palm the club tapers upwards, and
is again clothed with a great number of small and apparently
smooth-ringed suckers.
The short arm is quite spoiled for examination: all-the
horny rings are gone ; and the suckers themselves are scarcely
represented. This arm measured 8 feet in length, and 15 inches
round the base, when fresh.
The beak has a strong wide tooth about the middle of the
edge of the inner mandible, and a much narrower notch on
the outer mandible, on each side. The head and eyes were
unfortunately lost.
Museum of Royal Dublin Scciety,
July 3, 1875.
Two new Species of Mammals from Madagascar. 125
XVIII.—WNotice of two new Species of Mammals (Propithecus
and Hemicentetes) from Madagascar. By Dr. ALBERT
GinTHER, F.R.S. Ke.
Mr. Crosstey has recently sent another collection from Mada-
gascar* ; among the specimens selected for the British Museum
are two apparently undescribed species of Mammals. ‘T'wo
adult specimens of Hriculus, one of which is of blackish,
the other of whitish colour, appear to correspond to the . sp7-
nosus and EF. nigrescens of Grandidier’s List of Madagascar
Mammals, in ‘ Rev. et Mag. Zool.’ 1867, p. 318. Our spe-
cimens are of different sexes—the dark ones being males, and
the light-coloured females. The spines of the latter are
rather more slender than those of the other specimens. It is
very probable that these differences in the colour and spines
are merely sexual.
Propithecus holomelas.
Allied to and nearly of the same size as P. Hdwardsiv.
Throat and all the lower parts covered with dense fine woolly
hair. Male with a small patch of ferruginous hairs radiating
from acentre in the middle of the chest, opposite to the manu-
brium sterni; in the female this patch is replaced by two
smaller ones placed side by side, and the hairs are of a whitish
colour. All the upper parts deep black, except the back of
the root of the tail, which is brownish. Abdomen greyish
brown. le nem i
Miscellaneous. 147
birds, especially the smaller ones, harbour a multitude of Helmintha,
which are easy to procure, and which I have been able to examine
while alive. Their study, from the point of view of habitat, has
already furnished me with a great mass of facts which fully confirm
the general considerations of my preceding note.
I will first cite three species of Nematoids :—Ascaris spiculigera,
Rudolphi; Ascaris heteroura, Creplin; and Spiroptera aculeata,
Creplin. Ascaris spiculigera was found by Creplin in the digestive
tube of the guillemot (Uria troile); and it is there also that I have
myself met with it at Roscoff; but it has been noticed in many
other sea-birds (divers, grebes, mergansers, auks, sea-gulls, pelicans,
cormorants). The Ascaris heteroura is not uncommon in the intestine
of the golden plover. As for Spiroptera aculeata, it is found abun-
dantly in the proventriculus of the variable sandpiper.
The Echinorhynchi are very irregular in their habitat, but they
are also unfortunately very difficult to characterize. The sanderling
(Calidris arenaria) and the common turnstone (Strepsilas interpres),
in which no species of Acanthocephala were previously known,
have furnished me with two probably new species. That of the
sanderling has an oval body, very much swollen and regularly folded
across ; that of the turnstone is distinguished, on the contrary, by
a very long linear body armed with prickles on its anterior parts,
and by a very short trunk. A species allied to the latter, but still
more elongated, inhabits the intestine of the laughing-gull; it is
perhaps Hchinorhynchus linearis, Westrumb. I have often obtained
Echinorhynchus inflatus, Creplin, in the ringed plover, and in the
variable sandpiper Echinorhynchus polymorphus, Bremser, which is
very common in ducks. On the other hand, Hchinorhynchus striatus,
Goeze, which usually lives in the intestines of waders, and par-
ticularly in those of the heron, is found at Roscoff in a totipalm
Palmipede, the common cormorant. This Echinorhynchus, of which
we possess as yet only two bad specimens, is distinguished from all
its congeners by its strange forms and its mode of fixure. The
anterior part of its body, which is very much inflated and covered
with prickles, becomes, when the trunk is retracted, a true sucking-
disk, by the aid of which it fixes itself to the walls of the intestine.
In this state it resembles certain spinous Distomata, such as the
Distoma ferox, Zeder, which likewise inhabits the intestine of the
herons, and with which one might at first sight confound it.
The Cestoids are also numerous, and not less interesting. The
species belonging to the genus Tenia may be divided into two groups,
plainly distinguished by the relative size of the hooks with which
their trunk isarmed. Tenia crassirostris, Krabbe, and Tenia filum,
Goeze, have the hooks very short, and are therefore easy to distinguish.
The first is found in the ringed plover, the second in the variable
sandpiper. The species with large hooks are less distinct and less
easy to recognize. Tenia retirostris, Krabbe, lives in the intestine
of the common turnstone; Tenia nymphea, Schrank, a form very
nearly allied to the preceding, is peculiar to the curlew ; the Tenia
erwetorum, Krabbe, is only found in the golden plover; Tenia
148 Miscellaneous.
inversa, Rudolphi, may almost be said to line the intestine of Sterna
fissipes. A very common species, which is perhaps Tenia laevigata,
Rudolphi, but which may perhaps be new, develops itself indifferently
in the curlew, the sanderling, the common turnstone, the variable
sandpiper, and the knot. The genus Ophryocotyle, established by
Friis in 1869, is represented at Roscoff by two species. Ophryo-
cotyle proteus, Friis, is found in the variable sandpiper and the
sanderling as well as in the ringed plover; the other species is new,
and lives in the godwit.
The parasites of the Cetacea of the suborder Cetodontes have been
lately carefully collected ; but it is probable that we are still far
from knowing all. Ina common dolphin, dissected in the laboratory
of Roscoff on June 22nd, 1874, we found at the base of the pectoral
fins, between the fat and the muscles, a singular worm, which I
have been unable to determine, and of which I will shortly give a
description. This curious parasite seemed to me to resemble the
Pseudalii; but it certainly differs from all the species of this genus
at present known. The same dolphin contained in its stomach a
prodigious quantity of Ascaris simplex, Rudolphi, in all stages of
development.
I may also notice as being found at Roscoff two unpublished
Cercarie, the Redie of which live in marine Mollusca. One of
them, discovered by Professor de Lacaze-Duthiers, is a parasite of
Calyptrea sinensis, and is distinguished by its tail, which is fur-
nished with two membranous lateral expansions, regularly plaited
across. The other, which much resembles two Cercarie described
by Miiller (C. setifera and C. elegans), is a parasite on Nassa
reticulata.
We have still to study the migrations and metamorphoses of all
these species. The subject is without doubt very attractive; but
it requires much method and circumspection and a long series of
observations. It will be this year the principal object of my re-
searches. Some experiments I have made in this direction on the
parasites of the birds have not been unfruitful, and I hope soon to
be able to communicate to the Academy the results obtained.—
Comptes Rendus, April 26, 1875, p. 1098.
On the Action of Borax in Fermentation and Putrefaction.
By M. J.-B. Scunerzier.
Tn the scientific discussion which took place before the Academy
between MM. Pasteur and Fremy on the theory of fermentation
M. Dumas intervened, stating that there are two sorts of ferments :
—those of which beer-yeast is the type, which live and multiply
during the fermentation ; and those represented by diastase, which,
on the contrary, are destroyed during their action*.
Restricting the name to the chemical action produced by ferments
* Revue des Cours scientifiques, 1872.
i
Miscellaneous. 149
of the first type, M. Dumas arrives at this conclusion, that fermen-
tation is a chemical phenomenon accomplished under the necessary
influence of the life of the ferment. After investigating the action
of a great number of substances on yeast, the illustrious chemist
examines the properties of borax. This substance coagulates yeast,
dissolves the membranes which remain in suspension in an unfil-
tered solution of white of egg, prevents the conversion of the sugar
by the water of the yeast, arrests the action of diastase, and para-
lyzes synaptase. M. Dumas expects that the study of borax will
lead to consequences of the highest importance.
M. Dumas’s communication forms the starting-point of the fol-
lowing observations and experiments.
I. The Action of Borax on the Protoplasm of Vegetable Cells.
1. Some leaves of Elodea canadensis (the rotation of the proto-
plasm in the cells of which is readily observed) were immersed in a
concentrated solution of borax. The plasmatic current continues
for some minutes, then becomes slower and stops altogether. The
protoplasm contracts, retires from the cell-wall, and condenses into
one or two rounded masses enclosing grains of chlorophyl. The
borax has killed the living material of the cell.
2. In observing the issue of the spores of Vaucheria clavata in
water, I was able to verify, in the long tubular cell of some indi-
viduals which did not possess spores, movements of contraction of
the protoplasm, which became differentiated into green balls moving
in different directions in the interior of the cell. When, by a slight
pressure, the protoplasm is expelled from the cell, either in balls or in
shapeless masses, there are still perceived in it for a little time lively
molecular movements.
On immersing fresh and intact Vaucheriev in a concentrated solu-
tion of borax, the protoplasm coagulates and retires from the cell-
wall, which becomes perfectly hyaline.
The action produced by borax on the globules of chlorophyl is
striking ; they contract, and bend themselves into the shape of a
crescent.
The spores of Vaucheria, after coming out of the mother cell, ex-
ecute in water rapid movements of translation by means of their
minute vibrating cilia. In a borax solution these movements are
almost instantly arrested, the protoplasm of the spore contracts and
is transformed into a finely granular mass within the cell.
3. I watched the effect of a solution of borax upon Ordium Tuckeri,
which had attacked some grapes. In pure water, molecular move-
ments are observed within the hyphz and spores, independent of
the plasmatic currents. The material contained in the cells of the
fungus exhibits the same molecular movements when by a slight
pressure it is diffused in water. Under the influence of a solution
of borax the spores and hyphe of the Otdiwm contract; the latter
twist, while their contents coagulate into a granular mass: the
fungus is killed. The molecular movements of the substance that
150 | Miscellaneous.
has come out of the cells continue in the borax solution. It is in
the same manner that borax produces coagulation of the protoplasm
of the cells of yeast, moulds, &c.
II. The Action of Borax on the Animal Organism.
1. Infusoria, Rotifera, and Entomostraca, placed in the same drop
of water, to which is added concentrated solution of borax, soon
cease their movements and die. The contraction and coagulation of
the sarcode of the Infusoria is distinctly perceived.
2. Young tadpoles rendered very transparent by a prolonged stay
in darkness, placed in solution of borax, exhibit convulsive con-
tractions in the muscular fibres of the tail; the circulation of the
blood (so easy to observe in these animals) gradually slackens ; the
plasma of the blood coagulates ; and in less than an hour the animal
is dead.
The preceding observations show that borax puts an end to the
properties by which the life of protoplasm, vegetable and animal,
is manifested. If fermentation is a chemical phenomenon effected
under the influence of the life of the yeast, borax must necessarily
counteract fermentation.
IIL. The Action of Borax on Fermentable Substances.
1. In the month of October 1872, I placed some very ripe grapes
in a concentrated solution of borax, as well as an entire bunch of
grapes ; the whole was put into a bottle and corked up. The liquid,
at first colourless, browned slightly; but the separate berries, as
well as the bunch, present the same appearance to-day (February
1875) that they did more than two years since. There has been no
trace of fermentation. Nevertheless, although the grapes are well
preserved, they are not eatable. There has been diffusion : a large
portion of the sugar has passed through the membranous husk of
the grapes, while the borax has penetrated into the interior, where
it has coagulated the albuminous matter of the cells.
I made the same experiment with some gooseberries, and obtained
the same result. When the bottles are well corked, not a trace of
mouldiness can be seen; but when the air has free access, or even
a limited access, a mouldiness forms (Mucor) without fermentation
accompanied by disengagement of gas. When, as a countertest,
grapes are placed in a well-corked bottle filled with water, fermen-
tation takes place at the end of a time which varies according to the
temperature, and carbonic acid is liberated.
2. 30 cubic centims. of fresh milk was put into a test-tube with
1 gramme of borax. The cream soon formed a pretty thick layer
at the surface. In spite of the stopper which closed the test-tube,
mould formed on the cream ; but the rest of the liquid underwent
no acid fermentation, and retained during several months the look
of skimmed milk, very clear. Afterwards, under the influence of
a
Miscellaneous. 151
the heat of summer, the liquid became quite limpid, while a soft
white substance (caseine) was deposited at the bottom of the tube ;
but neither the liquid nor the precipitate had any acid taste; at the
end of three months they exhaled the odour of fresh milk.
Some fresh milk, without the addition of borax, put into a well-
corked test-tube, underwent the acid fermentation after two or three
days; it became quite thick by the coagulation of the caseine.
3. A fragment of sheep’s cerebellum was sprinkled with borax.
Eight days afterwards it gave out a spermatic odour ; later, sulphu-
retted hydrogen was liberated, without putrefaction proper being
perceptible. The substance, after presenting during several months
a soft consistence, became hard and void of any unpleasant smell.
4, A pound of beef was placed in a concentrated solution of borax
in a tin box not hermetically sealed. The red colouring-matter of the
blood became diffused in the surrounding liquid, as well as a part of
the soluble nitrogenous substances of the meat. After a few weeks
the liquid assumed a brown colour and emitted a very unpleasant odour,
although there was no putrefaction of the meat, which, when removed
from the liquid and washed with cold water, certainly had a peculiar
smell, but quite unlike that of putrefying meat. To-day, after more
than a year and a half, notwithstanding the summer heats of 1873
and 1874, the liquid having been renewed three times, the flesh
presents not the slightest odour of putrefaction. Its colour is
yellowish; but it is soft and tender like fresh meat. Taken out
of the preserving-liquor, it retains its condition unchanged in the
alr.
5. Some beef, veal, and fragments of sheep’s brains were placed
in a borax solution in a jar filled with the liquid, and hermetically
closed. The liquid was soon tinged bright red; and this colour
remained unchanged during several months. The meat did not
present the slightest unpleasant odour as long as the access of air
was prevented. Some meat placed in water, even in an hermetically
closed bottle, was rotten in a few days.
The odour swt generis presented, on contact with the air, by meat
which has been preserved for a time in the borax solution, seems to
me to arise from the decomposition of the materials resulting from
the metamorphosis of the substances composing either the muscular
fibre or the intermuscular plasma.
Without wishing to infer from the preceding an application to
the preservation of viands for culinary use, there flows from it
another—the preservation of anatomical preparations by means of
concentrated solutions of borax in well-closed jars. A great saving
of the alcohol used in such cases would evidently result.
As we have demonstrated that protoplasm (that is to say, the
living substratum of the lower organisms) is killed by borax, this
substance might probably be utilized in the dressing of wounds, &e.
—Annales de Chimie et de Physique, April 1875, pp. 543-549.
152 Miscellaneous.
Investigation of the Phenomena of Digestion in Insects. By M.
Féirx Prareav. (An abstract of his paper in the ‘ Mémoires de
VAcad. Roy. de Belgique,’ tome xl. 1874. Communicated by the
author.)
The necessity of having recourse to animals possessing an organi-
zation resembling our own for the purpose of solving the various
problems of human physiology has led to the carrying out of a multi-
tude of experimental researches, the results of which when brought
together and discussed constitute the comparative physiology of the
Vertebrata, which, however, still exhibits important gaps arising from
the preponderance that has been given to the study of certain classes to
theneglect of the rest. The division which has received most attention
next to the Vertebrata is that of the Arthropoda. We already
possess valuable treatises on the locomotion, the innervation, the cir-
culation, the animal heat, the secretory phenomena, and especially the
embryonic development of these animals; but it will be remarked
that digestion has been left almost entirely in the shade.
Attracted by the novelty of the subject, but without losing sight
of the difficulty of the task, we have endeavoured to fill up this gap
by repeating on a small scale what so many others have done on a
large scale for the Mammalia—by feeding Articulate animals, follow-
ing, often step by step, the modifications of their food in the diges-
tive tube, analyzing as far as possible the liquids secreted by the walls
and glandular appendages of the latter, attempting artificial diges-
tions, &c.*
Although our investigations have for several years embraced the
whole of the group, we have thought it better at present to publish
only what relates to the Insects; and we do this with the confidence
derived from work performed with minute care, but also with the
conviction that we have done no more than to place a landmark as
the starting-point for future studies.
Our observations, and especially our experiments, have led us to
results some of which are in complete disagreement with what we
find stated in recent classical treatises. Could it well be otherwise?
The authors of the works of which I speak had before them as ma-
terials nothing but almost exclusively anatomical data, of which they
have taken the best advantage in their power by depending upon
analogies of form.
To be as brief as possible, I shall confine myself to an abstract of
the summary which concludes my memoir.
When the salivary glands are not diverted from their original
function to become silk-glands, poison-glands, &c., they secrete a
neutral or alkaline liquid, possessing, at least in the case of one of
* Respect for priority makes it our duty to point out to the reader that
the first experiments in artificial digestion by means of the digestive liquids
of an Arthropod were made by M. Emile Blanchard in his researches on
the Scorpion (‘Organisation du Régne Animal,’ Arachnides, p. 66).
+ The description of the phenomena of digestion in the Myriopoda, the
Crustacea, and the Arachnida will appear hereafter.
Miscellaneous. 153
the pairs of glands, the characteristic property of the saliva of the
Vertebrata, of rapidly converting feculent aliments into soluble and
assimilable glucose.
In a great many cases (carnivorous insects, Orthoptera, &c.) the
esophagus is dilated into a crop terminated by a narrow valvular
apparatus. The food, more or less divided by the organs of the mouth,
accumulates in this crop, which is very dilatable, is there impreg-
nated by peculiar neutral or alkaline liquids, and undergoes an evident
digestive action, the result of which, in carnivorous insects, is the
transformation of the albuminoid materials into soluble and assimi-
lable substances analogous to the peptones, and, in insects which
feed upon vegetable substances, an abundant production of sugar at.
the expense of starch. This digestion in the crop is very slow ; and
until it is terminated the following part of the alimentary tube re-
mains empty.
When the digestion in the crop has come to an end, the materials,
subjected to a strong pressure on the part of the walls of the organ,
glide or filter, by degrees, through the valvular apparatus (gizzard of
authors), being directed in their course by the furrows and chitinous
projections of the latter. The vascular apparatus is not a trituratory
organ auxiliary to the buccal organs; for in the carnivorous beetles
and in the Locustina, in which it affects a classical form, the animal
or vegetable matters which have traversed it are found after the
passage in portions of the same size and form as before the opera-
tion.
In the insects which have neither a crop nor a valvular appara-
tus, the food passes continuously into the middle intestine.
In the middle intestine (chylific stomach of authors) the alimen-
tary materials which have resisted the action of the crop, or those
which have penetrated into it directly in the insects which do not
possess the crop and the valvular apparatus, are submitted to the ac-
tion of an alkaline or neutral, but never acid liquid, secreted either
by special local glands, as in the Orthoptera, or by a multitude of
small glandular ceca, as in many Coleoptera, or by a simple epithe-
lial lining. This has no analogy with the gastric juice of Vertebrates ;
its function is different according to the group to which the insect
belongs: in the carnivorous Coleoptera it is an active emulgent of fatty
matters; in the Hydrophilian Coleoptera it continues the transforma-
tion of starch into glucose which commenced in the cesophagus; in
the Scarabeida it also gives rise to glucose, but this action is local,
taking place in the middle intestine and nowhere else ; in the cater-
pillars of Lepidoptera it determines a production of glucose and at
the same time acts as an emulgent of fatty matters; lastly, in the her-
bivorous Orthoptera there seems to be no further formation of sugar
in the middle intestine, but this body is produced and absorbed en-
tirely before passing the crop.
The middle intestine is generally evacuated slowly and continu-
ously into the terminal intestine, the first portion of which, usually
long and slender, is very probably the seat of an active absorption.
The epithelial lining of the walls in some species seems, however, to
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 1 ig
154 Miscellaneous.
indicate that secondary digestive phenomena may take place in it.
The reaction of the contents is neutral or alkaline.
The second, wider portion of the terminal intestine only performs
the function of astercoral reservoir. It is associated, for example in
the Dytiscide, the Nepe, and the Ranatre, with a voluminous czecum,
which is not a natatory bladder as has been supposed. It may be
empty or full of liquid, but never contains any gas. The liquid pro-
duct secreted by the Malpighian tubes accumulates there, and, under
certain circumstances, deposits in it calculi which may be of consider-
able size.
Some substances resist the digestive action and are passed with the
excrements. Such are the chitine of the integuments of insects, vege-
table cellulose, and chlorophyl; the microspectroscope enables us to
detect the last at all parts of the alimentary tube of herbivorous
insects.
Insects have nothing resembling the chyliferous ducts. The pro-
ducts of digestion, dissolved salts, peptones, sugar in solution, and
fatty emulsions, traverse the comparatively thin coats of the diges-
tive tube by a phenomenon of osmosis, and mix with the blood outside
this tube.
The Malpighian tubes are exclusively depuratory and urinary
organs, which free the body from the products of the wear of organic
elements. The liquid that they secrete contains urea (doubtful),
uric acid, urates in abundance, hippuric acid (doubtful), chloride of
sodium, phosphates, carbonate of lime, oxalate of lime in quantity,
leucine, and colouring-matters.
As to the so-called anal glands, the product they secrete is very
variable in different groups ; but it has no part to play in digestion,
and is not urinary.
On the Structure and the Development of the Sting and Ovipositor
of some Hymenoptera and of Locusta viridissima. By Dr. H.
Dewit1z.
It has generally been admitted, until within the last few years,
that the parts which are found at the posterior extremity of the
bodies of insects, and which constitute nippers, cerci, the ovipositor,
and the sting, are formed by the transformation of certain segments,
or at least of some arches of segments. However, new views as to the
origin and signification of these organs were introduced into science
in 1866 by Packard and Weissmann. Memoirs directly or indirectly
relating to this subject have been published more recently by Ganin
in 1869, and lastly by Oulianin and Kriipelin in 1872 and 1873.
The embrylogical researches of M. Dewitz, which relate to
Locusta viridissima, Apis mellifica, Bombus sp., Vespa vulgaris,
and Cryptus migrator, have led him to the discovery of some impor-
tant facts, which confirm, in a general way, the opinion of the ana-
tomists whom we have just mentioned, completing and rectifying
certain points of their observations. To give an idea of the results
Miscellaneous. L5S
at which the author has arrived we think we cannot do better than
translate the most essential part of the summary which terminates
his memoir.
‘In all the insects observed, the body is composed of thirteen
segments behind the head. Nevertheless this number presents in
the Hymenoptera an apparent reduction, arising from the invagina-
tion of the last segment ; while in the Locuste there seems to exist,
on the contrary, one segment more than usual, because, in the course
of development, the last segment divides into two parts—namely, a
posterior anal piece and an anterior annular piece *.
‘‘ Both the sting and the ovipositor are formed of six principal
parts, of which, however, the number is reduced to five in the Hy-
menoptera which the auther has been able to observe, in consequence
of the soldering together of two of them. These six parts originate
from six papille, four of which belong to the penultimate segment
(12th behind the head) and two to the antepenultimate. These
papill originate from disks (Jmaginalscheiben) similar to those
which Weissmann has described in connexion with the formation of
the appendages of Corethra; but while in the Hymenoptera observed
these disks originate from an invagination of the hypoderm, which
thrusts itself into the cavity of the body in the shape of hollow
demispheres, we can recognize in Locusta only a thickening and
projection of the hypoderm exteriorly. The time of the appearance
of the six papillee is not the same in all cases: in the bees, at the
commencement of the larval period the two papille of the antepe-
. nultimate segment and the two intermediate ones of the penultimate
appear simultaneously, while the two lateral papille of the latter
do not show themselves until later; on the other hand, in the
grasshoppers, while still in the egg the two lateral papille of the
penultimate segment are already very much advanced in develop-
ment, the two of the antepenultimate segment are indicated in the
form of disks; and the two intermediate ones of the penultimate
segment appear only when the animal has quitted the egg for some
time. We consequently see here, as in other cases of the develop-
ment of the Articulata, that homologous parts do not always appear
in the same order, but show themselves sooner or later according to
the dimensions which they have to acquire or the importance which
they will have in the sequel.
“In the Hymenoptera observed, the sheaths result from the deve-
lopment of the two lateral papille of the penultimate segment, the
* M. H. de Saussure,who has carefully studied the abdomen of the adult
Orthoptera, has only found nine segments in these latter insects, besides
the intermediate segment, which has no ventral arch and belongs rather
to the thorax than to the abdomen. The body, therefore, would possess,
according to him, thirteen segments without counting the head (see
‘Mémoires pour servir a l’Histoire Naturelle du Mexique &e.,’ tome i.
p- 268, and ‘ Mission scientifique au Mexique &c.,’ Orthoptéres, p. 2, pl.i.).
In the Hymenoptera the intermediate segment closes the thorax behind,
and forms that which has been wrongly called the metathorax. It is
then entirely separated from the thorax.
156 Miscellaneous.
channel from the development of the intermediate papilla of this
same segment, and the bristles serving to sting or to perforate pro-
ceed from the two papille of the antepenultimate. As the parts of
the ovipositor in Locusta have the same origin, we ought to consider
them homologous with the parts of the sting of the Hymenoptera;
and the upper sheaths of the grasshopper consequently correspond
to the sheaths of the sting, the lower ones to the piercing-sete, and
the annexed sheaths to the channel.
«‘ The segments take part in the formation of the sting only inas-
much as the chitinous bands forming in the parts of the sting are
attached to them and partly soldered to them. Some particular
points of the surface of the segment also present a stronger deposit
of chitine, and thus attach themselves to parts of the sting; this is
the case with the flattened plates and the angle (Winkel) of the
Hymenoptera, as well as with some of the pieces which occur at the
base of the ovipositor in Zocusta, and which have not yet received a
name.
«The sting is distinguished in a remarkable manner from the ovi-
positor of the grasshoppers by the number as well as by the attach-
ment of the muscles which move these apparatus.
“In Apis &c. these last are fixed only on the anterior part of the
sting, which is inserted into the body; while in Locusta they
penetrate also into the pieces of the ovipositor. However, the dif-
ferences arise above all from the dimensions, the forms, and the ad-
herences of homologous parts, and particularly from the different
relations which the sheaths of the sting and the upper sheaths in
Locusta bear to the other parts. The sete of the Hymenoptera and
the lower sheaths of Locusta present very different forms ; the former
have only one groove, the latter have two. The appendages which
in the Hymenoptera form the channel, undergo in Locusta an
arrest of development.
“The cheliform and foliaceous appendages which constitute the
external copulatory organs of the males of the bees and Ichneumonidae,
as well as the two styliform appendages of the anal piece of the
penultimate segment in the males of the grasshoppers, originate from
two papille situated on the penultimate segment.
«« Embryogeny therefore teaches us that the parts of the sting
and of the ovipositor represent appendicular organs. It only re-
mains to inquire if we ought to regard the four appendages of the
penultimate segment as representing two pairs of members, or as two
members having undergone a longitudinal division. This latter in-
terpretation is preferable, since each group of two appendages arises
from one disk only, which proves its unity. However, to decide
this question with certainty, we must have more numerous observa-
tions than we possess up to the present time on the formation of the
appendages of articulated animals.”—Zeitschr. fur wiss. Zool. Band
xxy. 1875, pp. 174-200; Bibl. Univ. April 15, 1875, Arch. des Sev.
p. 343.
THE ANNALS
AND
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
[FOURTH SERIES.]
No. 93. SEPTEMBER 1875.
XX.—On the Primary Origin of the Sexual Products.
By M. HERMANN Fou*.
A MEMOIR of great importance from the point of view of
embryogenic morphology appeared at the end of last year.
This memoir is the fruit of the investigations made by EK. van
Beneden on the mode of formation of the testis and ovary in
Hydractinia echinata and Clava squamata.
The Hydractinia is particularly well adapted for this in-
vestigation, because its colonies are male or female; each
colony contains individuals in different stages of development,
the sex of which is thus known beforehand. To this we must
add the simplicity of organization of the Coelenterata, especially
the Hydroida, which consist during the whole of their life
principally of the two primitive lamelle, the ectoderm and
entoderm—the mesoderm, represented by muscular fibres and
connective tissue, being very little developed. The results of
researches made upon an object so favourable must have an
almost absolute certainty, and deserve our full confidence.
Van Beneden saw the testis form at the expense of a mass
* Translated by W. S. Dallas, F.L.S., from the ‘ Bibliothéque Uni-
verselle, Archives des Sciences Physiques et Naturelles,’ June 15, 1875,
pp. 104-111.
+ E. van Beneden, ‘‘De la distinction originelle du testicule et de
Vovaire ; caractére sexuel des deux feuillets primordiaux de Vembryon ;
hermaphrodisme morphologique de toute individualité animale &c.,”
Bull. Acad. Roy. de Belgique, 3° sér. tome xxxvii. 1874. .
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4. Vol. xvi. iM
158 M. H. Fol on the Primary Origin
of cells, which results from a hollow or solid invagination of
the outer lamella. The ova, on the contrary, descend directly
from a certain number of cells of the entoderm. The two
organs are sketched out in each of the two sexes; but the
testis is atrophied afterwards in the reproductive individuals
of the female colonies and the ovary in those of the male,
colonies.
Waldeyer had previously found that the superficial epithe-
lium of the ovary of certain Vertebrata is derived from the
peritoneal epithelium which covers the middle lamella, which
itself appears to be a dependency of theentoderm. ‘The testis
is formed at the expense of the Wolfian canal, which appears
to be derived from the ectoderm.
Bringing together his own and these latter results, Van
Beneden sees in them a confirmation of his ideas, and con-
siders it probable that they will be verified for the animal
kingdom in general. It will be admitted that it is going
rather quickly to conclude the universality of these phenomena
throughout the animal kingdom from two observations so iso-
lated, and only one of which, founded upon the investigation
of two species of Hydroid polypes, presents the character of
scientific certainty !
These conclusions must certainly have appeared very bold,
to say no more of them, to many readers. Indeed we know
that none of the authors who have paid attention to the primary
origin of the sexual products in various sections of the animal
kingdom, with the exception of the Vertebrata, have observed
any facts which could be in accordance with these views.
Their generality is so far from being demonstrated, that even
among the Coelenterata there are some of which the sexual
products appear to be formed at the expense of the entoderm
alone. Hickel is explicit upon this point with regard to the
Geryonide. In Cordylophora and in Hydra the sexual pro-
ducts are derived from the ectoderm, according to the careful
researches of F. E. Schultze and Kleinenberg. Moreover
are not the results of the recent investigations in embryogeny
of a nature to inspire us with prudential feelings? Have not
very great and quite unexpected differences in the mode of
formation of the lamelle: and organs been observed even in
allied genera?
Hence it was with absolute scepticism that I, for my part,
received M. van Beneden’s generalizations. Without throwing
the least doubt in the world upon the result of his researches
upon two species of Hydroid polypes, I could not admit as pro-
bable that this mode of development of the organs of genera-
tion was universal, or even very widely diffused. All that I
of the Sexual Products. 159
could recall to mind of my own observations upon the Cteno-
phora, the Geryonidx, and the Mollusca was in favour of
Hickel’s ideas; and in the Pteropoda especially I had clearly
seen what I took to be the entire genital gland formed by a
scission of part of the inner lamella. ‘These observations on
the Pteropoda are recorded in a memoir which will appear
immediately.
Nevertheless the perusal of M. van Beneden’s memoir and
certain contradictions to be met with in those authors who
have paid attention to this subject for the Mollusca, made me
wish for an opportunity of verifying afresh the correctness of
my opinions. ‘Thus it is well known that most authors repre-
sent the hermaphroditic gland of the Mollusca as originating
from the posterior part of the liver—that is to say, from the
entoderm. My own observations were in support of this
view, as I had seen the gland in question separate by scission
from the wall of the nutritive sac in the Pteropoda. Now
the nutritive sac gives direct origin to the liver in many
Cephalophora, although this is not the case in the Pteropoda.
But one author, whose opinion weighs heavily in the
balance, did not share this opinion. J. Miiller describes the
genital organs in Creseds as originating from a pyriform organ
which is suspended by the side of the stomach and the origin
of the nutritive sac. What is the origin of this organ? and
what are the modifications it undergoes in order to give origin
to the sexual organs? The observations of the great anato-
mist give no answer to these questions.
Being at Messina during the months of February and
March in the present year, my first care was to resume the
question ab ovo. Chance was in my favour; the larve and
young of Crese’s abounded in the sea at a depth of from 5 to
10 fathoms.
I had no trouble in finding the pyriform body described by
J. Miiller in young animals which had recently undergone
metamorphosis. It was moreover already indicated in some
of my previous drawings. Brazil (2). “BoM.
The male chiefly differs from the preceding in the yellow
colouring of the secondaries ; the blackish bar of the primaries
is obsolescent.
5. Thebrone formosissima, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.,
Oct. 1871, p. 288.
Hab, Columbia and Ecuador. ¢, coll. Hope, Oxford.
Subgenus 2. APHISAON (part.), Boisduval.
1. Aphisaon? Rosina, Butler, P. Z.S. p. 82 (1871) ;
hep: Haxot. pl Pacccstie Wir os
Hab. Ega. B.M.
This species has much the aspect of the preceding group,
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine. 165
to which it may be referable; but without seeing the male it
is impossible to be certain either way.
2. Aphisaon larvata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vii.
p- 1654, 2 (1856).
Hab. Amazons. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
Seems nearly allied to the preceding species.
3. Aphisaon Salvatoris, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 86 (1870).
Hab, Honduras and Guatemala.
4. Aphisaon leucophea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii.
p- 352, 3 ¢ (1854).
Thebrone rubrimargo, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 89 (1870).
Hab. Mexico. B.M.
5. Aphisaon Flora, Butler, Cist. Ent. vi.p. 127, g ¢ (1873) ;
ep. Exot: plo lx. fig..95,9
Hab. Guatemala. ¢,B.M.; 9, coll. Hope, Oxford.
6. Aphisaon Holofernes, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.
p- 289, 2 (Oct. 1871).
Hab. Minas Geraes. , coll. Hope, Oxford.
7. Aphisaon subapicalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i.
p- 352, ? (1854).
Pericopis tristis, Walker, Characters of Het. Lep. p. 7. n. 8 (1869), 9°.
Had. Branl. 9 , B.M:
Subgenus 3. DysscuEMma, Hiibner (restricted).
1. Dysschema parnassoides, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii.
p- 350, g (1854).
_ Hab Bra... ¢ , B.M.
2. Dysschema rorata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. i.
p. 154 (1864).
Hab. Bogota. Coll. Birchall.
3. Dysschema noctuites, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.
p- 50. n. 1 (1872).
Hab. Minas Geraes? Coll. Hope, Oxford.
166 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine.
4, Dysschema Sibylla, Butler, Cist. Ent. vi. p. 127 (1873) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. Ixi. fig. 12.
Hab. Espirito Santo. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
5. Dysschema hypoxantha, Hiibner, Zutr. ex. Schmett.
figs. 191, 192 (1806).
Hab. Surinam.
6. Dysschema fantasma, Butler, Cist. Ent. vi. p. 126 (1873) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. Ix1. fig. 2.
Hab. Bogota. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
7. Dysschema Lucifer, Butier, Cist. Ent. vi. p. 126 (1873) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. lxi. fig. 1.
Hab. Espirito Santo. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
8. Dysschema submarginata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. 11.
p- 350 (1854).
Hab. Brazil. B.M.
Subgenus 4. PERICOPIS (typical), Hiibner.
1. Pericopis dissimulans, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. 1.
p- 155, 3 (1864).
Hab. Bogota. ¢ ?,B.M.
The female differs very little from the following species,
and was placed with it in the Collection.
2. Pericopis marginalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 618
(Daritis), 2 (1855).
Hab. Venezuela. 2, B.M.
3. Pericopis Neda, Klug, Neue Schmett. kénigl. zool. Mus.
Berlin, pl. iv. figs. ?3, 4 (1836), ““Euprepia.”
Hab. Brazil.
I have been unable to examine the plate upon which this
species is figured; but I suspect it to be nearly allied to the
preceding species.
4. Pericopis Iscariotes, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 91 (1870).
Hab. Honduras and Guatemala.
Nearly allied to P. marginalis, apparently chiefly differing
in the colouring of the secondaries.
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine. 167
5. Pericopis humeralis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vii.
p- 1655 (1856).
Hab. ——? 63,B.M.
6. Pericopis nubila, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 349 (1854).
Hab. Brazil. 2, B.M.
7. Pericopis Amphissa, Hiibner, Zutr. ex. Schmett.
figs. 753, 754 (1806).
Pericopis subguttata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 847 (1854).
Hab. Rio Janeiro. 2, B.M.
8. Pericopis Leonina, Butler, Cist. Ent. p. 89 (1872) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. lxi. fig. 10.
Hab. Cartago, Costa Rica. ?,B.M.
9. Pericopis Lucretia, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 340
(May 1875).
Hab. Veragua. 9°, B.M.
10. Pericopis fulgorata, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.
p- 287 (Oct. 1871).
Hab. Paré. @, coll. Hope, Oxford.
11. Pericopis bivittata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii.
p- 848 (1854).
Pericopis disjuncta, Walker, l. c. vii. p. 1655 (1856).
? Chetone Aorsa, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 90 (1870).
Hab. Venezuela. 9? , B.M.
12. Pericopis eurocilia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 178.
fig. C (1779).
Hab. West Indies.
13. Pericopis Zerbina, Stoll, Suppl. Cramer, pl. lxx. fig. 3.
Hab. South America. 9, B.M.
14. Pericopis indecisa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. u.
; p- 347 (1854).
Hab. Rio Janeiro. B.M.
168 Mr. A.G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine.
Ground-colour of the wings hyaline.
15. Pericopis dissimulata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl.
i. p. 155 (1864).
Hab. Bozota.’ 9, BM
16. Pericopis Thyridina, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.
p. 289 (Oct. 1871).
Hab. Ecuador. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
Subgenus 5. CHETONE, Boisduval (restricted).
The species mentioned as types being referable to other
groups already named, I retain as type C. histrio of Felder,
which is noted amongst the forms referable to the genus, and
which now has the advantage (not possessed by many of the
species quoted) of not being a mere MS. name. What the
Euprepia Lycaste of Klug’s ‘ Neue Schmetterlinge’ is I can-
not say; I have not had an opportunity very lately of ex-
amining the work in which the species is figured, and I do
not remember the character of the imsect represented.
1. Chetone histrio, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv.
pl. 103. fig. 5 (1874).
Hab, St. Paulo (Bates). B.M.
2. Chetone heliconides, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 91 (1870).
Hab. Guatemala.
3. Chetone? Hazara, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.
p. 28¢ (Octo 1871).
Hab. Villa Nova and Ecuador. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
4. Chetone Felder’, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 91 (1870).
Hab, Nicaragua.
5. Chetone Salvini, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv.
pl. 103. fig. 8 (1874).
Hab. Polochic valley. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
6. Chetone angulosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. 11. p. 345 (1854).
Hab. Venezuela. B.M.
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopine. 169
7. Chetone Irenides, Butler, Cist. Ent. p. 88 (1872) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. 1xi. fig. 11.
Hab. Cartago, Costa Rica. ¢ ?,B.M.
8. Chetone Ithomia, Felder, Reise der Noy., Lep. iv.
pl. 103. fig. 7 (1874).
Hab. “ Nicaragua” (Botsduval).
9. Chetone Hydra, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 286
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Ecuador. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
Subgenus 6. PHALO#, Guérin.
1. Phaloé mimica, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv.
pl. 103. fig. 6 (1874).
Hab. Upper Orinoco. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
2. Phaloé Ithrana, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 286
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Amazons. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
3. Phaloé Pheba, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 90 (1870).
Pericopis Isse, Walker (nec Hiibner), Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 544, n. 2
(1854).
Hab. Ega. B.M.
4. Phaloé Isse, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett.
figs. 507, 508 (1806).
Pericopis decisa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 345. n. 8 (1854).
TTab. Bogota. B.M.
5. Phaloé Kenara, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 287
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Santa Marta. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
6. Phaloé Catilina, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pl. 79.
figs. HE 17 79):
Phalena catilinaria, Fabricius, Sp. Ins. p. 250 (1781).
Papilio nasica, Fabricius, Ent. Syst. i. p. 169 (1793).
Pericopis perspicua, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii, p. 344 (1854),
Hab. Kga, Paré. B.M.
170 = Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine.
7. Phaloé ignita, Butler, Fabr. Cat. p. 291; Lep. Exot.
pl. xvii. fig. 3.
Hab. Tapajos. B.M.
8. Phaloé cruenta, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett.
figs. 329, 330 (1806).
Hab. “ Bahia” (Hiibner). Sp. ead. 9 ?, Brazil. B.M.
I much doubt our examples being representatives of Hiibner’s
species; they differ considerably in size and in the upper-
surface markings of the primaries; moreover the author
distinctly states that his figures represent a female.
9. Phaloé Lorzw, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 90 (1870).
Hab, Venezuela... 6) 2; B.M.
10. Phaloé patula, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 349 (1854).
Hab. Bolivia. B.M.
This species differs from all its allies in having the body
broadly banded with white.
Subgenus 7. SERMyLA, Walker.
Sermyla transversa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 461.
n. 1 (1854).
Hab. Rio Janeiro. 3, B.M.
Subgenus 8. Dariris, Walker.
1. Daritis Thetis, Klug, Neue Schmett. kénigl. zool. Mus.
Berlin, pl. iv. figs. 1, 2 (1836).
Hab. Mexico.- $ 2°, B.M.
2. Daritis fenestrata, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.
p- 00. n. 3 (1872).
Hab, San Geronimo. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
3. Daritis Woodii, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 3,
vol. xx. p. 218, pl. iv. figs. 2,3 (1867).
Hab. Bahia. Coll. T. W. Wood.
4. Daritis rubripicta, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.
p- 50. n. 2 (1872).
Hab. Bogota. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine. 171
5. Daritis sacrifica, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett.
figs. 473, 474, ? (1806).
Taxila crucifera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iii. p. 765. n. 1 (1855).
Hab. Venezuela. B.M.
Genus PHaomsta, Walker.
1. Phaloésia saucia, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. 11. p. 359 (1854).
Hab. Nicaragua. B.M.
2. Phalesia fulvicollis, n. sp.
Differs from the preceding in having the collar, shoulder-
spot, and basal costa of primaries orange instead of scarlet ;
the white discoidal spots completely crossing the cell, and the
macular postmedian fascia slightly constricted in the centre.
Expanse of wings 52-59 millimetres.
Hab. Santa Marta. Two examples, B.M.
3. Phaloésia gentilis, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 88 (1870).
Hab. Mexico. B.M.
4. Phaloésia Venezuela, n. sp.
Subapical band much broader than in the three preceding
forms ; in other respects it agrees with P. fulvicollis.
Expanse of wings 53-58 millimetres.
Hab. Venezuela. ‘Two examples, B.M.
The four preceding forms are local modifications of one
type.
5. Phaloésia chalybea, n. sp.
Dark steel-blue, with greenish reflections, a brilliant basal
subcostal streak green-shot : markings otherwise somewhat as
in the four preceding forms, with the following differences :—
only three ochreous (not white) spots or lituree upon the costal
area just beyond the scarlet spot ; subapical band divided into
five distinct testaceous spots, and placed much closer to the
margin.
Expanse of wings 51 millimetres.
Hab. Vera Cruz. B.M.
6. Phaloésia melanchroia, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv.
pl. 103. fig. 14 (1874).
Hab. Guatemala.
172 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine.
Genus ComposiA, Hibner.
1. Composta Sybaris, Cramer, Pap. Exot. 1. pl. 71.
fig. E (177 9).
Bombyx credula, Fabricius, Ent, Syst. iii. 1, p. 47531793).
Hab. Jamaica, Haiti. B.M.
2. Composia Olympia, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 290
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Brazil. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
I think it possible that the two preceding genera will have
eventually to be united.
Genus Hyexosia, Hiibner.
1. Hyelosia Clio, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 174.
n. 1797 (1816).
Phalena Tiresias § , Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 400. fig. B (1782)
Hab. Paré. B.M.
2. Hyelosia heliconides, Swainson, Zool. Ill. 2nd ser.
pl. 124. fie. 2 (1832-33).
N. Absalon, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 87 (1870).
Hab. Brazil. B.M.
3. Hyelosia Tiresias, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pl. 85. fig. B, 3
(1779).
Hab. Surinam.
Genus EstHeMa, Hiibner.
1. Esthema bicolora, Sulzer, Gesch. Ins. p. 161, pl. xxii
fig. 6 (1776).
Esthema dichroa, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. i. pl. 187 (1805)
Hab. Pardé, Ega, Brazil. B.M.
2. Esthema Uraneides, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 285
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Cayenne. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
3. Esthema simulata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. p. 1872
(1866).
Esthema mimica, Walker, J. c. p. 1874 (1866).
Hab. Bogota. B.M.
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine., 173
4, Esthema Aletta, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 396. fig.C (1782).
Hab. Surinam.
5. Esthema speciosa, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. p. 1873
(1866).
Hab. Bogota, B.M.
6. Esthema confluens, Butler, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. p. 49
(1872); Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pl. 103. fig. 9
(1874).
Hab, Villa Nova. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
7. Esthema plagifera, Felder, Wien. ent. Monatschr. vi. p. 230 ;
Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pl. 103. fig. 10 (1874).
Hab. Rio Negro.
8. Esthema Celadon, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 132. fig. E (1779).
? Esthema Herrona, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 285 (Oct. 1871).
? Chetone Anacharsis, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 89 (1870).
Hab. Surinam (Cramer); Bogata. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
9. Hsthema eupleodes, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 285
(Oct. L571). 4
Hab. Colombia. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
10. Esthema uranigera, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl.
p. 1874 (1866).
Heb. St. Paulo.’ 3B.M.
Genus Eucyane, Hiibner*.
1. Eucyane Pylotes, Drury, Ill. ex. Ent. ii. pl. v. fig. 3.
Calepidos Celina, Boisduval, Lép. Guat. p. 89 (1870).
Hab. Mexico. B.M.
2. Eucyane excellens, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. ii. p. 362.
n. 2 (1854).
Hab. Venezuela. B.M.
I inadvertently omitted this from my list of species,
* Eucyane glauca will be the type of this genus, E. Celadon being an
Esthema.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 13
174 Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine.
3. Hucyane uranicola, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl.
p- 1875 (1866).
Hab. Bogota. B.M.
The example noted by Walker from Ega is distinct, the
pattern being different as to position of white bands &ec. It
cannot be the female of the New-Granadan species, as supposed
by Walker.
4, Hucyane Diana, n. sp.
Female. General pattern and coloration of the preceding ;
but the white band of primaries slightly broader, much more
oblique, cut by the subcostal nervure, discocellulars, commence-
ment of lower radial, and median branches; the scarlet costal
spot larger, almost inclosed by the white band; scarlet and
white streak of secondaries only half as wide, more oblique,
placed halfway between the metallic basal area and the apex :
below, green area much more restricted, scarlet spot of secon-
daries larger and more vivid in colour.
Expanse of wings 58 millimetres.
Hab, Ega (Bates). B.M.
5. Eucyane glauca, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pl. 107. fig. E
(1779).
Hab. Para. B.M.
6. Eucyane temperata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. vii.
p. 1656 (1856).
Var. Eucyane egaensis, Butler, Ent. Month. Mag. xi. p. 77 (1874).
Eucyane jucunda, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pl. 108. fig. 12 (1874).
Hab. “ Tapajos” (Walker); Ega. B.M.
Considering that we have both forms here united from Ega,
it seems most probable that HL. egaensis is a simple variation.
7. Eucyane Hystaspes, Butler, P. Z. 8. p. 82 (1871) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. lxi. fig. 6.
Eucyane calida, Felder, Reise der Novy., Lep. iv. pl. 103. fig. 11 (1374).
Hab. Venezuela and New Granada. B.M.
Subgenus CALopESMA, Hiibner.
(Pyrodesma, Boisduval.)
1. Calodesma marginata, n. sp.
Nearly allied to C. fda, but larger; collar not spotted with
Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiinee. = 175
scarlet, band of primaries and border of secondaries much
broader and paler in tint, margin of secondaries black.
Expanse of wings 60 millimetres.
Hab. ? ib.
This is Walker’s ZL. amica, but not Cramer’s.
2. Calodesma fida, Hiibner, Zutr. exot. Schmett.
figs. 445, 446 (1806).
Hab. Rio Janeiro.
3. Calodesma amica, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pl. 370.
fig. H (1782).
Hab. Surinam.
This may not be a Pericopid, in which case it can be
separated as type of Pyrodesma.
Subgenus Epuesrris, Hiibner,
(Lama, Walker.)
Ephestris melaxantha, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schmett. 1.
pl. 188 (1805).
Hab. Brazil. B.M.
The Phalena militta of Cramer, placed in this genus by
Mr. Walker, appears not to be a Pericopid. I doubt if
Walker’s Lama trifera (Char. Lep. Het.) is a Pericopid.
The Eucyane uranophila of Walker is a species of Histiwa
(Zygenide).
Genus HyaturGa, Hiibner.
(Gyara, Walker.)
1. Hyalurga fenestra, Clerck, Icones, tab. 55. fig. 41 (1759-64) ;
Linn. Mus. Lud. Uly. p. 372. n. 7 (1764).
Hyalurga fenestrigera, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 174 (1816).
Sphinx Egeon, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pl. 59. fig. B (1779).
Hab. Venezuela. B.M.
2. Hyalurga amazonica, n. sp.
Differs from the preceding in the deeper colour of the
ochreous margins and band of primaries, which are also
broadly bordered with dull black, the much broader black
border of secondaries, with less-defined central white streak.
Expanse of wings, ¢ 57 millimetres, ? 73.
Hab. Ega (Bates). Type, B.M.
13°
176 =Mr. A. G. Butler on the Subfamily Pericopiine.
3. Hyalurga Uria, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 286
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Peruvian Amazons. Coll. Hope, Oxford. _
We have an example of what may be this species from
Ega; but unfortunately I only have a slight sketch of the
type with which to compare it; it agrees very fairly with the
description.
4, Hyalurga fenestrata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv.
p. 915, 3 (1855).
Hab. Rio Janeiro. B.M.
The example mentioned from Paré is distinct.
5. Hyalurga pura, n. sp.
Male. Allied to the preceding, but considerably smaller,
much whiter, with a comparatively rather broader paler yellow
costal border to primaries, the bases of the median and sub-
median veins not blackened, no indication of an internal
yellowish marginal line or of a transverse dusky line.
Expanse of wings 46 millimetres.
Hab. Paré. Type, B.M.
6. Hyalurga clara, Butler, Cist. Ent. vi. p. 128 (1873) ;
Lep. Exot. pl. 61. fig. 13.
Hab. Espirito Santo. Coll. Hope, Oxford, and B.M.
7. Hyalurga albovitrea, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het., Suppl. i.
p- 159 (1864).
Hyalurga irregularis, Felder, Reise der Nov., Lep. iv. pl. 103. fig. 16
(1874).
Hab. Ega. B.M.
Genus CoporisaA, Walker.
1. Coborisa fenestrata, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. iv. p. 915.
n. 1 (1856). }
Hab. Mexico? B.M.
2. Coborisa vestalis, Butler, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. p. 289
(Oct. 1871).
Hab. Brazil. Coll. Hope, Oxford.
I have very little doubt that this is congeneric with the
preceding species; but Walker’s genus having been placed
Mr. H. J. Carter on the Classification of the Spongida. 177
close to the end of the Liparide, I overlooked it when formerly
working at the group, and therefore described the species as
an aberrant Pericopis. I have to thank Mr. Stretch, of San
Francisco, for directing my attention to this genus and to
Sermyla of Walker.
The late Dr. Herrich-Schiiffer, in the Correspondenz-Blatt
zoolog.-min. Ver. Regensb. vol. xx. p. 131 (1867), described a
species of Pericopis from Cuba, under the name of P. cubana ;
but all the diagnoses in that paper are so abbreviated as to be
incomprehensible to me, so that I cannot attempt to determine
its position.
The present group may be conveniently followed up by
Hypercompa (or Callimorpha), the white-winged species form-
ing a convenient transition to the typical Arctiidae.
XXIII.—Notes Introductory to the Study and Classification of
the Sponaipa. By H. J. Carrer, F.R.S, &c.
[Continued from p. 145, |
HOLORHAPHIDOTA.
Family 1. RENIERIDA.
Groups 1-4. Amorphosa, Isodictyosa, Thalyosa, and Crassa.
Sarcode colourless, pale tawny, or dark brown. Skeleton
consisting of spiculo-fibrous reticulation filled up with areolar
flaky sarcode, like crumb of bread when dry. Fibre composed
of spicules held together by a minimum of sarcode ; areolar
sarcode charged with the spicules of the species and ampul-
laceous sacs. Surface even, for the most part covered.with a
fine dermal reticulation like that of the Rhaphidonemata ; some-
times without any, and then cancellous. Colour pale tawny,
dark brown or white, when dry. Vents large, distinct, scat-
tered, on a level with the surface, or more or less projecting on
mammiform or mamillary prolongations of the-sponge when
external; or on a level with the cloacal surface in the tubular
or excavated specimens—that is, when internal. Branched
excretory canal-system generally well pronounced. Pores in
the sarcode which tympanizes the interstices of the dermal reti-
culation. Spicules of one kind only, viz. the skeleton-spicule,
for the most part consisting of a simple acerate, long or short,
thick or thin, finely or abruptly pointed shaft varying with
the species ; or cylindrical, curved, round at the ends sausage-
like, of various sizes inthe same specimen. Forms incrusting
or massive, solid or excavated, or branched ; branches solid.
178 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
In the Amorphosa the acerates are for the most part long and
fine-pointed.
In the Isodictyosa the acerate spicules are for the most part
short and more or less attenuated towards the points ; arranged
“ net-like, ‘ isodictyal.”
In the Thalyosa the spicules are much the same in size and
shape as in the foregoing family, but the specimens for the most
part branched and large; the branches solid and subcylin-
drical, also white like chalk when dry. Very subject to a
parasitic polype sunk into the surface.
In the Crassa the spicules are robust, and the specimens
chiefly large and massive. Forms often excavated cup-like or
crateriform.
Group 5. Fibulifera.
Sareode colourless. Skeleton composed of fine spiculo-fibre
whose interstices are filled by an areolar sarcode like crumb
of bread. Surface uniform, openly reticulate, cancellous, or
covered with a fine network. Colour pale tawny, white, or
brown. Vents distinct and scattered, on a level with the
surface when external; and when excavated, on a level with
the internal surface or that of the excavation. Pores in the sar-
code which tympanizes the interstices of the dermal reticulation.
Texture open, delicate. Spicules of two kinds, viz. skeleton-
and flesh-spicules: skeleton-spicule of one form only, viz.
simple acerate, more or less attenuately pointed ; flesh-spicule
also of one form only, viz. simple C-shaped or bihamate
(“‘fibula,”’ Sdt.). Forms incrusting, parasitic, or massive and
lobed ; or cylindrical, branched, solid; or funnel-shaped and
excavated. Much subject to a parasitic polype sunk into the
surface.
Group 6. Halichondrina.
Sarcode pale tawny or brown-purple. Skeleton composed
of reticulate spiculo-fibre whose interstices are filled up by
an areolar sarcode which, when dry, resembles crumb of bread.
Surface uneven, cancellated, reticular, rough. Colour tawny,
ochre-yellow, or brown-purple. Vents distinct, scattered, on
a level with the surface or on the prominent parts of mammi-
ferous lobes. Pores in the dermal sarcode which tympanizes
the interstices of the cancellated surface. ‘Texture crumb-of-
bread-like, soft, crushable. Spicules of two kinds, viz. skele-
ton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-spicule for the most part of
two forms, viz.:—1, simple acuate, smooth or more or less
spined ; 2, acerate, curved, fusiform, smooth ; or subcylindrical,
substraight, or subfusiform ; terminated by more or less inflated
Classification of the Spongida. 179
extremities, which may be simply attenuated or conically
pointed, spearhead-like, or the same truncated, or simply
round, or more or less bulb-like ; or the ends may be more or
less microspined. Flesh-spicules for the most part of two
forms, viz. equianchorate and bihamate: the former shuttle-
like or naviculiform, or angulate (that is, bow-shaped) with fal-
cated spreading arms, or elliptical with linear arms; the latter
or bihamate spicule simple, smooth, C-shaped, more or less
spirally contort. Sometimes the skeleton-spicule may be simply
cylindrical, curved and smooth, with rounded extremities ; and
sometimes the flesh-spicules may be altogether absent or not
discoverable. Forms for the most part incrusting or massive,
lobed, sometimes lobo-branched.
Group 7. Hyndmanina.
The same as the foregoing, but with dark brown sarcode
and an equianchorate like that characterizing the next group
(viz. the Ksperina), together with a short, little, grotesque
form of the same kind, much curved upon itself, with the
ends unequal and each three-lobed, terminating in the centre
in a little point ; occasionally bihamates, C-shaped and contort.
N.B. This may be viewed as a hybrid between the Hali-
chondrina and Esperina—that is, possessing the two forms
of skeleton-spicule of the former, together with the mequi-
anchorate and simple bihamate of the latter ; added to which
is the “ grotesque spicule”’ above described, which again looks
like a hybrid between the imequianchorate and bihamate, but
nevertheless is a constant attendant, so must be regarded as a
distinct feature.
Group 8. Esperina.
Sarcode pale tawny, or yellow or vermilion-red when fresh.
Skeleton composed of an anastomosing reticulation of thick
round spiculo-fibre, of a greyish colour when fresh, opaque
white when dry, part of which is frequently naked or devoid
of sarcode, and the rest filled up with areolar sarcode. Fibre
of two kinds, viz. vertical or large and horizontal or small.
Surface even or undulating, presenting an exquisitely beauti-
ful polygonal, lacy or star-like reticulation, which is generally
characteristic of the group; sometimes villous, or villous and
placoid. Vents distinct and scattered. Pores in the sarcode
which tympanizes the interstices of the dermal reticulation.
Texture of the skeleton coarse, fibrous ; that of the areolar sar-
code delicate, crumb-of-bread-like. Spicules of two kinds, viz.
skeleton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-spicule of one form
only, viz. sub-pinlike, with the inflated end for the most part
180 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
less in diameter than the shaft; the shaft fusiform, and the in-
flation elliptical, mostly elongate and terminal. Flesh-spicules
of two or three forms, viz. :—1, inequianchorate of different
shapes; 2, simple bihamate ; 3, simple tricurvate or bow-like.
Forms massive, lobular, for the most part incrusting and amor-
phous; sessile or stipitate, and fixed by stem-like enlargement
of the spiculo-fibre.
Group 9. Hymedesmina.
Sarcode pale yellowish. Skeleton composed of reticulate
spiculo-fibre whose interstices are filled up by areolar sarcode,
which when dry resembles crumb of bread. Surface substelli-
form, heterahedrally reticulate, like that of Esperia. Colour
pale yellowish white. Vents and pores ? ‘Texture crumb-
of-bread-like, delicate, crushable. Spicules of two kinds, viz.
skeleton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-spicule simple acerate,
subacuate fusiform, also like that of Hsperia, or simple acuate,
according to the species. F'lesh-spicules anchorate, tricurvate,
and bihamate, according with the species; the anchorate pecu-
liar, consisting of a straight shaft trenchant and notched circu-
larlyin the centre and at eachend on the inner aspect, terminated
respectively by a single arm recurved, also trenchant on the
inner border, pointed and turned toone side at each end in oppo-
site directions, Forms incrusting, massive, lobed, amorphous.
Family 2. SUBERITIDA.
Group 10. Cavernosa.
Pale tawny yellow or purple. Skeleton cavernous, multi-
locular ; walls of the cavities consisting of a felt-like accumu-
lation of the spicule of the species; cavities filled with the
same kind of material, but loose, open, areolar, and more
sarcodic than spiculous. Surface even, undulating, or nodular.
Dermal layer compact. Vents and pores situated in areolated
papillz, which are single and separate, or arranged in patches
or groups united hexagonally; or with the vents simply grouped
together over the nodular eminences, and the pores generally
diffused throughout the intervals in the interstices of the
dermal reticulation. Texture essentially cork-like. Spicule
of one kind only, viz. that of the skeleton, and of one form
only, viz. pin-like; shaft smooth, curved, fusiform, more or
less taperingly pointed ; head as large or larger in diameter
than the thickest part of the shaft, subterminal and elliptical,
or terminal and bulb-like, subspherical and subterminal, or
almost spherical and terminal. Free or floating forms massive,
waterworn, more or less rounded: fixed forms spreading hori-
Classification of the Spongida. 181
zontally, clathrously, and dendritically in the substance of
shells, especially those of the oyster, here and there provided
with papillary heads which project through the surface of the
shell; or fixed and unconnected with shells, massive, hemi-
spherical, nodular ; or crest-like, compressed, with parallel
sides, thick and semicircular ; or vase-like, poculous, stipitate,
ribbed nodosely (Neptune’s cup).
Group 11. Compacta.
Sarcode colourless, pale yellow, ochraceous. Skeleton
compact, and so minutely cancellated as to form with its
sarcodal contents a homogeneous soft, dense, fine, felt-like
structure, interrupted only by the branching canal-systems,
which are correspondingly reduced in calibre, and thus rendered
more or less indistinct. Surface smooth, compact, often villous
or asbestiform, from the projection of the ends of the dermal
spicules. Vents not prominently marked. Pores in the inter-
stices of the dermal reticulation. Texture compact, cork-
like. Spicules of two kinds, viz. skeleton- and flesh-spicules.
Skeleton-spicule of one form only, viz. pin-like; shaft
smooth, curved, fusiform, more or less taperingly pointed ;
head elliptical and subterminal; with every variety between
this and the simple acuate, in which there is no inflation at all.
Flesh-spicule minute, smooth, curved, cylindrical, centrally
or subcentrally inflated. Or the skeleton-spicule may be
smooth, acerate, fusiform, more or less sinuous, especially
towards the centre, from which in the larger kinds a third
sinuous arm may be developed at right angles to the other
two. Forms massive, sessile, compressed pedicelled, bacillary
or fig-shaped; or free and waterworn, more or less rounded,
when growing over and absorbing deciduous univalve shells ;
or branching coalescently, branches solid, terminating in
rounded extremities singly, or united laterally so as to present
short digitated (toe-like) extremities ; separated or united into
a general mass which is sessile; sometimes parasitic on Fuci.
Group 12. Laxa.
Sarcode colourless, pale tawny, red, bright carmine, and
pwple. Structure crumb-of-bread-like, more or less open and
cancellated. Surface uniformly granular or corrugated, villous,
or smooth and pustular. Vents scattered over the surface
generally, or distinct, on mammiform projections; excretory
canal-systems largely developed, sometimes cavernous. Pores
dispersed throughout the interstices of the dermal reticulation
generally, or congregated into pustular heads. Texture light,
182 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
cellular, cork-like, or like crumb of bread. Spicules of two
kinds, viz. skeleton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-spicule
pin-like, with smooth, fusiform, curved shaft and subterminal
elliptical inflation ; or simple acuate ; or pin-like, with conical
shatt (that is, not fusiform) and terminal inflation, which is
subspherical or bulb-like. Flesh-spicule of various forms,
sometimes two or more forms in the same species: it may be
acerate curved, simple or spined; straight, sinuous, subspiral,
cylindrical, smooth or spined, long or short, depending upon
the size and number of bends; or openly spiral and spined ;
or stelliform. Forms massive, lobed.
Group 13. Donatina.
Sarcode of the cortex orange-red and of the body pale
yellow or colourless in Donatia lyncurium when fresh,
? pale yellow in the rest. Surface hirsute, villous, asbestos-
like; even or uniformly nodose; pavement-like, with hexa-
hedral or polyhedral divisions ; sometimes (as in Polymastia)
furnished with tubular appendages open or closed at the ex-
tremities ; or hard, stony, and placoid. Structure essentially
radiate, consisting of thick bundles of stout spicules extending
from the centre or base to the circumference, where they are
joined by a corticular layer of much smaller spicules of a
similar form, or by globular stellates, or simple globular
bodies, or simple stellates like those of Geodia and Stelletta
respectively. Intervals between the bundles of spicules filled
up by an areolar sarcode more or less charged with the spi-
cules of the species. Colour when fresh pale or cream-yellow
or orange-red on the surface only ; when dry light brown or
snow-white. Vents indistinct when on the surface of the
body in the dead or dried specimens, but evident when at
the extremities of the tubular appendages. Hxcretory canal-
system more or less cavernous, well pronounced. Pores in the
sarcode which tympanizes the interstices of the villous dermal
reticulation. ‘Texture fine, smooth, and villous on the surface,
harsh, hard, and coarse internally. Spicules of two kinds,
viz. skeleton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-spicule of one
form only, viz. very stout, simple, curved or nearly straight
acerate, or simple acuate, or pin-like with fusiform shaft and
subterminal inflation. Flesh-spicule acuate or pin-like, fusi-
form, with subterminal inflation like that of the skeleton-
spicule; or globular, spined stellately, globo-stellate, or simply
globular, or simply stellate as in Geodia and Stelletta respec-
tively,—each in the aggregate forming in their respective
species a cortical layer, through which the skeleton-spicules
Classification of the Spongida. 183
project, the former arranged vertically, the latter massively.
Forms massive, globular, conical, hemispherical, sessile ; or
sessile, spreading, simple or appendiculate, branched, stipitate.
Family 3. PACHYTRAGIDA.
Group 14. Geodina.
Massive, incrusting; or globular and lobed, sessile; or glo-
bular and free or floating. Structure hard externally, more or
less reticulate, radiated, and soft internally ; may be divided
into a cortical, a zonular, and a body- or internal substance.
Cortex consisting of a hard, stony crust composed of close-
packed little siliceous bodies of a globular or ellipsoidal shape,
sometimes more or less compressed, even to discoid thinness ;
radiated in structure, becoming when mature solid and crystal-
line throughout, presenting an ornamented surface, in one part
of which is a hiliform depression ; combined with minute stel-
lates or minute, sinuous, spined, bacilliform spicules; or straight
ones more or less inflated in the centre, skittle-like, and spined;
or minute, curved acerates more or less inflated in the centre
and microspined ; or minute, simple acerates or acuates,—all of
which are flesh-spicules. Zone consisting of a subjacent cor-
tical mass of spicules arranged parallel to each other and ver-
tical to the body or internal substance, respectively support-
ing and piercing the cortex, composed of :—1, the “‘zone-spicule”
par excellence, very robust, consisting of a shaft and three
arms expanded under the cortex, which it thus tends to sup-
port; 2, the body- or staple spicule of the whole surface, con-
sisting of a large, smooth, more or less curved acerate, which
pierces and passes through the cortex for a short distance; 3,
the anchoring-spicule, consisting of a very long delicate shaft
and three short terminal arms, which are extended fork-like or
recurved anchor-like, more or less plentifully mixed with the
foregoing, and often traversing the cortex for some distance,
for anchoring; heads often broken off outside, and there-
fore only found perfect, for the most part, inside the cor-
tex ; when outside, the fork-like form has often four prongs,
opposite, expanded. Body-substance consisting of an areolar
sarcodic structure more or less charged with the large acerate
spicule before mentioned, together with more or less of the
flesh-spicules of the species. Surface even, granular, semi-
transparent, and grey when fresh, opaque white when dry.
Vents well marked, scattered singly or in groups. Pores in
the depressions or small pits of the cortex. Excretory canal-
system largely developed, giving the body-substance an open
eancellous structure. Texture compact, stony on the surface,
184 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
more or less tough within when fresh, but light, cellular, and
crumb-of-bread-like when dry. Spicules of two kinds, viz.
skeleton- and flesh-spicules,—the latter noticed in the descrip-
tion of the cortex, and the former in that of the “ zone”’ and
the “‘ body-substance”’ respectively. Forms mentioned at the
commencement,
Group 15. Stellettina.
The same, but with no “ globular siliceous bodies” on the
surface, and therefore no stony cortex, but with a thick dermal
layer composed of long fusiform contractile (muscular ?) cells ;
charged with stellates and the flesh-spicules of the species.
Group 16. Tethyina.
Hemispherical or globular, fixed by an extended or con-
tracted base; or globular and free; or ellipsoidal and fixed,
root-like, by tufts of long anchoring-spicules. Surface hirsute
from the ends of the spicules, which project through the dermal
layer to a greater or less extent, arranged in separate tufts; or
reticulately or in lines tending in a spiral direction towards
the summit. Dermal layer thick and tough, with or without
the flesh-spicule. Internal structure radiate; radii composed
of bundles of spicules, which extend from a nucleated centre
towards the circumference through a compact areolar sarcode,
and in a more or less gyrate course from the base to the sum-
mit. Colour grey or brown externally, bright yellow when
fresh within or purple throughout, especially on the surface.
Vents apical, or scattered over the surface singly or in groups.
Pores in the interstices of the hirsute dermal reticulation.
Excretory canal-system not well pronounced, probably owing
to the compact and contractile nature of the areolar sarcode of
the body. Texture tough, hard, and compact throughout,
especially in the dermal layer. Spicules of two kinds, viz.
skeleton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-spicule of two’ forms,
viz.:—l, large, acerate, more or less curved; 2, anchoring-
spicule—that is, spicules composed of a long delicate shaft with
three arms of equal length extended fork-like in some, and
recurved anchor-like in others, like the “ anchoring-spicule ”’
of the foregoing families ; arms sometimes unequal in length
in the fork-like heads, one being much longer than the other
two, which are equal. Sometimes the arms of the fork-like
form are much expanded, and the shaft of the spicule enlarged
altogether, so as to somewhat resemble the “ zone-spicule”’ of
the Geodina. Flesh-spicule of one kind only, viz. bihamate
or C-shaped contort (¢. e. spiral), for the most part minute and
Classification of the Spongida. 185
indistinctly microspined ; or large and sparsely, but evidently,
spined, especially towards the extremities: sometimes absent
altogether. Forms already mentioned.
Family 4. PACHASTRELLIDA.
Group 17. Pachastrellina.
Incrusting, passing into crevices of the rock or other hol-
low cavities, massive, sessile, thick, flat, or semiglobular and
sessile. Structure fibreless, confused—that is, with little or no
apparent regularity of the spicules with which the areolar
structure of the body is densely charged, and no nucleus.
Surface plane, uniformly harsh asperous, with no distinct cor-
tical layer of any kind, saving the thickened dermal sarcode.
Colour light grey or dark grey, passing into soot-black, espe-
cially on the surface. Vents scattered singly or in groups on
the surface. Pores in the smooth interstices of the dermal
sarcode, situated between the projecting ends of the spicules.
Branched excretory canal-system well developed. Texture
asperous. Spicules of two kinds, viz. skeleton- and flesh-
spicules. Skeleton-spicule of three forms, viz.:—1, large trira-
diate, with the shaft or fourth arm aborted or obsolete, or tri-
radiate, with the fourth arm produced, quadriradiate ; arms
smooth, conical, pointed simply, or furcated once or twice
irregularly ; 2, smaller, consisting of a three-armed shaft with
the arms regularly fureate, and spreading almost horizontally
or perpendicularly to the shaft; 3, long, simple, acerate,
more or less curved. Flesh-spicules stelliform sinuous and
spined, or bacillary and spined; or ellipsoidal, inflated in the
centre, and smooth (skittle-like) ; or acerate and more or less
inflated, curved, and microspined; or acerate, smooth, or
simple ‘‘ tricurvate;’’ or globostellate, with the rays rounded
tuberculiform, the whole resembling the siliceous balls of the
Geodina.
N.B. The once or twice irregularly furcated extremities of
the larger triradiate spicule in Pachastrella abysst, Sdt., leads
to the more elaborate furcation &c. in the following group,
viz. the Lithistina.
Group 18. Lithistina.
Massive, substony, excavated; dish-shaped, circular, withithick
undulating wall, stipitate ; or vasiform, with more or less thick
undulating wall, which, in some species, may be so plicated
meandrinately as to almost fill the centre, and thus produce the
appearance of a double flower. Structure more or less confused,
186 My. H. J. Carter on the
fibreless, composed of a dense mass of spicules imbedded in
areolar sarcode; essentially spiculous, and growing, like all
other sponges, in concentric layers. Surface even, smooth, or
asperous, not corticate. Colour grey when fresh or wet, yel-
lowish white or brown when dry. Vents pustular, uniformly
scattered, singly or in little groups, on the inner side of the
wall only. Branched excretory canal-system well defined,
although small in calibre, corresponding in this respect with
the compact structure of the sponge. Pores general, in the
sarcodic interstices of the dermal layer. Spicules of two kinds
for the most part, viz. skeleton- and flesh-spicules. Skeleton-
spicule of three forms, viz.:—1. The surface-spicule, consisting
of a horizontal head and vertical shaft, the latter directed in-
wards. Head consisting of three round smooth arms, spread
out horizontally and symmetrically furcated, amidst the flesh-
spicules of the surface; or with three flattened, irregularly bi-
furcated and sinuous arms; or with the same denticulated on
the borders; or united together laterally, so as to form a disk
more or less deeply fissured on the margin, or subcircular ;
or with the arms sinuously branched, and the branches more
or less tubercled, the tubercles simply round or two- or three-
spined. Shaft for the most part smooth, straight, round, and
pointed, presenting, where it joms the head, a trifid division
of the central canal, whose arms (being short, equal in length,
and symmetrically disposed) form a very characteristic feature
on the surface and in the interior, whereby the original direc-
tion of the spicule can be ascertained, 2. Body- or staple spi-
cule of the mass, consisting of a horizontal head and vertical
shaft, which thus seems to mark the concentric layers of
growth ; but otherwise it is so altered from the original surface-
spicule that the shaft becomes marrow-bone-like in form, and
the arms not only bifurcated and sinuous, but so intensely and
irregularly branched and filigreed, and so intimately and in-
tricately interlocked with each other and the branches of the
inner end of the shaft of the next layer (which, to a certain
extent, so simulates the head in this respect as to be almost
undistinguishable from it), that, in the mass, the bodies of the
shafts respectively can only be recognized by the comparatively
open interval which they form between the lines of dense in-
terlacement caused by the intermixing of their almost equally
branched extremities—while, when the mass is broken up,
the shaft can only be identified by the trifid central canal before
mentioned, when this is visible. At the same time, this trifid
canal often presents itself in such a position as to indicate that
either the spicules of the mass become more or less confusedly
mixed up together like those of Pachastrella, or that the shafts
Classtfication of the Spongida. 187
become so branched and altered as to be undistinguishable but
for the presence of the trifid central canal. 3. Acerate spicule
of the body, beam-like, scattered among the foregoing, long,
smooth, curved, finely pointed or fusiform, and acuate. I lesh-
spicules of various forms, sometimes two or more in the same
species, viz. acerate smooth or microspined, cylindrical bent
and more or less inflated towards the ends, microspined, or
sinuous and blunt-spined tubercle-like.
Family 5. POTAMOSPONGIDA.
Group 19. Spongillina.
Sarcode colourless, greenish or purple. Skeleton composed
of a reticulation of spiculo-fibre of two kinds, viz. vertical or
large, and horizontal or small. Structure radiating, more or
less plumose ; interstices filled up by areolar sarcode, flaky
when dry, charged with the spicules of the species and the
ampullaceous sacs. Colour pale tawny yellow, greenish, or
purple. Vents large, scattered irregularly. Branched excre
tory canal-system well pronounced. Pores spread generally over
the surface, in the sarcode which tympanizes the interstices of
the dermal reticulation. Texture friable, crushable, erumb-of-
bread-like. Spicules of two kinds, viz. skeleton- and flesh-
spicules. Skeleton-spicule acerate, curved, smooth, more or
less finely pointed. Flesh-spicule of various forms, according
to the species. Characterized by the presence of reproductive
seed-like bodies, visible to the naked eye, and of a globular
or ellipsoidal form (according to the species), with a hiliform
depression opening into the interior, corresponding in colour
with that of the species, only brighter or more intense ; com-
posed of a horny capsule surrounded by a columnar structure
of horny cells, or by a layer of flesh-spicules arranged perpen-
dicularly or tangentially (according with the species) to the
surface ; filled with germinating substance of the sponge,
which, under growth, makes its exit through the hiliform
opening. Habitat. Fresh water,
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Key to the foregoing Classification of the Spongida*.
Class SPONGIDA, Huxley.
Order I. CARNOSA.
Family 1. HALISARCIDA.
Halisarca Dujardinii, Johnston, British Sponges, 1842, p. 192; Ann. &
Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873, vol. xii. p. 25.
H. lobu/aris, Schmidt, Spong. adriat. Meeres, 1862, p. 80; Ann. & Mag.
Nat. Hist. 1874, vol. xili. p. 433.
Family 2. GUMMINIDA.
Chondrilla nucula, Sdt. Spong. adriat. Meeres, p. 39.
Corticium candelabrum, Sdt. tb. p. 42.
C. australensis, Carter, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1873, vol. xii. p. 23,
pl. i. fig. 12.
C. abyssi, Carter, 1b. p. 18, pl. i. fig. 1.
Order Il. CERATINA.
Family 1. LUFFARIDA.
One Group only.
Luffaria, Duchassaing de Fonbressin et G. Michelotti, ‘Spong. de la
Mer Caraibe,’ Harlem, 1864, 4to, p. 59; Natuurk. Verh. Holland.
Maat. Wet. te Harlem, vol. xxi. 1864.
L. fistularis, D. et M. op. cit. ue 60,= Spongia fistularis, Wsper, 1794,
pls. xx. & xxi.,= Verongia, Bowerbank, 1866, Monograph of British
Spongiade (Ray Soe. pub.), vol. ii. p. 15, vol. i. pl. xi. fig. 266; also
‘Annals,’ 1845, vol. xvi. p. 405, pl. xiii. fig. 7. See remarks on,
‘Annals,’ 1872, vol. x. p. 102.
LI. ramosa,C. MS. See Part II. (A large species with solid branches.)
f., sessilis, C. MS. Jb. (A sessile species.)
Family 2. APLYSINIDA.
One Group only.
Aplysina aérophoba, Nardo ap. Sdt. op. cit. p. 25, Taf. 111. fig. 2.
A. carnosa, Sdt. vb. p. 26, Taf. iii. fig. 3.
A, corneostellata, C. Annals, 1872, vol. x. p. 105, pl. vii., >= Darwinella
aurea, Archiy f. mikroskop. Anat. 1865, p. 344, Taf. xxi.
Family 3. PSEUDOCERATIDA.,
One Group only.
Lanthella, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. July 1869, p. 49,= Spongia flabel-
liformis, Esper, Taf. xiii. &e.
* One or two species of each family and group respectively will be
here inserted for illustration, where any have been described ; but where
none have been described, reference will be made to species which will
be described in the Third Part of this communication.
14*
192 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
Aplysina capensis, C. MS. Incrusted species. See Part IIT.
A, chalinoides, C. MS. Faced with proper spicules. 0.
Order II. PSAMMONEMATA.
Family 1. BrpuLipa.
Group 1. Evsponerosa.
Spongia officinalis &e.
Group 2. PARASPONGIOSA.
S. officinalis, var., &e.
Family 2. Hircinipa.
Group 3. Hirciniosa.
Hireinia typiea, Nardo ap. Sdt. op. cit. p. 32. (A type specimen is in the
British Museum.)
H. variabilis, Sdt. ib. p. 34. (1b.)
H, panicea, Sdt. ab. p. 32, Taf. ili. fig. 11, =Stematumenta, Bk. Annals,
1845, vol. xvi. ie 407, pl. xiv. figs. 1 & 2, also good figures of the
same in Mon. Brit. Spong. op. cit. pl. xii. fig. 256 and pl. xxviii.
fig. 881. (Character based on a parasite, viz. Spongiophaga communis,
‘Annals,’ 1871, vol. viii. p. 330,=Polytherses, D. et M. op. eit. p. 67,
pl. xii. f. 5, P. campana*.)
Group 4. CALLHISTIA.
Halispongia choanoides, Bk. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1872, pl. vi.
For other species see Part III.+
Group 5. PENICILLATA.
For species see Part LT.
Group 6. Rrerpa.
For species see Part HI.
Group 7. SuBRIGIDA.
For species see Part III.
Group 8. Forrara.
For species see Part IIT.
Group 9. DACTYLIFERA.
For species see Part IL.
Group 10. FenEsTRATA.
For species see Part IIT.
* As many species of this group consist of nothing but the fibrous
skeleton in which the alga (Spongiophaga communis) has replaced the
sarcode, and many of the Hircinida are subject to the same change,
it is questionable if they all belong to the group “ Hirciniosa.”
+ The number of references to the third part of these ‘“ Notes” for
illustration will show how much remains to be done in describing
even the different kinds of Sponges already in our Museums.
Classification of the Spongida. 193
Group 11. PLATYFIBRA.
Sarcotragus fetidus, Sdt. op. cit. p. 36. (A type specimen is in the
British Museum.)
For other species see Part ITT.
Group 12. PERAXIATA.
For species see Part III.
Group 15. Incrustata.
For species see Part ITI.
Group 14. OTaHITICA.
Spongia othahetica, Solander and Ellis, 1786, 4to, pl. lix. figs. 1 & 2.
(The original specimen is in the British Museum.)
Halispongia ventriculoides, Bk. Proce. Zool. Soc, 1874, pl. xlvii.
(The Ventriculites were Hexactinellids, and had the structure of
Myliusia Grayi, Bk., according to Mr. W. J. Sollas, Quart. Journ.
Geol. Soc. Feb. 1873, p. 65, fig. 2, and Schmidt, 1870, Spongienf.
atlant. Gebiet. Taf. ii. fig. 16.)
H. Mantelli, Bk. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1874, pl. xlvii.
Spongionella Holdsworthii, Bk. ib. 1873, pl. v.,= Spongia papyracea, Esper,
1797, Taf. 65.
For other species, which are very numerous and varied, see Part III.
Group 15. SARCOCORNEA.
? Cacospongia cavernosa, Sdt. Sp. adriat. Meeres, p.28. (A type specimen
is in the British Museum.)
Group 16. ARENOSA.
Dysidea fragilis, Johnston, op. cit. p. 187,= Spongelia, Sdt. Spongient.
atlant. Gebiet. 1870, p. 77.
Spongelia incrustans, Sdt. 1862, Spong. adriat. Meeres, p. 29, Taf. iii.
fig. 7.
Family 3. PSEUDOHIRCINIDA,
Group. 17. PSEUDOARENOSA.
For species see Part III.
Group 18. CHALINOHIRCININA,
For species see Part ILI.
Group 19. ARMATOHIRCININA. ©
For species see Part III.
Order IV, RHAPHIDONEMATA.
Family 1. CHALINIDA.
Group 1. Drerrara.
Halichondria oculata, Johnst. op. cit. p. 94, pl. iii.,==Chalina oculata, Bk.
Mon. Brit. Spong. czt., = Spongia polychotoma, Esper, 1794, Taf. xxxvi.
194 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
Group 2. PatMaTa.
Halichondria palmata, Johnst. op. cit. p. 92, pl. ii.
Group 3. REepraTa.
Halichondria simulans, Johust. 2b. p. 109, pl. viii.
Group 4. SPINIFERA.
For species see Part III.
Family 2. CAVOCHALINIDA.
Group 5. TUBULODIGITATA,
For species see Part III.
Group 6. ACULEATA.
Tuba, Duchassaing de Fonb. et Michelotti, op. cit. 1864, p. 44,= Siphono-
chalina, Sdt. 1868, Spong. Kiiste v. Algier, p. 7.
Tuba sororia, D. et M. op. cit. pl. viii. fig. 1.
T. digitalis, D. et M. 76. fig. 2.
T. armigera, D. et M. 2b. fig. 3.
(These are good illustrations. Fig. 2 appears to have been affected by
a parasitic polype, to which these sponges are very liable.)
PSpongia cancellata, aa 1794, Taf. vi.
2S. muricata, Esper, 2b. Taf. vii.
?S. aculeata, Linn., and S. villosa, Pallas, Esper, 2b. Taf. vii. a.
Group 7. SUBACULEATA.
Tuba, D. et M. op. cit. p. 44.
?T. tortolensis and T. longissima, D. et M. 2d. pl. ix. figs. 2 & 3.
Group 8, CILIATa.
Tuba, D. et M. op. cit. p. 44.
T. plicifera, D. et M. ib. pl. x. fig. 2.
~ Spongria compressa, Esper, Tat. lv.
For other species see Part III.
Group 9, BIVALVATA,
?Spongia agaricina, Esper, Taf. lix.
For other species see Part II.
Group 10, CoMPLANATA.
For species see Part III.
Group 11. PuicaTa.
For species see Part III.
Family 3, ACERVOCHALINIDA,
Group 12. Sora.
For species see Part IM.
Classification of the Spongida. 195
Group 18. CLATHRATA.
For species see Part LI.
Group 14, Dicryaia.
For species see Part III.
Family 4. PSEUDOCHALINIDA.
Group 15, DiciTIFERa.
For species see Part III.
Group 16, FistuLoDIGITaTa.
For species see Part III.
Order V. ECHINONEMATA.
Family 1. EcTyonrpa.
Group 1. PLuRIFORMIA.
Ectyon sparsus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 515; Annals, 1871,
vol. vii. p. 270, pk. xvii. fig. 1 &c.
Chalinopsis clathrodes, Sat. 1870, Spongienf, atlant. Gebiet. p. 60. (A type
specimen is in the British Museum.)
Agelas dispar, D. et M. op. cit. p. 76, pl. xv. figs. 1 & 2.
Clathria oroides, Sdt. (like Eetyon sparsus), 1868, Spong. Kiiste v. Algier,
p- 9. (A type specimen is in the British Museum.)
Echinonema typicum, C. MS. See Part II. ?= Tenacia clathrata, Sdt.
1870, op. cit. p. 56 (a type specimen is in the British Museum),
?=Spongia cactiformis, Lam. 1816, Anim. sans vertébr. p. 370.
Clathria compressa, Sdt. 1862, op. cit. p. 58, Taf. vi. fig. 1.
Dictyocylindrus ramosus, Bk. 1864, op. cit. vol. 11. p. 103, vol. iii. (1874),
pl. xvi., = Raspalia, Sdt.
Spongia muricata, Esper, 1794, Taf. iii.,= Trichentrion muricatum, E.
Ehlers (Prof. Zool. Erlangen), 1870, ‘ Esper’schen Spong. in der Zool.
Samml. der k. Universitat Erlangen.
Acarnus innominatus, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 544; Annals, 1871,
vol. vii. p. 273, pl. xvii. figs. 4 &c.
For other species see Part III.
Group 2. PLUMOHALICHONDRINA.
Halichondria plumosa, Johnst. op. cit. p. 103, = Hymeniacidon plumosa,
Bk. Mon. Brit. Spong. et. vol. ii, p. 195.
Group 3. Microcronina.
Microciona atrosanguinea, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 138, vol. i. pl. xxxiv. fig.
369, =Scopalina, Sdt.
Halichondria maculans, Johnst. (Johnstonian Collection in the British
Museum), = Hymeraphia stellifera, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 146, and
vol. i. pl. xxxiv. fig. 370.
196 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
Group 4. EcHrnocLaTHRATA.
Halichondria seriata, Johnst. op. cit. p. 125, pl. xiv. fig. 2, = Chalina
seriata, Bk. op. cit. vol. i. p. 376, and vol. ii. pl. xvii. fig. 287.
For other species see Part II.
Group 5. BacuULIFERA.
Caulospongia plicata, Kent, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871.
C. verticillaris, Kent, 2b.
Family 2, AXINELLIDA.
Group 6. MULTIFORMIA.
Halichondria hispida, Johnst. op. cit. p. 4 (Johnstonian Collection,
British Museum), = Dictyocylindrus hispidus, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p.
108, and vol. ili. pl. xvii.
Axinella cinnamomea, Sat. op. cit. 1862, p. 61, Taf. vi. fig. 2.
Acanthella, Sdt. ib. p. 60, Taf. vi. fig. 7. A. acuta, Sdt.
Halichondria ventilabrum, Johnst. op. cit. p. 107, pl. vil, =Phakellia
ventilabrum, Bk. op. cit. vol. iii. pl. xxii.
Hymeraphia vermiculata, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 141, and vol. iii. pl. xxvi.
fie. 1. (There is an erect form of this species, which thus passes into
H. ventilabrum.)
Group 7. DurissimMa.
For species see Part ITI.
Order VI. HOLORHAPHIDOTA.
Family 1. RENIERIDA.
Group 1. AMoRPHOsA.
Halichondria panicea, Johnst. op. cit. p. 114, pl. xxxi.,= Halichondria
panicea, Johust., Bowerbank, 1864, op. cit. vol. iii. (1874), pls. xxxix.
Sexi,
Group 2. IsopicTryosa.
Tsodietya rosea, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 282, vol. iii. pl. xlix. fig. 12.
I. varians, Bk. vol. ii. pl. xx. fig. 809, see for characteristic arrangement
of the spicules of this group.
Group 3, THALYOSA.
Thalysias, D. et M. op. ett. p. 82.
T. subtriangularis, D. et M. 2b. p. 85, pl. xvii. fig. 1.
Tsodictya mirabilis, Bk. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1873, p. 319, pl. xxviii.
? Spongia elavata, Esper, 1794, Taf. xix.
Schmidtia clavata, Balsamo-Crivelli, 1863, Atti d. Soc. Ital. d. Se. vol. v.
tay. iv. fig. 11.
Group 4. Crassa.
? Reniera calyx, Sdt. 1862, op. cat. p. 76, Taf. vit. fig. 12. (A type spe-
cimen is in the British Museum. )
For other species see Part III.
Group 5. FIBULIFERA.
Renera fibulata, Sdt. 1862, op, cit. p. 73, Taf. vii. fig. 9. (A worldwide
species. )
Classification of the Spongida. 197
Group 6. HaLicHoNDRINA.
Halichondria incrustans, Johnst. op. cit. p. 122, pl. xii. fig. 3. See also
Bowerbank, op. cit. vol. iii. pl. xliv. fig. 7, &c.
Group 7. HiyNDMANINA,
Halichondria Hyndmani, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 255, and vol. iii. pl. xlvi.
figs, 7-15.
Group 8. EspErrna.
Halichondria egagropila, Johust. op. cit. p. 119, pl. xi. fig. 1 (John-
stonian Collection, British Museum), = Desmacidon egagropila, Bk.
op. cit. vol. iii. pl. Lxiil. figs. 8-4.
Hymeniacidon macilenta, Bk. op. cit. vol. iii. pl. xxxiii. figs, 7-15.
Esperia, Nardo ap. Schmidt, op. cit. 1862, p. 58 et seq.
Group 9. HyMEDESMINA.
Hymedesmia Johnstoni, Bk. op. cit. vol. i. p. 276, pl. xviii. fig. 293,
= Desmacidon Johnstoni, Sdt. op. cit. 1870, p. 53, Taf. v. fig. 17.
? Desmacidon titubans, Sdt. op. cit. 1870, p. 55, Taf. v. fig. 18. (A type
specimen is in the British Museum. )
Family 2. SUBERITIDA.
Group 10. CAVERNOSA.
Cliona celata, Johnst. op. cit. p. 125, =Raphyrus Griffiths, Bk. (the
free form), op. cit. vol. ii. p.854, P= Aleyonium tuberculosum, Esper,
Taf. xxiii.
Raphiophora patera, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 524, =“ Neptune’s
Cup,” = Potérion, Harting, 1870, Mém. sur le Genre, 4to, Utrecht,
Natuurk. Verh. Provin. Utrecht Genootschap. v. Kunsten en Weten-
schappen (excellent illustrations).
Group 11. Compacta.
Halichondria suberea, Johust. op. cit. p. 141, fig. 14, and p. 189, pl. xii.
figs. 5 & 6, = Suberites domuncula, Sdt.
H. ficus, Johnst. ib. p. 144, pl. xv. figs. 4 & 5.
Suberites, Nardo and Schmidt, op. cit. 1862, p. 65,
Group 12, Laxa.
Halichondria sanguinea, Johnst. op. cit. p. 183, pl. xiv. fig. 38, = Hymeni-
acidon sanguinea, Bk. op. cit. vol. iii. pl. xxx. figs. 5-8. (It is worthy
of notice that Dr. Bowerbank found in a British specimen of this
red sponge the characteristic flesh-spicule of the carmine Vioa John-
stonti, Sdt., Mon. Brit. Spong. vol. 1. p. 239, pl. ili. fig. 72.)
Aleyonium purpureum, Lam. (This beautiful carmine-coloured sponge
from Australia equals the following in the permanency and brilliancy
of its colour, and also corresponds with it in the forms of its
spicules. )
Vioa Johnstonit, Sdt. op. cit. 1870, p. 5, Taf. vi. fig, 18. (Observe that
these spicules are quite different from those of the Vioa John-
stonit of 1862, op. cit. p. 78, Taf. vii. fig. 17, The carmine species (of
which there is a type specimen in the British Museum) has, in
addition to the flesh-spicules figured by Schmidt in 1870, a pin-like
198 Mr. H. J. Carter on the
skeleton-spicule ; while those figured in 1862 are respectively stellates
with an acerate skeleton-spicule. See Schmidt’s explanation of this,
op. cit. 1870, p. 5.)
Grayella cyathophora, C. Annals, 1869, vol. iv. p. 189, pl. vii.
Cliona corallinoides, Hancock, Annals, 1867, vol. xix. p. 238, pl. vii. fig. 3.
Also ‘ Annals,’ 1871, vol. viii. pl. ii. figs. 33-37.
Group 13. Donatina.
Donatia aurantium, Nardo, 1833, ‘ Isis, = Tethya lyncurium, Lam. 1816;
Annals, 1869, vol. iv. p. 6, pl. ii. fig. 1 &e.
Suberites appendiculatus, Balsamo-Crivelli, 1863, op. cit. vol. vy. tav. vi.
figs. 4 &e.
Polymastia, Bk. 1866, op. cit. vol. ii. p. 58, and vol. iii. pls. 10, 11, 12, & 72.
Thecophora semisuberites, Sdt. 1870, op. cit. Taf. vi. fig. 2.
Rinalda uberrima, Sdt. ib. fig. 3.
Radiella spinularia, Sdt. ib. Taf. iv. fig. 7.
Trachya pernucleata, C. Annals, 1870, vol. vi. p. 178, pl. xii. fig. 11 &e.
Axos Cliftonii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 546, = Dictyocylindrus den-
tatus, Bk. ib. 1873, p. 321, pl. xxix.
Xenospongia patelliformis, Gray, 1b. 1858, p. 230, and 1867, p. 547.
Halicnemia patera, Bk. op. cit. vol. ii. p. 96, and vol. iii. pl. xv. figs. 31 & 32.
Placospongia melobesvoides, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, pp. 128 & 549.
(Axos Chftonii, independently of its form, Xenospongia patelliformis,
independently of its crust of stellates, and Placospongia melobesioides,
independently of its crust of Geodia-like siliceous balls, will, I think,
ultimately have to come among the Suberitida; while the spicules of
Hymeraphia verticillata, especially that form which is inflated in the centre,
at present thus far find their analogue alone in Halicnemia patera. )
Family 3, PACHYTRAGIDA.
Group 14. Groprna.
Geodia zetlandica, Johnst. op. cit. p. 195 ; also Bowerbank, op. cit. vol. ii.
p- 45, and vol. iii. pl. vii.
Geodia arabica, C. Annals, 1869, vol. iv. p. 4, pl. i. figs. 9 &e.
Pachymatisma Johnston, Bk. op. cit. vol. 11. p. 51, and vol. iii. pl. viii. fig.
1; Annals, 1869, vol. iv. p. 8, pl. ii. figs. 7 &¢.
Stelletta discophora, Sdt. op. cit. 1862, p. 47, pl. iv. f. 5.
S. euastrum, Sdt. 1868, Spong. Kiiste v. Algier, p. 20, Taf. iv. f. 4.
Group 15, STELLETTINA.
Stelletta Grubu, Sdt. op. cit. 1862, p. 46, pl. iv. fig. 2. (Found also on the
rocks at Budleigh-Salterton, qouth Devon.)
S. aspera, C. Annals, 1871, vol. vii. p. 7, pl. iv. figs. 7 &e.
S. lactea, C. 2b. p. 9, pl. iv. fig. 15 &e.
Group 16, TETHYINA.
Tethya cranium, Johnst. op. cit. p. 83, pl. i. fig. 1 &e.
T. arabica, C. Annals, 1869, vol. iv. p. 3, pl. i. figs. 1 &e.
T. dactylordea, C. tb. vol. iii. p. 15, fig. 1, and 1872, vol. ix. p. 82, pl. x.
fig. 1 &e.
T. atropurpurea, C. tb. 1870, vol. vi. p. 176, pl. xiii. fig. 1 &e.
T. casula, C, ib..1871, vol. viii. p. 99, pl. iv.
Tetilla polyura, Sdt. 1870, op. cit. p. 66, Taf. vi. fig. 8.
Classification of the Spongida. 199
Family 4. PACHASTRELLIDA.
Group 17. PACHASTRELLINA.
Pachastrella abysst, Sdt. 1870, op. cit. p. 64, Taf. vi. fig. 4.
Dereitus niger, C. Annals, 1871, vol. vii. p. 3, pl. iv. fig. 1 &e. = Dercitus,
Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 542, = Hymeniacidon Bucklandi, Bk.
op. cit. 1864, vol. ii. p. 226, = Battersbya Bucklandi, Bk. vol. iii. 1874,
pl. xcii. fig. 8.
Group 18. LiryisTina.
MacAndrewia azxorica, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1859, p. 438, Rad. pl. xv. ;
w. 1867, p. 507.
Corallistes, Sdt. 1870, op. cit, p. 22 &e. See Taf. iii. for illustrations.
For other species see ‘ Annals,’ 1873, vol. xii. p. 437.
Family 5. PoTAMOSPONGIDA,
Group 19. SPONGILLINA.
Spongilla, Lam. 1816, vol. ii. p. 98, = Badiaga, Buxbaum, in Spreng. Syst.
Veg. iv. p. 374.
S. fluviatilis, Johnst. op. cit. p. 159, pls. xvii. & xviii.
For Bombay species see ‘ Annals,’ 1849, vol. iv. p. 81, pls. 2, 4, and 5;
and for species generally see “ Monograph ” by Bowerbank, Proc. Zool.
Soc. 1863, pl. xxxviii.
Order VII. HEXACTINELLIDA.
Family 1. ViITREOHEXACTINELLIDA.
Group 1. PaTuLina.
Dactylocalyx pumiceus, Stutchbury, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 86.
Group 2. TUBULINA.
Euplectella aspergillum, Owen, Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. ili. p. 203, pl. xiii.
Group 5. SCOPULIFERA.
Aphrocallistes Bocagei, Wright, Quart. Journ. Microscop. Soe. vol. x. N.S.
p. 4, pl. i. 1870,
Family 2, SAaRCOHEXACTINELLIDA.
Group 4. RosETTIFERA.
Crateromorpha Meyer, Gray, Annals, 1872, vol. x. p. 112.
Rossella, C, ib. 1875, vol. xv. p. 113, pl. x., see for all known species.
Group 5, BrroTuLiIFrEeRa.
Hyalonema Stieboldii, Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1835, p. 65.
H, lusitanicum, Bocage, 1b. 1864, p. 265, pl. xxiii.
H. cebuense, Higgin, Annals, 1875, vol. xv. p. 377, pl. xxi.
Holtenia Carpenteri, Wy. Thomson, 1869, Phil, Trans. p. 701, pls. Ixvii.-
Ixxi.
200 Mr. E. A. Smith on two
Meyerina claveformis, Gray, Annals, 1872, vol. x. p. 110.
Labaria hemispherica, Gray, tb. 1873, vol. xi. p. 275; ib. Higgin, 1875,
vol. xv. p. 385, pl. xxil. fig. 3.
Family 3. SARCOVITREOHEXACTINELLIDA,
One Group only.
Euplectella cucumer, Owen, Trans. Linn. Soc. 1857, vol. xxii. p. 117, pl.
xxi. figs. 1-7*,
Order VIII. CALCAREAF.
{To be continued f. |
XXIV.—Descriptions of two new Species of Marginellidx from
the Cape-Verd Islands. By Epaar A. Smiru, F.Z.S.,
Zoological Department, British Museum.
THE two following species were obtained by the British
Museum from Mr. P. Furse, of the Control Staff, who col-
lected them whilst stationed at the Cape-Verd Islands. Both
belong to that section of Marginella to which Hinds, in the
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1844, gave the name Volvarina, and which
contains a group of species having short small spires, narrow
linear apertures, the columella furnished at the base with a
few oblique folds, and the labrum exteriorly varicose.
1. Marginella (Volvarina) verdensis, sp. nov.
Testa elongata, cylindraceo-ovata, nitens, subpellucida, mediocriter
tenuis, pallide flavescens (vel albescens), lineis transversis obliquis
pluribus fuscis (interdum roseo-rufis) fasciata ; anfractus 4; spira
brevissima, marginibus convexis ; apertura angusta, basi paululum
dilatata, longitudinem totam teste fere equans; columella superne
convexa, inferne plicis obliquis quatuor, suprema minima, proxima
sequente paululum majore, tertia maxima perobliqua, ultima (que
columellz basim format) aliquanto minore tertizeque juncta, in-
* For all the “known species” of Hexactinellida see ‘ Annals,’ 1873,
vol. xii. p. 357.
+ For illustrations of the Calcarea see Hackel’s Monograph, with Atlas,
on the Calcispongia, 1872, ‘ Die Kalkschwamme.’
{ The above “ Key ” is now supplied, as it may be some months before
the third part of these ‘‘ Notes,” although considerably advanced, is ready
for publication—seeing that I have first to describe the remainder of the
sponges dredged up on board H.ML.S. ‘ Porcupine,’ the illustrations for
which, both general and elementary, are completed.
new Species of Marginellide. 201
structa ; labrum medio leviter compressum, margine incurvatum,
extra valde incrassatum, fasciarumque finibus bene notatum.
Long. 103 mill., diam. 5.
At first I was inclined to consider this species but a variety
of M. obscura, Reeve, ‘ Conch. Icon.’ f. 132; but on a more
careful comparison with the type of that species, there appear
sufficient differences whereby the two forms may be recognized.
The figure above quoted gives a very fair idea of the form of
the present species, except that it does not display the slight
contraction of the labrum near its middle, and the apex is
perhaps a trifle too acuminately elevated. ‘The bands are thus
disposed : just below the suture there is a very broad one,
which is sharply defined above but not so beneath, but gra-
dually blends into the ground-colour of the shell; a little
below this there are two narrow lines close together, then a
single one round about the middle of the whorl, then two
more approximated, which terminate at the base of the labrum.
M. obscura has five equidistant bands, as shown in Reeve’s
figure; and the plaits on the columella are not precisely the
same as in verdensis; for the two basal ones are quite separate,
whereas in the latter species they are joined at the base.
The interior of the aperture displays a similar coloration to
the exterior of the shell, the bands being conspicuous. All
the bands are rather more deeply coloured on the varix which
borders the labrum.
2. Marginella (Volvarina) mediocincta, sp. nov.
Testa ovato-cylindracea, nitens, saturate rufo-fusca, circa medium
fascia lata alba cincta, atque ad columelle basim alba; anfractus 4,
sutura alba sejuncti; spira perbrevis; apertura angusta, ad basim
leviter dilatata, longitudinem testee tote fere eequans ; columella
superne convexiuscula, inferne plicis quatuor, duabus superioribus
quam inferioribus minoribus, munita; labrum margine albo, extra
late incrassatum, incrassatione linea alba limitata.
Long. 64 mill., diam. 3.
This pretty species is so well distinguished by its style of
coloration that it cannot be confounded with any other. With
the aperture towards the eye, the white zone is situated rather
above the middle of the shell; but on the back of the whorl
it is about central. The broad varix which margins the ex-
terior of the labrum is bordered by a thin white line ; and the
edge of the lip is also white, and likewise the base of the
columella and the plaits with which itis furnished. The same
figure which I quoted with regard to the preceding species
may be cited as a guide to form with reference to the present,
which, however, is not so elongated.
202 Prof. C. Semper on the Anatomy of Comatula.
XXV.—Brief Observations on the Anatomy of Comatula. By
C. Semper*. With an Addendum by W. B. CARPENTER,
M.D.,, LL. Ds BRS. ce.
Srnce the publication of Miiller’s celebrated treatise on the
structure of Pentacrinus caput-Meduse7t, errors have been pro-
pagated by all the manuals of zoology (and so-called compara-
tive anatomy), the refutation of which no one, to my knowledge,
has hitherto attempted. To me, however, the erroneousness
of some individual statements of that great man was already
known while residing in the Philippine Islands; and from
the commencement of my course as a teacher I have in my
lectures endeavoured to spread truer views.
In the year 1868 I was intending to publish a short memoir
on that which I had found, when, becoming acquainted in
London with Dr. Carpenter, I was delighted to learn that that
able observer had obtained exactly the same results on EKuro-
pean as I on Philippine Comatule. In the expectation that the
English investigator would soon publish his already prepared
work on the Crinoidea, I deferred till now the communication
of the results of my examination: but since, after five years
waiting, there is imminent risk that from my lectures the re-
sults of Carpenter’s and my own toilsome investigations may
somehow find their way into publicity, I hold that the moment
has arrived to break the silence I have bitherto kept.
My present concern is only to correct Miiller’s inaccurate
representation of the sexual parts and what he calls the nervous
system. Hesays (/. c. p. 57), “ In the arms of Pentacrinus and
Comatula, between the joints and the membranous covering of
the groove (derived from the perisome), under the groove of
the tentacle are situated twot membranous canals, one above
the other. Between the two lies the nerve-cord of the arm,
specially enclosed in a membranous sheath; opposite each
pinmnule it forms a longish slight swelling frora which the
nerve-fibre departs into the pinnule.” ‘This description has
been admitted into Gegenbaw’s ‘ Grundziige der vergleich-
enden Anatomie,’ 2nd ed. p. 821§, and Claus’s ‘ Zoologie,’
* Translated from a separate impression, communicated by Dr. W. B.
Carpenter.
+ Abhandlungen der Berlin. Akad. 1841.
{ This is only partially correct. According to Miiller’s own drawing
(i. c. pl. iv. f. 12), Alecto europea has only one canal in the arms; the lower
one is absent. In the tropical Comatule, however, it is present, and also
in the European, according to Edmund Perrier (Arch. d. Zool. Expérim.
&e. tome ii. 1868, pp. 49, 57). To the work of the latter I shall return
further on.
§ I take this opportunity to protest against the mode in which Gegen-
Prof. C. Semper on the Anatomy of Comatula. 203
2nded. Miiller further on (/. c. pp. 58, 59) describes the ovaries
as lying in the pinnules completely isolated from each other,
and compares this situation to that of the analogous organs in
the proglottides of the Cestoda.
The cord discovered by Miiller (/. c. pl. iv. fig. 11, pl.
v. f. 16) between the two canals of the arm—which, more-
over, is wanting in the drawing of a section of the arm of
Comatula europea (lL. ¢. pl. iv. f. 12)—is indeed present ; it is
not, however, the nerve-system, but belongs to the parts of
generation. This is proved by sections of the arm of a new
Comatula from the Philippines,. which I shall subsequently
describe ; the sections were made on arms carefully decalcified.
The pinnules, as is well known, arise with a tolerably sharp
curve towards the arm. At the period of sexual maturity the
ovaries prolong themselves in the same direction into the soft
portions of the arm before uniting with each other through the
cord (Miiller’s nervous cord) which runs along the middle line.
In transverse sections, therefore, made close behind the inser-
tion of a pinnule, the prolongations of the ovaries which are
situated in the hinder part of the arm, under the groove of the
tentacle, must be met with, and, ina favourable case, also the
cords connecting them with the central cord. Such sections
are in fact obtained with tolerable facility. In the annexed
woodcut (fig. 1), on the left the pinnule is not met with; but on
the right it is, though only partially. In the proper body-parts
of the arm, under the tentacle-canal c.t (from which the late-
ral vessels depart for the tentacle) a cord 7, cut through some-
what obliquely, is seen in the middle line: this is Miiller’s
nerve of the arm (see fig. 2). To the right of it is situated a
portion of the right ovary, ov, with developed ova mostly on
baur quotes from my Monograph of the Holothurie in his ‘ Lehrbuch ;’
his readers are not informed of the existence of such a work, but only that
I published some observations on Holothuria in my ‘ Reisen im Archipel
der Philippinen.’ I myself can bear the disadvantage thence arising ; but
it is not so easy for others to do so, because they are led into error by his
authority. Recently a Privatdocent at Graz has written a special memoir
on the histology of the Holothuria, without the slightest suspicion that he
could have found all his supposed novelties already in my book. More-
over I cannot suppress the conjecture that Gegenbaur himself has not
carefully read my work; otherwise he would hardly have granted a
place in his own to manifest errors. For it is not true that (as he
says, p. 843 of the 2nd edition of his ‘Grundziige’) “neither the structure
nor the function of the Cuvierian organs are known.” ‘The former is
better explained by me than almost any other organ by others; and the
negative result of my investigation, that they were certainly not glands,
is much more positive than Gegenbaur’s absolutely arbitrary assumption
that they are “ probably excretory organs” (/. c. p. 529).
204 Prof. C. Semper on the Anatomy of Comatula.
the outer periphery ; but here its connexion with the central
cord was not brought into view. On the contrary the peri-
pheral layer of the central cord clearly passes into the mass of
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1. Transverse section of a decalcified Arm: a, organic basis of the
skeleton; », cord occupying the canal of the calcareous segment,
regarded by Muller as a vessel and by Carpenter as a nerve;
m, muscles ; ¢.c, inferior or coeliac canal ; 7, cord regarded by Miiller
as a nerve, by Carpenter and Semper as the rhachis of the generative
system ; ov, ovary ; ¢.t, superior canal, the tentacular canal of Muller;
x, fibrous cord of Perrier and Semper, corresponding in situation
with the real tentacular canal of Carpenter.
the left ovary. The ova here, as well as in the pinnules, show
a distinct germ-vesicle and spot. Miiller has seen these con-
necting branches, as is shown in the representation of what he
calls the nervous cord (J. c. pl. v. f. 16); he interprets them as
lateral nerves for the pinnules. Judging from the figure, these
branches appear to be very fine; so that, without making sec-
tions, Miiller might the more readily fail to demonstrate the
connexion with the ovaries, as no similar relation in any
Echinoderm had given a hint of so peculiar an arrangement
of the parts of generation. In what manner these central cords
(probably comparable to the rhachis in the ovary of the Nema-
toda) are distributed in the disk I have not investigated ;
Miller, however, states, and Carpenter has confirmed it to me,
that they are traceable far up the disk and there form a ring
round the cesophagus.
Prof. C. Semper on the Anatomy of Comatula. 205
The question now is, Where are we to look for the nervous
system? In regard to this, unfortunately, my examination
has conducted to no conclusion, because I have not yet had
any opportunity to repeat it on living animals. It might even
be possible that the cord (m) in the interior of the calcareous
skeleton, which has hitherto always been regarded as a vessel,
is a nervous cord ; and if so, then the so-called heart situated in
the calyx would certainly have to be looked upon as a ganglion.
That it is not a vessel, is shown by the total absence of a
lumen ; its mass consists of very fine close-lying fibres, which
Hoffmann also, in his recently published work, compares to
nervous fibres. On the other hand, above the tentacle-canal
there is a second fibrous cord, which was first discovered by
Perrier (Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale, tome 11. 1873,
p- 55, pl. iii. f. 8, m), and which I have also recognized in
sections of the arm of Comatula which I have preserved for
some years (see x, fig. 1). This cord also appears probably
to belong to the nervous system. Yet in no case is proof
furnished of the nervous nature of either the one or the
other; the only thing fully established with respect to the
first, is the absence of any ground for interpreting it as a
vessel,
In conclusion, I wish to adda remark on the work of Perrier
above referred to. He strenuously contends that one of the
two canals described by Miiller in Pentacrinus, and by Car-
penter in Comatula, is not present, viz. that named by the
latter “‘ canalis cceliacus.” But in this he to a certain extent
contradicts himself. At pp. 48, 49, in directly contesting the
presence of the lower canal of the arm, he says :—‘ for there
(in adult individuals) the tentacular canal appears always to
rest directly upon the thin layer of tissues which invests the
skeleton, and in that layer nothing resembling a canal can be
distinguished.”’ In the same page, however, he says “it is
upon the walls of the prolongations of the general cavity into
the pinnules that the genital glands are developed ;” further,
p. 57, “the tentacular vessel is seen to rest directly upon the
membrane that envelops the calcareous axis ;” and, in the same
page, ‘immediately above this covering” (of the calcareous
axis) ‘‘is the general cavity.’’ A more distinct contradiction
cannot be imagined. It seems to me that Perrier has been
misled by the German word Grefdss. He calls the tentacle-
canal a canal, because he wishes to indicate thereby its be-
longing to a system of vessels distinctly cut off from the body-
cavity ; while he will not give that name to the canal-lke
prolongations of the body-cavity (which he yet himself
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 15
206 Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the
describes, though not clearly) *, since the body-cavity and con-
sequently also its prolongations are supposed to be separated
from the vascular system. His attack on Miiller and Carpen-
ter therefore fails, since he finds again the same parts as they,
and only arbitrarily changes the name and interpretation.
Moreover he is positively behind them both: he denies the
existence of the nervous system described by Miiller (/. ¢. p. 83) ;
yet it is present, though it was erroneously interpreted by its
discoverer. The only really new information given by Perrier
is concerning the fibrous band situated above the tentacle-canal
(2. c. p. 55, pl. i. f. 8, m), with which I am also acquainted,
and which, as mentioned above, will probably prove, on closer
histological examination of living animals, to be the nervous
system that for the moment is yet to be sought.
Addendum by Dr. CARPENTER.
The full justice which my friend Prof. Semper has obviously
desired to do me, in speaking of my conclusions in regard to
the structure of Comatula, as having been arrived at inde-
pendently of, and contemporaneously with, his own, might
seem to render it quite unnecessary for me to put forward any
claim to a discovery which has, I think, many bearings of
great interest, physiological as well as morphological. But
he seems to have overlooked the fact that I had not only
distinctly pointed out what I believe (in common with him)
to be Prof. Miiller’s errors, but had indicated what I regard as
the true Nervous System, in the First part of my “ Researches
on the Structure, Physiology, and Development of Comatula
rosacea,’ communicated to the Royal Society in 1865, and
published in the ‘ Philosophical Transactions ’ for 1866.
After describing (par. 19) the muscular apparatus of thearms,
I say :-—“ It will be shown, in the Second part of this memoir,
that the cord which traverses the length of the arms between
the canal just mentioned and another canal which overlies it,
and which was regarded by Prof. Miiller as a nerve, really
belongs to the reproductive apparatus. But it will also be
shown that a regular system of branching fibres, proceeding
from the solid cord (described by Prof. Miiller asa vessel) that
traverses the axial canal of each calcareous segment of the rays
and arms, is traceable on the extremities of the muscular bun-
dles; and reasons will be given for regarding these fibres as
* This follows indubitably from his remark (p. 49), “the general cavity
of the body is continued beneath the tentacular canal.”’
Anatomy of Comatula. 207
probably having the functions of nerves, though not exhibiting
their characteristic structure.”
Again, in describing the dorsal cirrhi (par. 29), the axial
canal of the arms (par. 45), and the circlet of basals in the
Pentacrinoid larva (par. 76), I mentioned the connexion of these
solid sareodic cords with ‘ the wall of a remarkable quinque-
locular organ, contained within the centro-dorsal basin,” which
organ was “supposed by Prof. Miiller, who first noticed its
presence [though he did not recognize its subdivision], to be a
heart,” but which “I shall hereafter describe under the name
of the ‘centro-dorsal vesicle,’ and which I shall show to be
an expansion of the original crinoidal axis, hollowed out into
a multiple ventricular cavity.”
The chief difficulty which I felt in regarding this axis and
its extensions into the arms as constituting a Nervous System,
arose from the entire absence of any of the ordinary histological
characters of nerves. I found that I could tear the axial cords
(hardened in strong spirit) into fibrils of extreme minuteness, but
that these fibrils showed a perfectly homogeneous composition.
Still “the remarkable energy and rapidity of muscular action in
Comatula, far surpassing that of every other known animal of
its class” (par. 19), strongly impressed me with the belief that
its muscles must be called into action by nerves proceeding
from a common centre; and as these muscles are all flexors,
while the extension of the arms is provided for by elastic liga-
ments, I arrived at the opinion that the want of histological
differentiation in the nervous system might be related to the
fact of its having only one kind of action to perform. To this
conclusion I have given expression in the last edition of my
‘ Microscope and its Revelations,’ p. 771.
Being at Oban in the summer of 1867, I made an experi-
ment on the living Comatula, which seemed conclusive (not
only to myself, but to the numerous Physiologists to whom I
have mentioned it) as to the nervous character of the central
quinquelocular organ and of the cords proceeding from it.
Having turned out from the calyx the whole visceral mass
(which, in the living animal, is so loosely held in by the soft
perisome as often to be lost in the dredge), I had remaining the
entire skeleton, its muscles and ligaments, and the supposed
nervous system radiating from the central quinquelocular organ
still contained in the cavity of the centro-dorsal plate. On
irritating the central organ by a needle passed down through
the aperture leading into this cavity from the base of the calyx,
all the ten arms suddenly and consentaneously coiled up. On
the withdrawal of the needle, the arms gradually straightened
15*
208 Dr. W. B. Carpenter on the
themselves again, and again coiled up as before when the
irritation of the central organ was renewed.
The only additional proof derivable from experiment as to
the nervous character of this apparatus, would be the produc--
tion of a similar effect in a single arm by uritating the supposed
nerve-cord in its course. But this, through the complete in-
clusion of the cord in the solid calcareous skeleton of the arm,
would scarcely be possible.
As I distinctly remember mentioning this experiment to
Prof. Semper when I had the pleasure of a visit from him in
1868, I am rather surprised at his saying that no experimental
verification of the doctrine has been obtained. I was, on my
part, very glad to learn from him that the histological charac-
ter of the axial cords of Comatula closely corresponds with
that of what he felt assured to be the Nervous System of the
Holothurida, his admirable researches on which group ought
to be known to every comparative anatomist.
Nothing but the engrossment of my spare time in the various
inquiries that have arisen out of the Deep-Sea researches which
I prosecuted in the vacations of 1868 and three following years,
has prevented me from publishing long before this the Second
part of my Memoir on Comatula, for which the essential
materials (in the shape of some hundreds of preparations, and
a series of most admirable drawings executed by Mr. George
West and Mr. A. Hollick) have been in my possession ever
since the appearance of the First. These drawings, made
from very careful dissections, show that the ovaries (or testes)
in the pinnules have exactly the same relation to the so-called
nerve-cord of Miiller, that the currants on a bunch have to
their stalk. I was led to trace this connexion, in the first
instance, by finding that the position of the ovary in the pin-
nule, between its two principal (afferent and efferent) canals,
exactly corresponds with that of Miiller’s nerve-cord (7 in
Prof. Semper’s figure) between the two canals c¢.¢ and c.c of
the arm. ‘They further show that in Comatula rosacea the
canal c.t, spoken of by Miiller as the tentacular canal, has no
connexion with the tentacles, and exists equally in the oral
pinnules which have no tentacles; whilst the real tentacular
canal occupies the position a in Prof. Semper’s figure*. This
* That there is here, in Comatula rosacea, a most distinct canal, from
which the tubular tentacles originate, is a fact of which I am as certain
as I am of any point in the anatomy of this animal. Whether the same
may not be the case in Prof. Semper’s Philippine Comatudla, is a question
which I would commend to his careful investigation. I have a strong
belief that in a sufficiently thin section of a pinnule he would find his so-
called “ fibrous cord’ to possess a lumen; though this may be obscured
by the collapse of the canal, which is not cylindrical but flattened.
Anatomy of Comatula. 209
fact also I have indicated in Par. 15 of the First part of my
Memoir.
I expect to be able to prove that the Criénoddea have scarcely
any thing in common with Echinoderms generally as to plan
of structure, and that their developmental history differs
essentially from that which is now regarded as characteristic
of that group. In fact, as Prof. Semper remarked to me, a
Crinoid might almost be considered a more highly organized
Polype. In its early state the digestive cavity has but a
single orifice in the centre of the oral disk; and the animal
then exhibits an absolutely perfect radial symmetry. 'The only
departure from this symmetry in the adult Crinoid arises
from the elongation of the digestive cavity into an intestine,
the anal termination of which appears on the oral disk, bearing
in Comatula an unsymmetrical plate, which belongs to the
‘ nerisomatic skeleton”’*. The “radial skeleton,” with its
ligaments, muscles, and nerves, and the complicated vascular,
respiratory, and generative systems contained in the arms,
all have such an exact radial symmetry, that to affirm that
Crinoids are modified Annelidans, merely because the “ pro-
embryo” which carries about the true Crinoid-germ has some-
what of an Annelid form, seems to me about as scientific as
it would be to describe Man as a Radiate, because the villous
chorion, which furnishes nutriment to the true Vertebrate
embryo, is globular. If the type of the Nervous System goes
for any thing, and this nervous system in Comatula is what
I affirm it to be, its disposition, from its very first appearance,
is as distinctly radiate, as the disposition of the nervous system
in the Articulate and Vertebrate subkingdoms is db¢/aterally
symmetrical.
Doubtless I shall be charged in this instance, as I have been
in others, with an undue preference for older to newer ideas,
and with an indisposition to avail myself of the light thrown
by developmental history upon the affinities of animals. I
only ask, however, a suspension of judgment until I shall have
published the facts which have been in my possession for more
than ten years past, and which I only want an interval of
leisure concentrated upon the subject to present in a com-
plete and systematized form.
* See par. 84 of the first part of my “ Researches.”
210 | Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and
XXVI.—Deseriptions of new Genera and Species of New-
Zealand Coleoptera—Part I. By Francis P. PAscon,
F.L.S. &e. ‘
[Plate V.]
Caprain F. W. Hurron, Director of the Museum at Otago,
and author of several valuable papers on the geology and
natural history of New Zealand, has had the kindness to remit
to me from time to time collections of insects of nearly all
orders from that country. ‘To his friends also, especially
Mr. Travers and Captain T. Broun, I am indebted for several
interesting novelties. Some of these gentlemen’s discoveries
have been anticipated, as far as publication is concerned, by
other collectors, and have been described by Messrs. H. and
F. Bates, Dr. Sharp*, and Mr. Wollaston, more especially the
former gentleman, and our knowledge of New-Zealand ento-
mology has been greatly increased; but doubtless much still
remains to be done, inasmuch as insects in those islands are
very scarce individually, and the species seem restricted to
more than usually limited areas.
It is perhaps premature to generalize upon our present
materials ; but, so far as we have gone, the following is a sum-
mary of what I think may be said :—(1) That the insect-fauna
is most nearly allied to that of Australia, if we exclude such
‘‘ microtypal” forms as are common more or less to all tempe-
rate countries. Such well-marked genera as Distypsidera,
Promecoderus, Calonota, Cilibe, Rhadinosomus, Psepholax,
Mitrastethus, Didymocantha, Phlycteenodes, and others are
common to both and are not known elsewhere ; while genera
found in Australia have in New Zealand comparatively nume-
rous others closely allied. On the other hand, however, there
is a singular absence, or only an exceedingly limited number,
of large and characteristic Australian genera, and even of
whole families having numerous exponents in Australia—as,
for example, the Buprestide, with over 300 representatives
in Australia, but only with one, and that very doubtful, in
New Zealand; the Scarabeide, with 11 New-Zealand species
(no Cetoniine) has about 450 in Australia; the great group
of Phytophaga, abundant almost everywhere, and some of
* I take this opportunity to mention that Dr. Sharp’s genus Lawsonia
(Ent. Monthly Mag. x. p. 30) is identical with Ezillis (ante, ser. 3, v.
p- 43). Two species are described from New Zealand, both distinct from
the type Z. longicornis from Borneo. Unfortunately Dr. Sharp has given
the same specific name to one of bis species. Lacordaire wrongly refers
Evillis to his “Anthribides vrais;” it is nearer Tropideres, but, from
its reniform eyes, it is perhaps best placed near Proscoporhinus, as Dr.
Sharp has suggested.
Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 211
them great pests to the agriculturist, with more than 200
Australian species, has only three or four in New Zealand,
and those belonging to three microtypal genera. Of the
entomology of the numerous islands north and north-east of
New Zealand we know very little, except that it includes some
isolated forms. (2) That out of about, in round numbers,
180 genera of Coleoptera, about 50 are peculiar to New Zea-
land, and about 50 are either almost cosmopolitan or also found
in middle Kurope [mostly British]; the remainder have re-
presentatives in Australia, the Malayan archipelago, Japan,
Madagascar, North and South America, Africa, &ec., but not
in Europe. In the other orders of insects Kuropean forms
are mostly represented. No one genus, I believe, is peculiar
to New Zealand, except amongst the Lepidoptera*. From
these considerations, I think that the New-Zealand fauna (for
insects at least) cannot be regarded as belonging to the primary
Australian region, but that it is a secondary or “ satellite”
region, having too many endemic forms and too many repre-
sentatives (out of all proportion to the rest) of widely distri-
buted genera, and yet subsidiary to a certain extent to the
Australian, inasmuch as it approaches it in a very marked
manner in possessing several peculiar forms, as we have
already statedt.
Some caution must be exercised in regard to introduced
species. New Zealand, it has been observed, seems to have
a slight hold on its animal and plant life; and, conversely,
introduced species seem to do well. In that category I
believe I may place the Australian Cyttalia griseipila (ante,
x1. p. 195), or at least a form so closely allied that I hesitate
to place it as a distinct species ; it is found very commonly on
a plant called the ‘ Spaniard,” whatever that may be. An
Onthophagus, apparently identical with the Australian O. fulvo-
* Mr. Butler, in the recently completed ‘Zoology of the Voyage of
H.M.S. Erebus and Terror’ [Janson], enumerates 518 species of Lepi-
doptera. A few genera, for the present at least, may be assumed to be
eculiar.
i + Mr. Murray, in his paper ‘On the Geographical Relations of the
chief Coleopterous Faun ” (Journ. Linn. Soe. xi. pp. 1 et segq.), seeks
to establish three great “ stirpes” to which all the Coleoptera in the world
are referable, viz.—i. the Indo-African; ii. the Brazilian; and iii. the
“microtypal.” To the first of these, inter alia, belongs the New-Guinea
group, and to the last Australia and New Zealand, including also the
temperate regions of the globe as well as tropical Peru. While I agree
with Mr. Murray in regarding the beetle-fauna of New Guinea as totally
different in character from that of Australia, I look upon the latter as
being peculiarly distinct and isolated. If we knew any thing of the
entomology of the southern part of New Guinea and more of the district
of Cape York, the gap which now exists might be somewhat lessened.
212 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and
lineatus, Bl., and an Aphodius, like A. pusillus, have also
been received; but there could have been no pabulum for
such insects formerly. Captain Hutton has likewise sent from
Wellington numerous specimens of our Otiorhynchus sulcatus.
T suspect, among others, a Catops, a Scymnus, a Ptinus, some
wood-borers, &e.
The following is a list of species described in this Part :—
ByRRHID.
Morychus coruscans.
Liochoria, n. g.
Huttoni.
Xuthodes, n. g.
punctipennis.
Xyloteles costatus.
_ CURCULIONID.
TENFBRIONID. Ty = Seip penis:
Phycosecis, n. g. Inophleeus, n. g.
discoidea. Traversil.
atomaria*, inuus,
Actizeta, n. g. villaris.
ammobioides. —— rhesus.
albata. —— vitiosus.
Syrphetodes, n. g. Phrynixus, n. g.
marginatus. terreus.
Cecyropa, n. g.
tychioides.
CERAMBYCID.
Stenopotes, n. g. CoccINELLID&.
pallidus, Cranophorus venustus.
Morychus coruscans.
M. ellipticus, valde conyexus, nitidissime eneus, antennis pedibusque
pallide ferrugineis ; capite leviter subconfertim punctato ; pro-
thorace elytrisque coriaceis, subtilissime punctatis ; scutello trans-
versim triangulari, impunctato; corpore infra ferrugineo, leviter
punctato; femoribus tibiisque sparse hirsutis, Long. 2 lin.
Hab. Wellington.
Of this species I have seen only one specimen. It is very
like the European M. auratus; but, inter alia, it is narrower,
more minutely punctured, and the scutellum is transverse.
LIOCHORIA.
Antenne subelongate, articulis sex ultimis, ultimo excepto, perfoliatis,
clavam angustatam formantibus. Labrum magnum, distinctum.
Palpt maxillares articulo ultimo ovali. Tibi antice extus ex-
cavatee.
* Ina note Phycosecis algarum and P. litoralis, from Australia,
Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 213
I have only a single specimen of the species described
below ; but, so far as I have been able to examine it, it seems
to differ from Morychus in the six-jointed, very narrow club
of the antenne. It is apparently perfectly free from any
villosity ; but under a strong lens very short, erect, hair-like
bristles are seen to exist.
Liochoria Hutton.
L. elliptica, convexa, nigra, nitida, antennis pedibusque piceis ;
capite prothoraceque confertim subtiliter, elytris subtilissime,
punctatis ; scutello equilateraliter triangulari; corpore infra
femoribusque subtiliter punctatis, sparse hirsutis; tibiis extus
integris, intus ciliatis. Long. 32 lin.
Hab. Otago.
PHYCOSECIS.
Caput transversum, deflectum. Antenne longiuscule, 11-articulate,
articulo basali ampliato, secundo subelongato, tertio breviore,
duobus ultimis conjunctim § globosis, intermediis transversis.
Oculi prominuly, liberi. Palpi maxillares articulo ultimo ovato.
Prothorax antice productus, lateribus ciliatus, basi rotundatus.
Elytra modice convexa, subrotundata. TZ bic antice subtrigonate,
apice inermes, omnes extus denticulato-ciliate ; tarsi lineares,
antici liberi, articulo ultimo majusculo.
In the rounded base of the prothorax, in contact only with
the elytra in its middle portion, this genus agrees with Hyocis ;
but the globose two-jointed club of the antenne, the last joint
being very small, differentiates it from all the other genera of
its subfamily. ‘The genus contains four species, two onl
inhabiting New Zealand ; the other two, from Australia, are
described in the note. One of the species, and probably all,
like many others of the Phaleriine, is found on the sea-shore
under alge.
Phycosecis discoidea. Pi. V. fig. 6.
P. breviter ovata, nigra, elytris vel totis pallide ochraceis vel nigris,
sepissime in medio plus minusye nigris, squamulis minutis albis
rare adspersa ; fronte longitudinaliter sulcata; antennis fuscis ;
prothorace sparse punctato, antice leviter gramulato; elytris sat
rude seriatim punctatis, singulis in medio seriebus irregulariter
dispositis ; corpore infra fusco, sparse punctulato ; pedibus sub-
setulosis, femoribus tarsisque dilute fuscis, tibiis ochraceis. Long.
13 lin.
Hab, Waikato.
A variable species in regard to the coloration of the elytra,
214 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and
Phycosecis atomaria.
P. breviter ovata, nigra, squamulis albis sparse irrorata, antennis
pedibusque piceis ; fronte minus sulcata; prothorace pone medium
latiore, punctis sparsis singulis squama repletis; elytris sub-
rotundatis, haud seriatim punctatis, punctis singulis squamulam
albam elongatam erectam gerentibus; corpore infra pedibusque
sparse albo-setosulis. Long. 1} lin.
Hab. Great Barrier Island; Kaikarua.
The silvery white, small, erect scales dotting the elytra
will, ¢nter alia, readily distinguish this species from the
preceding®.
ACTIZETA.
Caput transversum, antice rotundatum, Antenne validiuscule, 11-
articulatee, articulis duobus basalibus ampliatis, equalibus, tertio
minore, ceteris ad octavum valde transversis, gradatim incrassatis,
tribus ultimis clavam oblongam formantibus. Ocwli liberi. Palpi
maxillares articulo ultimo breviter subcylindrico. Prothorax
transversus, convexus, lateribus haud ciliatus, basi rotundatus,
antice late emarginatus. lytra breviter obovata, prothorace vix
latiora. Tibie anticee dilatatee, extus profunde emarginate, lobo
elongato terminate, angulo interiore spinis duabus_ instructo;
tarsi lineares, antici liberi, intermedii et postici elongati.
There are two species of this genus: one, A. ammobioides,
* Phycosecis algarum.
P. breviter ovata, supra pedibusque fulvo-testacea, squamulis minutissimis
albidis dense tecta; capite castaneo vel subcastaneo ; antennis pallide
ferrugineis; prothorace subtransverso, marginibus lateralibus longe
albo-ciliatis ; elytris subrotundatis, punctis numerosis, singulis squama
pallida repletis, sat confertim impressis ; corpore infra pedibusque sub-
tiliter sparse setosulis; tarsis articulo ultimo apice nigro, Long.
12 lin.
Hab. Melbourne.
Under a high power of the microscope the exceedingly minute scales
are seen to radiate from a common base ; the patches thus formed appear
under an ordinary lens to look like simple scales closely imbricated.
Phycosecis litoralis.
P. ovata, fusca, aunts squamulis minutissimis albis sat dense tecta; an-
tennis, marginibus elytrorum pedibusque ochraceis, albo-setosulis,
femoribus aliquando nigris ; corpore infra dense albo-squamoso, Long.
13 lin.
Hab. King George’s Sound.
In this species the punctures are filled with very minute scales, and pro-
bably in a fresh state the intervals between the punctures are also covered
with scales; beneath the scales appear to be massed together in pro-
fusion.
Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 215
the type, is like Ammobcus rufus and is about the same size,
apparently scaleless ; but I suspect when perfectly fresh it is
otherwise: the second species, A. albata is a pretty little
insect clothed with close-set white scales having a somewhat
varnished gloss, but generally marked with a few dark more
or less indistinct spots. All the tibiee are armed at the
interior angle of the apex with two long spines.
Actizeta ammobioides.
A, ovalis, castaneo-fusca, subtilissime crebre punctulata; antennis
ferrugineis, clava articulis bene determinatis; prothorace transverso,
basi in medio canaliculata et bifoveata; elytris striato-punctatis,
striis secundo tertioque subflexuosis, interstitiis parum conyvexis ;
corpore infra sparse punctato; pedibus colore dilutiore ; tibiis
setulosis. Long. 14-13 lin.
Hab. Great Barrier Island.
Actizeta albata. Pl. V. fig. 5.
A, ovata, nigra, squamis albis, aliquando maculatim nigrescentibus,
dense tecta ; antennis brevioribus ; clava articulis arcte contiguis ;
capite prothoraceque rarissime punctatis, hoe fortiter transverso,
basi in medio impressa ; elytris striatis, striis subflexuosis, inter-
stitiis rarissime uniseriatim punctulatis; corpore infra pedibusque
ferrugineis, squamis albis adspersis. Long. 13-13 lin.
Hab. Waikato.
In most specimens there is a dark round blotch on the
middle of each elytron, and vestiges of two or three smaller
spots on the prothorax.
SYRPHETODES.
Caput depressum; clypeus apice truncatus; labrum productum ;
palpi maxillares elongati, labiales brevissimi ; mentum transver-
sum; ocult rotundati. Antenne tenues, articulis tribus ultimis
clavam formantibus. Prothorax transversus, basi angustatus, apice
profunde emarginatus. lytra convexa, subcordata; epipleure
late, integra. Pedes tenuati; tibee cylindrice, apice breyiter bi-
spinose. Coww postice subapproximatee.
The head is slightly concave between the antenne; the
latter are nearly free at the base, owing to the small size of
the antennary orbits; for the same reason the eyes preserve
their rounded outline. The clypeus is rather narrowed
anteriorly, and shows no trace of any line of separation from
the front. The tarsi are filiform, and the claw-joimt is nearly
as long as the rest together, especially of the anterior pair.
Opatrum tuberculicostatum, White, the type of a new genus,
216 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and
differs from Syrphetodes in the antenne not being clavate, the
eye partly divided by the antennary orbit, and by the non-
approximation of the posterior coxe; both genera agree with
the “ Phylacides”’ of Lacordaire in having the epipleure of
the elytra entire behind. The exact habitat is unknown; my
specimens I owe to the kindness of Major Parry.
Syrphetodes marginatus. Pl. V. fig. 10.
S. ovalis, fuscescens, squamis silaceis sat dense tectus; antennis
articulo tertio quam secundo duplo longiore; clava tomentosa ;
prothorace inzequato, apice bifido, angulis anticis acute productis,
lateribus explanatis ; scutello valde transverso, fusco ; elytris pro-
thorace latioribus, punctis parvis in seriebus irregularibus impres-
sis, dorso tuberculis plurimis instructis, marginibus explanatis,
transversim sulcato-punctatis ; pedibus albido variatim maculatis.
Long. 5 lin.
Hab. a
STENOPOTES.
Caput elongatum, antice protensum, quadratum. Oculi reniformes,
obliqui, grosse granulati. Antenne corpore longiores, articulo
basali elongato. Prothorax capite angustior, latitudine sesqui-
longior, lateribus inermis. Elytra elongata, subparallela, leviter
costulata, epipleuris distinctis. Pedes tenuati; femora fusifor-
mia; tibie recte. Cove antice subcontigue.
The strongly faceted eyes in this genus are an exceptional
character in this and in a few others of the forty-eight
“oroupes” into which Lacordaire has divided his “Section B”
of the Cerambycide. In other respects Stenopotes differs, in
the form of the prothorax, in the presence of epipleure to the
elytra, &c., from both Rhagiomorpha and Tritocosmia, the
other two genera of the “groupe.” ‘These he differentiates
by the one having a tuft of hairs on the third joint of the
antenne, which the other has not. At best this is a
doubtful character; one objection to it is, that the tuft
very often, apparently, belongs to the insect only in its earlier
life*. LRhagiomorpha is at present confined to one species—
lepturotdes, Boisd. My R. eaxilis, from its prothorax slightly
* In the case of Tritocosmia Digglesit (Tr. Ent. Soc. ser. 2, v. p. 58),
one of my specimens has the tuft reduced to a small patch at one point
of the apex of the joint; this is what I alluded to in saying that the tuft
was “deciduous,” an expression which M. Lacordaire has taken to mean
a denial of its existence. In the same note (Gen. viii. p. 408) he quotes
me as giving “‘ Nouvelle Bretagne” (from which island I have never seen
an insect), instead of New South Wales, as the habitat of 7. rubea. The
antennas of 7. paradoxa are remarkable, but do not, in the absence of
other characters, justify its generic separation as Lacordaire suggests.
Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 217
protuberant but not spined at the side, will probably form the
type of a new genus. Stenoderus concolor, M‘Leay (King’s
Voyage, ii. 452), with which Lacordaire identifies A. leptu-
rovdes, is a true Stenoderus.
Stenopotes pallidus. Pl. V. fig. 7.
S. elongatus, fulvescens, vix nitidus, capite prothoraceque saturati-
oribus, illo in medio canaliculato; rostro longitudine paulo latiore,
planato-marginato; antennis leviter piloso-fimbriatis, articulo
tertio quam sequentibus multo breviore; prothorace latitudine
sesquilongiore, postice gradatim latiore, pone apicem parum incur-
vato, supra lineis duabus pilosis notato ; scutello subrotundato ; ely-
tris prothorace quintuplo longioribus, supra planatis, singulis cos-
tulis duabus longitudinalibus instructis ; infra pedibusque pube
tenuissime indutis. Long. 7 lin.
Hab. Waikato.
XUTHODES.
Caput breve, inter oculos suleatum. Oculi magni, supra distantes.
Antenne corpore longiores, tenuiter ciliate, articulo basali ob-
conico, tertio fere sequali, quarto paulo breviore, quinto ad unde-
cimum longioribus. Prothorax antice late truncatus, utrinque
bituberculatus, tuberculo anteriore apicali, altero mediano, disco
inequali. Elytra oblonga, parallela. Pedes mediocres ; femora
fusiformia. Prosternum angustum, arcuatum.
In habit and colour the only representative of this genus is
like the Chilian Phymatioderus bizonatus; but its characters
ally it with Grammicosum and Hesperophanes, from both of
which it differs in the prothorax and antenne.
Xuthodes punctipennis. Pl. V. fig. 9.
X. capite prothoraceque fulvis, opacis ; elytris nitide flavescentibus,
nigro-punctatis, punctis apicem versus minutis, pone medium
fascia angusta fusca ornatis; antennis, pedibus abdomineque
luteis; prothorace impunctato, disco 5-tuberculato. Long. 73
lin.
Hab. Pitt’s Island.
Xyloteles costatus. Pl. V. fig. 8.
X. elongatus, fusco-metallicus, antennis pedibusque castaneis, sub-
tilissime tomentosis ; illis articulis basi plerumque pallidioribus ;
capite prothoraceque levigatis, hoc in medio tenuiter cor-
rugato; scutello semicirculari, griseo-pubescenti; elytris ob-
longo-obovatis, apicibus rotundatis, singulis fortiter quinquecosta-
tis, costis duabus exterioribus basi conjunctis, interstitiis sparsim
218 My. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and
impresso-punctatis ; corpore infra subtiliter punctulato ; abdomine
segmentis quatuor basalibus utrinque macula grisea pilosa notatis.
Long. 74-9 lin.
Hab. Pitt’s Island.
What, from its narrower abdomen, I take to be the male,
has shorter elytra less drawn out at the apex than the female ;
the antenne are about the same length—a little shorter than
the body in both. This fine species, which at first sight
might be taken to be generically distinct from Xyloteles, was,
like the last, found by Mr. Travers in Pitt’s Island, one of
the Chatham group.
TYSIUS.
Caput elongatum ; rostrum mediocre, subangulatum ; scrobes subter-
minales, oblique, infra oculos currentes. Scapus tenuatus, gra-
datim incrassatus, ad marginem posticum oculi attingens ; funiculus
7-articulatus, articulo basali elongato, ampliato, secundo breviter
obconico, ceteris transversis; clava distincta, longe elliptica.
Oculi subrotundati, grosse granulati, a prothorace distantes.
Prothorax parvus, subcylindricus, antice paulo productus. Scu-
tellum triangulare. lytra ampliata, oblongo-cordata, humeris
rotundatis. Femora antica et intermedia modice incrassata, illa
mutica, postica valida, infra fortiter dentata; tibi@ subflexuose,
apice inermes; ¢arsi mediocres, articulo tertio late bilobo. Meta-
sternum modice elongatum. Processus intercoxalis latus, trunca-
tus. Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus ampliatis ; swtwra pri-
ma in medio arcuata.
The only species of this genus is ferruginous in colour,
with deciduous greyish scales, but always more scattered at
the sides, which, to the naked eye present the appearance
of being marked with a large brownish patch. I obtained
my original specimen from an old collection in the possession
of Mr. Stevens; but I have since received it from Capt.
Broun, who finds it plentifully at Tairoa, near Auckland.
Eugnomus, Schinh., with an undescribed New-Zealand insect
for its type, is unknown to me, but is apparently differentiated
from the present genus in several particulars, 2. e. in the eyes,
antenn, prothorax, elytra, &c.
Tysius amplipennis. Pl. V. fig. 1.
T. ferrugineus, squamulis grisescentibus inequaliter vestitus, supra
setulis paucis adspersus; capite confertim punctato, super oculos
tuberculis duobus munito; rostro capite parum longiore ; pro-
thorace longitudine latitudini fere equali, pone apicem fortiter
constricto ; elytris basi prothorace duplo latioribus, pone basin
oblique excavatis, striato-punctatis, interstitiis latis, vix convexis,
Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 219
tertio quintoque interrupte elevatis, quarto quintoque versus
apicem callosis; corpore infra sparse punctato. Long. 1} lin.
Hab. Tairoa.
INOPHLEUS.
Rostrum modice elongatum, robustum, apicem versus gradatim in-
crassatum, supra tricarinatum, plaga triangulari munitum ; scrobes
fanimnles, arcuate, ad latera rostri cito desmentest Scapus pone
oculum superans; funiculus articulo basali elongato, ceteris
obconicis vel pyriformibus; clava distincta. Ocul: infra angu-
lares, subfortiter granulati. Prothoraa basi angusticr, lobis
ocularibus munitus. Elytra dorso planata vel subdepressa,
apicem versus declivia. Femora in medio crassiora; tibie
antice flexuose, intus haud dentate, relique recte, postice
corbellis subapertis ; tars? normales. Abdomen segmentis duobus
basalibus ampliatis.
The Chilian genus Cylindrorhinus is not capable of being
strictly defined as it Lek at present; but taking Lacordaire’s
characters, the more determinate seems to be the close con-
nexion of the club to the funicle; in the genus before us the
club is well limited. If, however, we had been dealing with
Chilian instead of New-Zealand insects I should have had
little hesitation in placing, provisionally at least, the species
described below with Cylindrorhinus, except that the latter
is without any vestige of scales.
Inophleus Traversit. Pl. V. fig. 4
I. fuscus, obscure griseo-squamosus, rostro prothorace paulo breviore,
carina intermedia sat acute elevata; antennis piceis; funiculi
articulo secundo quam primo paulo breviore; clava elongato-
elliptica, griseo-tomentosa; prothorace parum longiore quam
latiore, supra ineequali, subtilissime punctato, lobis ocularibus
prominulis; scutello minuto, vix conspicuo; elytris postice gra-
datim latioribus, supra valde planatis, ineequaliter striato-punc-
tatis, punctis nonnullis areolatis, humeris obliquis, singulis
elytris utrinque angulatis, postice dentato-productis, apicibus
acutis, parte declivi in medio paulo producta; pedibus sparse
squamosis; tibiis sat elongatis. Long. 5-6 lin.
Hab. Chatham Islands.
This species is remarkable for the perfectly flat disk of the
elytra, the sides bent suddenly down forming a sharp angle
with the disk. It is from Pitt’s Island, one of the Chatham
group, where it was found by Mr. Travers.
Inophleus inuus.
I. nigrescens, subtiliter squamosus, squamulisque puiformibus albis
adspersus ; rostro prothorace yvix breviore, carina intermedia basi
220 Mr. F. P. Pascoe on new Genera and
magis elevata; antennis piceis; funiculi articulo secundo quam
primo breviore; clava elongato-elliptica, tomentosa ; prothorace
paulo latiore quam longiore, punctis flexuosis leviter impresso ;
scutello parvo, distincto; elytris sat anguste obovatis, supra paulo
convexis, seriatim fortiter punctatis, interstitiis alternis paulo
elevatis, tertio a sutura postice dentato-producto, parte declivi
in medio modice convexa, apicibus paulo elongatis; tibiis sat
elongatis. Long. 7 lin.
Hab. Queenstown.
The punctures on the prothorax are so modified as to give
the impression of a granulated surface rather than of punctua-
tion. Nearly all the characters of this species are diagnostic.
Inophleus villaris.
I. fuscus, griseo-squamosus; rostro prothorace multo breviore,
apice sat subito deflecto ; antennis brevioribus, funiculo articulis
duobus basalibus sequalibus; prothorace fere in medio latiore,
supra inequali, vage foveatim impresso ; scutello inviso; elytris
pone humeros latioribus, supra subplanatis, striato-punctatis,
postice minus angulatis, apicibus acuminatis, vix productis ;
corpore infra pedibusque squamis elongatis aspersis; tiblis minus
elongatis. Long. 33 lin.
Hab. Christchurch.
Has a somewhat different outline from that of I. Traversii,
but is perhaps more nearly allied to it than the preceding.
Inophleus rhesus.
I. ovatus, fuscus, leviter griseo-squamosus, supra setulis adspersus ;
rostro prothorace breviore; antennis ferrugineis; funiculo arti-
culis secundo, tertio, quarto subzequalibus, modice elongatis ;
clava minus elongata; prothorace rugoso, ante medinm latiore ;
scutello parvo; elytris subcordatis, dorso ad suturam postice
dentato-productis, versus apicem verticaliter declivibus, seriatim
foveatis, singulis costis tribus munitis; tibiis minus elongatis.
Long. 33 lin.
Hab. Lake Guyon.
Allied to the preceding ; but, ¢nter alia, there isa small but
very distinct scutellum.
Inophleus vitiosus.
J. subangustus, niger, nitidus, squamis concoloribus adspersus ;
rostro prothorace fere duplo breviore, apice squamositate grisea
tecto, costis lateralibus obsoletis; antennis piceis ; funiculi arti-
culo secundo quam primo longiore; prothorace zquato, latitudine
longiore, ante medium latiore; scutello minuto; elytris elongato-
Species of New-Zealand Coleoptera. 221
cordatis, basi depressis, postice singulis in mare acute pro-
ductis, apicem versus ad suturam carinato-elevatis, supra striato-
punctatis, punctis sat remotis, bene determinatis ; tibiis posticis
paulo flexuosis. Long. 32 lin.
Hab. Lake Guyon.
A somewhat aberrant species. A specimen, apparently the
female, has the elytra less produced and the apex more
rounded.
PHRYNIXUS.
ftostrum mediocre, arcuatum, basi angustius; scrobes medians,
foveiformes. Oculi parvi, ovales, grosse granulati, a prothorace
distantes. Scapus antennarum clavatus ; funiculus 7-articulatus,
articulis a secundo sensim crassioribus; clava distincta. Pro-
thorax suboblongus, irregularis, lobis ocularibus obsoletis. Scu-
tellum nullum. Hlytra brevia, ovata, angulis anticis porrectis.
Pedes breviusculi ; femora in medio inerassata; tibie subflexuuse,
apice mucronate; tarsi articulis tribus basalibus transversis,
penultimo integro, supra excavato, ultimo valido. Abdomen
segmentis duobus basalibus connatis, ampliatis.
On the whole this genus may be considered as being most
nearly allied to the European Dichotrachelus; but in four
species of that genus, which I have examined, I do not find
the penultimate tarsal joint entire, as stated by Lacordaire,
but more or less bilobed. The foveiform scrobes and small
eyes away from the prothorax are the most essential dia-
gnostic characters of Phrynixus. My specimen is from an old
co) .
collection, and was purchased from Mr. Stevens.
Phrynixus terreus. Pl. V. fig. 2.
P. ovatus, fuscus, supra squamositate dilutiore vestitus; rostro
prothorace paulo breviore; funiculi articulo basali longiusculo,
secundo breviore, quinque sequentibus transversis, ultimo crasso,
obconico; clava brevi, obsolete articulata; prothorace supra
sulcatim tuberculato; elytris irregularibus, seriatim punctatis,
punctis approximatis, tuberculis plurimis conicis instructis ; pedi-
bus rude squamosis. Long. 22 lin.
Hab. ?
CECYROPA.
Rostrum breve, validum ; scrobes subterminales, postice dilatate,
longe ante oculos desinentes ; scapus elongatus, gradatim incras-
satus, pone oculum superans; funiculus breviusculus, 7-articu-
latus, articulo basali crassiore, secundo breviore, ceteris trans-
versis ; clava distincta. Oculi ovati, grosse granulati, prothoraci
contigui. Prothorax ampliatus, paulo convexus, utrinque rotun-
datus, basi truncatus; lobis ocularibus fere obsoletis, fimbriatis,
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 16
222 On new Genera and Species of Coleoptera.
Seutellum invisum. lytra cordiformia, prothorace latiora,
humeris obliquis. Femora crassa; tibie versus apicem valde
ampliatee, posticse corbellis cavernosis; tarst articulis duobus
basalibus triangularibus, secundo minore, tertio late bilobo;
ultimo mediocre; unguiculis liberis; coae antice haud contigue.
Abdomen segmentis duobus basalibus amplis, sutura prima ar-
cuata.
It is not without hesitation that I place this genus with the
Rhyparosomine, the cavernous corbels of the posterior tibie .
being exceptional. It has, however, some analogy at least to
Dysostines on account of its large prothorax and the non-
contiguity of the anterior coxe. At any rate there is no
other place for it in “ Section A” of the “ Phanérognathes
symmérides”’ of Lacordaire, to which the genus belongs. Of
my two specimens one has a few patches of dark-coloured
scales on the middle of the elytra; in the other the dark
predominates, the white forming dispersed spots on the upper
surface.
Cecyropa tychioides. PI. V. fig. 3.
C. sat late ovalis, fusca, squamulis griseo-albidis adpressis, supra
plus minusve fuscis interjectis, omnino dense tecta; rostro
antennisque squamulosis, his ferrugineis setulis adspersis ; pro-
thorace ante medium latiore, utrinque valde rotundato, apice
quam basi duplo angustiore; elytris seriatim punctatis, punctis
approximatis, juxta apicem sat subito deflexis; pedibus parce
setulosis. Long. 22 lin.
Hab. Pitt’s Island; Wellington.
Cranophorus venustus.
C. elliptico-ovatus, modice convexus, villosus, niger, supra sat
confertim punctulatus ; prothorace utrinque late flavo-marginato ;
elytris singulis margine externo maculisque duabus magnis flavis.
Long. 24 lin.
Hab. Waikato.
Cranophorus, Muls., is easily recognized by the prolonga-
tion of the anterior part of the prothorax completely covering
the head (not emarginate as in the generality of the Coccinel-
lide). Two species only from the Cape were known hitherto.
I have but a single specimen of the species before me; but a
minuter examination might show structural peculiarities re-
quiring its generic separation from the Cape species, which
have certainly a somewhat different aspect. Only four mem-
bers of the family are known from New Zealand, viz. Cocc?-
nella Tasmanii, C. concinna, Lats antipodum, and the above;
Capt. Broun has sent two or three species of Scymnus, not
yet determined, and possibly introduced.
Mr. T. Higgin on a new Species of Luffaria. 223
EXPLANATION OF PLATE V.
Fig. 1. Tysius amplipennis; 1a, head.
Fig. 2. Phrynixus terreus; 2a, head (the eye is much too small).
Fig. 3. Cecyropa tychioides.
Fig. 4. Inophleus Traversii.
Fig. 5. Actizeta albata.
Fig. 6. Phycosecis discoidea; 6a, antenna; 64, fore tibia and tarsus; 6c,
maxilla with its palpus; 6d, mentum with the lower lip and its
alpi.
Fig. 7. edits pallidus.
Fig. 8. Xyloteles costatus.
Fig. 9. Xuthodes punctipennis.
Fig. 10. Syrphetodes marginatus.
Fig. 11. Right fore tibia and tarsus of Actizeta albata (the artist has
placed it in a position to represent the left). lla, antenna;
but the basal jomt has been unaccountably omitted.
Fg. 12. Head of Cyttaha griseipila.
XXVII.—On a new Sponge of the Genus Luffaria, from
Yucatan, in the Liverpool Free Museum. By THOMAS
Hieein, of Huyton.
[Plate VI.]
A REMARKABLY fine specimen of one of the trumpet-shaped
sponges has recently been presented to the Liverpool Free
Museum by Staff-Surgeon-Major Samuel Archer, stationed
at Belize, in the name of Dr. Barry, Staff-Surgeon at Corosal,
who obtained it from Ambergris Island, off the coast of Yuca-
tan, Gulf of Honduras; and, thanks to the care and trouble
taken by these gentlemen in preserving it and transmitting it
to this country, it has arrived in an almost perfect state. From
its great size and its resemblance to a speaking-trumpet, Mr.
Archer has called it “ Neptune’s Trumpet.”
It is an undescribed species of the group of sponges to
which MM. Duchassaing de Fonbressin and Michelotti, in
their memoir on the sponges of the Caribbean Sea, gave the
generic name Luffaria, from the gourd Luffa, or “ vegetable
sponge” as it has been called, in common use in the West
Indies and elsewhere*. This term (Luffarta) was accepted
* The fruit of this Cucurbitaceous plant, when denuded of its soft
fleshy parts, is found to have a skeleton consisting of a thickly anasto-
mosed mass of fibres made up of thin-walled cells, which quickly takes
up water, and is therefore suitable for washing-purposes. It has lately
been introduced into this country as an article of commerce, and is sold
in the druggists’ shops, cut open down the side and spread out flat, as a
flesh-brush for use in the bath.
i6*
224 Mr. T. Higgin on a new
by Dr. Oscar Schmidt in 1870, in his work on the Atlantic
sponges, as serving to represent a family proper to the Tropical
seas—also by Mr. H. J. Carter in 1872, as recorded in his
contribution to ‘Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.’ vol. x. p. 101—and
has now been adopted by the latter in his “ Notes introductory
to the Study and Classification of the Spongida,” published
in the last two issues of this Journal.
The sponge about to be described is not figured or described
by any of the old writers on the Class; and as no perfect spe-
cimen of it exists in the British Museum, Mr. Archer’s sponge,
which is so well grown and in such good condition, may ad-
vantageously be taken as typical of this particular species of
Luffaria. ‘The specimen consists of two tubes—a very long
one, which has a flattish basal attachment, and a small one,
which grows up from the base of the larger one, possibly
from pullulation, most likely, however, from the development
of an embryo which had settled at the base of the larger one ;
but for present purposes each may be regarded as a zoolo-
gical individual.
Luffarta Archert, n. sp. (Pl. VI.)
The form of this sponge is that of a tube which gradually
increases in width as it increases in length up to its free end,
which is somewhat constricted; while at its small or fixed
end there is a strong flange-like growth, which forms the
basal attachment: hence its general shape is that of a speaking-
trumpet, and suggestive of the long horn used in Switzerland
toawaken the mountain-echoes, with which tourists are familiar.
The inside of the tube presents a slightly circularly ridged ap-
pearance, but is smooth ; the outside is deeply furrowed trans-
versely throughout its entire length with sinuosities, which
have a depth of 2 to } an inch, and a width of 4 to § of an
inch. The wall of the tube is of uniform thickness nearly
throughout its whole length—that is, from the base to within
half an inch or an inch of the free end, when it diminishes up
to the rim of the aperture, which has a smooth, well-defined,
and rather sharp edge; the wall generally measures, from the
inside of the tube to the tops of the sinuous ridges on the out-
side, from } to 3 of an inch, or occasionally ? of an inch, and is
composed of a close network of rather rigid, clear amber-
coloured fibre, which seldom exceeds 1-100th of an inch in
diameter. The fibre has the opaque, white, granular pith-
like core peculiar to the family ; but in this species the granules
do not form a lining or crust on the inside of an axial cavity,
neither are they closely compacted into a dense column filling
up the axis of the fibre; but the first deposit of hardening
Species of Luffaria from Yucatan. 225
sareode or horny material has penetrated amongst the granules
instead of forming a decided wall around them, and thus the
fibre is not tubular, as in most of the Luffarida, but solid ;
and this feature is characteristic. The diameter of the granular
core is uniformly (excepting, of course, at the joints or angles
of the meshes) about 1-1600th of an inch, and the thickness
of the horny material around it is in the young growth also
about 1-1600th of an inch, thus making the diameter of
the young fibre 3-1600ths of an inch; while that of the
oldest fibre measures about 16-1600ths or 1-100th of an inch.
The horny skeleton-network does not present any radial lines,
but is a reticulation of meshes of nearly uniform figure and
character, and is apparently increased by the addition of one
polyhedral mesh after another, through the extension of new
fibre chiefly projected from the angles of the already formed
meshes, which branchlets soon bifurcate, extend, and unite
to form new meshes. The round-edged ridges on the outside
of the tube are simply extended growths of the ordinary net-
work, which is produced more in one place than another ;
and they seem to occur much like a succession of rings, though
the circle is seldom complete, and often an appearance is as-
sumed similar to that of the surface of the Meandrina coral.
The rim of the aperture consists of fine, young, reticulated fibre
imbedded in very dark-coloured sarcode (nearly black, indeed) ;
and the extension of the tube both in length and thickness ap-
pears to be produced by the addition of similar ring-like struc-
ture growing apically, endogenously and exogenously. ‘The
dermal reticulation supports a strong glazed cuticle of a dark
brown colour, through which may now be seen protruding the
plain and bifurcated ends of the young fibre. This dermal
covering is pierced at irregular intervals with pores, which
measure from 1-50th to 1-25th of an inch in diameter, consider-
able spaces occurring in it in which no pores can be detected ;
but although the pores are thus found scattered and isolated over
some parts of the surface, they are elsewhere found in groups
of several together both in the furrows and on the ridges.
They lead directly into the “subdermal cavities,” which are
large and roomy, and which, besides communicating with the
areolar structure behind them by means of the usual sphinctral-
openings in their sarcodic walls, sometimes communicate with
each other in a similar way, thus accounting for the paucity
of pores in some parts of the dermal layer. The areolar
structure of the interior is a series of roomy chambers, which
extend from the subdermal cavities across the walls of the tube,
and which communicate with each other by means of circular
openings in the sarcode which tympanizes the interstices
226 Mr. T. Higgin on a new
of the horny network ; these openings are sometimes small,
measuring 1-200th of an inch across or even less, and some-
times are as large as 1-50th of an inch; but whether large or
small, the margin of each is a more or less thickened ring, and
they are no doubt sphinctral. The sarcode of this areolar struc-
ture is not dark-coloured like that of the dermis, but is almost
colourless, and is dotted over with rounded granular bodies,
which may be regarded, according to the observations of Mr.
H. J. Carter, as the pigment-cells, which, when exposed to the
light (as they are in the dermal sarcode), become deeply coloured,
and in that condition give the sarcode of the surface its cha-
racteristically dark brown or black appearance. It is probably
for the same reason that the sarcodic surface-layer of the
inside of the tube is not so dark as that of the outside; but
another reason is that it is not so strong. ‘The position of the
vents is a good deal obliterated by this tender dermal sarcode
having cracked in drying ; they may, however, be fairly traced,
occurring in circular lines on the imner surface of the tube,
and rather larger than the pore-openings. Thus, as in all
tubular sponges, the vents open into the so-called “ cloacal
cavity,” which is but the great excretory canal of the whole
sponge emptying itself at the aperture.
Size. The large individual or tube measures 3 feet 9 inches
in length, with a diameter of 2 inches at the small or fixed
end, where it rises from the flange-like base ; and one of 5 by
4 inches at the other extremity just before it terminates, not
being absolutely round at this part. ‘The small individual or
tube is 1 foot 7 inches long, its smallest diameter being 1 inch,
and its largest 24 inches. The proportions of the two tubes
are therefore similar. But Mr. Hareb has subsequently met
with another specimen, which is said to be nearly five feet
six inches long.
Obs. The large tube has in the living state doubtless been
quite round at its free end, like the small tube; but it has
been placed on its side to dry, in which position the walls,
having been heavy with water, have not had sufficient strength
to retain the original shape of the tube, but have, by depending,
somewhat fallen together; and consequently, drying in this
state, it is not quite round at the free end.
The only sponge hitherto figured with which this species
might be confounded is that which was described, with illus-
trations, by Esper in the volume of ‘ Pflanzenthiere ’ published
in 1794, page 222, tab. xx., xxl., xxl. A, as the Spongia jistu-
laris of Linnezeus, and which appears to be also Spongia tube-
formis of Lamarck ; but neither the plates nor the letterpress
Species of Luffaria from Yucatan. 227
represent or describe our species, which differs in outward
form and appearance as well as in the details of its fibre and
its reticulation. The formula of Spongia fistularis, in the
twelfth edition of the ‘ Systema Nature,’ more properly applies
to one of the tubular Chalinas than to any of the Luffarida ;
and the observations of all the old writers on the subject
render it almost certain that they included both the tubular
Chalinas and tubular Luffarida under the specific name
“ jstularis,” the different examples of each then known being
taken to be varieties of the same species.
In the sulcate sinuosities of the surface are many examples
of both siliceous-spiculed and calcareous-spiculed sponges of
humble and diminutive growth, also the stems or branches of
Tubuliporide and the empty tube-cases of minute Serpulide,
and many small patches of calcareous deposits ; and frequently
the dermal covering is seen to be sprinkled over with particles
of white sand and other débris, adhering firmly to it, or im-
bedded in the exposed fibrous network.
Mr. Carter has kindly sent me a tracing of his “ rough
sketch ” of a specimen of the genus Luffaria from the East
Mediterranean, obtained fresh, and preserved in spirit, by
Admiral Spratt, who presented it to the British Museum
(No. 73. 4.6.9) ; to which Mr. Carter has obligingly added the
following remarks :—‘ It is tubular, about 6 inches long and
about ? of an inch in diameter, also bears a somewhat smaller
specimen by its side. Thus the foregoing statement upon
Schmidt’s authority, viz. that the ‘family is proper to the
Tropical seas,’ requires modification ; for it is also to be found
in the Mediterranean sea. Moreover from this fresh specimen
we learn that the aperture is circumscribed by a wide dupli-
cature of dermal sarcode, which in a ring-like form surrounds
the opening, and evidently performs the sphinctral diaphrag-
matic office common to vents generally.”
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VI.
The figure is after an excellent photograph by Robinson and Thomp-
son, and gives the general character and appearance of the sponge faith-
fully; but it is rather too broad in the lower half, and therefore does not
look quite so graceful as the specimen itself.
228 Dr. A. Giinther on some Leporine
XXVIII.—Description of a new Species of Pigeon from the
Karen Hills. By Artur, Viscount WALDEN, P.Z.S.,
F.R.S.
Ducula griseicapilla, n. sp.
Chin and throat pure white ; remainder of lower surface
pale grey, the breast being tinged with lilac; back of neck
vinous; interscapulary region brown with a vinous tinge ;
wing-coverts brown, like the back, but not so strongly tinted
with vinous; quills dark brown, almost black; uropygium
and upper tail-coverts dark ash; rectrices above dark brown,
with a broad grey terminal band; lower surface of rectrices
pale grey; under tail-coverts pale cream-colour; forehead,
crown, nape, cheeks, and ear-coverts pure French grey.
Wing 9°5 inches, tail 8°5, bill from forehead 1, tarsus 1,
middle toe 1°75.
“Tris (9) greyish white; orbits grey-brown; bill reddish
plum-colour, pale at tip”? (Wardlaw Ramsay).
Described from examples obtained by Lieutenant Wardlaw
Ramsay on the Karen hills, at from 4000 to 4200 feet. A
representative form of D. insignis and D. badia.
XXIX.—Descriptions of some Leporine Mammals from
Central Asta. By Dr. ALBERT GUNTHER, F.R.S.
Tue British Museum has recently received several small
collections of Central-Asiatic Mammalia, which consisted
chiefly of species previously known, but imperfectly repre-
sented in the National Collection. Among the specimens of
hares (Lepus and Lagomys), for the majority of which we are
indebted to Capt. J. Biddulph, there were several species
apparently hitherto undescribed ; and on these and a few others
I beg to offer the following remarks.
Lepus tibetanus (Waterhouse).
Two specimens, obtained by Captain Biddulph in June in
the Nobra valley, agree very well with the type of this species,
being only a little smaller in size, while a fourth specimen,
collected many years ago by Captain Strachey in Ladak,
equals the latter in this respect. Also in this species the
hairs are straight, and not curled as in Lepus pallipes.
Lepus oiostolus of Hodgson, which I know only from the
Mammals from Central Asia, 229
drawing in his collection and from a very young example
presented by him to the Museum, has evidently curly hairs
on the back; and therefore I doubt whether it is correctly
referred to the synonymy of Lepus tibetanus.
Lepus pamirensis.
Distinguished by its unusually dense and rather short and
stiff fur, which reminds one of that of the wild sheep of the same
region: this peculiarity of the fur, however, is limited to the
back ; on the haunches and on the sides it is as soft as in other
species. Also the front part of the ears is covered with an
extraordinarily dense and comparatively long and stiff fur.
Back brownish, darkest in the middle; haunches light grey ;
back of the neck and foremost part of the chest rufous. A
whitish streak above the eye. Front part of the ear brown,
like the back; apex of the ear blackish below; both margins
of the ear-opening white, but the white fringe of the lower
margin is accompanied on the inside of the ear by a dark
brown band. Legs white, fore part of the front legs and
outer part of the hind legs slightly tinged with yellow-
rufous.
inches.
Length from tip of nose to root of tail .... 15
Length from nose to occiput ........-.... 3s
ene tM OL leat by. acc tm, pia nante/ we ales eho ae 4
Length of tarsus, including the nails...... 43
A single specimen, stated to be a young male, was obtained
on the Pamir in the month of May.
Lepus yarkandensis.
Differs from L. tibetanus in lacking the black colour near
the apex and margins of the ears, from L. pallipes in being
without grey on the haunches, and from both in being of
smaller size, and especially in the legs being more slender.
Fur long, dense, silky, without any tendency to curl. Back
of a pale ochre-colour, some of the hairs being black-tipped.
The colour of the back passes on the sides gradually into the
pure white of the lower parts, the hairs of the abdomen being
remarkably long. Chest with a faint reddish tinge, the hairs
of this region being of a light slate-colour at the base. Upper
part of the head, anterior margin of the ears, and side of the
head coloured like the back. A whitish band round the upper
part of the orbit, continued for some distance in the direction
towards the base of the ear; a more or less conspicuous whitish
230 Dr. A. Giinther on some Leporine
band ascends from the throat towards the ear. Front part of
the ears covered with a moderately dense fur; hind margin
of the ear with a dense fringe of buff-coloured hairs. Tail
white, brownish grey above; fore legs of a delicate buff colour
like the back of the neck ; hind legs of a still lighter colour,
nearly white.
inches.
Length from tip of nose to root of tail .... 16
Length from nose to occiput ............ +
diene th jot ear jays) cath heh alee ean 43
Length of tarsus, including the nails ...... 4
The two specimens in the British Museum were obtained
by Captain Biddulph in November and January, in the neigh-
bourhood of Yarkand; both are nearly of the same size.
Lagomys nepalensis (Hodgson).
M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, in his remarks on the species
of this genus in ‘ Recherch. Mammif.,’ observes that the defi-
nition of the species hitherto described is somewhat vague,
and that their number would probably have to be reduced,
the majority being founded on slight modifications of colour.
As far as I can judge from the specimens of the Asiatic species
in the British Museum, I believe that they are easily distin-
guishable, and that the coloration is pretty constant in the
species of the same range. With regard to the species described
by him as Lagomys tibetanus, I admit that there is consider-
able difficulty in separating it from L. nepalensis, of which we
possess specimens almost identical with ZL. tibetanus in size
and colour.
Lagomys Curzonice (Hodgson).
General hue of a pale sandy brownish grey, many of the
hairs on the back having blackish tips; upper part of the
head and cheeks coloured like the back; a whitish crossband
on each side of the throat behind the ear; these bands are
not confluent, but separated from each other along the middle
of the neck by a stripe of the same dark colour as the back.
The colour of the back gradually passes into the whitish of
the lower parts, which is slightly washed with rufous. Chin
black ; feet whitish. A subcutaneous glandular patch below
the ear is indicated by hairs which are of a rusty colour at
the base. Soles of the feet covered with rather long hairs,
below which the pads of the toes are hidden. Ears of
moderate size, sparsely covered with hairs. The fur re-
Mammals from Central Asia. 231
sembles, as regards denseness and structure, that of Lagomys
rufescens.
inches
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eH EOL CAT 5 a.. acboee nd trciira oie deere =
Length of tarsus, including nails..,....... ike
The above diagnosis is taken from two skins presented b
Mr. Hodgson as Lagomys Curzonie in the year 1858. The
specimens were obtained in the Sikkim Himalayas.
Lagomys ladacensis.
I propose this name for the Ladak species fully described
by Stoliczka and Anderson under the name of L. Curzonice
(Hodgson). Mr. Blanford (Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872, p. 35)
has already expressed his very just doubts respecting the
propriety of identifying the Ladak species with that described
by Hodgson. ‘To the descriptions published I have only to
add that the glandular patch on each side of the throat, below
the ear, which is so very distinct in L. rufescens, is very in-
distinctly indicated by the colour and structure of the hairs in
the present species ; and that the hairs on the lower side of the
feet, although dense, are not long enough to hide the black
pads of the toes.
The specimens before me are from Chagra, 14000 feet
above the sea.
Lagomys macrotis.
Fur very soft and long, especially on the hind part of the
back. General hue of the upper parts pale buff-yellow,
whitish on the sides and underneath; a small white patch
behind the ear; feet pure white ; chin white ; the hairs of the
moustaches white, but some of them black. Apparently no
glandular patch below the ear. ars very large, well covered
with hairs. Soles of the feet covered with short hairs, leaving
the pads of the toes quite bare.
inches
EI coral oTR SEU es cr 2 array Sree cos we godin sles ales chess! etal? 8
HCO EEOROIVEAE 35s cwcen aier Rica when sacle ae iacters Iles
Length of tarsus, including nails .......... 13
Of this long-eared species I have seen two specimens: one
of them, which is in a very bad condition, has been in the
British Museum since 1844, without indication of its habitat ;
for the other we are indebted to Captain Biddulph, who gives
Doba as the locality.
232 On a new Species of Taphozous.
XXX.—Description of a new Species of Taphozous from
Labuan. By G. E. Dosson, M.A., M.B., F.L.S., &e.
Taphozous affinis, n. sp.
Ears shorter than the head, inner margin of the ear-conch
not papillate; tragus rather short, almost quite circular
above, outer surface concave. Lower lip with a deep narrow
groove in the centre of its upper surface. Male with a deep
gular sac as large as in 7. saccolaimus; female with a rudi-
mentary sac, the margins of the sac alone developed.
No radio-metacarpal pouch. Wings from the ankles.
Fur above black, the bases of the hairs white; beneath
wholly pure silky white, as in Vesperugo Temminckii. ‘The
integument of the back is white ; the antebrachial and inter-
femoral membranes, and that portion of the wing-membrane
between the humerus and the leg, black ; the wing-membrane
between the forearm and third finger is white, while that
portion between the third and first fingers is black, mottled
with white along the third finger; beneath, the wing-membrane
is pure white from the sides of the body outwards as far as
the third finger, beyond which it is coloured as the corre-
sponding part above.
Measurements of an adult female, the largest of four speci-
mens preserved in alcohol :—length, head and body 3°4 inches ;
tail 1:1; head 1:15; ear 0°93; tragus 0°25; forearm 2°9;
thumb 0°5; second finger—metacarpal 2°8, first phalange 1:2,
second phalange 1:2; fourth finger 2°5; tibia 1:0; foot and
claws 0°6.
Hab, Labuan. The four specimens referred to above were
taken from a hole in a tree in the old forest, Labuan. Type
in the collection of the British Museum.
This species resembles 7. saccolaimus very closely in
general structure and size, but may be distinguished by the
margins of the gular pouch in the female being alone developed,
whereas in 7’. saccolaimus the female has a distinct gular
pouch, though smaller than in the male. The colour of
the fur is also very different; but this character is too
variable in Chiroptera to depend upon alone as a specific
difference.
Miscellaneous. 233
MISCELLANEOUS.
Descriptions of two new Species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera of the
Family Arctiide. By A. G. Burtzr, F.L.S. &e.
Puacoprera, Herrich-Schiiffer.
Phegoptera rhodosoma, 0. sp.
In form most like P. thalassina; primaries pale brown, trans-
versely streaked all over with dark greyish brown ; secondaries with
disco-apical area, from costa to near anal angle, dark brown, semi-
hyaline internally, discoidal cell whitish subhyaline, interno-anal
area broadly rose-red ; top of head, centre of collar, and of prothorax
creamy ochreous, remainder of thorax sepia-brown ; abdomen rose-
red, posterior segments transversely banded with black; antennz
dark brown: wings below sepia-brown, primaries showing the
darker transverse streaks indistinctly ; secondaries with rosy area as
above; head black; thorax dark brown, cox rose-red, remainder
of the legs dark brown; venter brown, paler at base.
Expanse of wings 2 inches 9 lines.
Hab. Ecuador (Buckley). Type, B.M.
Section Lophocampa, Felder.
Phegoptera fumosa, n. sp.
Nearly allied to P. flavopunctata of Walker, same general pattern,
but the ground-colour of the wings semitransparent smoky brown ;
primaries—veins blackish, a marginal series of yellow or white tri-
angular spots terminating the nervures; a zigzag disco-submarginal
brown chain-like streak (the links of the chain, where visible, yel-
lowish or white); a curved postmedian series of triangular dusky-
edged yellowish or white spots; a subcostal streak near the end of
the cell, sometimes inclosing a pale spot; an angulated blackish
streak across the centre of the cell, inclosing pale spots; base
blackish, spotted with orange; secondaries paler than primaries:
head and thorax dark brown, spotted with orange, collar margined
with orange; abdomen dark brown, with basal tufts, sides, and anal
segments orange: wings below much paler than above ; body whity-
brown, dotted with orange at the sides.
Expanse of wings 2 inches 6-7 lines.
Hab. Brazil (Becker). Type, B.M.
Before leaving this group I may as well record a synonym which
I have discovered during my rearrangement of the family.
Halesidota albidator and H. vitripennis of Walker are identical ;
they more nearly approach the group which I regard as Phegoptera
than Halesidota proper; but, as a matter of fact, H. cinerea, degenera,
and albidator will form a new genus, differing considerably in the
neuration of the secondaries.
234 Miscellaneous.
Lacerta muralis cerulea: a Contribution to the Darwinian Theor y.
By Dr. Tuxopor Ermer.
On the south-east coast of the Isle of Capri four large rocks may
be remarked with a very picturesque aspect, three of which are en-
tirely separated from the land, while the fourth is only joined to it
by a small low and narrow isthmus, which threatens also to disappear
under the action of the waves. The outermost of these islets is in
the form of a truncated pyramid with four sides, 115 metres high, and
terminated above by a small plateau containing about 50 square
metres. Its sides are nearly vertical, and, in consequence, nearly in-
accessible. There are only three inhabitants of Capri who venture
to climb it, for the purpose of gathering the eggs of sea-gulls.
In the spring of the year 1872 M. Eimer applied to these men in
order to procure specimens of the animals which live on this little
islet, to ascertain whether the conditions of isolation had not ex-
ercised some influence on them.
His prevision was verified, for his collectors brought him a lizard
forming a very remarkable variety of the common species (Lacerta
muralis) of the Isle of Capri. This variety is even so distinct from
the type that in the eyes of many zoologists it might be regarded as
@ species.
M. Eimer has made a complete study of this form, which exists
only on the rock in question, and to which he has given the name
of Lacerta muralis cerulea; and he compares it with the different
varieties of L. muralis which are met with in Capri, in the Kingdom
of Naples, at Genoa, and in Germany.
It is by its colouring that the variety cwrulea is distinguished in
the most striking manner. The colour of the dorsal parts is some-
times of a uniform more or less deep blue, sometimes blue with black
markings. The belly, the throat, the lower jaw, and the lower sur-
face of the tail and limbs are of a magnificent deep sky-blue. This
colouring presents certain modifications depending on the season, the
temperature, sex, &c. Thus at certain periods of the year emerald-
green eye-spots make their appearance.
The colour does not result from a deposit of blue pigment, but it is
due to the existence of a thick coat of black cells of connective tissue
which are placed under a likewise thick coat of colourless epidermis.
This arrangement, as is well known, produces the impression of blue.
By direct light under the microscope a fragment of skin appears
black ; by reflected light it is seen to be blue. In the green lizards
there is, between the black layer and the colourless layer, a layer of
yellow pigment of a fatty nature, which assists in producing the im-
pression of green. In L. muralis cerulea this yellow coating is ab-
sent or is nearly so.
A constant peculiarity of the Z. muralis of Germany is the de-
pressed form of the head. This character is not found in the variety
cerulea, of which the head forms rather a quadrangular pyramid
with nearly equal sides.
The new variety differs less from Italian individuals than from
those of Germany ; but it is distinguished from them nevertheless.
Miscellaneous. 235
M. Eimer has proved a tendency to the appearance in the variety
cerulea of characters of the squamation, which manifest themselves
in the region where the dorsal granules abut against the ventral
plates. Another difference, which is not, however, quite constant,
shows itself in the number of femoral pores, which vary from 21 to
25, while in the typical LZ. muralis we rarely count more than 20.
Lastly a very curious peculiarity of the individuals of this variety
is their want of fear of man, which is above all interesting if one
compares it with the extreme shyness of their cousins in Capri.
When kept in captivity the representatives of the two varieties
show affinity towards those of the same form as themselves and hos-
tile dispositions towards those of the other form.
It appears from these physical and moral characters that the form
discovered by M. Eimer would be distinct enough to merit, in the
eyes of certain zoologists, the title of a species, while on the other
hand its affinities and its habits clearly show from what root it has
sprung. It furnishes a striking example of what has been called
an “incipient species.” — Bibl. Univ. April 15, 1875, Arch. des Sct.
p. 346.
New Tertiary Pleurotomaria.
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
GrntTLEMEN,—I greatly regret that, in sending you a notice lately
of a new Tertiary Plewrotomaria, I lost sight of the fact that Gold-
fuss and Deshayes had also each found a species of the same age
many years ago. Your most obedient Servant,
Melbourne, Freperick M‘Coy.
June 12, 1875.
Yote on the Larva of a Longicorn Beetle (Clytus quadripunctatus,
Fabr.). By Cuarztes O, WarEernovse.
The larva of this insect was brought to me about two years ago.
It had been found feeding upon ebony, and appeared nearly full-
grown, measuring two thirds of an inch in length. Understanding
that this larva would also eat sycamore, I bored a small hole in a
piece of an old stand made of that wood and placed the larva in it,
on October 7th, 1873. The perfect insect, a female, emerged from
the wood on the 14th of August, 1875. The length of time that this
example remained in the larval state may have been increased by the
great dryness of the wood in which I placed it, the stand having been
in use in the British Museum thirty years ago. As I have not met
with any description of this larva, I subjoin the following note, made
at the time the larva was received :—
*« Mandibles black ; clypeus transverse, rounded in front, pitchy ;
labrum white, rounded in front, narrowed towards the base; basal
joint of maxillary palpi twice as broad as long, second joint nearly
globular, apical joint very small and acuminate ; antenne very short,
with only three visible joints, the basal one elongate slightly nar-
rower at the base, second joint a little longer than broad, third joint
236 Miscellaneous.
nearly as long as the preceding, but small and acuminate ; the first
and third joints are white, the second is pitchy. Large thoracic
segment twice as broad as long, very slightly narrowed in front, all
the angles rounded, very pale yellow; disk with a large opaque
white patch which is narrower and rounded in front, its posterior
border nearly reaching the hind margin of the segment ; the second
and third segments very short, slightly narrower than the large an-
terior segment; the segments which follow become gradually longer,
narrower, and more convex; the eighth segment is the narrowest; the
ninth is scarcely broader; the tenth is narrow at the base, widened
behind, with a slight callosity on the disk; the eleventh segment is
very short and as wide as the sixth; the twelfth is triangular, rounded
at the apex. The general colour of the body is dirty white.”
Note on Cossypha pyrrhopygia, Hartlaub.
By R. Bowpter Suarpg, F.Z.8. &e.
During a recent rearrangement of the species of African Robin-
Chats in the British Museum, I was surprised to find that a speci-
men of Cossypha pyrrhopygia in the collection was not a Cossypha
but a Cittocincla, with graduated tail. On examining the history of
the species, we find that it was first described by Dr. Hartlaub in
his ‘System der Ornithologie West-Afrika’s’ (p. 78), from the col-
lection of the Comte de Riocour, with the doubtful habitat of West
Africa. The specimen was shown to Dr. Hartlaub in Paris by M.
Jules Verreaux ; and about the same time another example was sold
by the Maison Verreaux to the British Museum, with the locality
“ West Africa.” I have, however, no doubt that neither of these
specimens ever really came from West Africa; for the species is C2t-
tocincla luzoniensis (Kittl.) from the Philippines. About the years
1855 and 1856 the localities of the specimens sold by the Maison
Verreaux seem to have been most untrustworthy ; for the British
Museum was then victimized with the Wicrastur castanilius of ‘“‘ New
Granada,” which is nothing more than Astur macroscelides of Western
Africa (cf. Gurney, Ibis, 1875, p. 363). Nothing can be more
annoying than to have apparently trustworthy species foisted upon
science, and to find that, after having been incorporated in many
standard works, they have to be expelled after a lapse of years
from the fauna where they have found a place. I take the present
opportunity of correcting an error into which I was unfortunately
beguiled last year in a very similar way to that in which Dr. Hart-
laub was led to describe C. pyrrhopygia as West-African. I de-
scribed a bird as a new genus from Jamaica under the name of
Phenicomanes tora (P. Z. 8. 1874, p. 427, pl. liv.), which now turns
out to be Jora lafresnayi, of Malacca. The specimen in question
was sold to the Museum as from the identical collection in which a
new 7'odus was contained; and I am convinced that the vendor acted
in perfect good faith, as he was the first to point out to me, on his
receiving a second specimen direct from Malacca, that there was pro-
bably some error in the Jamaican habitat of the previous example.
THE ANNALS
AND
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
[FOURTH SERIES. |
No. 94. OCTOBER 1875.
XXXI1.—WNotes and Descriptions of some new and rare British
Spiders. By the Rev. O. P. CAmBripae, M.A., C.M.Z.S.
[Plate VIL]
In his very able work on European Spiders, published in
1869-70, Dr. T. Thorell notices, as a remarkable fact, that
the number of known spiders of Great Britain and Ireland
no more than very nearly equalled those of Sweden and Nor-
way—304 species in the former and 308 in the latter
countries; and he suggests that the British Islands ought,
from their more southerly position and warmer climate, to
possess a richer spider-fauna than the peninsula of Sweden
and Norway. Dr. Thorell, as a subsequent note attests, was
only acquainted at that time with Mr. Blackwall’s work on
the Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland—being then unaware
that since the publication of that work in 1864 numerous
new species had been recorded, in various natural-history
journals, as indigenous (chiefly) to England.
At the present time the number of known British spiders
(including those here described as new) amounts to 474;
while every new district searched, and even some long- and
well-worked localities, still reveal species not before known to
be British. Not only are Devonshire and Cornwall almost
an untried district, but very few spiders have yet been authen-
ticated in Ireland, whose comparatively mild and humid cli-
mate is probably favourable to the existence of many spiders
not met with in England and Scotland. Of the few spiders
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 17
238 Rey. O. P. Cambridge on new
yet published as Irish no more than eight are peculiar to Ire-
land; and some even of those are obscure and perhaps doubt-
ful species. Thus no general work can at present, without
a serious misnomer, be entitled either “ British Spiders ” or
“Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland.” Our knowledge of
Scotch spiders is rapidly advancing, thanks to the fine collections
kindly sent to me by Mr. James Hardy and Mr. J. H. W.
H. Traill; will not some resident entomologists in Ireland
pay some attention to spiders during their collecting-expedi-
tions? The trouble of collecting and bottling spiders is very
slight compared with that of the preservation and setting-out
of the Insecta; and afew bottlefuls collected, even indiscrimi-
nately, at different times of the year and in different localities,
would soon make us acquainted, at least, with the commoner
species. A published list of these might then possibly stir
up some one to collect and investigate Irish spiders more
thoroughly and systematically.
I need scarcely add that it will give me great pleasure to
receive and determine any spiders sent to me from Ireland.
Genus Atyrus, Latr.
Atypus piceus, Sulzer. Pl. VIII. fig. 2.
Atypus Sulzeri, Blackw. Spid. Great Brit. & Iveland, p. 14, pl. 1. fig. 1 ;
Cambr. System. List of Brit. Spid., Linn. Trans. xxx. p. 320.
A, affinis, Camby. System. List of Brit. Spid., Linn. Trans. xxx. p. 320.
A. anachoreta, Auss. Beit. zur Kenntn. der Arachn.-Fam. der Territe-
lari, Thor., Verhand.. k.-k. zool.-bot. Gesellsch. in Wien, 1871, Band
xxi. p. 153.
The determination of the European species of the genus
Atypus seems to be a matter of considerable uncertainty, and
the subject must be said to be as yet somewhat confused.
Upon aclose comparison made by Dr. Thorell in 1873 of the
type specimen of Mr. Blackwall’s figure and description of the
male of his A. Sulzeri, sent to him by myself, with the type
specimen of A. anachoreta, Auss. (the latter lent to him by
Dr. L. Koch), Dr. Thorell decided that A. Sulzert, Bl, 3,
and A. anachoreta, Auss., are identical, and (on other grounds)
that both are identical with A. affinis, Eichw.
A female sent to Dr. Thorell, taken by myself in Portland,
was decided to be identical with A. piceus, Sulz., and the
same as the female of Mr. Blackwall’s A. Sulzer7.
In accordance with the above determination I included two
species in my systematic list (1. ¢. supra), viz. A. piceus,
Sulz.,=A. Sulzert, Bl, 9, and A. afinis, Hichw.,=A.
Sulzer, Bl., g.
and rare British Spiders. 239
Dr. Thorell published the results of his examination and
comparison of my specimens with those of Dr. Koch and others
in his ‘ Remarks on Synonyms of European Spiders,’ Upsala,
April 1873. Subsequently to this, as well as to the publica-
tion of my systematic list, a paper, written also in 1873,
by M. Eugéne Simon, came into my hands. In this paper the
determination made as to the British species of Atypus is
widely different from that come to by Dr. 'Thorell—M. Simon
resolving Mr. Blackwall’s A. Sulzeri into a species charac-
terized by himself under the name of A. Blackwall, remark-
able for the strong excavation or impression on the inner side
near the base of each of the falces.
Possessing the male of an Atypus given me by the late
Mr. R. Beck and quite distinct from the type of A. Sulzert,
BI., and having lately received some female examples of an
Atypus sent to me from the Isle of Wight by Mr. J. H. Pear-
son (and which seemed to me at first distinct from either
of the two former), as well as typical examples, both male
and female, of A. piceus, Sulz. (Sim.), from M. Simon
himself, captured at Troyes, France, | wished to obtain the
opinion of the latter arachnologist upon the British species in
my possession—the more especially as on a close comparison
I could discover no distinction between the type (dc) of A.
Sulzeri, Bl., and A. piceus, Sulz. (Sim.). M. Simon now
decides the two latter to be identical, and the females received
from the Isle of Wight to be of the same species ; while the
Portland female (considered by Dr. Thorell to be A. piceus,
Sulzer), is decided to be quite distinct by M. Simon, and pro-
bably the female of the male received from Mr. R. Beck.
From the differential characters of A. piceus, Auss. (‘Thor.),
and A. anachoreta, Auss., mentioned (/. c. supra) by Dr.
Thorell, the former of these two spiders seems to be very
closely allied to the example received from Mr. R. Beck; and
it is possible that the two may eventually, on comparison, be
proved to be identical; in the absence, however, of a rigid
comparison of typical examples I do not venture now to de-
cide this point—preferring rather to describe the example in
my possession as a distinct species, at the same time differen-
tiating it from my type of A. Sulzert, Bl. ( see post, p. 242),
and leaving it to a future opportunity to determine its syno-
nymic position.
It is possible that 4. piceus, Thor. & Auss., rather than A.
piceus, Sim., may be the true Aranea picea of Sulzer—in which
case Atypus piceus, Sim., and A. Sulzerz, Bl., will probably
become synonyms of A. anachoreta, Auss., or A. affinis, Kichw.;
the full materials, however, for this determination are not yet
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240 Rey. O. P. Cambridge on new
before me, and I therefore hesitate to speak confidently on the
point.
At. present I conclude as certainly synonymic A. Sulzer?,
Bl., A. piceus, Sim., and A. anachoreta, Auss. Chiefly on
M. Simon’s authority I conclude these to be A. piceus, Sulz.
There will then remain A. piceus, Thor., and my English ex-
ample, found by Mr. Beck, and which I have (post, p. 242)
described under the name of A. Beckiz, to be determined, as to
their identity or the contrary, at some future time, when a
comparison of typical examples may be had.
Of A. piceus, Sim. (A. Sulzeri, Bl.), the only males yet
recorded as British are the one figured and described by Mr.
Blackwall in ‘Spid. of Great Brit. and Irel.’ and one other,
found by myself in the same locality where the first was
obtained; females appear to be frequent in one locality near
Ventnor in the Isle of Wight. Mr. Pearson has kindly sent
me from thence some of the tubular nests as well as the
spiders themselves ; among the nests is one with a short sac-
like enlargement or branch near the upper end, opening into
the main tube. This enlargement seems to bear some analogy
to the branches in the tubes of some species of Nemesia (de-
scribed and figured by the late Mr. J. T. Moggridge in his
interesting book on Trapdoor Spiders); it is, however, per-
haps only an accidental occurrence. At my suggestion Mr.
Pearson most kindly dug out several nests with great care,
noting their form and length and any other point that appeared
likely to be of interest or importance. It 1s from this source
that the following details have been obtained.
The nests are generally found in those parts of the Down
where the grass is longer than usual and not so matted about
the roots. A favourite position is the side of an overhanging
or projecting bit of turf, bare of vegetation but covered by the
overhanging grass. The exterior portion of the tube is not,
usually, more than from an inch to an inch and a half in
length, the subterranean part being much longer, about two
thirds or three fourths of the whole. The protruding portion is
in general partially inflated, sometimes erect, sometimes pros-
trate, the part nearest the ground being then secured to the
earth by the small fibres of the roots of neighbouring grasses.
With regard to the aperture, many nests have the envelope of
very slight and fragile texture at the summit, so that it is often
torn and rent; but in the more perfect specimens no trace of
an opening has hitherto been discovered. A nest perfect and
apparently imperforate from top to bottom, and containing the
spider inside it, was buried in a large box of earth; sub-
sequently the tube was observed with a wide open mouth,
Crittiee =
——
av
and vare British Spiders. 241
appearing as if the spider had forced its way through the
substance of the nest. Shortly after, the spider was observed
to be engaged about the mouth as though making a new top
to the nest; and on the following morning the extremity of
the tube was again closed and presented the same appearance
as at first, being only smaller. There appears to be considera-
ble variation in the shape of the nests: the middle portion is
narrow and very much wrinkled and folded ; the dilatation that
succeeds is generally somewhat pear-shaped, with the small
end downwards; the bottom of the tube is extremely fragile
(the most fragile part of the whole nest), being a mere web,
which sometimes fits tightly round the spider, enveloping it
like the covering of a ball. A very common form of nest is
that of a stocking with bends corresponding to the knee and
heel, at which last the dilatation occurs. A spider in captivity
took possession of an empty nest lying on the earth, and,
making a hole in the side of the nest next to the ground, began
to form a new tube connected with the old one. [In this way,
possibly, the branched nest mentioned above was formed.|
One day a spider was observed in the act of making a new
nest: it first spun a cylindrical web, attaching it to the stems
of grasses; it then began to excavate the earth (apparently
with the sharp claws of its falees), turned completely round,
placed the earth against the sides of the web, patting it all
over with its feet and smoothing it with its abdomen, and then
repeating the operation. The nests dug out varied in their
total length from 5} to 93 inches.
The exuvie of the spiders after moulting are commonly
found in the nests; and in some instances the remains of
beetles and other hard-shelled insects were found.
Atypus Blackwalli.
Atypus Blackwalli, Sim. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 18738, tom. iii. p. 110, pl. 4,
figs. 6-9. (Exclude reference to plate, /. ¢., as well as synonymic re-
ference to 4. Sulzert, Bl.)
M. Simon (/. c.) places A. Sulzer?, BL, among the synonyms
of a new species to which he gives the name (suggested by
A. Ausserer, U. c. p. 133) of A. Blackwalli.
This synonymic determination is undoubtedly a mistake,
and is implied to be so by M. Simon himself in his recent
determination of the identity of the type (¢) of A. Sulzert,
Bl., with that of A. piceus, Sim.
Among other examples of Atypus lately submitted by my-
self to M. Simon were two immature examples which appeared
to me to have had the falees crushed or shrunken in near
242 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on new
their base on the inner sides. M. Simon, however, determines
them without any doubt to be examples of A. Blackwalli, in
which this peculiar form of the falces is a leading character-
istic. One of these examples was found by myself in the
Island of Portland; the other was received from the Isle of
Wight, where it was found by Mr. Pearson and kindly sent to
me among females of A. piceus, Sim.
Atypus Beckii, sp.n. Pl. VIII. fig. 1.
Adult male, length 43 lines.
This spider is nearly allied to A. piceus (Sulzer) ; it appears,
however, to be larger and rather broader in proportion, and it
differs in the form of the cephalothorax and falces, as well as
in the structure of the palpal organs and size and relative
position of the eyes.
The whole of the fore part, including the legs and palpi,
are of arich deep red-brown colour; the abdomen is black,
with the characteristic coriaceous patch on the fore part of the
upperside of a large size and dark reddish brown colour ; the
hinder slope of the caput is rather abrupt and rounded in its
profile-line: the central part of the ocular area is prominent,
and, looked at in profile, full and rounded in front (much more
so than in A. piceus) ; looked at from above its fore extremity
is of a blunt angular form and projects a little beyond the
margin of the clypeus, while in A. piceus the fore extremity
is round and does not reach to the clypeal margin, and its
colour is black; the thorax is flattened and the normal inden-
tations strong.
The eyes are in the usual position, the central pair occu-
pying the upper part of the large central ocular tubercular
prominence; these two eyes are smaller than those of the
corresponding pair in A. piceus, and the interval between
them exceeds an eye’s diameter by nearly or quite one half,
while in A. piceus the interval no more than equals a diameter,
certainly does not exceed it. The lateral groups are also fur-
ther from the central pair in the present spider than in A.
piceus, forming, when looked at from above, a transverse
oblong area of far greater extent than in this latter species.
The falces, though of the same general character as in A.
ptceus, are rather longer and stronger, though perhaps not
quite so prominent at their base on the upperside.
The palpi, although very similar in general character and
appearance to those of A. piceus, show a strong and decided
difference on a comparison of the palpal organs ; this distinction
and rare British Spiders. 243
will be best seen by comparing the figures given (Pl. VIII.)
of these parts in the two species.
The maville, labium, and sternum present no marked dif-
ference from those of A. piceus, nor does the abdomen: the
spinners also (6 in number) are similar; the terminal joints,
however, of those of the superior pair had been accidentally
broken off before the example came into my possession.
A single adult male was sent to me some years ago by the
late Mr. Richard Beck, of Cornhill, London, by whom it was
found in the neighbourhood of Hastings. I have hesitated to
describe this species until I had been able to compare it with
continental examples of A. piceus, as well as to obtain the
opinion of M. EKugéne Simon upon its specific identity.
M. Simon has kindly sent me lately examples of A. piceus,
and characterizes the present as a very distinct species from
all known to him on the continent of Hurope.
An adult female, agreeing with the male above described in
the form of the ocular prominence, was found by myself, in
the autumn of 1855, in the Island of Portland, and is no doubt
of the same species.
Genus Micaria, C. Koch.
Micaria scintillans.
ean scintillans, Cambr. Trans. Linn, Soc, xxvii. p. 412, pl. 54, no.
2, A.
By an unaccountable oversight this spider was unfortu-
nately omitted from my “ Systematic List of British Spiders,”
Linn. Trans. 1874, vol. xxx. p. 321.
In a recent visit to the Isle of Portland I found both sexes,
adult and in considerable abundance, running in bright sun-
shine on the grassy slopes towards the sea near Pennsyl-
vania Castle. A large blackish ant was abundant on the
same slopes, and it was exceedingly difficult at first to distin-
guish the spiders. The hue of the two in the bright sun-
shine was remarkably similar, and their respective movements
ridiculously alike.
The only way in which I could, with any certainty, cap-
ture the spiders (owing to the general swiftness of their move-
ments, and the rapidity with which they glided down among
the stems and roots of the herbage) was by suddenly and
quickly popping an empty inverted glass tube of good size
over then; and as they invariably rushed up the tube, it was
easy to transfer them thence to the spirit-bottle.
244 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on new
Genus Drassus, Walck.
Drassus criminalis, sp.u. Pl. VIII. fig. 3.
Adult female, length very nearly 33 lines.
The whole of the fore part of this spider is of a bright yel-
low-brown colour, that of the falees and labium being, how-
ever, rather deeper than the rest, and the cephalothorax bor-
dered with a fine blackish line, the abdomen being of a uni-
form dull mouse-coloured black.
The cephalothorax is of ordinary form, the thoracic junction,
however, being (in profile) a little higher than the occipital
region; the normal grooves and indentations are not strongly
marked, but are plainly indicated by dusky lines converging
to the thoracic junction; the surface is thinly clothed with
hairs, some of which are rather long, particularly those on the
central longitudinal line and on the clypeus, where they are,
in fact, bristles; the height of this latter part exceeds the
diameter of the fore lateral eyes.
The eyes are of tolerable size and placed in the usual two
transverse rows; the hinder row is longest and rather the most
curved, the convexity of the curves of both being directed
backwards: the eyes of the hind central pair are of a some-
what subtriangular shape and are almost, but not quite, con-
tiguous to each other, and the interval between each and the
hind lateral eye on its side is about equal to the diameter of
the latter; those of each lateral pair are obliquely placed, the
interval between them being nearly equal to the diameter of
the hinder eye; those of the fore central pair (which are the
smallest of the eight) are separated by an interval slightly
exceeding an eye’s diameter, and each is divided from the fore
lateral on its side by a very slight interval, not more than
one third of that which separates the fore centrals from each
other.
The legs are strong, but not very long ; their relative length
appears to be 4, 1, 2, 3, though there is but little difference,
if any, between those of the fourth and first pairs; they are
furnished with hairs, bristles, and spines, the latter chiefly on
the tibiae and metatarsi of those of the third and fourth pairs ;
each tarsus terminates with two curved pectinated claws, be-
neath which is a small scopula of papilliform hairs, and be-
neath the tarsi are some other hairs of the same kind.
The palpi are strong, moderately long, and furnished with
hairs, bristles, and spines; the cubital and radial joints are
equal in length, the digital being nearly equal to both together,
and terminating with a small, black, curved claw.
and rare British Spiders. 245
The falces are moderately long, strong, a little projecting
and prominent at their base in front ; their fore surface is fur-
nished with strongish prominent bristles, and on their outer
sides and towards the extremities they are slightly rugulose ;
the fang is short and strong, and on the hinder edge of the
groove in which it lies when at rest are a few short strongish
teeth.
The maxille, labium, and sternum are of the normal form
and furnished with hairs and bristles.
The abdomen is oval, moderately convex above, and projects
fairly over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull mouse-
coloured blackish hue, and clothed thinly with hairs: along
the middle of the upperside the six pale, elongate, linear
spots frequently seen on the abdomen of species of this genus
are indistinctly visible: the spinners are short, and of a brown-
ish yellow colour, those of the inferior pair being much the
longest and strongest; the genital aperture is large and of
a simple but characteristic form.
A single adult example was found by myself under a stone
on Bloxworth Heath in May 1874.
Drassus delinquens, sp.n. Pl. VIII. fig. 4.
Adult female, length 22 lines.
The cephalothorax of this very distinct species is of a
yellow-brown colour, tinged with dull orange, and clothed spa-
ringly with hairs ; the legs and palpi are rather paler, and the
falces, maxilla, labium, and sternum darker, the labium being
the darkest. The form of the cephalothorax is of the ordinary
type; the normal grooves and indentations are not strong,
though well defined by fine blackish and rather irregular lines
which converge towards the thoracic junction ; the height of
the clypeus rather exceeds the diameter of one of the fore cen-
tral eyes.
The eyes are of tolerable size, and placed in two transverse,
and nearly parallel, curved rows, the convexity of the curve
being directed backwards and the hinder row being the longest;
those of the hind central pair are oval in form, obliquely op-
posed to each other, and almost contiguous ; each is separated
from the hind lateral on its side by an interval equal to its
own longest diameter ; those of each lateral pair are separated
by an interval slightly less than the diameter of the hinder eye,
which is smaller than the fore one ; those of the fore central
pair (the smallest of the eight) are about an eye’s diameter
distant from each other, and each is very nearly contiguous to
the fore lateral eye on its side.
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The legs are tolerably strong, but not very long; and their
relative length appears to be 4, 1, 2,35 they are furnished
with hairs and a very few spines ; each tarsus ends with two
curved pectinated claws, and beneath the tarsi are some papil-
liform hairs.
The falces are long, strong, prominent at their base in front,
and project (though not very strongly) forwards; their front
surface is furnished with longish bristly hairs.
The maxille and labium are of normal form.
The sternum is heart-shaped and glossy.
The abdomen is rather large, of an oval form, slightly trun-
cated before, and not very thickly clothed with hairs ; its colour
is dull yellow-brown, darker along the middle of the upper-
side, where a very distinct pattern is shown, consisting of a
strongish, wedge-shaped, dark brown, central, longitudinal
marking on the fore part, followed to the spinners by a series
of confluent angular bars or chevrons of a similar colour ;
the vertices of the angles are directed forwards; but the
bars do not extend to the sides. The wedge-shaped brown
marking has a paler indistinct line along the middle, and two
or three irregular pale markings on either side of its hinder
half. ‘The spinners are of moderate size; those of the inferior
pair are longer and stronger than those of the superior. The
form of the genital aperture (which is rather large) is cha-
racteristic; its Inner margins appear to be corneous and of
a bright red-brown colour.
An example of this species, which is certainly new to Bri-
tain, and also, I believe, undescribed, was found by myself
under a stone on Bloxworth Heath in May 1874.
Genus Leruta, Menge.
Lethia subniger.
Drassus subniger, Cambr. Trans. Linn. Soc, xxviii. p. 439, pl. 33. fig. 3.
A recent close examination of this litttle spider has con-
vinced me that it belongs to the genus Lethia; doubts con-
cerning its generic affinities have been expressed J. c. supra.
Genus Ericone (Neriene, Bl.).
Erigone Clarkit.
Erigone Clarkii, Cambr. Linn, Trans, xxvii. p. 441, pl. 56. no, 30.
An adult male of this spider (being only the third example
of the species yet on record) was found by my son, Robert
Jocelyn, on iron railings enclosing the lawn at Bloxworth
Rectory, on the 24th of March, 1875.
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Erigone Douglast, sp.n. Pl. VIII. fig. 5.
Adult female, length 1+ line.
The cephalothorax, falces, and maaille of this spider are yel-
low, the occiput, as well as the spaces between the normal
grooves and furrows, being suffused with dusky black, and the
thoracic margin black.
The form of the cephalothorax is of the ordinary type; the
lateral constrictions at the caput are slight, and the whole pro-
file outline forms a tolerably even curve from the clypeus to
the end of the hinder slope.
The eyes are rather small, but in the usual position, forming
a rather narrow, transverse oval figure, and are seated on
strong, slightly tuberculate, black spots; those of the hinder
row appear to be of the same size, and are separated from each
other by equal intervals of an eye’s diameter; those of the fore
central pair are the smallest of the eight, dark-coloured, con-
tiguous to each other, and each is separated by a diameter’s in-
terval from the fore lateral on its side. Hach of the hind central
eyes is separated from the fore central eye nearest to it by an
interval rather greater than the diameter of the former; those
of each lateral pair are contiguous to each other and placed
obliquely. The height of the clypeus slightly exceeds half that
of the facial space ; it is rather strongly impressed immediately
below the eyes, but projects at its lower margin.
The legs are long and tolerably strong; their relative length
is 1, 4,2,3; they are of a pale yellow colour, and are furnished
with hairs, bristles, and a very few long slender spines.
The palpi are similar in colour and armature to the legs.
The falces are strong and tolerably long, a little inclined
backwards, and armed with a few minute teeth on their inner
edges towards the extremity.
The sternum is small, of the usual heart-shape, and strongly
suffused with greenish black. -
The abdomen is oval, strongly convex above, and its profile
line is abruptly curved at the hinder part; its upper part and
sides are of a dull greenish black colour, the central longitudinal
line being darkest; two thirds of its upperside (towards the
hinder part) are marked with a series of tolerably distinct pale
yellowish oblique spots or patches in pairs, the first pair being
the largest and of an oval shape, the next less in size but more
elongated, the rest being simply transverse angular bars or
chevrons ; the under part is dull pale yellowish, with a broad
central, longitudinal, black band enclosing the spinners and
reaching to the genital aperture ; it is bordered by a whitish
line, and its shape is that of an elongated lyre.
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The genital aperture is furnished with a strong, somewhat
tumid, but simply formed, epigyne (represented by fig. 5, d,
Plate VIII.) ; the abdomen is thinly clothed with hair, and pro-
jects pretty strongly over the base of the cephalothorax.
A single example of this interesting spider was received from
Mr. Douglas, by whom it was found in the spring of 1875 near
Castle Douglas, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland. It differs from
nearly all other known British species of this genus in having
a series of large, well-detined, pale markings on the upperside
of the abdomen, and a broad, central, longitudinal band on a
pale yellowish ground on the underside.
I feel great pleasure in connecting this spider with the name
of its discoverer, who appears to be entering upon the study
of Scottish spiders with considerable care and zeal.
Erigone (Neriene) nigriceps, sp. nu. Pl. VIII. fig. 6.
Adult female, length 14 line.
The cephalothorax of this spider is of ordinary form ; the
hinder slope rather long and gradual; the upper marginal
line, seen in profile, level, there being only the slightest pos-
sible depression near the occiput; its colour is orange-yellow,
the caput being strongly suffused with black; and there are a
few fine bristly hairs along its central line, and within the
ocular area; the normal furrows and indentations are visible,
but not strongly marked ; and the height of the clypeus (which
is a little prominent) equals half that of the facial space.
The eyes are in the usual position on black tuberculate
spots, the foremost row (looked at from the front) being
much the shortest and straight. Those of the hind central
pair are distinctly nearer to each other than each is to the
hind lateral eye on its side, being separated from each other
by less than an eye’s diameter, and from the hind laterals by
at least a diameter, if not a little more; those of each lateral
pair are placed obliquely and are contiguous to each other ;
the fore laterals are largest of the eight, and each is separated
from the fore central eye on its side by a very slight, though
distinct, interval, those of the fore central pair being almost,
but not quite, contiguous to each other.
The legs are moderately long, rather strong, particularly
the femoral joints, their relative length being apparently 4, 1,
2,3; they are of an orange-yellow colour, but not so dark as
the cephalothorax : the metatarsi and tarsi are rather paler than
the rest; their armature consists of hairs and a few slender
prominent spine-like bristles on the femoral and tibial joints.
The palp? are similar in colour and armature to the legs.
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The falces are rather long, not particularly strong, slightly
divergent and nearly vertical; they are armed on their inner
margin, near the extremities, with four or five sharp teeth.
The mazxille are strong, rather long, but of normal form
and character; they are furnished with a few bristles, and are
of a dusky orange-yellow colour.
The labium is of normal form, and suffused strongly with
black.
The sternum is of the usual heart-shape, considerably con-
vex, and of a glossy bright orange-yellow colour, furnished
with a few prominent bristles.
The abdomen is of an elongate oval form, not particularly
convex above, nor projecting greatly over the base of the
cephalothorax ; its colour is dull black tinged with olive ; and it
is clothed thinly with hairs ; the genital aperture is of charac-
teristic form, but the epigyne connected with it 1s not very
prominent.
A single example of this pretty and distinct species was
found by myself among heather in May 1875, on Bloxworth
Heath; the contrast of its dark caput and bright orange
thorax and legs makes it, as a British one, rather a striking-
looking spider, and I know of no described species of which it
might possibly be the hitherto unknown female.
Erigone subitanea, sp.n. Pl. VIII. fig. 7.
Adult male, length =; inch.
This minute species is nearly allied to H. precox, Cambr.;
the latter, however, may be distinguished without difficulty by
the greater curvature of the hinder row of eyes, the central
eyes of this row being distinctly nearer to each other than
each is to the hind lateral on its side; the ocular area is thus
broader than in Z, subitanea, and the clypeus is less in height,
being less than half that of the facial space, while in #.
subitanea it is as nearly as possible equal to half. In this
latter species the occiput (looked at in profile) is also a little
more gibbous ; and the apophysis at the fore extremity of the
radial joint of the palpus, although, if any thing, larger than
the very similar one in £. precox, is yet much less easily
seen, being in close contact with the digital joint, so that
when looked at in profile even its extreme point is scarcely
visible beyond the surface of the digital joint, while in 4.
precox it 1s prominent and very perceptible.
The cephalothorax is of ordinary general form and of a
brightish yellow-brown colour; the normal grooves and in-
dentations are distinctly, but not strongly, marked ; and from
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close behind each hind lateral eye a tapering, slightly curved,
indentation runs in a longitudinal direction backwards towards
the hinder part of the occiput, which is a little gibbous on its
upper part ; the hinder slope of the cephalothorax is slightly
hollow and rather abrupt; and there are two or three short
prominent hairs on the central longitudinal line near the
thoracic junction.
The eyes are in the ordinary position ; those of the hinder
row are equidistant from each other, the intervals separating
them being equal to rather less than the diameter of one of
the central pair ; those of each lateral pair are seated obliquely
on a tubercle ; those of the fore central pair are the smallest of
the eight, dark and indistinct, but appear to be very nearly,
if not quite, contiguous to each other, and each is very near
to the fore lateral eye on its side, certainly separated by not
more than half a diameter; the interval between each of the
hind central eyes and the fore central opposite to it exceeds
very little, if at all, the diameter of one of the former.
The legs are tolerably long, slender, of a pale orange-yellow
colour, furnished with hairs and very slender erect bristles ;
their relative length appeared to be 4, 1, 2, 3.
The palpi are short, slender, and similar in colour to the
legs; the radial joint is rather longer and stronger than the
cubital, and has at its fore extremity on the upperside a
small, slender, slightly tapering production, which adheres
closely to the digital joint, and is not very easily made out
without careful examination; the digital joint is small, and
the palpal organs simple, presenting under an ordinary lens no
very remarkable spines or processes.
The falces are rather short, but tolerably strong, nearly
vertical, similar to the cephalothorax in colour, and armed
with a few very minute teeth on” their inner margin near the
extremity.
The maxille are similar to the falces in colour, but of
normal form.
The labéwm is also of normal form, but rather darker in
colour than the maxille.
The sternum is large, heart-shaped, and very convex, its
colour being of a darker shade than that of the cephalo-
thorax.
The abdomen is tolerably convex above, and projects over
the whole of the hinder slope of the cephalothorax ; it is of a
dull blackish hue tinged with olive-green and (in spirit of
wine) mottled and marked with pale spots and lines, the
surface being thinly clothed with short fine hairs.
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A single adult male of this, the smallest spider except one
(LZ. diceros, Cambr.) that has yet come before me, was found
by myself among decayed wood at Bloxworth Rectory in May
1874. Its near affinity to H. precox, Cambr., has been
mentioned above. It is allied also very closely to H. alexan-
drina, Cambr., a small spider found in a marsh near Alexan-
dria, Egypt. This latter, however, is a larger species, and
differs trom the present in the relative position of the eyes,
the rather greater gibbosity of the occipital region, as well as
slightly in the form of the palpi and structure of the palpal
organs.
Genus Linypuia, Fabr.
Linyphia expuncta.
Linyphia lepida, Camby. Linn. Soc. Journ. xi. p. 539, pl. xv. fig. 7.
In conferring the specific name of /epida on this spider, it
escaped my memory at the moment that Mr. Blackwall had
previously (Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., Dec. 1866) given it to
a spider of the same genus found in the south-east region of
Equatorial Africa. I therefore now give the name expuncta
to the pretty little Scotch Linyphia received from Mr. J. W.
H. Traill, and at first described, 7. c., under the name of
lepida.
Linyphia aéria, sp.n. Pl. VIII. fig. 8.
Adult male, length rather less than 1 line.
The cephalothorax of this small spider is of the ordinary
oval form when looked at from above; but when seen in
profile the thoracic portion is slightly higher than the caput,
the occipital region of which is a little gibbous, and the ocular
area sloping downwards. The colour of the cephalothorax is
yellow-brown, the margins and normal converging grooves
and indentations suffused with dusky brown; and along the
central longitudinal line are a few fine bristles of different
lengths directed forwards. 'The clypeus is impressed below
the eyes, prominent at its margin, and its height is less than
half that of the facial space.
The eyes are of tolerable size, and, relatively, do not differ
much; they are placed in the ordinary position on black
tuberculate spots in two curved rows, forming a transverse
oval figure ; those of the hinder row, which is the longest and
most curved, are equidistant from each other, the interval
being less than an eye’s diameter; and each of those of the
hind central pair is a diameter’s distance from the fore central
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eye nearest to it ; those of each lateral pair are placed a little
obliquely and are contiguous to each other; those of the fore
central pair, the smallest of the eight, are contiguous to each
other, and each is very near, but not quite contiguous, to the
fore lateral eye on its side.
The /egs are rather long and slender, of a pale dull yel-
lowish colour, and furnished with hairs and a few longish
slender spines ; the latter consist of one on each of the genual
joints and three on each of the tibie.
The palpi are short, slender, and of the same colour as the
legs ; the cubital joint is very short, and furnished on its fore
side with a fine tapering bristle ; the radial joint is about the
same length as the cubital, but stronger; it is a little more
produced in front than behind, and has no distinct prominence
or apophysis, being furnished, however, with some not very
conspicuous bristly hairs; the digital joint is of moderate size ;
and the palpal organs are rather complex, composed of various
spines and corneous processes pretty closely compacted, and
no one of which is of a very marked character.
The jfalces, which are similar to the legs in colour, are of
moderate length and strength, nearly perpendicular, and a little
divergent at their extremity.
The maaxille are of normal form, a little inclined towards
the labium, and similar in colour to the cephalothorax.
The labium and sternum present no distinctive feature ; and
their colour is a dark blackish brown.
The abdomen is considerably convex above, and projects a
good deal over the base of the cephalothorax ; it is of a dull
pee colour, clothed, but not very thickly, with longish
1alrs.
The female is rather larger than the male, but resembles it
in general structure and colour; the epigyne connected with
the sexual aperture is of moderate size, a little prominent and
directed forwards.
This spider, which is nearly allied to L. parvula (Westr.),
may be distinguished by its smaller size, shorter legs, and a
rather different relative position of the eyes of the front row—
those of the fore central pair in L. parvula being smaller, and
each further removed from the fore lateral on its side, being
an eye’s diameter distant from it; the thoracic junction is also
less elevated in LZ. parvula; and the palpal organs have, at
their fore extremity, a distinct coiled filiform black spine,
which is entirely wanting in L. aéria.
Adult examples of both sexes were found running on iron
railings at Bloxworth, Dorsetshire, in the autumn of 1873.
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Genus Xysticus, C. Koch.
Xysticus viaticus.
Xysticus viaticus, C. Koch, Die Arachn, xii. p. 70, pl. 412. fig. 1003.
X. Kochii, Thorell, Europ. Spid. p. 185, and Syn. Kurop. Spid. p. 241.
Thomisus viaticus, Cambr. Linn. Trans. xxviii, p. 528.
Adults of both sexes were found rather frequently among
short herbage and on bare spots in different parts of the
Island of Portland at the beginning of June 1875. Although
I had previously met with this spider, it had been hitherto
mixed up with Yysticus cristatus ; it was not, therefore, until
the occasion above referred to that I detected the species at
the time of capture, and am consequently able to fix a locality
for it with any certainty.
Genus Lycosa, Latr. (Lycosa, Blackw. ad partem).
Lycosa arenicola, sp.n. Pl. VIII. fig. 9.
Adult male, length 3 lines ; adult female, 3} lines.
This spider is nearly allied to L. fluviatilis, Bl. (L. are-
naria, Koch), both in size and general appearance, but may
be distinguished by the absence of dilatation behind the eyes
in the central pale band on the cephalothorax, as well as by
the legs being apparently always free from dark annulations ;
none at least were visible on the legs of thirty-five examples
of both sexes; the characteristic corneous process, springing
from the middle of the palpal organs, is also of rather a dif-
ferent form, a little longer, and of a rugulose appearance ; the
whole of the palpal organs are of a darker as well as rougher
and coarser character.
The cephalothorax is of a deep black-brown colour, with
three longitudinal narrow yellowish bands; each lateral one
is removed from the margin by at least its own width, and
divided transversely, by sometimes no more than dark lines,
into three elongate patches of different sizes; sometimes,
however, the dividing lines form more extended dark patches;
the central band is narrow, and extends from nearly about half-
way down the hinder slope to sometimes the middle of the
ocular area, where it fines off into a mere line clothed with
pale greyish yellow hairs; both the upper and lower edges of
the lateral bands are jagged; the central band is thus broadest
at the thoracic junction, and fines off thence to a point both
before and behind.
The legs are long ; their relative length 4, 1,2, 3; they are
of a dull yellowish colour; the tarsi of those of the first pair
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are black, as well as also generally the tips of those of the
fourth pair, and in some cases of all the rest also: the femora
of all the legs are more or less clouded or suffused with black ;
and frequently their uppersides have two elongate-oval un-
suffused patches, giving them a somewhat striped look ; they
are clothed with hairs and long spines.
The palpi are of a deep brown colour, approaching to black;
the radial joint is much stronger but no longer than the
cubital; it is, together with the digital joint, of a jet-black
colour, thickly clothed with black hairs; this latter joint is
large, broad at the base, and pointed at its fore extremity ;
the basal bulb of the palpal organs is large and prominent;
the oblique process just in front of it is long, strong, and curved
a little in towards the digital hollow near its extremity ; it is
nearly or quite black, and tapers a little to its obtuse extre-
mity, its surface being rather roughened or rugulose.
The falces are yellowish, more or less marked with longitu-
dinal stripes or patches of deep blackish brown.
The maxille and labiwm are also of a yellowish colour, with
their bases generally suffused with brown.
Sternum deep black-brown.
The abdomen is dark brown, clothed thickly with hairs
varying in hue from grey and yellowish grey to black: in
many examples it is difficult to trace the usual pattern ; but in
some it is tolerably distinct, especially in immature examples
and those only lately come to maturity: the pattern is like
that of Z. fluviatilis, Bl.; the characteristic elongate marking
on the fore half of the upperside is blunt-pointed behind and
obtusely angular on each side near the middle, forming an
almost elongate-oval stripe, edged indistinctly with black, its
own colour being dull brownish yellow, often clothed with
pale greyish hairs on either side; followmg this marking to
the spinners is a row of irregular and generally indistinct
blackish spots, between which is a series of angular rusty
yellowish hairs, or short, oval, oblique, opposed patches, which
diminish in size as they approach the hinder extremity of the
abdomen.
The above description fairly applies to both sexes; but in
some females the pattern is much better marked than in others
or than in most examples of the male sex; in such females
the angular bars, or opposed oblique patches, have each of
them a distinct black spot, which thus appear in a longitu-
dinal series in four or five pairs, each pair placed transversely ;
the sides of the abdomen have also a mottled appearance,
apparently from numerous small tufts of pale hairs. The legs
in most of the females are of a darker hue than those of the
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male; and in one or two examples (out of thirty-five) there
was a very faint trace of annulation.
The examples from which this description has been drawn
were found close to the railway station in the Island of Port-
land (at the beginning of June 1875), on the edge of the
Chesil Beach, among pebbles and brickbats and other débris ;
they did not appear to be running in sunshine of their own
accord, but were very active when disturbed, and easily
escaped among the loose pebbles of the beach. I have also
two examples (male and female), exactly similar in all respects
to those found in Portland, from a similar habitat near
Brighton, and also another pair received from Bourg d’Oisans
in Normandy.
Although this spider is so nearly allied to LZ. fluviatilis, Bl.,
that if the two forms should be found inhabiting the same
localities it will be scarcely possible to uphold their specific
distinctness, yet the absence of annulation on the legs, the
simple and constantly attenuated form of the central yellow
thoracic stripe, with the slight difference in the form of the
palpal organs, are sufficient to mark its specific distinctness
from L. fluviatilis, in which the legs of the female are always
annulated, generally very distinctly, and traces of annulation
are commonly visible in the male, though some few males
certainly have no annulation at all. Now and then also a
male of LZ. fluviatilis will be found with no dilatation on the
central*yellow stripe behind the eyes ; but out of many females
I have not seen one in which this dilatation is not apparent and
generally strongly marked ; it is usually also visible, though
less strong, inthe males. L. fluviatilis is often wholly covered
with grey hairs, giving it a uniform hoary appearance ; this
. slightly so, in some cases, in regard to the present species
also.
Lycosa agricola, Thor.
Lycosa arenaria, C. Koch, Die Arachn. xv. p. 36, tab. 514. figs, 1441-42,
L. fluviatilis, Blackw. Spid. Gr. Brit. p. 31, pl. ii. fig. 13.
L. agricola, Thor. Ree. Onit, Ayan. p. 61; 2d. Syn. Europ. Spid. p. 278.
Dr. Thorell, in his ‘Synonyms of European Spiders,’ page
280, thinks that probably Mr. Blackwall had before him, in
his description of LZ. fluviatilis, examples also of L. agrestis,
Westr. Ido not think so myself: I have examined many
examples of both sexes of L. fluviatilis sent me by Mr. Black-
wall from North Wales ; and there is certainly no example of
L. agrestis among them. Dr. Thorell also appears to have
some doubt as to the specific distinctness of L. agricola from L,
agrestis ; but the short oblique process of the palpal organs of
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L. agrestis, compared with the much longer process in those of
L. fluviatilis, appears to me quite sufficient to determine their
specific distinctness. Hxamples of L. decipiens, L. Koch, sent
me by Dr. L. Koch from Germany, agree very exactly with the
description of L. agrestis, Westr., given by Dr. Thorell, /. c.,
who also considers these last two species to be identical (J. ¢.
p. 282). Examples of L. arenaria sent me by Dr. L. Koch
I am unable to distinguish from L. fluviatilis; but an example
of L. agricola, Thor., sent me by Dr. Thorell from Sweden,
is, I am inclined to think, an example of ZL. agrestis sent
by mistake, inasmuch as the oblique process of the palpal
organs is not much more than half the length of that of
L. fluviatilis and L. arenaria, being also broader and slightly
obliquely truncated at its extremity.
There are now several European species of this group so
nearly allied as to be very difficult of determination (see the
description of L. arenicola, sp.n., ante, p. 253). To determine
them satisfactorily a considerable series of both sexes of each
form from all the localities in which they are found is neces-
sary. Comparative examinations of closely allied species can
never lead to a thoroughly satisfactory conclusion when made
upon one or two examples only of some one or more of the
forms.
Lycosa annulata. Pl. VIII. fig. 10.
Lycosa annulata, Thorell, Syn. Europ. Spid. p. 299.
For several years past I have been aware of there being se-
veral British species of Lycosa included among my specimens
of L. saccata, Bl. (L. amentata, Clerck) ; but until lately I have
had no opportunity of determining them. Among these spiders
one of the most striking and distinct is the present, Z. annulata,
Thor. ; it is much smaller than L. amentata; the patterns on
the cephalothorax and abdomen are very like those of that
species ; the legs are of a clearer and generally paler yellow co-
lour, but distinctly annulated with dark brown, the annulations
extending sometimes to the metatarsi ; the palpi, however, inde-
pendently of all other distinctions, will serve to distinguish it
trom L. amentata at once: the humeral joint is deep brown ;
the cubital yellow, slightly marked with brown near its base,
and clothed with white hairs at its fore extremity ; the radial
joint is dark brown and, as well as the digital joint, thickly
clothed with black hairs, offering a strong contrast to the white
cubital joint: the palpal organs are remarkable for the absence
of the curved spine characteristic of L. amentata and the strong
oblique process found in L. fluviatilis and others ; in their place
there is merely a small tubercular process of an oval form.
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Examples of this spider were found some years ago at Port-
land, and more recently at Bloxworth ; three adult males were
also received in May last from Ventnor, where they were found
by Mr. J. H. Pearson, to whom I am indebted for their addi-
tion to my collection. The female has not yet been found in
England; but I have received that sex also among many
examples of the male from the late Mr. J. T. Moggridge, by
whom they were found at Nice and Mentone; both sexes
were also sent me by C. Collingwood, M.D., by whom they
were found at Montreux, Switzerland. The female does not
differ in colour and markings from the male ; the genital aper-
ture is, like that of nearly all other known spiders, charac-
teristic in the details of its form and size.
In his description of L. annulata, Dr. Thorell does not re-
mark upon the pale cubital joint and its white hairs with their
necessarily strong contrast to the dense clothing of black hairs
on the radial and digital joints. There is no doubt, however,
of the identity of the present with his species, inasmuch as_ he
has kindly sent me examples of his L. annulata, which in no
way differ from those I possess from France, England, or
Switzerland.
Lycosa riparta. Pl. VIII. fig. 11.
Lycosa riparia, C. Koch, Die Arachn. xy. p. 29, tab. 512. figs. 1485-36.
Two adult males of this spider were found by myself near
Brighton in June 1871. In its general appearance it may
easily be mistaken (as I myself mistook it at the time) for
L. amentata, Clerck ; though it is, in reality, more nearly allied
to L. pullata, Clerck (Z. obscura, Bl.). It may easily be
distinguished from ZL. amentata, Clk., by the long, oblique,
tapering, rather obtusely pointed spine in connexion with the
palpal organs, to the surface of which latter this spine also
adheres more closely in the present than in that species; the
digital joint is also longer and much narrower in proportion.
From L. pullata it may be distinguished as well by its
greater size as by the length and strength of this spine, and
also by the very distinctly annulated legs. In the two specimens
under consideration the legs are entirely annulated, except the
tarsi, which are of a brownish yellow hue; the palpi are black,
which is also another strongly distinctive character.
The central, yellow, thoracic band is, in the two examples
noted, obsolete at the occiput ; but in a female spider found at
the same time and place, and which I believe to be of this spe-
cies, the central band runs to the eyes, where it dilates as in
L. amentata and L. fluviatilis ; as, however, this example was
. . ? . . ie . .
not quite adult, it cannot be considered certain that it is speci-
258 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on new
fically identical with the two males. In LZ. pullata the legs
of the female are generally, though not often very distinctly,
annulated, while those of the male have rarely any trace of
annulation ; the general hue of LZ. pullata is also much more
of a yellow-brown, while Lycosa riparia is nearly black.
This spider has not before been recorded as British.
Lycosa prativaga. Pl. VITI. fig. 12.
Lycosa prativaga, L. Koch, Die Arachnidenfauna Galiziens, p. 43.
Very nearly resembling in its general appearance and pattern
L. amentata, but smaller, L. prativaga has passed for a variety
of that species in my collection for some years past, having
been also returned to me atthe time of capture by Mr. Blackwall
as small examples of his L. saccata. It is, however, more
nearly allied to L. pullata and L. riparia; its legs are very
distinctly annulated ; and the oblique palpal-organ spine, while
very like that of Z. pullata, has another fine one almost be-
neath and nearly concealed by it ; this additional spine is also
present in Z. pullata, but it 1s in that species much stronger
and more visible.
From ZL. amentata, Clk. (ZL. saccata, Bl.), the much smaller
size of the digital joints of the palpi will easily distinguish it.
The female resembles the male in colours and markings ; and
the genital aperture is characteristically different in form from
that of both L. pullata and L. amentata.
Examples of both sexes have been found at Bloxworth and
other localities in Dorsetshire; but hitherto it has not been re-
corded as British under its proper designation.
Genus ATTUS, Sim.
Attus arcuatus.
Araneus arcuatus, Clerck.
Salticus grossipes, Cambr. Trans, Linn. Soe. xxviii. p.454; id. ibid. p. 527.
A comparison of the examples recorded, /. c. supra, with
typical specimens of A. arcuatus received both from Dr. Tho-
rell and Dr. Koch prove them to be identical. The female
has not yet been found in Britain.
Attus fasciatus.
Salticus fasciatus, Hahn, Die Arachn. i. p. 54, pl. xiv. fig. 41; Cambr.
Trans. Linn. Soc. xxviii. p. 434.
This spider was found by myself, in some abundance, in June
last, among grass and herbage on the eastern side of the Chesil
and rare British Spiders. 259
Beach, Portland. A few examples of both sexes were adult ;
but the majority were immature females. Up to this time
the only recorded British example has been a mutilated
female found by Mr. W. Farren and sent to me by him from
the New Forest, Hampshire.
Genus SALTICUS, Simon (Latr. ad part.).
Salticus formicarius.
Attus formicarius et A. formicoides, Walck. Ins. Apt. i. pp. 470, 471.
Salticus formicarius, Cambr, Linn, Trans, xxviii. p. 435.
Tn addition to the only record of this spider (hitherto) authen-
ticated as British (Linn. Trans. /. c.), | have pleasure in now
recording another example of the adult male found by the late
J.C. Dale, Esq., at the Salterns, near Lymington, Hants, in
August 1865. ‘This example was shown to me lately by Mr.
C. W. Dale, of Glanville’s Wooton.
List of the Spiders noted and described.
Atypus piceus, Sulz., p. 238, Plate VIII. fig. 2.
-— Blackwalli, Sim., p. 241.
Becki, sp. n., a 242, Plate VIII. fig. 1.
Micaria scintillans, Cambr., p. 243.
Drassus criminalis, sp. n., p. 244, Plate VIII. fig. 3.
delinquens, sp. n., p. 245, Plate VIII. fig. 4.
Lethia subniger, Cambr., p. 246.
Erigone Clarku, Cambr., p. 246.
Douglasi, sp. n., p. 247, Plate VIII. fig. 5.
nigriceps, sp. n., p. 248, Plate VIII. fig. 6.
subitanea, sp. n., p. 249, Plate VIII. fig. 7.
Linyphia expuncta, Cambr., p. 251.
aérid, sp. n., p. 251, Plate VIII. fig. 8.
Xysticus viaticus, C. Koch, p. 253.
Lycosa arenicola, sp. n., p. 253, Plate VIII. fig. 9.
-—— agricola, Thor., p. 255.
annulata, Thor., p. 256, Plate VIIL. fig. 10.
—— riparia, C. Koch, p. 257, Plate VIII. fig. 11.
pratwaga, L. Kock p- 258, Plate VIII. fig. 12.
Attus arcuatus, Clerck, p. 258.
fasciatus, Hahn, p. 258.
Salticus formicarius, Walck., p. 259.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VIII.
Fig. 1. Atypus Becki, sp. u., 3: a, profile; 6, spider (without legs), of
natural size; c, right palpus, outer side, underneath, in front ;
d, natural length of spider, including falces ; e, ocular eminence,
from above and behind.
Fig. 2. Atypus piceus, Sulz., ¢ : a, right palpus, outer side underneath,
rather in front; 6, ocular eminence, from above and behind ;
260 Mr. G. E. Dobson on new
ce, ditto, from a French specimen received from Monsieur
Eugéne Simon.
Fig. 3. Drassus criminalis, sp. n., 2 : a, spider, without legs, enlarged ;
b, ditto, in profile; ce, eyes, from the front; d, genital aperture ;
e, natural length of spider.
Fig. 4. Drassus delinquens, sp. n.: a, spider (without legs), enlarged ;
b, profile; c, eyes, from the front ; d, genital aperture ; e, natural
length of spider.
Fig. 5. Erigone Douglasi, sp. n.: a, profile of spider (without legs), en-
larged ; 6, spider, from above, without legs; ¢, eyes and falces,
from the front; d, genital aperture.
Fig. 6. Erigone nigriceps, sp. n.: a, spider, in profile (without legs) en-
larged; 6, eyes and falces, from the front; c, genital aperture ;
d, natural length of spider.
Fig. 7. Erigone subitanea, sp. n.: a, spider in profile (with legs truncated)
enlarged; 6, eyes and falces, from the front ; c, left palpus, inner
side in front; d, left palpus, in front, rather on outer side ;
e, natural length of spider.
Fig. 8. Linyphia aéria, sp. n.: a, spider, in profile (without legs), enlarged ;
b, eyes, from the front; c, abdomen, in profile; d, right palpus,
outer side (inverted); e, natural length of spider.
Fig. 9. Lycosa arenicola, sp. u.: a, digital joint of ¢, showing structure of
palpal organs; a—x, characteristic oblique process of ditto;
b, genital aperture of 2.
Fig. 10. Lycosa annuata, Thorell: a, digital joint of J, showing palpal
organs; a-x, characteristic obtuse tuberculiform process of
ditto; b, genital aperture of 2.
Fig. 11. Lycosa riparia, C. Koch: digital joint of f , showing palpal organs;
x, characteristic oblique spine ; ¥, slender adjacent spine.
Fg. 12. Lycosa prativaga, L. Koch: a, digital joint of ¢, showing palpal
organs; a—wv, characteristic oblique spine; a—y, slender spine
adjacent ; 6, genital aperture of 2 (from a German example
received from Dr. Ludwig Koch).
XXXU.—Deseriptions of new Species of Vespertilionide.
By G. E. Doxzson, M.A., M.B., F.L.S., &e.
Genus VESPERTILIO.
Vespertilio, Keys. & Blas. Wiegm. Archiv, 1889, p. 304.
a. Feet moderate ; wings to the base of the tocs. (Subg. VESPERTILI0.)
Vespertilio africanus, n. subsp.
Ears shorter than the head; laid forwards the tips do not
reach to the end of the muzzle; tragus acutely pointed.
Glands on the side of the muzzle forming a conspicuous
rounded elevation on either side between the eye and nostril.
Fur above dark at the base, with greyish extremities ;
Species of Vespertilionide. 261
beneath, the basal half of the hairs is dark, the terminal half
white.
Length (of an adult male preserved in aleohol)—head and
body 2°5 inches, tail 2°3, head 0°9, ear 0°85, tragus 0°4 x 0-1,
forearm 2°2, thumb 0°45, second finger 3°7, fourth finger 3,
tibia 1°05, foot and claws 0°45.
Hab. Gaboon, W. Africa.
This species belongs to the same section of Vespertilio as
V. murinus of Europe, which it very closely resembles in
general form, in size, and even in the colour of the fur. It
is, however, at once distinguished by the much shorter ears,
acutely pointed tragus, and great development of the glands
of the muzzle. The wing-membrane also does not extend so
far outwards along the foot as in V. murinus, and the inner
side of the ear-conch is less hairy.
Though thus readily distinguished from V. murinus of
Europe, | am induced, on account of its very close general
affinities to that species, to consider it a subspecies only.
Type in the collection of the British Museum.
b. Feet very large; wings to the ankles or tarsus. (Subg. Levcono#.)
Vespertilio megalopus, n. sp.
Very similar to V. Daubentonit; but the ears are longer,
much narrower and more acute, and, laid forwards, the tips
pass beyond the end of the nose at least one tenth of an inch ;
the inner margin, instead of forming a regular arc from the
base to the tip, is flattened along the upper third, and the
narrow extremity of the ear is sharply rounded off. The
tragus is also longer and narrower, and the upper third of the
inner margin is slightly concave; but the extremity is not
directed inwards.
The wing-membrane does not extend so far down on the
tarsus asin V. Daubentonii ; and the second upper premolar is
slightly drawn inwards. In other respects, in general form
and in the colour and distribution of the fur, this species closely
resembles V. Daubentonit, of which it may be considered the
African representative.
Length (of a male specimen preserved in alcohol) —head and
body 1°65 inch, tail 1°6, head 0°6, ear 0°55, tragus 0°3, fore-
arm 1°45, thumb 0°35, second finger 2°3, fourth finger 1-9,
tibia 0°6, foot and claws 0-4.
Hab. Gaboon. ‘Type in the collection of the British
Museum.
262 Mr, A. W. E. O'Shaughnessy on
Genus VESPERUGO.
Vesperugo, Keys. & Blas. Wiegm. Archiv, 1839, p. 312.
Vesperugo (Vesperus) platyrhinus, n. sp.
Muzzle broad and obtuse; glandular prominences large,
smoothly rounded; nostrils opening near the margin of the
upper lip, on a level with the rounded extremity of the muzzle,
not emarginate between. The front of the muzzle is evenly
bevelled off from the summit of the glandular elevations to
the margin of the upper lip; and the nasal apertures are
narrow, appearing as small oblique slits in the front of the
muzzle. ars and tragus as in V. Kuhlit.
Wings from the base of the toes; postcalcaneal lobe small,
but distinct ; last caudal vertebra half free.
Fur above dark brown, paler towards the tip; beneath
similar, the extremities of a lighter colour than on the upper
surface.
Upper inner incisors long, faintly bifid at the extremities ;
outer incisors very short, scarcely equalling the cingulum of
the inner ones; lower incisors crowded, trifid; no minute
upper premolar ; the single upper premolar very close to the
canine.
Length (of an aduit male)—head and body 1:8 inch, tail 1:4,
head 0:7, ear 0°55, tragus 0°25, forearm 1°35, second finger
2°15, fourth finger 1°65, tibia 0°45, foot 0°25.
Hab. Unknown. ‘Type in the collection of the British
Museum.
This very peculiar species of Vesperugo resembles V. Kuhlit
in size and in general form; but the absence of the first
minute upper premolar and the shape of the muzzle at once dis-
tinguishit. ‘The shape of the muzzle is so peculiar as to lead
me to suspect it may be an individual peculiarity. As the
specimen from which the description is taken is well preserved
in alcohol, this flattening of the front of the muzzle and ex-
tremities of the nostrils is not due to imperfect preservation.
XXXUL.—Descriptions of new Species of Geckotide in the
British-Museum Collection. By A. W. EL. O'SHAUGHNESSY,
Assistant in the Departments of Natural History.
Phyllodactylus tuberculosus,
described by Wiegmann (Acta Ac. Nat. Curios. xvii. p.
241, pl. 18. fig. 2) from California, to which we must add
as a synonym the Phyllodactylus Xanti described by Cope
new Species of Geckotidee. 263
(Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 1863, p. 102), also from California,
has ‘‘ small ventral scales, which, although hexagonal, affect
a circular form.’’?» They are in more than 25 longitudinal
series ; and if counted longitudinally from the vent to the
throat, where they gradually merge into the smaller gular
scales, the number is about sixty. The large campanuliform
mental is followed by two large postmentals, and these by a
series of much smaller roundish plates, set transversely, two
or three of them being behind each postmental, but not going
up laterally between the postmental and the second infra-
labial.
This species has now been obtained from Guatemala and
Salvador.
Phyllodactylus ventralis, sp.n.
Differs from the above in the ventral scales, which are much
larger and regularly oval; there are not more than fifteen or
sixteen longitudinal series of them; and counted longitudinally,
to where they give place to the minute gular scales, they number
about forty-five. The mental shield is longer, narrower, and
more pointed posteriorly, its poimt being enclosed by two
postmentals ; and behind these a space reaching to about the
middle of the chin exhibits rounded or polygonal scales, much
larger than the minute gular scales of P. tuberculosus and
those which follow in this species reaching as far as the chest.
Immediately behind the postmentals the anterior rounded or
polygonal scales constitute a distinct larger transverse series
composed of four, the outermost on each side going up between
the postmental and the second infralabial, occupying an inter-
stice which is almost granular in P. tuberculosus. Head also
much narrower, more pointed, and less flattened than in that
species. ‘The dorsal tubercles are in fifteen longitudinal
series. The tail has rings of tuberculous scales at intervals,
and a broadened inferior central series of scales. Har-opening
narrow, oblique.
Ground-colour yellowish brown. A narrow distinct stripe
of dark brown from the nasal plate, through the eye, to the
side of the body; the back variegated with dark brown.
Hab. Jamaica. One specimen, 4 inches in length.
Tarentola ephippiata, sp. n.
Head broad, depressed; muzzle rounded, covered with
moderate-sized convex scales, somewhat larger in front than
on the hinder portions of the head. Back minutely granular,
with flat oval tubercles, disposed in fourteen regular longitu-
dinal series; ventral surface covered with small uniform,
264 Mr. A. W. E. O’Shaughnessy on
roundish or hexagonal scales; gular region with minute
scales, becoming larger again laterally. Supralabials ten,
the last two minute ; infralabials eight. Mental a long wedge-
shaped plate reaching backward as far as the third infralabial.
Three postmentals on each side beneath the first, second, and
third infralabials, diminishing in size. A row of secondary
sublabials intervenes anteriorly between the second and third
postmentals and the infralabials, leaving the larger first post-
mental in contact with the first infralabial. Three or four
minute roundish scales at the point of the mental. LEar-
opening very narrow, oblique. Pupil narrow, vertical. Tail
with rings of tuberculous scales at intervals, and flat, squarish,
tessellated scales on the lower surface.
Ground-colour pale brown. A long reddish brown stripe
from the nose on each side of the head to the back, some way
behind the shoulders, where it is enlarged and, joining that of
the opposite side, forms a saddle-shaped patch. A small
isolated brown spot, pointed anteriorly, forked posteriorly, on
the occiput, and some transverse brown patches on the hinder
portion of the back.
T'wo specimens from West Africa. Length 47 inches.
Hemidactylus echinus, sp. n.
A species, the type of which comes from West Africa, pre-
senting the peculiarity of a series of prickles or short spines
along the side of the body.
Upper parts minutely granular, with numerous small con-
vex tubercles scattered irregularly, becoming fewer or failing
altogether on the head, where the general very fine granulation
becomes scarcely coarser on the muzzle. Kyelid with small
tubercular scales. Chin and chest minutely granular ; scales
of belly very minute, close-set, almost granular; several
crescentic series of larger preanal scales enclosing a curved
series of eight pores. No femoral pores. ‘The lowermost
tubercles on the side of the body are developed into a regular
series of pointed projections or prickles, extending between the
fore and the hind limb; though minute, they present a strong
resemblance to the spines of a sea-urchin. Rostral broad,
divided; supralabials twelve ; infralabials eight, with a line
of narrow secondary sublabials beneath them. Mental tri-
angular, with a small scale at its point and a pair of small
postmentals on each side. Tail quadrangular, the ridges with
projecting spinous tubercles. Har-opening very small. Pupil
vertical.
Colour brown, paler on the lower parts, with a diamond-
shaped dark spot on the centre of the nape, some lighter
new Species of Geckotide. 265
mottlings, rather indistinct, on the back, and a clear yellow
spot on the hind part of the thigh, close to the root of the tail,
which is banded alternately with dark and pale brown.
One specimen from the Gaboon, 43 inches long.
Goniodactylus caudiscutatus, Giinth.,
does not offer the peculiarity mentioned by M. Bocourt, in
‘Miss. sc. Mex.’ p. 48, as characteristic of the G. fuscus of
Hallowell, viz. that the mental plate is followed by a single
large postmental in place of the row of small plates found in
G. albogularis. ‘The specimen bearing this name referred to
by him is no doubt a different species ; as there are specimens
in the British Museum from Panama with a large single post-
mental ; and these being different from Dr. Giinther’s species,
I have named them, in accordance with M. Bocourt’s differen-
tiation, G. fuscus.
Goniodactylus Braconniert, sp. n.
This form is referred to by Duméril, in ‘Arch. du Mus.’ viii.
p- 473, as a variety of G. albogularis. It is distinguished
from it by the conspicuous coloration of the gular region ; and
the British Museum has as yet received it only from the
South-American continent, whereas G. albogularis appears to
be a West-Indian species.
The whole of the chin is of a light colour, separated abruptly
from the dark hue of the chest, which envelops the sides of
the body, extending more or less on the belly. A straight
white stripe, bordered with greyish, forked behind the mental,
and dividing into two branches, extends the length of the chin
to the chest. Another lateral stripe on each side curves
upwards from before the chest towards the eye ; and two blue
spots on the supralabials beneath the eye correspond severally
with the curved stripe and the lateral branch of the median
gular stripe. ‘There is also a vertical humeral band. The
upper surface of the body is variegated like G. atbogularis,
being either (1) marbled with dark and light brown or (2)
very finely punctulated.
Several specimens have been obtained from Barranquila,
New Granada, and one, which agrees completely with them,
bears the locality of Chili.
Goniodactylus sulcatus, sp. n.
Head narrow, sharply descending from the supraorbital
region to the extremity of the snout. Supralabials six; infra-
labials five. Mental large, truncated behind, followed by two,
small, hexagonal postmentals, and these by one or two rows
266 Prof. A. E. Verrill on the Occurrence
of similar scales forming a postmental patch. Gular region
covered by uniform convex granules equal to those on the
muzzle, larger than the finer granules of the top and sides of
the head. Ear-opening small. The whole upper surface of
the body granular ; ventral surface from front of chest to anus
with moderate-sized hexagonal scales, which also protect the
anterior faces of the limbs and the entire lower surface of the
hind limb. Tail tetragonal, with one deep median superior
and two deep lateral furrows the whole of its length; finely
granular above, with a central series of broad and lateral
series of smaller scales beneath.
Colour (in spirit) dusky brown, very finely punctulated over
the back with darker. A vertical humeral stripe and several
indistinct dark roundish spots on the sides of the body. The
upper surface of the tail is regularly barred with broad brown
and pale patches.
The type of this species was received from Cuba; its
length is 3 inches.
XXXIV.—Notice of the Occurrence of another Gigantic
Cephalopod (Architeuthis) on the Coast of Newfoundland,
in December 1874. By A. E. VERRILL*.
IN an article published in the ‘ American Journal of Science ’
for February and March 1875f, I gave a summary of our infor-
mation concerning twelve specimens of gigantic cephalopods
that have been obtained in American waters during a few
years past, together with a brief notice of the various specimens
that have been deseribed by European writers f.
I am now able to add some important information concern-
ing an additional specimen which was cast ashore last winter
at Grand Bank, Fortune Bay, Newfoundland. As in the
* From the ‘ American Journal of Science’ for September 1875.
+ Vol. ix. pp. 123, 177, plates ii—v. See also the ‘American Natura-
list,’ vol. ix. pp. 21, 78, January and February 1875.
{ In the ‘Journal de Zoologie,” vol. iv. no, 2, p. 88, 1875, M. Paul
Gervais has also given a summary of the gigantic cephalopods previously
known, and has mentioned an additional species (Architeuthis Mouchex,
Vélain), of which portions were brought to Paris by M. Vélain, from the
Island of Saint Paul, where it was cast ashore. He also quotes the brief
notice of the animal by M. Vélain (in Comptes Rendus, t. lxxx. p. 1002,
Séance du 19 Avril 1875). It is stated that this example belongs to the
same group with Ommastrephes; and if so, it will probably prove to be
generically distinct from both of the Newfoundland species. M. Gervais
does not refer, in any way, to the several American specimens described
by the writer and others.
of another Gigantic Cephalopod. 267
case of several of the previous specimens, I am deeply indebted
to the Rev. M. Harvey for information concerning this one,
and also for the jaws and one of the large suckers of the tenta-
cular arms, these being the only parts preserved. Although
this specimen went ashore in December, Mr. Harvey did not
hear of the event until March, owing to the unusual interrup-
tion of travel by the severity of the winter. He informs me that
Mr. George Simms, Magistrate of Grand Bank, has stated, in a
letter to him, that he examined the creature a few hours after
it went ashore, but not before it had been mutilated by the
removal of the tail by the fishermen, who finally cut it up as
food for their numerous dogs; and that the long tentacular
arms were 26 feet long and 16 inches in circumference (pro-
bably meaning at their broad terminal portion); the short
arms were “ one third as long as the long ones, and about the
same in circumference ;” the back of the head or neck was 36
inches in circumference (evidently meaning the head behind
the bases of the arms); the length of the body “from the
junction to the tail” was 10 feet (apparently meaning from
the anterior edge of the mantle to the origin of the caudal
fins). He thinks the tail, which had been removed, was
about one third as long as the body ; but this is probably over-
estimated, judging from the Logie-Bay specimen (no. 5 of my
former papers), in which it was about one fifth; but it may
have been cut off above its proper base. Allowing one fifth
also for the length of the head, the total length would be
about 40 feet, the head and body together being about 14.
The large sucker in my possession is one inch in diameter
across the denticulated rim, and in form and structure agrees
closely with those previously described and figured by me
from the tentacular arms of nos. 4 and 5 (vol. ix. plate iv. figs.
11, 12, 13).
The jaws are still attached together, in their natural posi-
tion, by the cartilages*. They agree very closely in form
with the large jaws of Architeuthis princeps, V. (no. 10),
figured on plate v. vol. ix., but they are about one tenth
smaller. ‘The upper jaw measures 111 millims. in height
(front to back), 88 millims. from tip of beak to front edge of
palatine laminz, 20 millims. from tip of beak to the base of
the notch. The lower jaw measures 96 millims. in total
length, 80 millims. from tip of beak to front edge of laminz,
19 millims. from tip to base of notch.
From the close agreement of these jaws with those of
* These will be figured in an article on the gigantic Cephalopods, now
in preparation for the ‘Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of
. ’ oe
Sciences.
268 On the Occurrence of another Gigantic Cephalopod.
A. princeps, there can be very little doubt that they belong to
that species; and if so, the measurements given will be of
great importance as affording additional knowledge of the
approximate form and proportions of this, the largest known
species.
Note.—In ‘The Zoologist,’ London, 2nd ser. no. 118, p.
4526, July 1875, there is an article entitled, “ Notice of a
gigantic Cephalopod (Dinoteuthis proboscideus), which was
stranded at Dingle, in Kerry, two hundred years ago. By
A. G. More, F.L.8.” The article is chiefly a reprint of the
rude popular accounts written at the time of the capture; and
upon these alone Mr. More attempts to found a new genus
and species. ‘The one character which he relies upon as of
generic value is the power of projecting the beak in the form
of a proboscis. But he apparently does not know that this is
habitually done by the various common species of Omma-
strephes, Loligo, &c., and perhaps by all ten-armed cephalopods.
There is no reason to suppose, from the published accounts,
that this specimen differed in any way from the Architeuthis
monachus. It was described as 19 feet in total length; the
long arms having been mutilated, the part remaining was 11
feet long, and as thick as a man’s arm; the short arms varied
from 6 to 8 feet in length, and were as thick as a man’s leg,
and had two rows of large serrated suckers; the proboscis
(buccal mass with beak) was the ‘size of a man’s fist ;” the
beak was “ like an eagle’s, but broader.’”’ The whole animal
was said to have been as large as a large horse. The measure-
ments given indicate a specimen smaller than several of the
American examples, and but little, if any, larger than our
no. 5, from Logie Bay.
In the August number of the ‘Annals and Magazine of
Natural History,’ vol. xvi. p. 123, the same writer has briefly
described the beak and portions of the tentacles and arms of
another specimen, taken off Boffin Island, on the west coast
of Ireland, last April. The tentacular arms are said to have
been 80 feet long; the expanded portion 2 feet 9 inches; the
large central suckers nearly 1 inch in diameter, those of the
outer rows ‘5 of an inch; one short arm is said to have been
8 feet long, and 15 inches in circumference at the base, when
fresh.
Mr. More believes this to be distinct from the Newfound-
land species, and refers it to A. dua; but his description agrees
closely with the corresponding parts of A. monachus (no. 5),
described by me. He appears to be ignorant of my articles
on the subject, published in the ‘American Journal of
Science.’
oo
On a new Genus of Graptolites. 269
XXXV.—On a new Genus and some new Species of Grapto-
lites from the Skiddaw Slates. By H. ALLEYNE NICHOL-
son, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History
in the University of St. Andrews.
[Plate VII.]
In the following communication I wish to draw attention to
some remarkable Graptolites collected by Mr. W. K. Dover
from the Skiddaw Slates, and placed by him in my hands
for examination. One of these is the type of a new and very
singular genus; another is a large and fine new species of the
genus Thamnograptus; and the third is a new species of
Didymograptus.
Genus AzyGoGraptus, Nich. & Lapw.*
Polypary simple, unilateral, consisting of a single mono-
prionidian stipe, which is developed from the central portion
of the sicula on one side. Cellules slightly overlapping.
This genus completely fills up the great break between the
unilateral and bilateral siculate Graptolites, and seems to be
intermediate in its characters between the true Monograptide
and the family of the Nemagraptide. It agrees with the
former in the fact that the polypary consists of a single uni-
cellular stipe—but differs altogether in its mode of develop-
ment, the celluliferous stipe springing directly from one side
of the sicula about its centre. In this important character the
genus agrees with no other known Graptolites than Nema-
graptus, Emmons, and Canograptus, Hall, both of these,
however, including bilaterally developed forms. ‘The cellules
of Azygograptus are essentially of the type of Monograptus
Nilssont, Barr., and thus link the genus indifferently to either
the Monograptide or the Nemagraptide.
Subjoined is a description of the only known species of the
genus.
1. Azygograptus Lapwortht, Nich. Pl. VIL. figs. 2-2c.
Polypary simple, of a single slender monoprionidian stipe,
which takes origin from the centre of one side of a strongly
marked pointed “ sicula.” The length of the sicula is about
* I have associated Mr. Lapworth with myself in the description of
this new genus, partly because its name was suggested by him, and.
partly because it would not have been possible for me to satisfactorily
determine its position and affinities had it not been for his valuable and
elaborate researches on the development and classification of the Grapto-
lites (“An Improved Classification of the Rhabdophora,” Geol. Mag.
vol. x. 1873).
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser.4. Vol. xvi. 79
270 Dr. H. A. Nicholson on some
half a line; and its shape is the normal triangular one. As
there is good evidence amongst the Diplograptide that the
broader end of the sicula forms the proximal extremity of the
polypary, I have figured the present form in a corresponding
position (figs. 2a, 26). The stipe is narrow, apparently
from one inch to two inches in length, and about one thirtieth
of an inch in width opposite to the cell-mouths. The cellules
are long and narrow, resembling those of Monograptus Nils-
sont in shape, remote (about twenty in the space of an inch),
slightly overlapping, the cell-mouths being nearly at right
angles to the axis.
Owing to the remarkable appearance presented by the
sicula standing nearly at right angles to the celluliterous
stipe, there is not any difficulty in recognizing all fragments
of this species in which the base is preserved. Owing also to
the marked manner in which the stipe originates from the
centre of the sicula, there is no difficulty in determining that
we have not to deal with a Didymograpius broken off at the
sicula.
I have named the species in honour of my friend Mr. Charles
Lapworth, whose researches have of late years so materially
increased our knowledge of the structure of the Graptolitide.
The specimens from which the above description is taken were
kindly placed in my hands for examination by Mr. W. K.
Dover, who has long been an enthusiastic collector in the
Skiddaw Slates. They include the remains of a great number
of well-preserved individuals, none of which exhibits any
branching, though the stipes are often so thickly crowded to-
gether as to render this point very difficult of observation.
Locality and Formation.—Hodgson-How Quarry, near Por-
tinscale, Lower Skiddaw Slates. Apparently by no means
of rare occurrence.
Genus THAMNOGRAPTUS, Hall.
Polypary composed of a central rachis or stem, giving off
slender alternating branchlets. Cellules unknown. A dorsal
“ axis’ (?) entering into the branchlets as well as the main
stem.
Much has yet to be learnt before we can speak positively as
to the nature and affinities of Thamnograptus, though I think
there can be little doubt as to its belonging to one great group
with the true Graptolites. There is a possibility that the
branchlets are greatly elongated cellules ; but it is more pro-
bable that the branchlets carried the cellules in a single row
on one face, though at present the published evidence on this
subject is insufficient to establish this view.
new Species of Graptolites. 271
2. Thamnograptus Doveri, Nich. PJ. VII. fig. 1.
Polypary composed of a central undulating stem, about one
twelfth of an inch in width, giving off alternately placed
branchlets on the two sides. The branchlets are straight,
about one twenty-fourth of an inch in width, and placed at
intervals of from one quarter to half an inch apart (measuring
on the same side of the rachis). The terminations of the
branchlets are not shown; but the longest ones preserved are
about an inch and a quarter in length, and show no sign of an
ending. No “solid axis” can be made out; but portions of
the branchlets show very distinct transverse markings, which
have every appearance of being the mouths of cellules.
Thamnograptus Dovert is readily distinguished from T.
typus, Hall, and 7. Anna, Hall, by its much larger dimen-
sions and the remoteness and great length of the branchlets.
The only specimen known is a very well-preserved fragment
about two and a quarter inches in length, and exhibiting por-
tions of five branchlets on the one side and of six upon the
other.
I have named the species in honour of Mr. W. K. Dover,
by. whom it was discovered.
Locality and Formation.—Randal Crag, Skiddaw. Lower
Skiddaw Slates.
3. Didymograptus gibberulus, Nich. Pl. VII. figs. 3-3 6.
Polypary bilateral, composed of two broad monoprionidian
stipes, which bend backwards from the sicula in gentle curves
at an angle of from 335° to 340°. The branches attain their
greatest width at their junction with one another and the
sicula, where they have a breadth of a line or more. The
two central cellules are vertical in position; and from the ver-
tical line thus formed the cellules become more and more
obliquely divergent till they come to form an angle of about
45° with the back of the stipe. The cellules are about forty
in the space of one inch; and their mouths, in well-preserved
examples, are furnished with very prominent mucronate tips.
Didymograptus gibberulus belongs to the “ reflexed”” group
of the Didymograpti, and is very similar in general appear-
ance to the fossil described and figured by Mr. Salter under
the name of D. caduceus. The original specimen on which
this species was founded (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. ix.
p- 87), however, is beyond doubt an example of Tetragraptus
bryonoides, Hall, or T. Bigsbyt, Hall, in which two of the
normal four stipes are concealed from view by the matrix.
19*
272 On some new Species of Graptolites.
D. caduceus cannot, therefore, be retained, though I have little
doubt that one of the forms subsequently figured by Mr.
Salter from the Skiddaw States under this name (Quart.
Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xix. fig. 13a) is identical with the
species now under consideration.
That Didymograptus gibberulus is quite distinct from those
specimens which consist of two of the stipes of 7. bryonotdes
separated by the matrix from the other two, is at once seen
by a comparison of the cellules near the sicula in the two
cases. In 7. bryonoides (as in all the Didymograpti except
the present species) the primary cellules are comparatively
small, the cellules not attaining their full development, or the
stipes their full width, till we have receded to some distance
from the sicula. There is thus a more or less extensive space
opposite the sicula, which is formed by the union of the bases
of the first pair of cellules and is narrower than the rest of the
polypary (Pl. VI. fig. 5). On the other hand, in D. gib-
berulus the primary cellules are the most fully developed, and
the stipes are consequently broader in the neighbourhood of
the sicula than anywhere else (Pl. VII. figs. 3, 3a).
There is also the very striking and unique peculiarity in D.
gibberulus that the two primary cellules do not diverge at an
angle from the top of the sicula, as is usual amongst the Didy-
mograptt, but are placed vertically, parallel with the long axis
of the sicula, and thus serve to divide the frond into two
halves (PI. VII. fig. 3 a).
None of the specimens that I have seen exhibits the termi-
nations of the branches satisfactorily, the stipes in the largest
of them being about nine lines long. ‘The sicula is generall
a broad blunt process, of a triangular shape, and about half a
line in length; but it has occasionally a delicate thread-like
extension which raises its length to two lines (Pl. VII.
fig. 30).
In accordance with what we now know to be the true posi-
tion of the sicula and its relation to the development of the
celluliferous stipes, I have figured the specimens of this species
in what would, prior to Mr. Lapworth’s researches on this
point, have been regarded as the reverse of their natural situa-
tion—namely, with the broader end of the sicula pointing
downwards.
Locality and Formation.—Randal Crag and White Houses,
Skiddaw, Lower Skiddaw Slates. Collected by Mr. W. K.
Dover.
On the Structure of Amphicentrum granulosum. 273
EXPLANATION OF PLATE VII.
Fig. 1. Thamnograptus Doveri, Nich., of the natural size.
Fig. 2. A slab with numerous individuals of Azygograptus Lapworth,
Nich., of the natural size. 2a. A large individual of the same,
magnified two diameters. 26. Small portion of the base of the
same, enlarged still further. 2c. A few celiules of the same,
greatly enlarged.
Fig. 3. Didymograptus gibberulus, Nich., of the natural size. 8a. Base of
another specimen of the same, greatly enlarged. 30d. Base of
another example of the same, with a spiniform extension of
the sicula, greatly enlarged.
Fig. 4. A specimen of Tetragraptus bryonoides, Hall, in which only two
of the four normal stipes are preserved. The two missing stipes,
not being in the same plane, are shown in outline.
Fig. 5. Base of two of the stipes of Tetragraptus bryonoides, introduced
for comparison with the base of Didymograptus gibberulus,
greatly enlarged.
XXXVI.—On the Structure of Amphicentrum granulosum,
Huxley. By Ramsay H. Traquair, M.D., F.G.S.,
Keeper of the Natural-History Collections in the Edin-
burgh Museum of Science and Art.
[Plate LX.]
Since Amphicentrum granulosum, Huxley, was first described
by Professor Young of Glasgow*, a second species, A. striatum,
has been recognized from the Northumberland coal-field by
Messrs. Hancock and Attheyt. Regarding the structural
peculiarities, however, of this most singular genus of Carboni-
ferous fishes, there has been nothing further published than
what is contained in Dr. Young’s well-known paper ‘‘On the
affinities of Platysomus and allied genera.”
In a subject beset with such difficulties as the osteology of
fossil fishes, where the remains are, for the most part, either
crushed or fragmentary, it is natural that the advent of fresh
material should not only add to our knowledge but also reveal
errors in the descriptions of previous writers. And with
regard to Amphicentrum granulosum, the careful study of a
beautiful series of specimens from the North-Staffordshire
coal-field, recently lent me by my friend Mr. Ward, of Longton,
has led me to results which, in some important points, differ
* Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc. vol. xxii. (1866), p. 306 e¢ seg.
t+ Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 4, 1872, vol. ix. p. 255.
274 Dr. R. H. Traquair on the Structure
materially from those recorded by Dr. Young. To detail
briefly those results is the object of the present commu-
nication.
Cranium proper.—\ am quite unable to find any trace of
the large median “supraoccipital” with its “crest,” which
Dr. Young has figured* and described as interpolated be-
tween the parictals, as in ordinary Teleostei. On the contrary,
there is no doubt that in Amphicentrum, as in Ganoid fishes
generally (Lepidosteus, Polypterus, Amia, Lepidotus, &c. &c.)
and in some Teleostei (Macrodon, Erythrinus), the partetals
(p, Pl. IX. fig. 1) were in contact with each other along the
middle line. On comparing Dr. Young’s restored figure with
the skull represented in fig. 1, Pl. [X., it is pretty evident
that he has designated the upper part of the supraclavicular
element of the shoulder-girdle as “ parietal,” while the real
parietal is included in his “ frontal ;” a broken line across the
posterior part of the latter shows, at the same time, that the
line of separation.between the two bones did not altogether
escape his notice. On the outer side of each parietal is a
large squamosal (sq); and in advance of it there is a more
elongated frontal (f). The latter does not, however, take
any part in the formation of the orbital margin, being sepa-
rated from it by two other plates (p.f & a,f), the posterior
and anterior frontals, which form respectively the posterior-
superior and anterior-superior margins of the orbit. The
region of the skull between the prefrontals and the pre-
maxillaries is in all the specimens very obscure, though there
is evidence in this situation of a pair of square-shaped plates
representing nasals ; but I have not been able to discover any
median ethmoid. Nor are the nasal apertures apparent, though
probably they occur between each nasal bone and the large
anterior suborbital (to be subsequently alluded to). Regarding
the condition of the base and side walls of the cranium nothing
more can be made out, beyond the presence of a strong para-
sphenoidal bar, which in some specimens is evident enough.
Jaws and palato-quadrate apparatus. — The premaaxille
(p.mx) are generally plain enough, and are, as Dr. Young
has described them, a pair of remarkable, prominent, sharp-
edged edentulous bones, forming a beak-like projection at the
front of the snout. Posteriorly each premaxilla articulates
with the maxilla of its own side.
As regards the maxilla, Dr. Young has described it as an
oblong tooth-bearing plate, which “bulges below into an
* Op. cit. p. 804, woodcut, fig. 1.
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.
abruptly projecting labial mass, whose oral margin forms a
ridge separated by a shallow groove from an inner ridge.
Seen from below, this groove terminates sharply behind by
the approximation of the outer and inner ridges, but is closed
in front by the premaxilla. On the outer ridge the dental
tubercles are few; on the inner, which is more prominent,
they are more numerous,—less | so, however, than on the
mandible, which is the converse of the maxilla, in that the
ridges approximate in front, the tubercles ceasing before their
coalescence, while the eroove is open posteriorly ; the outer
ridge is also the more prominent Ue
Now, few things are more clearly shown in the specimens
before me than that the maxilla is, on. the contrary, a thin
plate, whose oral margin is quite edentulous, like that of the prae-
maxilla, It forms a somewhat triangular or, rather, trapezoidal
plate (mz, Pl. LX. figs. 1 & 2), whose upper margin slopes
gently downwards and forwards, the posterior more rapidly
downwards and backwards; the anterior margin, very short
and a little bevelled off, is in contact with the premaxilla,
which slightly overlaps it; finally, the oral margin, the
longest, forms a simple and rather sharp edge, along which
not the slightest trace of teeth or of dental tubercles can be
seen. The external surface of the maxilla is beautifully
ornamented with wavy ridges and wrinkles, which, save quite
in front and near the upper margin, where they are more
irregularly disposed, assume a general direction perpendicular
to the oral edge of the bone, stopping short, however, just
before reaching it, so as to leave here a very narrow smooth
border. Both in form and in external sculpture this bone
bears a great resemblance to the maxilla of Hurynotus, ex-
cepting, of course, that the obtuse rounded teeth with which
the latter is garnished are here totally absent.
It is therefore clear that the bone reckoned as ‘ maxilla”
by Dr. Young, and of which the original specimen from
tr. Ward’s collection, represented in “his figuret, 1s now
before me, cannot be that bone; and the question next arises
as to what it is.
The twenty-six specimens of detached bones bearing tooth-
tubercles, submitted to me by Mr. Ward, easily fall into two
distinct sets. In the one, which includes. the type specimen
of the so-called maxilla (Pl. [X. figs. 5 & 6), the surface
exhibiting granulations is more flat, ‘the dental tubercles less
prominent, and, indeed, quite obsolete on one of the two mar-
ginal ridges ; while in the other (figs. 9 & 10), the dentigerous
* Op. cit. p. 806, + Op. cit. pl. xx. fig. 2.
276 Dr. R. H. Traquair on the Structure
margin of which bears an exact resemblance to that figured
by Dr. Young as appertaining to the mandible, the surface of
the bone is more convex and marked with a stronger granu-
lation, the tooth-tubercles are more prominent and nearly
equally developed on both the ridges, which are also more
divergent.
Bones of both these descriptions occur in situ. In several
specimens | have, by careful working-out, been able to prove
beyond a doubt that the reputed maxilla is in reality a part
of the lower jaw—an internal dentary or splenial mandibular
element ; while the palatal nature of the bones of the second
category was evident from the very first.
The internal dentary bone (sp) is represented detached in
Pl. IX. figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8, and én sttw, seen from the inner
aspect, i ‘figs. "3&4. It is a somewhat oblong-shaped bone,
rather pointed in front, though more truncated posteriorly. The
inferior margin is thin ; ; the upper one shows for the anterior
two thirds of its length two ridges, separated by a shallow
groove and coalescing posteriorly. The outer of the two
ridg es is the more prominent ; nearly straight at its commence-
ment, its contour soon assumes a gentle upward convexity,
this part of the ridge displaying also several small sharpish
dental tubercles, which are more strongly developed in some
individuals than in others. The inner ridge is less prominent,
and, proceeding in a straighter direction, gets lower down on
the margin as it passes “forwards ; the dental tubercles are
quite obsolete. The cnner or oral surface of the plate pre-
sents below the level of the smaller ridge an oblong patch of
enamelled granulations, roughening the lower part of the
wall of the cavity of the mouth—a condition also not without
a parallel among recent Ganoids, a portion of the oral aspect
of the compound splenial bone of Améa being also granulated.
On working out a speciinen from the outer side (fig. 7), or
making a transverse seetion of it, it becomes elear that the
plate is longitudinally sharply folded on itself along the line
of the tooth-bearing ridge, the outer aspect of the reflected
portion showing , especially towards its lower edge, which
articulates with the dentary bone proper, a number of minute
tubercles, some of the more anteriorly placed of which con-
siderably resemble in some cases the tubercle-teeth of the
marginal ridge itself. Just behind the middle of the bone
the externally reflected portion passes nearly horizontally out-
wards, showing a rather thick edge, and is then obliquely cut
off posteriorly ‘(fig. 8).
‘he proper dentary portion of the lower jaw belies its
naine, in being, like the maxilla, quite edentulous, its upper
4
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margin forming a thin sharp edge, separated by a considerable
groove from the prominent tooth-bearing ridge of the element
last described. In the small mandible figured by Dr. Young*,
of which the original is now before me, this edge is broken
away save quite in front; but it is well shown, seen from the
inner aspect, in the head represented in Pl. 1X. fig. 2. At
the symphysis the anterior extremity of this element is sharp,
prominent, and excavated above, and in this manner comes to
look somewhat like the counterpart of the premaxillary beak
opposed to it. The external surface is smooth and ganoid,
being prettily sculptured with short ridges, furrows, and
tubercles.
Other distinct mandibular pieces were certainly present ;
of these the only one seen with any distinctness is the angular,
a narrow plate at the angle of the jaw, much resembling the
corresponding element in the Paleeoniscidee.
The palatal tooth-bearing plate (pa, Pl. TX. figs. 9 and 10
detached, and figs. 3 & 4 cn sctu) differs, as might be expected,
considerably in form from the mandibular. What may be
designated the body of the bone presents a gently convex
oral surface, bearing a large patch of tolerably prominent
shining tubercles, some round, some oval, by which the
roof of the mouth was roughened and armedt. The supe-
rior internal margin is thin; the external inferior one is
convexly curved, and presents two prominent dentigerous
ridges, separated by a groove, and coalescing posteriorly.
The external of the two ridges is the more prominent;
but the dental tubercles are developed nearly equally on
both, being strongest in front and fading away posteriorly
into mere undulations; considerable individual differences
are also here observable in the number and degree of promi-
nence of these dental eminences. Behind the union of the
two dentigerous ridges, this palatopterygoid sends down a
short blunt process (a, fig. 9), which seems, most probably
along with subjacent cartilage, to have taken a part in the
articulation of the mandible, there being no distinct quadrate.
Above this articular process the posterior part of the bone
projects upwards in a slightly expanded wing or lamina (y),
which, bending also a little outwards, comes into contact with
the hyomandibular (hm, fig. 3) by its thin hinder margin.
The outer surface is concave; the lower margin, external to
* Op. cit. pl. xx. fig. 3.
+ These tubercles are probably the same with those referred to by
Dr. Young at p. 309 of his paper, and represented in fig. 7, pl. xx. of his
illustrations. Their number is not, however, limited to three rows, nor
is their arrangement always linear.
278 Dr. R. H. Traquair on the Structure
the outer tooth-bearing ridge, is slightly folded outwards, so
as to form a ledge along which the maxilla was no doubt
articulated; about the posterior fourth of the margin this
ledge is suddenly cut off obliquely, probably to allow the
passage of the masticatory muscles to the lower jaw.
The bone just described thus forms a powerful palato-
pterygoid plate, extending from the hyomandibular and the
articulation of the lower jaw to the front of the head, and, as
shown by radiating lines seen on impressions of its outer
aspect, was ossified from a centre placed below and behind,
close to the place of coalescence of the dentigerous ridges.
It is not, however, certain that it was the only osseous element
in the palatoquadrate arch, as I have in one head seen what
seem to be traces of another ossification near its posterior
superior angle.
Thave not seen the original specimen from which Dr. Young
took the figure which he gives as representing the edge of the
mandible as seen from above*. But on comparing that figure
(which has certainly nothing to do with the mandible) with
the bone we have just considered, there seems to me to be
little room for doubt that he has mistaken the tooth-bearing
edge of a fragmentary specimen of the palatopterygoid for
the dental margin of the mandible, and has placed its posterior
extremity forwards as well as its lower aspect upwards.
Hyomandibular, Opercular, and Branchiostegal apparatus.—
In fig. 3 the form and connexions of the hyomandibular (hm)
are clearly displayed. It is an elongated bone passing down-
wards, and with a very slight inclination forwards, from the
side of the cranium below the squamosal towards the articu-
lation of the lower jaw, which, however, it does not reach, but
terminates a little above and behind it. It shows a marked
constriction a little above the middle; the part above this is
laterally flattened and somewhat expanded; below the con-
striction the bone is slender and cylindrical, and increases a
little in diameter as it proceeds downwards. ‘There is no
symplectic ; and the upper element of the hyoid would be, as
in Polypterus, attached to the cartilaginous lower extremity of
the hyomandibular.
Supported by the hyomandibular are the operculum (op)
and suboperculum (s.op). Both bones are somewhat quadrate
in shape and higher than long; but the height of the sub-
operculum exceeds that of the operculum by about one fourth.
The posterior-superior angle of the operculum and the posterior-
inferior one of the suboperculum are rounded off, while their
* Op. cit. pl. xx. fig. 4.
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centres of ossification seem placed near their anterior-superior
and anterior-inferior angles respectively. In front of these
two bones, and covering a portion of the cheek between them
behind and the maxillary and suborbitals in front, is a pretty
large vertical plate (p.op), which occupies a position similar
to that of the great preopercular cheek-plate of Polypterus.
A precisely similar plate occurs in Hurynotus and in Platy-
somus ; and there is also a quite analogous one in the Paleo-
niscide, though differmg somewhat in form. Dr. Young has
stated that an dnteroperculum is present, nearly equal in size
to the operculum, and which “overlaps the branchiostegals,
which are nevertheless enamelled externally.” In none, how-
ever, of the heads of Amphicentrum which I have examined
(many of them exceedingly well preserved in this region) have
I ever seen any evidence of any such bone.
The branchiostegal rays (br, figs. 1-3) form a series of flat,
oblong, imbricating plates, with finely tubercular enamelled
surfaces, which follow immediately upon the lower margin of
the suboperculum. They gradually diminish in length as
they pass downwards and forwards; and in front an arrange-
ment quite similar to that seen in Hurynotus and in the
Palzoniscide is observable: viz., the anterior plate of each
series is much broader than the rest; and between these and
behind the symphysis of the jaw is a median lozenge-shaped
one.
Circumorbital ring.—The presence of a narrow chain of
small supraorbital plates (sr.o, fig. 3) is evident in several
specimens, though their number is not determinable. The
same must be said of the suborbitals (s.o, figs. 1, 2, & 3),
the chain of which, attached above to the postfrontal, seems
to be very narrow behind. In several specimens a well-marked
suborbital of an elongated form is seen, as in fig. 3, curving
round the orbit behind; and at the anterior-inferior part of
the orbit, and above the front part of the maxilla, is a very
large one (figs. 1 & 2), like the so-called lacrymal of most
osseous fishes.
Shoulder-girdle.—Attached to the posterior part of the
skull, behind the squamous plate, and passing downwards
and slightly backwards, largely overlapped by the operculum,
is a powertul supraclavicular (s.cl, fig. 1). It is broad above,
getting narrow below, and, like the corresponding bone in the
Paloniscide, is perforated by the lateral slime-canal. The
presence of an upper supraclavicular (suprascapular, Owen) is
not very clear; there is, indeed, a small plate above the last-
described bone and behind the parietal, which may, however,
280 Dr. R. H. Traquair on the Structure
be a “nuchal”’ or “ supratemporal’”’*. Descending obliquely
downwards and a little forwards from the extremity of the great
supraclavicular is a very strong and well-marked clavicle (cl).
The vertical or principal part of the bone is elongated, and
greatly curved forwards in a somewhat sickle-shaped manner ;
it is narrow and pointed above, but expands as it proceeds
downwards, and at its broad lower extremity becomes sud-
denly bent inwards at an angle towards the ventral middle
line, the portion internal to the flexure being, however, very
short. Attached to the front of the expanded lower extremity
of the clavicle is still another element, a small ¢nterclavicular
(¢.cl), like that of Paleoniscus, though much less developed.
Conclusion.—As regards the description of the scales, fins,
and internal skeleton, I have nothing of consequence to add
to what has been already done by Dr. Young. The new
facts brought out in this paper regarding the structure of the
head, however, render a revision of the generic characters of
the fish necessary. They may be summed up as follows :—
Family Platysomide.
Subfamily Amparcenrri-x.
Genus AMPHICENTRUM.
Form deep and rhombic; dorsal and ventral margins elevated
into peaks; tail heterocercal, deeply cleft, nearly equilobate.
Dorsal and anal fins with elongated bases, many-rayed, nearly
equal, commencing immediately behind the dorsal and ventral
peaks, their anterior margins furnished with well-developed
fulcra ; ventrals not discovered ; shoulder-girdle provided with
interclaviculars. Scales very high and narrow, and in nearly
vertical bands (except on the body-prolongation in the upper
caudal lobe, where they are small and acutely lozenge-shaped) ;
lepidopleura very strong, exposed area of external surface tuber-
culated or striated. Preemaxilla, maxilla, and dentary bone of
mandible edentulous, sharp-edged; palatopterygoid and splenial
bone of mandible furnished with ridges, on which occur small
tubercular tooth-like elevations, a patch of small tubercular gra-
nulations, like inimute obtuse teeth, occurring also on the palate.
Suspensorium nearly vertical, slightly inclined forwards.
T'wo species are known :—A. granulosum, Huxley, from
the Coal-measures of North Staffordshire and Lanarkshire ;
A. striatum, Hancock and Atthey, from Northumberland.
* T use the term “ supratemporal ” here in the original sense in which
it was employed by Bakker, Cuvier, Stannius, Xc.
of Amphicentrum granulosum. 281
EXPLANATION OF PLATE [X.
In all the figures the same bones are denominated by the same letters.
f, frontal ; p, parietal; sg, squamosal ; p.f, posterior frontal; a.f, anterior
frontal; , nasal; p.mex, premaxillary; ma, maxillary; d, dentary of
mandible ; sp, splenial, or internal dentary of mandible; pa, palato-
pterygoid; fm, hyomandibular; op, operculum; s.op, suboperculum ;
p.op, preeoperculum ; br, branchiostegal rays; s.o, suborbitals ; s7.0, supra-
orbitals; s.cl, supraclavicular (scapular, Owen); cl, clavicle (coracoid,
Owen); 7.c/, interclavicular.
Fig. 1. Head of Amphicentrum granulosum, natural size. The edentulous
edge of the maxilla is shown, though posteriorly in impression
only; anda portion of the middle of the bone being broken
out, the outer denticulated ridge of the more deeply placed
palatopterygoid is uncovered. The edentulous margin of the
dentary of the mandible is shown at its fore part ; posteriorly it
is also broken away, and the denticulated ridge of the splenial
element has been exposed, by digging away the matrix with a
sharp instrument.
Fig. 2. Counterpart of the same specimen, showing the contour and the
sculpturing of the maxilla in impression ; the edentulous margin,
completely shown in the former figure, isa little injured in front.
The edentulous margin of the dentary of the mandible, forming
a ridge external to the dentigerous one of the splenial, is seen
for the greater part of its length, partly in impression.
Fig. 3 is taken from a plaster mould or impression of a head contained
in a hard ironstone nodule. In this specimen the cheek was
broken away, so as to expose the outer surface of the palate,
and the mandible was split through longitudinally. By soften-
ing what remained of the bone of these parts with dilute acid,
and then carefully picking and brushing it away from the hard
ironstone matrix, a perfect impression of the imner aspect of the
palate, hyomandibular, and mandible was obtained, the con-
figuration and relations of these parts being therefore accurately
reproducible in an impression taken from the preparation thus
made. Compare the palatopterygoid and mandible thus ex-
hibited tr situ with the detached bones represented in figures 5,
8, and 9.
Fig. 4. View of a crushed head of Amphicentrum, showing, seen from the
internal aspect, the edentulous oral margin of the maxilla, both
dentigerous ridges of the palatopterygoid, the beak-like pre-
maxilla, and the somewhat similarly shaped anterior extremity
of the dentary of the mandible, as well as the ridges of the
splenial or internal dentary of the latter,
Fig. 5. Inner aspect of the internal dentary of the right mandible, taken
from the same specimen figured by Dr. Young as “ maxilla.’’ En-
larged one half.
Fig. 6. Another specimen of the same bone, seen from the inner or oral
side, natural size.
Fig. 7. The same specimen, seen from the outer side.
Fig. 8. The same specimen, seen from above.
Figs. 9 & 10. Two specimens of the palatopterygoid, seen from the oral
aspect, natural size. In fig. 9 the posterior-superior thin expan-
sion is broken off; and in fig. 10 the process descending behind
to the articulation of the lower jaw is deficient, and indicated
by dotted lines,
282 Dr. J. Anderson on new Asiatic Mammals.
XXXVII.—Description of some new Asiatic Mammals and
Chelonia. By Joun ANDERSON, M.D., Calcutta.
Anurosorex assamensis, 0. sp.
Snout rather long and pointed; tail very short, as in the
type of the genus. The seminude parts of the snout, the
scaly limbs, and tail are flesh-coloured ; the claws are yellow.
The fur is nearly erect, fine, and almost velvety ; it is longest
on the rump, where it projects backwards a considerable way
over the tail, almost hiding it. Numerous strong hairs project
beyond the general mass of the fur, and are brown with obscure
pale tips. Whiskers well developed ; shorter hairs above and
between the eyes. The general colour of the face dark slaty,
marked with brownish rusty on the long hairs of the rump.
Total length from snout to root of tail 2°92 inches, tail 0°50,
fore foot 0°50, hind foot 0°75.
Hab. Subsasugu, Assam.
This species is smaller than the Tibetan A. squamipes, from
which it also differs in its proportionally larger head and
slightly longer tail.
Herpestes Rafflesvi, n. sp.
Uniformly rich ferruginous, paler on the head and feet.
The hairs with no trace of annulation, and in this respect
differing from all other Asiatic mungooses ; the longer hairs
with a glossy lustre; the underlying pile dense and of a pale
ferruginous. Ears clad with short hairs. Feet rather large ;
claws moderately developed. Upper third of tarsus thickly
clad. Tail well clad at base, tapering to a point, and neither
tufted nor pencilled.
The specimen is in the British Museum, and was received
from Sumatra, whence it was obtained by Sir Stamford Raffles.
It is a small animal, and I have not been able to take its
measurements ; but it is a little larger than a ferret, and has a
tail as long as its body.
I am indebted to Dr. Giinther for the opportunity of de-
scribing this animal.
Pteromys yunanensis, n. sp.
A flying squirrel with a large head and a long tail.
Rich dark glossy maroon-chestnut on all the upper parts,
the head and back in some being finely speckled with
white, which is most marked in the young, and most profuse
Dr. J. Anderson on new Asiatic Mammals. 283
on the posterior half of the back. In the adult the upper
surface of the parachute is of the same colour as the back,
and the hairs are uniformly coloured; but in younger indi-
viduals some of the hairs have white rmgs. The sides of the
face below the eye and ear are yellowish grey mixed with
chestnut, and the chin is dusky. The paws and the margins
of the limbs are rich black. ‘The base of the tail in young
individuals is more or less concolorous with the back and
grizzled; but in adults the grizzling is absent, but the first
six or seven inches are chestnut, the hairs being broadly tipped
with black, and passing gradually into that colour, which
characterizes the rest of the tail. The under parts of the
animal are yellowish white, tending in some to a chestnut line
along the middle of the chest and belly, and to a darker tint
of the same colour on the margin of the parachute. The
basal portion of the fur of the upper parts is dark greyish
brown, followed by a palish chestnut band, succeeded by dark
maroon-chestnut, which may either have or not have a white
subapical band, the tip being glossy deep maroon-chestnut,
in some verging on black. ‘he fur of the upper parts and
tail is long, soft, and silky, while that of the under surface is
more woolly in texture. The ears are large and rounded, and
clad with very short hairs. Cheek-bristles present.
Length of body 24 inches, the tail being the same.
Hab. Neighbourhood of Zeugyechen, Yunan.
Arctomys dichrous, n. sp.
This marmot, four specimens of which have been procured
from the mountainous country to the north of Kabul, differs
from every known marmot in the marked contrast between
the colour of the upper and under parts of the animal, and in
the harsh texture of its fur.
It has the general form and structural characters of its
fellows ; but the upper surface is pale rusty yellow, while the
sides of the face are dark brown, tinged with the former
colour. The chin, throat, chest, and the lower third of the
sides, the inferior two thirds of the fore limb, the upper surface
of the hind feet, the belly, and inner side of the limbs are alla
dark rich brown. ‘The tail is almost concolorous with the
belly ; but it is here and there tinged with rich rufous brown,
the tip paling to nearly yellowish brown.
Length of body from snout to root of tail 17 inches; length
of tail 64 inches.
A full description and figure of this animal will appear in
the ‘ Proceedings’ of the Zoological Society of London.
284 Dr. J. Anderson on new Asiatic Chelonia.
Geoémyda depressa, n. sp.
Shell much depressed, the depression increasing from before
backwards, the shell being somewhat expanded across the
inguinal region. Anterior border broad and posterior slightly
concave; posterior margin behind inguinal notch serrated.
Vertebrals with an obscure ridge. Anal notch moderately
deep. Nuchal small. Gulars well developed, anterior border
transverse. Shell above light brown, with a blackish tinge
on the external border of the marginals. Sternum rather
clear yellow; the interval between the axillary and inguinal
notches deep black, the outer halves of the pectoral and anal
plates being blackish brown, with a partial reticulation extend-
ing across the plates; the gulars, postgulars, and anals have
also a tendency to be coarsely and irregularly reticulated with
the same colour.
Head of animal rather small; upper and lower jaws deep,
and area below the nose slightly convex. Limbs large, espe-
cially the hind legs; claws strong, and webs well developed.
The anterior aspect of the lower part of the fore leg convex,
with large umbonate scales, and smaller scales on the dorsum
of the foot, a large scale being at the base of each claw. Hind
limb covered with small scales, but with a line of enlarged
scales along its posterior margin. Tail moderately long, and
covered with small rounded scales. The neck-skin loose, and
covered with minute scales. Head (in life) leaden ; iris brown ;
neck and skin of limbs pale yellowish brown. Large scales
on limbs dark, almost black, with brownish margin.
Length of shell to caudal notch 9 inches, depth through
centre of shell 3, breadth at axillary region 5°9, breadth
across inguinal notch 6°7; length of sternum 8:1.
Hab, Avakan.
Trionyx nigricans, nN. sp.
Carapace rather flattened on the back, with the vertebral
groove ill defined anteriorly, but well marked posteriorly.
Nuchal swelling broader than in 7’. gangeticus, but not promi-
nent, the carapace on either side being flattened. Ale of
plastron well defined, projecting equally beyond the carapace.
Nuchal flap narrow, and covered with rather large nodose
folds; and the hinder portion of the cartilaginous margin of
the carapace with little nodosities. The rugosities of the
osseous carapace coarser than in 7. gangeticus. The under
surface of the thighs and tail and of all the soft parts, in-
cluding the head and neck, covered with little papille. No
trace of rugosities on the azygos plate of the plastron visible
Mr. J. Gould on new Australian Birds. 285
through the skin. The tail in the female does not reach to
the margin of the cartilaginous portion of the carapace.
Colour of the carapace dark blackish plumbeous, with a
tinge of olive, due to the presence of blackish spots, among
which are intermixed many rusty brown spots, which overlie
as it were the black spots. The head, neck, and upper surface
of the limbs are almost black; the upper lip in its two
posterior thirds is white; and there is a great white blotch
over the ear. ‘The area between the neck and the fore legs is
whitish ; and there are some white spots on the margin of the
carapace. The head is reticulately spotted; and there is a
distinct infrapreeorbital band, and a trace of another above the
eyes; but the head is so black that these markings are difficult
to distinguish. The under surface of the head and neck is
almost black ; and the plastron is densely spotted with blackish
purple, especially over the bones, and the tail is similarly
marked. The claws are yellow.
Hab. Tanks at Chittagong, Bengal.
XXXVIUL.— Further Contributions to the Ornithology of
Australia. By Joun GouLp, F.R.S.
Ir is with great pleasure that I have to draw the attention
of naturalists to some interesting novelties which have just
been forwarded to me from -Australia by Mr. Waterhouse,
whose letter on the subject is subjoined.
“ South-Australian Museum,
Adelaide, South Australia.
July 15, 1875.
“My pEAR Sir,—Mr. F. W. Andrews, who for many
years has been collecting birds in this colony, and has added
from time to time many rare species to the Museum, has just
returned from the Lake-Eyre expedition with a good collection
of bird-skins. Among the specimens collected I have selected,
and now forward to you by this mail, the following, viz. :—
“2 Amytis, n. sp., nearly allied to A. textiiis, but smaller,
general colour much lighter; throat white, flanks (probably
of the male only) with a rufous streak.
“1 Cinclosoma cinnamomeum, sent for comparison, being
lighter-coloured and smaller than any specimens which have
hitherto come under my observation.
“2 Ptilotis, sp. I have frequently received specimens of this
bird from the far north, and am doubtful as to the species.
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 20
286 Mr. J. Gould on new Australian Birds.
“1 Melithreptes, n.sp. ‘This is the finest I have ever seen
of the genus: only four were shot, and I send you the best.
The collector remarks that when alive they had a bright yellow
rim round the eyes. I remain, very truly yours,
“F. G. WATERHOUSE.”
The box so kindly sent to me by Mr. Waterhouse having
arrived, I am able to state that the Amyts and Melithreptes
both appear to be new to science. The Cinclosoma I cannot
separate from the true C. ciénnamomeum; and the Ptilotis
will require further comparison. I now proceed to describe
the remaining species, the first of which I shall call after
Mr. George Woodroffe Goyder, by whose influence and exer-
tions a natural-history collector was sent to the northern
territory with the Lake-Eyre expedition.
Amytis Goydert, sp. n.
General colour fawn, distinctly streaked with white on
the upper surface, each white stripe having a dark-brown
lateral border on each side, the streaks becoming sandy-coloured
on the lower back and disappearing entirely on the rump and
upper tail-coverts, which are consequently uniform fawn ;
tail-feathers brown, with sandy-coloured shafts, the outer
feathers rather broadly edged with fulvous; wings brown,
the least coverts minutely and the greater series broadly
streaked with sandy buff; quills brown, with light sandy-
coloured shafts, and externally margined with rufous, the
secondaries much more broadly, the innermost with broad
fawn-coloured margins all round and streaked down the centre
with sandy rufous; lores and sides of face white, the latter
narrowly streaked with blackish brown, more distinctly on
the cheeks; throat and breast pure white, as well as the centre
of the abdomen; the flanks bright fawn-colour, inclining to
paler and more sandy rufous on the thighs and upper and
under wing-coverts.
Total length 5°5 inches, culmen 0°45, wing 2:1, tail 2°8,
tarsus 0°9.
A second specimen sent, probably the female, is tinged with
vinous instead of fawn-colour as in the male.
As Mr. Waterhouse points out in his letter, the new Amytis
is very closely allied to A. textilis; but it differs in being
fawn-coloured instead of dull brown, with much _ broader
white streaks on the upper surface; it is also distinguish-
able at a glance by its white under surface and fawn-coloured
flanks.
Royal Society. 287
Melithreptes letior, sp. n.
Head and nape black, as well as the lores and ear-coverts ;
the cheeks and a band of feathers round the occiput pure
white; back greenish yellow, brighter on the rump and shading
off into bright lemon-yellow on the hind neck and sides of the
latter ; tail brown, with a narrow whitish edging at the tip, all
but the outer feathers mar eined with ereenish ‘yellow ; wings
ashy brown, externally w rashed with erey, the primaries nar-
rowly margined with whitish ; under surface of body white,
the breast and flanks shaded with ashy, and the chin black,
fading into ashy brown on the throat and producing a distinct
chin-stri ipe; under wing-coverts white, shaded with ashy.
Total length 5:5 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 3°4, tail 2°7,
tarsus 0°75.
Although very closely allied to M. gularis, Gould, this
species is “altogether a much more finely coloured bird. In
size it is slightly larger, and is at once to be distinguished
by its white under surface and the beautiful lemon-yellow of
the neck. The ashy shade which pervades the entire lower
surface of M. gularis is not seen in JL. letior.
PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.
ROYAL SOCIETY.
April 8, 1875.—Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., President, in
the Chair.
“ First Report of the Naturalist attached to the Transit-of-Venus
Expedition to Kerguelen’s Island, December 1874.” By the Rev.
A. E. Eaton.
To the Secretary of the Royal Society.
Royal Sound, Kerguelen’s Island,
31st December, 1874.
Dear Sir,—It is difficult, owing to the inexactness of the charts,
to inform you of the positions of the Astronomical Stations in whose
neighbourhood I have been able to work in this island. The German
Station is in Betsy Cove, the American at Molloy Point, Royal
Sound. The English Stations also are in this Sound, the second
being situated about three miles N. by W. of Swain’s Haulover.
The first English Station is between these last two on the main-
land, six or seven miles N.W. of Three-Island Harbour, in what
will be called Observatory Bay. Two days before the Transit of
Venus, a party under Lieut. Goodridge, R.N., was detached from
20*
288 Royal Society :—
the first English Station to observe the transit from a position
which he selected near the base of Thumb Peak. I have not yet
been able to visit Betsy Cove.
Observatory Bay is one of the minor inlets of a peninsula com-
prised between two narrow arms of the sea. One of these runs up
from the sound, along the western flank of the hills adjacent to
Mount Crozier, several miles, and terminates at a distance of three
or four hours to the north of us, and about four miles from the
inlet near Vulcan Cove. The other arm, opening nine or ten
miles away to the southward, proceeds in a north-easterly direction
to within three or four miles of the former, and no great distance
from Foundry Branch.
Besides the inlets of the sea, numerous freshwater lakes pre-
sent obstacles to inland travelling. Some in this neighbourhood
are two or three miles in length ; but in general they are not more
than a mile long. They are usually shallow, and appear to be
uninhabited by fish. The bogs and streams in this vicinity are
not impassable, but can be traversed with ease if ordinary care be
taken.
The most salient features of the landscape are the basaltic hills,
with irregular terraces of rock on their sides, and broken cliffs at
their summits. In lieu of grass, their slopes are clothed with
banks and boulder-like clumps of Azorella selago, excepting where
rich damp loam affords a soil suitable for the Acena and the
Pringlea. Here and there a fern (Lomaria) and grass (Festuca)
grow in the interspaces of the other plants.
The climate of Royal Sound is far warmer and drier than we
were led to expect it would be. In November the weather was very
pleasant; since then it has deteriorated, though the snow has
not again covered the ground as it did when we first arrived.
Probably the previous accounts of its meteorology were based
upon observations taken in parts of the island where bad weather
prevails; or it may be that the condition of the country in winter
has been presumed to be constant throughout the year. In one
respect we were rightly informed ; for, usually, when there is no
breeze there is a gale: a calm day is an exceptional event.
Meteorological observations are being taken in Observatory Bay on
board the ‘ Volage’ and by the sappers on shore.
Corresponding with the unlooked-for superiority in climate, a
difference is noticeable in the vegetation of this part of the island.
Some plants which occur at both extremities of the country display,
in Royal Sound, marks of luxuriance. For instance, Pringlea
antiscorbutica, which is elsewhere apetalous, here, in sheltered places,
frequently develops petals—some flowers in the same inflorescence
possessing one petal only, others having two, three, or four. And
the petals are not always of a pale greenish colour, but occasionally
are tinged with purple. Again, Lomaria alpina, whichis mentioned
in the flora as rare in the neighbourhood of Christmas Harbour,
is excessively common and very finely grown here. There are
also more species of flowering plants and of the higher orders of
On the Natural History of Kerguelen’s Island. 289
Cryptogamia here than were found by the Antarctic Expedition
at the north of the island ; but there are fewer species of Mosses,
Lichens, and Algw. Their paucity, in comparison with those of the
other district, is probably due to the nature of the rocks on land,
and to the seclusion of the bay from the open sea. The additions
to the flora are for the most part Falkland-Islands species.
In speaking of the climate, it may be mentioned that the plants
of Kerguelen’s Island are not (as was supposed) in flower through-
out the year; but probably some of them do not cease flowering
until late in the winter. When we first arrived in Royal Sound the
ground was covered with snow, and scarcely any thing had begun
to come out. The Pringlea was far advanced in bud, barely com-
mencing to blossom. The Acena was just beginning to burst into
leaf. About the first week in November, Lstuca Cookw came out,
and, a few days later, Azorella selago. The young fronds of the
ferns were just about to unroll. tn the third week of the same
month, Montia fontana and Acena affinis were in flower in a
sheltered spot, and Leptinella plumosa was first found in blossom.
Galium antarcticum appeared about the same date. A week later,
Ranunculus hydrophilus and a Festuca (purpurascens?) were out,
and Lycopodium clavatum was sprouting. By the middle of the
month, Z'riodia and Lyallia kerquelensis and also Ranunculus cras-
sipes were in flower, the Pringlea was everywhere past flowering
(excepting upon the mountains), and Aira antarctica began to
shoot forth its panicles. Before the end of the month a Carex
came out; but Buliarda and other plants delayed still.
A few species of Mammals have been introduced into the
island. Mice (evidently Mus musculus, L.) are common along the
coast, and have been found by us in various places. The Rabbits,
transported by order of the Admiralty from the convict settlement
in Table Bay, have been landed by H.M.S. ‘Volage’ in Royal Sound.
They share with the birds holes of the Petrels, and are (it is almost
superfluous to mention) propagating freely. Their favourite food
is the Acena ; but they occasionally eat Pringlea-leaves and gnaw
away the green surface of Azorella. In the Crozettes, whose
climate and flora are said to resemble those of this island, rabbits
have become extremely abundant, and so rank and coarse that
the sealers will not eat them. Goats are increasing in numbers
on the leeward side of the mainland.
Whales and Porpoises occasionally enter the Sound. Old skulls
of the latter, wanting the lower jaw, are cast up here and there
on the beaches.
Up to the present time, I have captured only two species of
Seals—a female Sea-leopard and two males of a Platyrhine Seal.
The other kinds frequent the more open parts of the coast and
islands.
Twenty-two species of birds at the fewest, perhaps twenty-
three, frequent Royal Sound, viz. a Chionis, a Cormorant, a Teal,
a Tern, a Gull, a Skua, eleven (perhaps twelve) Petrels, two Alba-
trosses, and three (perhaps four) Penguins. Of these, I have pro-
290 Royal Society :-—
cured eggs of the first six, also of six Petrels, one Albatross, and two
Penguins. The Thalassidrome are preparing for laying.
Fish are rather scarce in Observatory Bay. Only three species
have hitherto occurred to us, two of which are common under
stones at low water. The remains of a Raia have also been
picked up on one of the islands by an officer of the ‘ Volage ;’ but
hardly sufficient is left to enable the species to be determined. It
is allied to R. clavata and R. radiata.
The entomology of the island is very interesting. Most of the
larger insects seem to be incapable of flight. I have found repre-
sentatives of the orders Lepidoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, and
Collembola.
The Lepidoptera comprise a species of the Noctuina(as I suppose)
and one of the Tineina. Of the first I have not yet reared the
imago; the larva is a moss-eater and subterranean: the adult is
probably as large as an Agrotis of medium size. The species of
Tineina is probably one of the Gelechide, judging from the form
of the palpi. Its larva feeds on young shoots of Festuca, and
sometimes spins a silken cocoon for the pupa. The imago, of
which the sexes are alike, has acute and very abbreviated wings,
and the posterior pair extremely minute. In repose the antenne
are widely separated and almost divaricate. When the sun shines
the adult is active, and, if alarmed, jumps to a distance of two or
three inches at a time. During its passage through the air the
wings are vibrated.
The Diptera are represented by species of the Tipulide and
Muscide. There are three of the former family. One of themisa
small species of the Cecidomyide, which is abundant in mossy places,
and presents no marked peculiarity. Another seems to be a de-
graded member of the Tipulide. The antenne have six joints, the
palpi two; the wings are ligulate and very minute. It possesses
halteres, and the female has the ovipositor enclosed in an exposed
sheath. Although it is unable to fly, it lives upon rocks in the sea
which are covered at high water, and there it deposits its eggs in
tufts of Hnteromorpha. The third species has full-sized wings ; it
was caught in the house. The indigenous Muscide are very sluggish
in their movements, and are incapable of flight. Four species are
common about here. One of them is abundant on Pringlea, crawl-
ing over the leaves. When it is approached it feigns to be dead,
and, tucking up its legs, drops down into the axils of the leaves ;
or if it happens to be upon a plane surface, one need only look
at it closely, and it throws itself promptly upon its back and
remains motionless until the threatened danger is over, when it
gradually ventures to move its limbs and struggle to regain its
footing. Its wings are represented by minute gemmules ; and it
possesses halteres. The ovipositor is extended, its apical joint
alone being retracted. The penis is porrected beneath the abdomen,
where it fits into a notch at the apex of the penultimate segment.
The larva feeds on decaying vegetable matter. Another species
occurs on dead birds and animals, as well as beneath stones near
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the highest tide-mark. It is completely destitute of even the
vestiges of wings and halteres. The sexual organs are concealed.
It and the preceding species are rather smooth. A third species,
slightly hairy, is common amongst tide-refuse and on the adjacent
rocks, which are coated with stunted Enteromorpha, on which plant,
inter alia, the larva feeds. It has very small triangular rudiments
of wings, slightly emarginate near the apex of the costa, and pos-
sesses halteres. The sexual organs are not exposed. The fourth
Species occurs amongst grass growing along the shore and also in
Shag-rookeries. Its linear and very narrow wings are almost as
long as the abdomen. It can jump, but cannot fly. The sexual
organs are retracted.
A Pulex is parasitic upon Halidroma, and one (possibly the
saine species) on Diomedea fuliginosa.
Coleoptera are not uncommon. ‘The larger species seem to have
their elytra soldered together. There is a small species of the
Brachelytra.
Several species of Nirmide have been obtained.
Two Podure (one black, the other white) are plentiful.
There appear to be few species of Spiders, though individuals
are numerous. Penguins and some of the other birds are infested
with Ticks. The remaining Arachnida are related to Oribates.
The Crustacea, Annelida, Mollusca, and Echinodermata tn this
part of the island have probably been collected by the ‘ Challenger’
more extensively than I have been able to do; therefore I need
not particularize further about them than to state that Entomos-
traca abound in the lakes, an earthworm is common, and a land-
snail is very plentiful amongst the rocks on the hills. This last
appears to appreciate comparative heat ; for specimens obtained in
an exposed place, during the frosty weather, were assembled to-
gether for warmth under the drip of an icicle.
In Observatory Bay, Ccelenterata are not numerous. One or
two species of Actiniide on the rocks and Macrocystis-roots, and
an Llyanthid in mud, are the only Actinozoa I have met with.
The Hydrozoa similarly have afforded only three species—a Corynid,
a Campanularian, and a Sertularella.
There are several Sponges.
With the exception of Limosella aquatica, and perhaps Agrostis
antarctica, | have obtained all the flowering plants and ferns given
in the ‘Flora Antarctica’ as indigenous to the island. Besides
these, Ranunculus hydrophilus and another species, a Carex, a
Festuca (probably £. purpurascens ; but I have no work containing
descriptions of the flowering plants), Polypodium vulgare, a fern
allied to Polypodium, and Cystopteris fragilis have occurred to me.
There is also a plant which appears to belong to the Juncacee.
Lycopodium clavatum and L. selago are common about here. None
of the Mosses, Hepaticw, or Lichens have been worked out as yet ;
but amongst them are one or two species of Cladonia, and some
examples of Lecanora paleacea. Fungiare represented by Agaricus
(Psalliota) arvensis, Coprinus atramentartus, and a peculiar parasite
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on Azorella, which grows out from the rosettes in the form of a
clear jelly, which becomes changed into a firm yellowish substance
of indefinite form. There are also some Spheeriacei on grass and
dead stems of plants. At present few additions have been made to
the marine flora. The larger Algee in Royal Sound are usually not
cast upon the shore by the waves ;,and I have almost been entirely
dependent upon grapples thrown from the rocks for specimens of
the more delicate forms. Polysiphonia Sullivane and Rhytiphloa
Gomardit are amongst the novelties. A large number of zoological
and botanical specimens have been lost through my inability to
attend to them in time without assistance. This has principally
affected the number of duplicates; but in one instance it has led
to the loss of a species—one of the Petrels, which was the com-
monest bird about here when we first arrived. Fortunately it is a
well-known species.
The 1st of March is announced as the approximate date of our
sailing from Kerguelen’s Island. Five weeks later I hope to arrive
at the Cape and to forward to you such of the specimens collected
as require only ordinary care in their transmission. The more
fragile things are likely to reach you in better condition if I keep
them until my return to England, than they would if they were
sent with the others. I am, dear Sir,
Faithfully yours,
A. E, Earon.
June 10, 1875.—Joseph Dalton Hooker, C.B., President, in the
Chair.
“On the Organization of the Fossil Plants of the Coal-measures.
—Part VII. Myelopteris, Psaronius, and Kaloxylon.” By W.C.
Wriuramson, Professor of Natural History in the Owens College,
Manchester.
In his ‘ Dendrolithen’ Cotta first figured some supposed stems
under the name of Medullosa, to one of which he gave the name
of Medullosa elegans. Corda subsequently figured a portion of the
same plant, in his ‘ Flora der Vorwelt,’ under the name of Palma-
cites carbonigerus, in the belief that it was the stem of an arborescent
palm. M. Brongniart next gave to the plant the name of Myelo-
wylon, and at the same time expressed strong doubts respecting
its monocotyledonous character. Goeppert gave this plant the
generic name of Stengelia. In 1872 Mr. Binney expressed his
belief that the plant was “ the rachis of a fern, or of a plant allied
to one.” At the Meeting of the British Association at Bradford,
in September 1873, the author described this plant, and pointed
out his reasons for believing it to be not only a fern, but to belong
to the interesting family of the Marattiaceze; and in the subse-
quent January Professor Renault read a description of the plant
to the Academy of Sciences at Paris, when, on independent evi-
dence, he arrived at the same conclusion, viz. that it was one of the
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Marattiacee. Slightly modifying M. Brongniart’s generic name,
M. Renault designates the plant MJyelopteris.
The author has obtained well-marked examples of this plant from
the Lower Coal-measures near Oldham, from a rachis nearly an inch
in diameter to the smallest leaf-bearing twigs and leaflet-petioles.
It consists of a mass of parenchyma encased in a hypodermal layer
of sclerenchymatous prosenchyma, arranged in anastomosing longi-
tudinal bands, separated, when seen in tangential sections, by
vertically elongated areole of parenchyma, which latter has probably
spread out as a thin epidermal layer investing the entire rachis.
These fibrous bands project inwards with sharp wedge-shaped
angles; and in some examples portions of them become isolated
as free fibrous bundles, running vertically through the peripheral
portion of the inner parenchyma of the rachis. Numerous vascular
bundles run vertically through this parenchyma. In transverse
sections, not distorted by pressure, these bundles are arranged
in some degree of regular order. ‘This is especially the case
with a circle composed of the peripheral series of bundles.
Their component vessels are spiral in the case of some of the
smaller ones, and barred, very rarely reticulate, in a few of the
larger vessels. Scattered abundantly throughout the parenchyma
are numerous narrow intercellular gum-canals. The majority of
these are isolated ; but in most of the specimens there runs side
by side with the vessels, and enclosed within the special cellular
sheath which imperfectly encloses each bundle, a canal, of varied
sizes and shapes, which appears to have been originally a gum-
canal, subsequently enlarged irregularly by the shrinking of the
neighbouring tissues. In the larger and more matured petioles
these vascular bundles are very conspicuous, both in transverse and
longitudinal sections; but in the small, young, and terminal sub-
divisions of the rachides the vessels are so small as to be almost
undistinguishable from the surrounding parenchyma, while the
gum-canals of such examples are, on the other hand, conspicuously
large. Transverse sections of the most perfect examples of these
young rachides exhibit, on their upper surface, a rounded central
ridge, flanked on either side by a longitudinal groove, which arrange-
ments are so conspicuous in the corresponding portions of the
petioles of the Marattiacez and of other ferns. The ultimate
leaflet-petioles were given off at right angles to the central rachis
from which they sprang, corresponding in this respect with one
of the types described by M. Renault. The author has not yet
found in Lancashire any of the large specimens that have been
met with on the continent at Autun and in the localities whence
M. Cotta obtained his examples. He has found a few and yet
smaller fragments among the sections from Burntisland. The
recognition of the Marattiaceous character of these plants excludes
the Palmacee for the present from all claim to share in the glories
of the Carboniferous vegetation.
The second plant described by the author consists of clusters
of roots with a portion of the outermost parenchymatous layer of
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the stem of a tree fern, corresponding to those of the Psaronite
long known to characterize the upper Carboniferous deposits of
Autun and other localities. The roots of the Oldham specimen,
to which the author has assigned the name of Psuronites Renaultit,
consist of a well-defined cylinder of sclerenchymatous prosen-
chyma, within which has been a mass of more delicate paren-
chyma, in the centre of which was the usual vascular bundle. But
what characterizes the specimens, distinguishing them from the
numerous species decsribed by Corda, is the existence of vast
numbers of cylindrical hairs, each composed of a linear row of
elongated cylindrical cells : these have obviously been the absorbent
root-hairs of the living plant, which may possibly have been some
species of Stemmatopteris ; but of this there is as yet no evidence.
The author then describes a small but very remarkable stem, to
which he assigns the name of Aaloxylon Hookert. This is a slender
stem, rarely more than from one seventh to one tenth of an inch in
diameter. In its young state it consists of a central vascular axis
which has a hexagonal section, and which is composed of numerous
vessels of various sizes, each of which exhibits the reticulate form
of the scalariform or barred type, and which is so common amongst
the plants of the Coal-measures. No true barred or spiral vessels
have yet been seen in the Aalowylon. In the young twigs this
vascular axis is surrounded by a mass of large-celled cortical
parenchyma, which, in turn, is encased by an epidermal structure,
composed of a double row of what have evidently been colourless
cells, and which are elongated vertically, but with square ends.
In the more matured stems, the central vascular axis of the
young twigs becomes the centre whence radiate six exogenously
developed ‘wedges of vascular tissue, each of which enlarges as it
proceeds outwards and terminates at its outer extremity in a
slightly rounded contour. Each wedge consists of a series of
radiating vascular lamine, separated by numerous medullary rays,
which latter consist of long and, for the most part, single vertical
rows of mural cells. These six exogenous wedges are separated
from each other by a large wedge of cellular cortical parenchyma,
the cells of which are elongated radially and have a somewhat mural
arrangement. As those between any two contiguous wedges pro-
ceed outwards, they separate more or less definitely into two series,
which diverge right and left to sweep round the peripheral extremity
of each nearest “exogenous wedge, meeting and blending with a
similar set coming from the opposite side of the wedge. In doing
this they form a sort of loop, enclosing a semilunar mass of smaller
cells interposed between the loop and the outer end of the exogenous
wedge. ‘The author demonstrates that this enclosed cellular tissue
is essentially a cambial layer, out of which all the new vessels
and peripheral extensions of the medullary rays were developed.
Young vessels are seen at its inner surface in process of formation.
External to these two specialized cortical tissues there is, in these
matured stems, a mass of the primitive cortical parenchyma seen
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in the youngest shoots, enclosed, as before, in a double layer of
epidermal cells.
The author has traced the development of branches from this
axis. They are given off from single exogenous wedges in a very
peculiar but eminently exogenous manner, the details of which are
given in the memoir. But, besides these, other clusters of vessels
are given off which have no exogenous development or radiating
arrangement. It is not yet clear what these secondary vascular
bundles signify.
The author points out the general resemblance between this de-
velopment of the detached exogenous wedges and that of the
4-partite woody axes of the Bignonias of Brazil, demonstrating
at the same time their very marked differences.
Though no traces of leaves have yet been discovered in connexion
with these stems, the author has very little doubt that they belong
to some Lycopodiaceous plant. The nature of the vessels and the
simplicity of their arrangement alike indicate cryptogamic features,
at the same time that their mode of development indicates, with
remarkable distinctness, that we have here another example of
that exogenous mode of development of which the author has
already described so many modifications amongst the fossil stems
from the Coal-measures. The occurrence of this physiological pro-
cess of exogenous growth in a stem which, when matured, was
little more than one tenth of an inch in diameter, shows that its
occurrence is not merely a question of the size of the plant, as
some have supposed, but that it has a deeper meaning, and corre-
sponds more closely than has been supposed with the exogenous
developments seen equally in large and small examples of living
plants.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On w new intermediate Type of the Subkingdom Vermes (Polygordius ?,
Schneider), By M. Epmonp Perrier.
Tur study of intermediate types becomes of more and more im-
portance 1p proportion as one knows more of the organization of
the creatures constituting the great primary groups of the animal
kingdom. ‘The number of these types, formerly very limited,
becomes every day greater as the means of investigation and the
naturalists devoted to the study of the organization of animals
become more numerous. The subkingdom Vermes has proved
particularly fruitful in this respect, so much so that, besides the
great classes that every one knows, it has become necessary to
create small classes to receive some creatures still completely isolated
in existing nature—such as the Sagittw, Balanoglossi, Polygordit,
and many others. I had the good fortune at Roscoff, in the products
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of the dredgings organized by M. de Lacaze-Duthiers at his experi-
mental zoological laboratory, to meet with one of these intermediate
types undoubtedly very nearly allied to the singular animals for
which Rathke and Schneider created the genera Rhamphogordius and
Polygordius, but most resembling Polygordius by its posterior ex-
tremity. To avoid the creation of new generic names, I shall desig-
nate it Polygordius Villott. I choose this specific name in memory
the fine memoir of M. Villot on Gordius, to which Schneider, in
the following phrase, has so singularly compared the animals in
question :—‘“‘It may be said that the Polygordii are annulated
Gordi in the same sense that the Lwmbrici, the Hunices, and the
Hermelle may be regarded as annulated Ascarides.”
This, as may be seen, does not imply a very close relationship.
Nevertheless the author of the ‘ Monographie der Nematoden’ em-
ploys expressions which might, in this respect, lead to error, especially
where he speaks of Polygordius as a Helminth, without giving notice,
otherwise than in a table of classification, that he gives the name of
Helminthes to the subkingdom or, as the transformists say, the whole
stock of Vermes.
In fact the Polygordius which we examined at Roscoff is distin-
guished from allied animals by its length, which is more than one
decimetre, while the Polygordius lacteus and purpureus of Schneider
only attain a length of about ten millimetres. The diameter of our
animal is hardly a millimetre in the middle region of the body; it
becomes thinner towards the anterior region, which terminates by
bifurcating so as to form two little horns, about one millimetre in
length and slightly widened at their base. The body likewise be-
comes attenuated behind, where it terminates in an obtuse point,
which appeared to be destitute of the papilla characteristic of
Polygordius purpureus. Our species is of a flesh-colour, darker in
the female, lighter and as it were milky in the male, at least near
the time of sexual maturity. The sexes are separated in these
animals, as in the greater part of the Nemertians and Annelides,
which they approach in many respects, although they cannot be
placed in either of the two groups. The agility of these worms is
extreme: their cephalic region is constantly in motion; and they
bury themselves and travel with remarkable ease in the coarse sand
in which they live, and where they are found in company with
Dentalium and Amphioxus, at depths from which the dredge brings
up also Terebratulina caput-serpentis, Solaster papposus, Palmipes
membranaceus, and particularly a charming species of Zoanthus,
which comes unluckily to invalidate a result which has lately been
alittle prematurely advanced before the Academy. Notwithstanding
its great vivacity, Polygordius Villoti is one of the most fragile of
animals; it breaks with great facility, and often spontaneously, when
we try to preserve it in captivity, so that speedily no more is left
than a small fragment of the anterior extremity. This property is
in connexion with the partitioning of the general cavity.
Outwardly the body does not appear to be annulated; the mouth
is inferior, a little way from the anterior extremity of the body,
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and of a triangular form; the part of the body which extends
before it may be regarded as a cephalic lobe. The eyes are wanting;
but there exists on each side, about the level of the mouth, a vibra-
tile pit of oval form, and of which the greater axis is vertical. These
pits, the immediate neighbourhood of the mouth, and a small part
of the posterior extremity are the only exterior parts of the body
which present vibratile cilia. By this character the Polygordii are
removed from the Nemertians, in the same manner as they are
removed from the Annelides by the complete absence of locomotive
sete.
The cuticle is thick, and presents, as in the greater part of the
Annelida, a double system of strize distinctly inclined to one another ;
and at the interlacing of a great number of these we see the orifice
of a tube perforating the cuticle, and which is only the excretory
tube, of small clear glands of diverse forms, and situated in the sub-
jacent layer corresponding to the hypoderm of the Annelida. In
transverse sections the striated cuticle seems to be formed of a
number of superimposed layers. The hypoderm, besides the glands
which it contains, is clearly decomposable into beautiful polyhedric
nucleated cells. Below the hypoderm there is a layer of trans-
verse muscles, of which the perfectly distinct annular fibres are dis-
posed in a single plane. According to Schneider, this layer is absent
in the Polygordii that he examined; and it is on this fact that
he bases the approximation that he has proposed between Polygordius
and the Nematoids. Beneath the muscular layer the longitudinal
muscles are found disposed in thin radiating lamelle, stretching
almost to the intestine, and in no point resembling the muscular
bundles of the greater part of the Annelida and Zumbrici. In this
there is, in fact, something which slightly reminds us of what is
seen in several Nematodes; but this is the only point of resemblance
that it is possible to find between the animals now under considera-
tion and the parasitic worms. In a transverse section we see all
along the median ventral line a thickening, which at first seems to
be continuous with the hypoderm, but which a more minute analysis
shows to have a more complex constitution. I have reasons for
believing that this is the nervous system; but it is a point that
requires further investigation. From the summit of this thickening
two partitions, symmetrical with respect to the vertical plane, start
obliquely, inclined eighty degrees to each other, and ending laterally
at the integuments. These partitions extend through all the extent
of the ring; and as another vertical partition binds the intestine to
the integuments along the median dorsal line, the general cavity is
divided more or less completely into four longitudinal chambers.
Transverse vertical partitions also divide it into rings completely
separated from one another, and identical with the rings of the
Annelida.
The digestive tube presents no special glandular appendages ; it has
neither trunk nor gizzard, only in the neighbourhood of the mouth
two lateral longitudinal folds playing the part of lips. It is con-
stricted in passing through the interannular partitions, so as to
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present the moniliform aspect so frequent in the Annelida. In this
region it is surrounded by a sort of muscular sphincter belonging to
the septum; elsewhere it presents the ordinary longitudinal and
transverse muscular coats. Its internal epithelium, of a green
colour, is very strongly vibratile throughout its whole extent from
the mouth tothe anus. The circulatory apparatus is composed of a
dorsal vessel bifurcating in front at the level of the vibratile pits,
but also emitting a little lower down two oblique branches directed
forwards and joining the vertical branches resulting from the bifur-
cation. In each ring the dorsal vessel emits a lateral loop ; and all
these loops seemed to me to terminate in a median ventral vessel.
The vascular apparatus of Polygordius Villoti is therefore more com-
plicated than that of its congeners, in which there is no ventral
vessel and the lateral loops terminate cecally.
The genital elements are developed on the walls of the body and
of the longitudinal partitions in all the rings behind the first four
or five. They are free in the general cavity, where in the males
the tails of the spermatozoids may be seen floating and stirring
about like a sort of vibratile lining, when the heads are still united
in a single group soldered to the walls of the cavity. The heads of
the spermatozoids are pointed at the pole opposite the tail; they
afterwards swell out into a sphere, and then enlarge a little, so as
to form a sort of disk, from the centre of which springs the tail.
Spermatozoids of this form have been figured in some Annelides.
The ova have a vitellus of an orange colour, and often several
germinal spots; they cause the female to be of a more decidedly
reddish colour than the male. The evacuation of the products
of generation is effected by the intermediation of segmentary
organs, which are but little folded upon themselves, and vibratile
throughout their length.
By these various characters Polygordius Villoti, as may be seen,
approaches very near to the Annelida ; but the absence of locomotive
sete, and: the presence of vibratile pits on each side of the head,
would tend to approximate it to the Nemertians, from which, how-
ever, it is excluded by the absence of vibratile cilia on the integu-
ment and the distinctness of the septation. I see no character
which justifies at all clearly the approximation of Polygordius
Villoti to the Nematodes.
I propose to resume shortly the researches which I have commenced
on this interesting type ; their results will appear in the ‘Archives de
Zoologie expérimentale’ of Professor de Lacaze-Duthiers.— Comptes
Rendus, April 26, 1875, p. 1101.
On the Development of the Spinules in the Scales of Gobius niger(Linn.).
By M. L. Variant.
The theories admitted by anatomists with regard to the origin of
the spinules may be divided into two principal ones: either these
processes result from simple notchings of the posterior margin of
the seale, and being calcified with the lamella are only a dependence
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thereof, as supposed by Agassiz and also by Baudelot; or else these
parts are developed at the expense of a special blastema as a kind
of teeth, the opinion maintained by M. Mandl. Although this latter
view is generally abandoned, the following observations show that
it may be regarded as correct, at least in certain fishes.
Gobius niger (Linn.), very common on our coasts, has fur-
nished me with the materials for these researches. Its scales, of
which M. Baudelot has given a very good description, are of a very
simple type, never having more than a single row of spinules on the
posterior margin of the concentrically ribbed lamella. This lamella
may even exist alone, either all over the body, as in very young
individuals, or only on the ventral parts, as in the adult.
In the complete scales the lamella shows a nearly quadrilateral
form, the anterior side being rounded, and the posterior side slightly
projecting and angular. ‘The number of marginal notches seems
never to exceed nine or ten. The focus, which is usually small and
circular, is marginal, approaching the posterior margin; the con-
centric crests are numerous. The epithelium, in which the pigmentary
layer is distinct, clothes all the posterior part of the scale and forms
a festoon-like marginal mass, in which the spinules are entirely
imbedded. ‘The latter appear in an order well described by authors—
that is to say, commencing with a median spinule, then lateral pairs ;
at least this is what anatomical examination leads us to suppose,
which always shows the spinules unpaired in number when there
are not more than seven; beyond this it is not rare to find an even
number, which may no doubt be attributed to the unequally rapid
development of the lateral spinules. The observations related here
may explain these facts. The length of the spinules differs at the
centre and at the sides, of course only taking into consideration the
completely developed spinules. The former are sensibly shorter, and
the size regularly increases to the spinules nearest the angles; so
that all the points, without coming to the same straight line, form
an angle a little more open than that of the posterior margin of the
lamella; only the point of the spinules projects slightly beyond
the epithelium, which shows at this point particularly well the
pigmentary masses distributed in two layers—the first bordering the
lamella at the base of the spinules, and the second formed of usually
isolated chromoblasts placed in the interspinular spaces all at the
same level, producing a very elegant design.
The epithelial cells, it is very important to notice, are of extreme
delicacy ; simple contact with the sea-water, even only for ten
minutes, swells them, breaks them up, and transforms the whole
into a magma in which it becomes impossible to detect the relations
of the parts. To repeat the observations it is absolutely necessary
to have a fish not only fresh but living ; in this respect Gobius niger
is a particularly favourable species, as it may be preserved several
days with very little trouble in a very small quantity of sea-water.
As soon as the scale is taken off it ought to be placed quickly under
the microscope to examine it at once; if it be desired to continue
the observation, the tissues must be hardened immediately by the
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use of reagents, such as alcohol, solutions of chromic acid, picric
acid, &c. By these means the preparations are preserved so well
that, with precautions, they may be mounted in Canada balsam.
Under suitable conditions, on nearly all the scales there will be
found, outside the perfect spinules, two of these organs, one on each
side, in course of development; and by multiplying the observations,
we may form a clear idea of the origin of these parts.
In the most rudimentary state that I have been able to observe,
the spinule is reduced to a sort of flattened cone, 0-03 millim. in
diameter at its base, and of about the same height. It is surrounded
by cells measuring from 0-009 to 0-014 millim., resembling the
other epithelial elements in their aspect and dimensions, but distin-
guished from them nevertheless by their arrangement in a more or
less spherical mass. The cone is composed of a very finely granular
substance, especially after the action of certain reagents, such as
acetic acid; it must be regarded as intended to furnish the materials
necessary for the growth of the spinule—in fact as the spinular
papilla, the spherical mass representing a true follicle.
A little later the follicle becomes less distinct, and even disappears
completely ; at the same time the other parts become more com-
plicated. The papilla always remains in the same state, and nearly
in the same form; but its point is as it were hooded by a transparent
hyaline sheath, the first rudiment of the dentinous substance which
will form the perfectly developed organ. At this time, if the pre-
paration is treated with acetic acid, the tissue of the papilla be-
comes granular, while the sheath becomes pale ; no effervescence or
sensible diminution of volume is observed, which must be attributed
to the small quantity of calcareous matter which the tissue then
contains compared with the abundance of the organic part.
The development is continued to the complete state by the
gradual augmentation of the dentinous cone. One of the first effects
is to hide the papilla; then the point lengthens, and ends by piercing
the epidermic festoon.
The papilla seems to persist even in the perfectly developed
spinules. On treating the scale with a strong acid (such as hydro-
chloric or nitric acid) to get rid of the calcareous salts, we see the
aspect of the spinules become greatly modified. The length becomes
scarcely half that of the entire organ; the granular substance con-
stituting the papilla appears in the form of a sort of basal bud,
produced, towards the free margin of the epidermic mass, by a
cylinder formed of the same substance. In the young spinules the
papilla alone remains; in the perfect spinules the cylindrical pro-
longation is hooded by the organic substance of the decalcified
dentine, persisting under the appearance of a transparent, elastic,
hyaline layer, in which a sort of fibrous longitudinal structure may
be made out. Under the action of the reagent, and in consequence
of the disengagement of carbonic acid, this gas is very often accu-
mulated under the epidermis, between the lamella and the row of
spinules, and separates them, putting the discontinuity of these
parts beyond a doubt.
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The study of these facts leads, in the first place, to the conclusion
that in these animals the spinules and the lamella are developed
independently of each other; and if we take into consideration the
relations of these parts to the surrounding tissues, the former
belong to the epidermis, and the latter to the deeper part of the
integuments—that is to say, to the dermis. Secondly, if we consider
these organs in the whole of the class of Fishes, we are led to regard
the scales of these Ctenoids as a sort of intermediate type. In the
eel, in Rypticus, Grammistes, and certain Blennioidei the scale,
reduced to the lamella, is subepidermic and destitute of spinules :
in the sharks and rays the hard portions of the integuments have
quite another origin; they are epidermic. It will therefore be
legitimate in Gobius and analogous fishes to compare the lamella to
the deep-seated scale of the eel, and the free spinules to the scutella
of the Plagiostomi.—Comptes Rendus, July 19, 1875, p. 137.
On the Larval Forms of the- Bryozoa.
By M. J. Barros.
To the type represented by Alcyonidiwm may be referred a nume-
rous series, the whole of which constitute our first larval form. In
all: the representatives of two great divisions of the Bryozoa, the
Chilostomata and the Ctenostomata (Aleyonidiina and Vesicularie),
the development presents, as in Alcyonidium, three principal phases :
—1, segmentation to the thirty-two stage; 2, formation of the gas-
trula, and production of the bell-shaped stage; and, 3, histological
differentiation and completion of the orguns.
The first two phases are identical throughout, and the bell-shaped
stage is always reproduced with the same regularity. The third
stage, on the contrary, may differ according to the genera, and the
greater or less importance of the changes produced in it; we pass
through all states of transition, from the most simple forms, as nearly
as possible representing the bell-shaped stage in a permanent state,
as in Alcyonidiwm, to the most complex and aberrant types. It is
among these last that we must place Cyphonautes and the larvee of
the Vesiculariz, which we shall take here as examples of forms thus
modified.
The phenomena which occur in Cyphonautes during the third stage
of development, after the bell-shaped stage, may be reduced to two
fundamental processes :—
1. The furrow which will form the disk, instead of being produced
in the middle of the dorsal surface, is produced near the summit,
from which results a considerable reduction of that organ and a cor-
responding extension of the uniting membrane, which thenceforward
forms the greater part of the dorsal surface.
2. The ventral surface tends to become invaginated inwards, and
the crown to begin to close above by applying to each other its two
opposite margins ; in this way the vestibule and the bilateral form
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 21
302 Miscellaneous.
of the embryo are produced ; the cincture becomes the ciliary fringe
of the vestibule, and the uniting membrane the body of the Cypho-
nautes. The testis asimple chitinization of the two halves of the uniting
membrane. ‘The disk, situated between these two halves, is, after
the formation of the test, included between the two valves, and
thenceforward begins to undergo a complete retrogradation.
These embryogenical results are confirmed by the comparison of
the different types. Between the two extreme forms Alcyonidiwm
and Cyphonautes compressus, two new types of transition (Hucratea
and the Cyphonautes of Saint-Vaast) establish an intimate connexion,
and constitute an uninterrupted chain, which enables us to trace with
certainty the homology of the various organs.
The larve of the Vesicularize appear, when hatched, in the form
of a regular ovoid, slightly flattened at each pole, and having a
general covering of long vibratile cilia. At each pole there is a less
coloured spot, indicating the presence of a special organ; the spot
at the upper pole is slightly prominent, and that at the inferior pole
completely flat; the portion of the ovoid situated between the two
poles is covered with long, characteristic ribs, and bears, in a longi-
tudinal direction, an aperture resembling the pharyngeal fissure of
Alcyonidium, and, like it, surmounted by a vibratile tuft. Lastly,
to each of the above-mentioned spots there corresponds a system of
organs which the opacity of the embryo prevented my distinguishing
with the desirable precision.
The phenomena which produce this strange structure result, as in
all other cases, from modifications of the bell-shaped stage. They
consist simply in an exaggerated development of the crown, the
dorsal and ventral parts behaving exactly as in the ordinary larve ;
but each of the cells of the crown undergoes a considerable growth
in a longitudinal direction, and becomes converted into a rib occu-
pying the whole length of the embryo. At the close of the develop-
ment the whole of these ribs forms a sort of sheath, at each extremity
of which projects the rest of the dorsal and ventral surfaces in the
form of dark-coloured spots.— Comptes Rendus, September 6, 1875,
p. 443.
On the Migrations and Metamorphoses of the Marine Endoparasitic
Trematodes. By M. A. Vitwor.
The marine endoparasitic Trematodes have been much less studied
than their terrestrial and freshwater congeners, and we still know
little of their development. Hitherto isolated facts have been col-
lected merely by chance, and very little anxiety has been shown to
tind a method which might serve to combine these with each other.
Experiment, to which most investigators have had recourse, in such
cases could not serve this purpose; for, even in case of success, it
always leaves a great uncertainty as to the normal host of the para-
Miscellaneous. 303
site. The true course to follow consists in seeking by observation,
with the aid of the principle of harmonious correlations, the various
animals successively inhabited by the parasite, and thus establishing
the series of its metamorphoses. We must study the habits of the
definitive host, know its mode of feeding, and the fauna of the
localities which it frequents, if we wish to work up to the origin of
the parasites it harbours, and ascertain their migrations. By pro-
ceeding in this manner, I have been able this year to make some
observations which I think are interesting, and to which I now
desire to call the attention of naturalists; they have enabled me to
ascertain some curious correlations between the conditions of existence
of the Helminths, mollusks, crustaceans, and birds that live on our
shores.
The sea-lark (Zringa alpina), which is so common on all our
sandy or muddy shores, usually contains in its intestines two very
different Distoma. One of these belongs to the group of the armed
Distoma, or Echinostoma, and may probably be referred to D. lepto-
somum of Creplin. It is a fine species, well characterized by its
dimensions, which attain 0:010 metre in length and 0-001 metre
in breadth; by its ventral sucker, which is greatly developed and
not far from the buccal sucker, by the scaly papille which cover
its body, and the collar of large spines which surrounds its head.
The other, which is perhaps D. brachysomum, a doubtful species
imperfectly described by Creplin, is distinguished from the preceding
by its size, which does not exceed 0-001 metre, by its equal and
very small suckers, by its scaly penis, by the posterior part of its
body being short, broad, and entirely filled by the oviducts, and
by other characters, into the details of which I cannot here
enter.
These two Distoma only become adult in the intestine of Tinga
alpina ; and we can easily follow their development by examining
with the microscope the various parts of the digestive tube of that
bird. To have them in the larval state and still enveloped in their
cysts, we have only to open the gizzard: there we find them, often
in considerable number, mixed with débris of all kinds and with the
sand required for the trituration of the food. The cysts of D. lepto-
somum are only 0-080 millim. in diameter, and are formed of a very
thin, perfectly transparent, double envelope. In their interior we
may distinguish a little Distomum rolled up, and still destitute of
genital organs, but already recognizable by its cephalic armature.
Those of D. brachysomum are larger, thicker, and of a strong yellow
colour ; they are 0-200 millim. in diameter. Their envelope is 0-012
millim. in thickness, and consists of two layers which are very distinct
in their structure, the external one being formed of fine radiated
canaliculi, and the internal one composed of concentric layers. The
parasite enclosed in this as yet possesses only rudimentary generative
organs; but the form of its digestive apparatus and the proportions
of its suckers can leave no doubt as to its specific identity. The
304 Miscellaneous.
cysts remain in the gizzard for a longer or shorter time, and then
pass into the duodenum, where they undergo the action of the
digestive juices. Their envelope is soon dissolved, and the young
Distomum set at liberty. It then slowly traverses the numerous
folds of the small intestine; but during this course its genital organs
are developed, and when it arrives in the rectum its ova are mature,
fecundated, and ready to be eliminated.
It remained to learn in what invertebrate animals the Cercariz
encysted themselves. I can tell this now, thanks to the method
above indicated. The Cercarize of D. brachysomum are encysted in
small Isopod crustaceans belonging to the genus Anthura, and to a
species very common on the shores of the English Channel—namely,
Anthura gracilis, Leach. The Cercarie of D. leptosomum become
encysted on the siphons and in the foot of a small Acephalous mol-
lusk, which lives at a small distance from the shore—Scrobicularia
tenuis. This mollusk and crustacean, with a few larvee of Diptera,
constitute the ordinary nourishment of Tringa alpina.
I have also observed other encysted Cercarie which are parasitic
on Crustaceans, but of the subsequent development of which I am
ignorant. One occurs in Mysis, and is distinguished by the larger
size of its two suckers. The other inhabits the visceral cavity of
Iagia oceanica, and is remarkable for its large dimensions: its cyst
is 0-280 millim. in diameter and 0-032 millim, in thickness.
Scrobicularia tenuis has furnished me with three species of sporo-
cysts, which perhaps belong to the Distoma of which I have spoken.
The Cercariz which issue from them are very fine. Two of them
appear allied to C. dichotoma and C. setifera, found in the free state
in the Mediterranean by J. Miller. The third is certainly new, and
is characterized by its tail, which is furnished with very short sete
arranged in rings.
I may also mention, in conclusion, three remarkable types of which
I only know the adult form :—a Monostomum with a winged head
and large sucker, which lives in the intestine of Strepsilas interpres ;
a Holostomum with scaly integuments, parasitic in the same bird;
and a gigantic Distomum, a parasite of Echinorhinus spinosus, which
was described by Risso under the name of D. scimna, and which I
have just detected at Roscoff in the same Selachian. The large size
of this last species, and the consistency of its organs, particularly
fit it for histological investigations ; I shall give its detailed anatomy
ina memoir that 1am now preparing.— Comptes Rendus, September 13,
1875, p. 475.
Bathybius.
According to some observations of Prof. Wyville Thomson, com-
municated by . Prof. Huxley to ‘Nature’ (August 19, 1875),
Bathybius probably consists of sulphate of lime precipitated in a
flocculent state by strong alcohol.
THE ANNALS
AND
MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.
[FOURTH SERIES. ]
No. 95. NOVEMBER 1875.
XXXIX.— Contributions to the Study of the chief Generic
Types of the Paleozoic Corals. By JAMES THOMSON,
F.G.8., and H. Auteyne Nicnorson, M.D., D.Sc.,
F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History in the University
of St. Andrews.
Introduction.
THE object of the present communication is to consider briefly
the characters of the leading types of structure which may be
recognized amongst the Paleozoic Corals, irrespective of the
question as to whether these types constitute what would
technically be called “genera” or not. Indeed, as we shall
hereafter point out at greater length, the modern development
of the doctrine of Evolution has rendered any rigid definition
of what constitutes a “genus” an entire impossibility. So
far as this point is concerned, each observer must be left,
within certain limits, very much to his own judgment. In
carrying out the purpose which we have at present in view,
it is most convenient to adopt a stratigraphical rather than a
zoological arrangement ; and we shall therefore commence with
those genera which occur in the Carboniferous period. It may
be added that only those types will be considered of which the
material now in our hands 1s sufficient to allow of something
like a complete elucidation.
The method of investigation pursued has, in the main, con-
sisted in slicing and polishing the specimens in different
directions, and in preparing thin sections for microscopic ex-
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 22
306 Mr. J. Thomson and Dr. H. A. Nicholson on the
amination. It seems almost needless to point out that in this
way, and in -this way only, can any thing like a complete
knowledge be obtained of the actual and essential points of
structure in the fossil corals. Due weight, of course, should
be given to external characters ; but we feel satisfied that the
above method of investigation is the only one which is capable
of leading to really sound and reliable conclusions, in spite of
the great labour and expense which must be attributed as draw-
backs to the process. That the general application of this
method of investigation to the fossil corals should in some
instances yield unexpected results, or possibly even some-
what derange existing classifications, is hardly more than might
have been anticipated. At the same time, in accordance with
a well-known scientific canon, we should not be justified in
hoping that even experts will at first accept all the conclusions
at which we have arrived, unless they are willing to adopt the
same method of investigation *.
Hitherto the specific determination of the fossil corals of
the Palzozoic formations has very frequently been based upon
those points of structure or form which can be made out simply
by an examination of the external surface, or of fractured spe-
cimens. Only in comparatively few instances have observers
had recourse to the more complete research implied by the
making of properly prepared sections. That the Paleozoic
corals form a group in many respects peculiarly difficult to
study cannot be denied; but we believe that the difficulties
of the case have been much increased by the imperfect modes
of investigation which have been in general employed. To
this it must be added that few collections of Paleozoic corals,
either public or private, are at present in such a condition as
to admit satisfactorily of critical study.
The generic distinctions amongst the Paleozoic corals have
usually been based upon the characters of the septal system,
the presence or absence of a columella and its characters when
present, the existence or non-existence of dissepiments and
their form and disposition when present, the nature of the
tabule, the characters of the wall and exothecal structures,
and the general form and mode of growth of the corallum.
* Our collections embrace several thousands of cut and polished speci-
mens of the Paleozoic corals, together with a large number of thin sections
for microscopic examination, irrespective of very many that have been left
in their native condition. Noone, who has not learnt by actual experi-
ence, can properly appreciate the great expenditure of time, labour, and
money involved in thus preparing for examination a large series of fossil
corals, Even as it is, much of the material in our hands is still compara-
tively unavailable from its not having been submitted to these necessary
preliminaries.
chief Generic Types of the Palwozoie Corals. 307
No one of these characters, however, can be safely relied upon
as, of itself, sufficient for generic distinction; and it seems
certain that genera should be founded upon a due consideration
and estimation of all the morphological characters of the
corallum.
As investigated by the method which we have employed,
the corals of the Paleozoic period very strongly support the
view that they owe their structural peculiarities to some form
or another of evolution. Whenevera sufficiently large number
of specimens of any given group can be obtained, and sub-
mitted to examination by means of sections, a complete
passage is usually found to exist into other allied groups. So
complete is this transition, and so gradual are the steps by
which it is effected, that it becomes impossible for the most
painstaking observer to draw any hard-and-fast line of demar-
cation between such inosculating groups. On the contrary,
he is constantly confronted with examples that might be in-
differently referred to one or the other of two groups, and which
he therefore finds it impossible to place definitely otherwise
than as central links in a connected series.
Whilst the important result just enunciated is in many
instances capable of complete demonstration, it nevertheless
remains certain that im all such anastomosing groups it is
possible to pick out certain examples which may be regarded
as representatives or type forms of the groups. Such forms
constitute centres from which their respective groups diverge
in different directions ; and they are not only constant in their
characters, but differ from the intermediate forms in being
readily and certainly recognizable, and capable of easy refer-
ence to a definite position.
It seems almost unnecessary to mention that these results
are not only precisely what would have been expected upon
any theory of Evolution, but that they are in complete accor-
dance with the results arrived at by observers in other depart-
ments. We may instance more especially the Foraminifera,
the Ostracoda, and the Graptolitide in support of this state-
ment. Upon any theory of Evolution, allied groups must be
linked together by a more or less crowded series of intermediate
forms. The advocates of all hypotheses of this nature are
therefore compelled to hold that genera and species are merely
arbitrary divisions, and that they cease to have any existence
in reality the moment we obtain a complete series of transi-
tional forms.
It still remains to consider the course which should be
adopted 7m practice, when we come to deal with these con-
nected and inosculating groups for the purpose of systematic
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308 On the chief Generic Types of Paleozoic Corals.
study. One course would be to throw all such forms together, as
constituting a single “genus,” and to consider the different types
of the series as so many “‘subgenera.”’ The objections to this
course, however, are twofold. In the first place, as our know-
ledge increases, and as we obtain a more complete series of forms
uniting different groups together, our genera would undergo a
proportionate expansion and increase of size, until, in the case
of fossil forms at any rate, they would become utterly un-
manageable. A “ genus” might in this way come ultimately
to include all the forms which now constitute a “ family ;” and
from the number and variety of the forms included in it, there
would be great difficulty in giving it any precise definition.
In the second place, “ subgenera,” however appropriate and
justifiable in theory, are nearly useless, if not absolutely
obstructive, in actual practice. We think most working natu-
ralists will bear us out in this view, at any rate so far as con-
cerns all cases where we cannot obtain complete materials for
determination and examination, as we never can in the case of
fossils.
On the other hand, the course may be adopted of selecting
certain well-marked and easily recognizable ‘‘ types,” and of
giving to these distinctive names. By adopting such a course
the actual practical work of determining and classifying spe-
cimens is enormously facilitated ; and it does not matter to the
observer, though his “‘ types ” be connected together by a gra-
dational series of transitional forms. He does not thereby
hamper his theoretical conceptions as to what constitutes a
“ oenus”’ or a ‘‘ species;”” nor is he pledged to believe that
his selected types are all of the same value. He is not even
bound to express a positive opinion as to whether his “ types ”
are to be regarded as “ genera” or as “ subgenera.” ‘This,
indeed, must be a comparative matter of indifference to him,
since, upon all theories of Evolution, these terms are of merely
conventional value, elastic, and incapable of precise definition,
and owing their existence at all, in any definite form, to our
own imperfect knowledge. Nor does it seem that the reproach
ean justly be made that the adoption of this course opens the
door to a wide and undesirable multiplication of names.
“ Subgenera”’ have distinctive names applied to them just as
much as “ genera,” with the disadvantage that they are in-
finitely more perplexing and more difficult to work with.
In working out the Paleozoic corals we have thought it
best to adopt the course above indicated. We have chosen
certain structural “ types,” which the observer can always
recognize with certainty when he is provided with properly
prepared specimens; and to these we have given distinctive
Mr. W. T. Blanford on new Mammalia. 309
names, where such did not exist before. We do not for a
moment deny that in many instances these types can be shown
to pass into others by regular and almost imperceptible grada-
tions, and that possibly all of them may, some day, be shown
to be similarly connected with one another. Nor are we pre-
pared to maintain that all these types, even where they have
by common consent been regarded as of generic value, are so
distinctively separated from others as to deserve the name of
“ oenera,”’ in the ordinary acceptation of this term. We have
had, however, to face a difficulty which will increasingly meet
the worker in any department of Invertebrate Paleontology ;
and we think that this is, in the meanwhile, the best practical
solution of it. Even if a better solution of the difficulty be
ultimately found, no retardation or impediment to the progress
of science in this department will result from our present
adoption of this course. No type will be described by us
which is not at the same time accurately figured; and the
facts thus recorded will remain unchanged, and will retain their
value, whatever alteration may take place in our method of
interpreting them,
[To be continued. |
XL,.— Descriptions of new Mammalia from Persia and Bali-
chistin. By W. 'T. BLANFORD, F.R.S.
THE following descriptions have been in print for more than
a year; but, owing to unforeseen delays, the work on Persian
zoology in which they appear has not yet been published, and
it is, | hear, likely that some time must elapse before it will
be ready. Under these circumstances it appears to me desirable
to describe the species of Mammalia supposed to be new, so as
to avoid confusion of synonymy from the delay.
1. Vespertilio desertorum, Dobson, MS.
V. fusco-fulvus; auribus magnis, ad apices rotundatis, margine
exteriore juxta apicem emarginata, inde ad basin tragi recta,
concha punctis glandularibus confertim instructa; trago longo,
angusto, acuto, margine interiore convexiuscula, exteriore con-
cava; digitis tertio quartoque fere squalibus; vertebra ultima
caude membranam excedente ; alis a basi digitorum pedum ori-
entibus.
Long. corporis cum capite 2-1, caude 1°65, auris 0°65, tragi 0°35,
radii 1-65, tibize 0°8 poll. Angl.
Hab, ad Jalk, Baltichistén.
310 Mr. W. T. Blantord on new Mammalia
The description is by Mr. Dobson, who very kindly ex-
amined and determined the few bats which I collected in
Persia, as he had previously described those obtained by
Major St. John (Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1870, vol. xl. pt. 2,
p. 455).
2. Hrinaceus macracanthus, sp. nov.
E. affinis E. awrito, Pall., aculeis longioribus, ad tergum posticum
sesquipollicaribus, nigris, basin versus albido biannulatis; corpore
subtus pilis longiusculis albidis, ad latera partim atque postice
omnino fuscis induto ; pedibus fuscis.
Long. tota 9:5, cranii 2-2, caude 1:25, auris 2, palme 1:2, plantee
1:5 poll.
Hab. in Carmania.
This hedgehog is distinguished from all allied species by
its long spines and the coloration. It is most nearly allied to
Li. megalotis, the Kandahar species ; but the spines are longer,
and entirely black towards the ends in the adult.
3. Vulpes persicus, sp. nov.
V. pallidus, rufescenti-isabellinus, fronte ferruginea ; auribus extus
pallide rufis, apices versus nigris, marginibus isabellinis; pilis
dorsalibus pallidis, canescentibus, plerumque nigro terminatis,
postice magis rufis, vellere purpurascenti-cinereo, lanoso, longo;
lateribus ventreque pallide isabellinis, vellere cinerascente vel
albido; cauda rufescente vel isabellina, subtus pallidiore, apice
albo vel nigro nullo; pedibus extus rufis, nonnullis pilis nigris
sparsis immixtis.
Long. corporis cum capite (ad corium exsiccatum) circum 24,
caudze 14, auris 3:5, pedis posterioris cum tarso 5, erani 5:15
poll.
fab. in Persia, circum Shiraz, Isfahan, &e.
A near ally of V. leucopus, Blyth, but larger, with much
larger teeth, and differently coloured.
4, Meles canescens, sp. nov.
M. affinis /. Tavo, sed minor, canescenti-griseo, haud fusco, dentibus
posticis angustioribus.
Hab. in Persia circum Isfahan, Ke.
This badger is much paler in colour than the common Euro-
pean species, and exhibits many cranial differences. A stuffed
skin measures 2 feet 9 inches from the nose to the insertion of
the tail. The skull is 5:1 inches long, 2°9 broad. It is broader
between the orbits, and the nasal portion is shorter, than in
M, Taxus; and whilst the last wpper molar in a series of skulls
from Persia and Balichistdn. Se
of the European badger varies in the noha of its breadth
to its length between 1: 1°12 and 1: 1-2 , in M. canescens the
Or
same tooth exhibits the ratio of 1: 1°35.
5. Scturus fulvus, sp. nov.
S. affinis S. syriaco, sed valde pallidior, dorso griseo rufescente, antice
magis rufo, gastro isabellino, fronte rufa, genis isabellinis ; cauda
media superne ferruginea, ad latera subtusque fulva, multo bre-
viore quam corpore ; auriculis haud penicillatis.
Hab. in quercetis haud procul ab urbe Shiraz in Persia.
A stuffed specimen measures from nose to rump 7 inches,
tail to the end of the hairs 74, fore foot 14, hind foot 2°1.
6. Myoxus pictus, sp. nov.
M. dorso pallide rufescenti-murino, gastreeo albido, margine rufa
colorem dorsalem a ventrali utrinque secernente, et ad femora,
humeros lateraque colli infra aures in maculas ferrugineas dilatata ;
facie antice a fronte pallida, grisescente, utrinque fascia nigra a
nari ad extremitatem anteriorem auris ducta, regionem ocularem
amplectente, marginata ; mystacibus superioribus nigris, inferi-
oribus albis; auribus rotundatis, parum pilosis, fere nudis; cauda
corpus longitudine subequante, ubique hirta, pilis longis induta,
supra grisea, subtus albescente ; pedibus parvis, supra albis, subtus
pallidis.
Long. corporis cum capite 3:5, caudee 39; auris 0:6, palme 0-4,
plantee 0-78 poll.
Hab. ad Kohrud in Media (Persia hodierna septentrionali).
Near W/. Dryas, but distinguished by the tail being whiter
in colour, by the presence of a patch of red hairs beneath the
ear, by the ‘ears being larger and more hairy, and especially
by the smaller feet, the sole of the hind foot measuring nearly
an inch in M. Dryas, whilst it only measures 0°78 in the present
species.
For the above distinctions I am indebted to Professor Peters,
who obliged me by comparing a specimen which I sent to him
for the purpose, as there was no specimen of M. Dryas in
London.
7. Mus erythronotus, sp. nov.
M. supra ferrugineus, nigrescente lavatus, lateribus magis rufis;
infra albus, coloribus bene discretis, haud transeuntibus ; cauda
fere nuda, corporis longitudinem subsquante; auribus magnis,
rotundatis, fere nudis ; pedibus superne albis, plantis nudis, fuscis;
mammis 6, duabus pectoralibus, quatuor inguinalibus.
Long. corporis cum capite circum 4, caude 4-2, auris 0°55-0-7, lat.
ejusdem 0:45—0°5, long. palmee 0-4, plantee 0-9 poll.
a12 Mr. W. T. Blanford on new Mammalia.
Hab. ad Kohrud in Media.
This mouse is allied to WM. sylvaticus.
8. Gerbillus persicus, sp. nov.
G. affinis G‘. indico, supra ferrugineus, infra albus; cauda corpus
longitudine excedente, superne rufescenti-brunnea, apicem versus
nigra, subtus albida, ad latera haud pallide striata; auribus longis,
sed minoribus quam in G. indico, parum pilosis, plantis latioribus,
subtus sordide viridescentibus, vibrissis longioribus confertioribus-
que; dente molario superiore postico in adultis simplici rotundo.
Long. corporis cum capite 6°25, caude (vertebrarum) 6-5, pilorum
ultra apicem 1, cranii 1°75, auris 0°85, palme 0-6, plants 1:55
poll.
Hab. in Persia.
This species, though very near G. indicus, is at once distin-
guished by wanting the dark line down the lower surface of
the tail; the shape of the skull, too, is very different.
9. Gerbillus nanus, sp. nov.
G. parvus, longicaudatus, cauda corporis longitudinem duplam
equante, supra cervinus, infra albus, genis superciliisque albidis ;
cauda superne brunnea, subtus albescente, apice vix fuscescente,
pilis apicalibus vix elongatis; auribus mediocribus, fere nudis ;
mystacibus plerumque albis, superis ad basin fuscis.
Long. capitis cum corpore 2°6, cranii 1-05, caude (pilis apicalibus
inclusis) 5, auris 0:45, plantze 0-9 poll.
Hab. in Gedrosia (Baltichistin).
One of the smallest forms of the genus.
340 Major H. H. Godwin-Austen on a new Actinura.
and breast is also a mark of connexion with A. Waldenti. On
comparison, it is seen that Actinura daflaensis bears the same
relation to nipalensis that Waldeni does to Egertoni.
The genus is a very well-marked one; and we can now record
from the Indian region five species (including A. Ramsayt
from Tonghoo, in Burmah, described by Viscount Walden in
‘Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.’ for June 1875), viz.:—1. A. Eger-
tont, Gould; 2. A.nipalensis, Hodgson; 3. A. Waldent, Godwin-
Austen; 4. A. daflaensis, Godwin-Austen; 5. A. Ramsay?,
Walden. The last is a very distinct and interesting bird, a
departure from the Kast-Himalayan type, but yet in every
point a true Actinura.
Actinura daflaensis, n. sp.
Male. Above—head ash-brown ; feathers in front spatulate,
behind elongated into a full crest, narrowly pale-edged; the
ash tint pales on back of neck, and merges into the strong
rusty brown of the back and upper tail-coverts ; base of tail-
feathers of same colour, followed by four or five black bars,
and the terminal half all black, the three outer tipped white,
with a slight tendency to barring on the extreme outer web ;
side of head ash-grey, the ear-coverts with light silky reflections ;
shoulder of wing rusty brown; first primary coverts tipped
with grey, forming a distinct narrow band, the last (covering
the first seven primaries) black, forming a patch ; the primaries
are sienna-brown, outermost edged with hoary grey, black on
inner webs and extremities, and narrowly barred with black
on the terminal outer web; secondaries evenly and narrowly
barred black and pale olivaceous umber. Beneath—the chin
and throat pale dingy white, becoming a dirty ochry ash on
the breast, with a blurry striation particularly on the throat ;
flanks and under tail-coverts rusty brown; tail beneath ashy
black, the outermost feathers distinctly barred. Bill dark
horny, legs the same ; irides ?
Length 7°5 inches, wing 3°5, tail 3:2, tarsus 1°3, bill at
front 0°68.
Hab. In high forest at 7000 feet, Dafla hills, and first shot
on Shengorh Peak in February.
I trust to give a figure of this bird in the Journal of the
Asiatic Society of Bengal as soon as I have completed the
list of birds collected in the Dafla hills, which is now being
worked out.
Mr. KE. J. Miers on new Species of Crustacea. 341
XLV.—On some new or undescribed Species of Crustacea
from the Samoa Islands. _By Epwarp J. Mgrs, Zoolo-
gical Department, British Museum.
'THE species of which descriptions are here given form part of
a large series collected by the Rev. 8. J. Whitmee, who is
at present resident in the Samoa Islands, and presented by him
to the Trustees of the British Museum. The collection con-
tains in all nearly fifty species; and many of the specimens
are remarkable for the beauty of their colouring and the ex-
cellence of their preservation.
Chlorodius samoensis, sp. n.
Carapace regularly arcuate in front, strongly areolated, with
deep longitudinal grooves, and with a strongly marked trans-
verse line extending across the carapace to the base of the fifth
tooth on either side. Latero-anterior margins with five small,
equal and equidistant teeth (the external orbital angles in-
cluded) ; .front prominent, four-toothed (the internal orbital
angles excluded). Anterior legs granulous externally ;_ wrist
with two small tubercles ; hand with a single small tubercle
on its upper surface, close to the articulation with the wrist ;
mobile finger with a small tubercle at its base. Ambulatory
legs short, very hairy. Colour greenish grey ; fingers brown,
the brown colour extends a little over the lower part of the
hand.
Length $ inch, width 3 inch.
Hab. Samoa Islands.
This species is closely allied to the Chlorodius dentifrons
of Stimpson (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1858, p. 34), from
Loo-Choo ; but it differs in the sculpture of the anterior legs,
which in C. dentifrons have two or three small teeth on the
wrist and three or four on the hand.
Thalamita speciosa, sp. n.
Carapace transverse, covered with a uniform short close
pubescence; the transverse ridges, the margins of the frontal
lobes, and the teeth of the antero-lateral margins naked.
Front divided into eight teeth, separated by rather deep
fissures, the two median equal, truncated at the extremity ;
the next two on each side unequal, rounded at the extremity ;
the external tooth on each side very broad, with the inner
margin arcuate, and separated from the next inner tooth by
avery wide fissure. Latero-anterior margins with four equal
teeth. Basal joint of the external antenne with a series of
342 - Mr. E. J. Miers on new Species of
two or three spines. Anterior legs rather long; arm with
three or four spines on the front margin ; wrist with a very
long spine on its inner margin, and two or three smaller
spines on its outer surface ; hand with five spines on its upper
surface, three on the outer and two on the inner margin; ex-
ternal surface granulous. Third joint of posterior legs with a
strong spine at its infero-distal extremity. Colour of a rich
blood-red. ,
Length 12 inch; breadth at fifth marginal tooth 23 inches.
Hab. Samoa Islands.
This species is distinguished by the close short pubescence,
the form of the frontal lobes, and the existence of only four
teeth on the antero-lateral margins. The species of the genus
have normally five teeth, of which the fourth may be rudi-
mentary. The rudimentary fourth tooth, however, according
to M. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.
1873, ix. p. 163), is occasionally absent in Th. Savignyt, a
species with only four frontal lobes.
Leucosia Whitmeet, sp. n.
Carapace subglobose, closely punctate on the sides, narrowed
and produced anteriorly. Front slightly relevate, concave
above, obscurely tridentate ; the median tooth very small, and
not more prominent than the lateral ones. Thoracic sinus
deep and well-defined, with a smooth, obseurely beaded margin,
narrow at base, slightly widened anteriorly and rounded in front.
Anterior legs of moderate length; upper surface of arm with
an anterior and a posterior longitudinal line of tubercles,
several above and below at the base, and two or three placed
in an oblique series on the upper surface near the base, of the
arm ; wrist quite smooth; hand rather longer than broad,
compressed, outer margin with a thin smooth ridge, inner
with an obscurely beaded line; fingers small, meeting only
at the tips. Abdomen of male narrowest between the pen-
ultimate and antepenultimate joints ; the tubercle on the pen-
ultimate joint very small, acute. Colour greyish brown above,
pinker on the sides and on the legs, with a semicircular line
of five brown spots, two at the back of each branchial and
one at the back of the cardiac region, and six white spots,
three on each side of the gastric region.
Length nearly 2 inch, greatest width 3 inch.
Hab. Samoa Islands. __
This species may be distinguished from all others with a
tridentate front by the slight prominence of the median tooth,
the form of the thoracic sinus, and the coloration of the
earapace.
Crustacea from the Samoa Islands. — B43
Alpheus lineifer, sp. n.
Slender. Frontal margin of carapace entire. Beak narrow,
triangular, acute, arising between the bases of theeyes. Scale
of the external antenne: acuminate, reaching beyond the
peduncle of the inner antenne. Anterior legs with the larger
(right) hand suboblong, notcontorted, margins rounded, smooth,
but with a faint incised line extending longitudinally along the
upper surface of the hand for about two thirds of its length,
and thence backward obliquely across the outer surface; a
transverse groove along the upper surface near the base of the
mobile finger, and a triangular notch on the lower surface at
the base of the immobile finger. Left anterior leg small, with
a spine at the infero-distal extremity of the arm. Fingers of
both hands hairy. ‘Terminal segment and caudal appendages
small, ciliate. Colour pale yellowish pink, hands of a deeper
orange-pink ; finger of larger hand black at base, white at
tip.
Length 2 inch.
Hab. Samoa Islands.
This species may be distinguished from all the others of the
genus, in which the beak rises between the bases of the eyes
and the front is entire, by the form and sculpture of the larger
hand.
Palemon gracilirostris, sp. n.
Carapace smooth, rounded above. Beak very slender, not
reaching to the extremity of the peduncle of the inner antenne ;
upper margin convex, with ten teeth, of which seven form a
longitudinal series posterior to the eyes, and extending back-
ward over more than half the carapace ; lower margin with
two teeth, apex bifid. Scale of the external antenne large,
reaching beyond the end of the peduncle of the internal an-
tenne. Second pair of legs reaching to about the end of
the flagella of the internal antennee, slender, scabrous ; wrist
scarcely longer than palm; fingers hairy, about as long as the
palm, without teeth on the inner margins.
Length between tip of beak and end of terminal segment
24 inches.
Hab. Samoa Islands, Upolu.
This species may be distinguished from all the others of
the genus which have the wrist shorter than the hand, by the
remarkably slender rostrum, the apex of which is minutely
bifid at the extremity. It appears to be nearly allied to P.
boninensis of Stimpson (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. 1860,
p- 41)—which has more numerous teeth on the rostrum, and
the inner margins of the fingers toothed.
344 On a new Species of Trichoglossus.
Gonodactylus graphurus, sp. n.
Gonodactylus graphurus, List Crust. Brit. Mus. p. 85 (1847), sine descr.
Narrow, of uniform width throughout. Carapace oblong,
anterior angles rounded. Rostral plate quadrilateral, narrowest
at base; anterior margin with a long median acute spine.
Terminal joint of the large prehensile legs slender, and desti-
tute of spmes; basal tubercle ovoid. Penultimate segment of
the abdomen with six tubercles, usually terminating posteriorly
in spines ; caudal appendages ciliate; terminal segment with
six marginal spines and seven tubercles on the upper surface,
of which the median is the longest and the lateral decrease
regularly in size. Colour dull olive-green ; branchial appen-
dages pink.
Length about 1} inch.
Hab. Samoa Islands, Upolu.
This species is distinguished from all its congeners by the
number and relative size of the tubercles on the terminal
segment of the abdomen.
XLVI.—Description of a new Species of 'Trichoglossus from
Fit. By E. L. Layarp, Esq., F.Z.8., Consul for Fiji
and Tonga.
Trichoglossus aureicinctus, Layard.
Upper parts all green, except the tip of the tail-feathers,
brightest on the rump, cheeks, and forehead; body below
green; a deep crimson patch extends from the base of the
bill as far as, but below, the eye, down the chin and throat to
the chest, where it is bordered by a golden band, the feathers
between this and the green of the body being more or less seale-
like in their markings: tail-feathers—three outer ones red at
the base, yellow on the point, half black markings on outer
webs ; fourth black at base, with red spot, and yellow at point ;
rest black at base, yellow at point: bill and feet red; eyes
dark buff; wing-feathers, inner web black, outer broadly
bordered with green.
Length 63 inches, wing 332, tail 33, tarse 4 lines, bill 6 lines.
This species was first indicated by my son, Mr. Leopold
Layard, who saw flocks of them at Taviuni in company with
Lorius solitarius, but could not obtain one. A few were sub-
sequently shot (I believe, on Ovalau) by some one; and one
passed into my possession.
On a Natural Arrangement of the Chiroptera. 345
XLVII.—Conspectus of the Suborders, Families, and Genera
of Chiroptera arranged according to their Natural Affini-
tees. By G. E. Dosson, M.A., M.B., F.L.S., &e.
THE system of classification described in this paper having
been adopted by me in the MS. of my descriptive Catalogue
of the Asiatic Chiroptera, I here anticipate its publication,
with the view of expressing more fully my reasons for classi-
fying the genera according to a plan differing in some im-
portant points from those previously used *, and also for the
purpose of pointing out some important structural characters,
of great value in the systematic arrangement of the families and
genera, hitherto either unnoticed or insufficiently recognized.
The Chiroptera fall naturally into two subdivisions which
may be called suborders, hitherto known as Chiroptera frugi-
vora and Chiroptera insectivora ; but as those names have not
been framed in accordance with the accepted rules of zoolo-
gical nomenclature, and as, moreover, the second part of the
name of the second suborder has been previously applied to an
order of Mammals, I use here instead the terms Megachiro-
ptera and Microchiroptera to express these divisions respec-
tively. These terms are relatively correct; for, although some
species of the Carnivorous Bats very much exceed in size many
species of the Frugivorous, nevertheless the Frugivorous Bats
taken collectively are very much larger than the Carnivorous,
contrasting with them in size almost to the same extent as,
among other Mammals, the Ungulata contrast with the Car-
nivora.
Order CHIROPTERA.
Suborder I. MEGACHIROPTERA.
Crowns of the molar teeth smooth, marked with a longitu-
dinal furrow ; bony palate continued behind the last molar,
narrowing slowly backwards; index finger generally termi-
nating in a claw; sides of the ear-conch forming a complete
ring at the base; pyloric extremity of the stomach greatly
elongated.
Frugivorous.
Limited to the tropical and subtropical regions of the eastern
hemisphere and Polynesia.
* Two complete systems only, of classifying the genera of Chiroptera,
have been published—that of Prof. Peters in 1865 (MB. Akad. Berlin,
1865, p. 256), and that by Dr. J. E. Gray in a series of papers to be found
in the ‘Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist.’ and in the ‘ Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond.’ for
1866.
346 Mr. G. E. Dobson on a Natural
Suborder Il. MICROCHIROPTERA.
Crowns of the molar teeth acutely tubercular, marked by
transverse furrows; bony palate narrowing abruptly, not con-
tinued laterally behind the last molar; index finger generally
terminating in a claw; sides of the ear-conch commencing
anteriorly from separate points of origin; stomach simple, or
with the cardiac extremity more or less expanded or elongated.
Carnivorous, feeding principally upon insects *.
Inhabiting the tropical and temperate regions of both hemi-
spheres.
Suborder I. MEGACHIROPTERA.
Family I. Pteropide.
Synopsis of Groups of Allied Genera.
A. Tongue moderate ; molars well developed. Group 1. Preropt.
(Pteropus, Brisson; Cynopterus, F.
Cuvier; Cynonycteris, Peters ; Harpyia,
Illiger ; Epomophorus, Bennett ; Cepha-
lotcs, Geoff.)
B. Tongue very long; molars weak, scarcely
elevated above the gum _ ............. Group 2. MacroeLosst.
(Macroglossus, F. Cuvier ; Honyctervs,
Dobson ; Notopteris, Gray.)
Suborder Il. MICROCHIROPTERA.
Analytical Table of Natural Families.
A. Tail contained within the interfemoral membrane.
a. Middle finger with two phalanges f.
a’. First phalanx of the middle finger extended (in repose) in
a line with the metacarpal bone.
a. Nostrils opening in a depression on the upper surface of
the muzzle, surrounded by foliaceous cutaneous appen-
dages.
a'', Tragus none ; premaxillary bones rudimentary, repre-
sented by thin osseous laminz suspended from the
nasal cartilages in the centre of the space between
the canines: es. eu eee Rhinolophide.
* Some species of Phyllostomide, especially the species of the group
Stenodermata, haye been shown to be frugivorous ; but they are probably
carnivorous also. In form their teeth in no respect resemble those of
Megachiroptera; but the true molars, in their narrow external cutting-
edges, resemble those of Carnivora even more so than those of the truly
insectivorous species with their W-formed cusps.
+ Except in Thyroptera tricolor and in Mystacina tubercuata.
Arrangement of the Chiroptera. 347
6’, Tragus distinct; premaxillary bones cartilaginous or
small, separated by a space in front.
Nycterida*,
b'. Nostrils opening by simple crescentic or circular aper-
tures at the extremity of the muzzle, not surrounded by
distinct foliaceous cutaneous appendages + ; premaxillary
bones small, lateral, separated by a wide space in front ;
tragus distinct i:.::is.sicaeceis Vespertilionide.
B. Tail perforating the interfemoral membrane and appearing on its
upper surface, or produced considerably beyond the truncated
membrane ¢.
b'. First phalanx of the middle finger folded (in repose) on the
dorsal surface of the metacarpal bone §.
ce’. Nostrils opening by simple circular or valvular apertures,
not surrounded by foliaceous cutaneous appendages ;
AACS CESELRC bn clarors) sis aida aim che Embalionuride||.
b. Middle finger with three phalanges ; first phalanx of the middle
finger short; nostrils in the front part of the cutaneous
nasal appendages, or opening by simple apertures at the ex-
tremity of the muzzle; chin with warts or erect cutaneous
ridges ; premaxillary bones well developed, united in front.
Phyllostomide.
Synopsis of Subfamalies.
Rhinolophide.
1. Toes unequal, first toe with two, remaining toes with three pha-
langes each ; ilio-pectineal spine not connected by bone with
the antero-inferior surface of the ilium.. Rhinolophine.
IL. Toes equal, of two phalanges each; ilio-pectineal spine united
by a bony isthmus with a process derived from the antero-
inferior surface of the ilium, forming a large preacetabular
LOMO ses cere sk, Srcpiths 4 cae lahel oi aheni acc, Phyllorhinine.
Nycterida.
I. Nostrils at the bottom of a concavity on the extremity of the
muzzle, concealed by the base of an erect cutaneous process ;
tail very short, in the base of the large interfemoral membrane ;
premaxillaries cartilaginous .......... Megadermine.
Il. Nostrils at the anterior extremity of a deep longitudinal facial
groove ; tail long, produced to the hinder margin of the inter-
FOMOPal MEMPEANC). 5 5.65 iL. oO
Length from tip of snout to blowhole........---+-++-- 1 ite 4
» 9 TONCY Osten cine, « cae eee aera fe
. + to commencement of dorsal fn 3 5
Dorsal fin2—width at base See Se eae VG
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2 Pn dW es) (0) ap v1: v4) | ea 1 3
Pectoral fins—length ...........0- 2 cece cece rere ee Lipa
“ breadth at, base. j.Ate ak -5-. 2 ee Ger 0.6
Gandal. fin——spread), .cssec:c i Wd « suscoias byt ois ee vhel Sie ime ; Bs
anterior margin of lobe ........+-+++-+:>
”
Tursio metis, Gray.
The specimen here described was presented to the Otago
Museum by Captain Fairchild, of the Colonial steamer ‘ Luna,’
and is one of two captured in Useless Bay, Dusky Sound, on
the 10th of May, 1875. The other specimen was also a female,
and measured 94 feet in length; on being captured it emitted
large quantities of milk.
The following are the dimensions of the skull :—
inches
Totallenethy./; otek tgs eee were 19
Ienodh of beak. ....5 << ue apiece ee hee 11
VWridth at-orbits 70: 220s. ee 9
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sy teetlisline niin. 4 Ou kaa >
The skull agrees very well with the figure of that of 7. metzs
in the ‘ Zoology of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror ;’ but
the teeth are rather closer together.
On the Geological Structure of the Amazons Valley. 359
It is remarkable how very closely the measurements of the
body of this animal agree with those given by Dr. Hector,
in the ‘ Trans. N.Z. Institute,’ vi. p. 85, of a porpoise from
Cook Straits that he refers to Delphinus Forstert. The
Dusky-Sound specimen, however, differs considerably both
in colour and form from the figure of D. Forster in the
‘Voyage of the Erebus and Terror;’ while Dr. Hector says
that the Cook-Strait specimen “ does not differ sufficiently
from that copied last year after Forster to make it worth
reproduction.”
The skeleton is being prepared for the Otago Museum.
XLIX.—On the Geological Structure of the Amazons Valley.
By Professor JAMES ORTON*.
THE valley of the Amazons is a very shallow basin of vast
extent and of an oval shape, with the small end pointing east-
ward. Between December and June a large part of it resembles
a huge undrained swamp, and people sail half the year above
districts where for the other half they walk. Were the
forest removed from the Lower Amazons, a great mud flat
would be exposed (lower than the island of Marajé), threaded
by a network of deep channels, partially covered by every tide,
and deluged by the annual flood. From the marked feature
(first noticed by Chandless) that the tributaries enter the main
stream at a very acute ongle, and have exceedingly tortuous
courses, it is inferred that the rest of the valley is a nearly
level plain gently inclined from west to east, and with very
little slope on either side toward the centre of drainage.
Between Borja and Par4, a distance of 29°, the inclination
is only 500 feet. A section from Exaltacion, on the Upper
Madeira, which has the same altitude as Borja, to San Carlos,
on the Upper Negro (which is elevated only 212 feet above
the Atlantic), would show a depression at Fonte Boa, on the
Amazons, of only 150 feet in 1000 miles. The Negro is a
sluggish stream (San Carlos being on a level with Tabatinga) ;
the Napo is more rapid; and the Pastdssa is a torrent. In the
last thousand miles, the Madeira descends 430 feet, the Purts
225, and the Ucayali 400; while the Huallaga has probably
a swifter current than any of the southern affluents,
The basin of the Great River is principally enclosed by the
* Communicated by the Author, being Chapter X LI. of the forthcoming
new edition of his work on the Andes and the Amazons,
360 Prof. J. Orton on the Geological
sedimentary slopes of the Andes and the metamorphic regions
of the Casiquiare and Central Brazil.
As the rise of the Andes was the creation of the Amazons,
the study of the mountain should precede that of the river ;
indeed the structure of the
basin cannot be under-
stood without a knowledge
of the “rim.” The geo-
logy of the Andes is not
sufficiently advanced to
warrant a classification
of the ranges with respect
to their periods of eleva-
tion. Yet it is very pro-
bable that the coast Cordil-
lerawasthe first toemerge,
and very certain that the
eastern did not reach its
present elevation until
after the Cretaceous age.
The characteristic rocks
of the maritime range are
trachytes and porphyries;
of the oriental, sandstones
and slates.
The annexed profile of
the Andes of Northern
Peru gives the relative
heights of the ranges and
the main formations. I
found no fossils in the
Pacasmayo beach ; but at
Payta, further north, there
are many—among them
Turritella patagonica,
Sow. (which Darwin found
also on the coasts of
Patagonia and Chile), and
Pecten modisonus, Say,
and Crepidula fornicata,
Say, identical with Mio-
cene species on the east
coast. The beach was
therefore raised in late or
post-Tertiary times; and
there is evidence that a
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Structure of the Amazons Valley. 361
subsidence has taken place since the Conquest* ; for an Inca-
rial road, with side-walls intended to run along the coast,
starts from Pacasmdyo, and ends in the sea some three miles
south.
The western Cordillera is doubtless Mesozoic, the Pacific
side being probably Jurassic, as in Southern Peru, and the
oriental side Cretaceous. From the slope facing Pacasmayo
I obtained Jurassic Cardiums and Ostreas, and an Ammonite
resembling 4. Murchison?. Above Balsas, near Tomependa,
Humboldt found and Von Buch determined Echini, Isocardias,
Pectens, Ostreas, and Ammonites of Cretaceous age; and
similar forms were discovered by Raimondi below, within the
department of Ancachs. Half a day’s journey west of Cha-
chapoyas is a highly fossiliferous limestone, abounding with
Ammonites and Pectens, which, according to Professor Hyatt,
are Liassict. The fossils are most common along the left bank
of the Utcubamba, near Tingo. Some of the Ammonites are
a foot in diameter. Belemnites and Starfishes have also been
found further down the Utcubamba, near Bagua; and at San
Carlos is an extensive salt deposit. The dark-brown shale
near the summit of Piscoguafuna, dipping strongly to the east-
ward, contains numerous Middle-Lias Ammonites. The rapid
Cachiyacu, tearing its way down from the Punta de Schalca,
brings along many Ammonites and Brachiopods of Cretaceous
* I have elsewhere called attention to the singular fact that every suc-
cessive measurement of the Andes gives a reduced elevation, tempting
one to believe that either the chain is sinking or the atmospheric pressure
increasing. Thus, Humboldt (1805) made the altitude of Quito 9570
feet ; the writer (1867), 9520; Reiss and Stiibel (1870), 9350. Pichincha,
according to Humboldt, is 15,922 feet ; according to the writer, 15,827 ;
according to Reiss and Stiibel, 15,704. In 1827 Pentland very carefully
estimated the altitude of Lake Titicaca at 12,795 feet; and Friesach, in
1858, determined it to be 12,630; but the recent railway-levellings from
the coast make it only 12,493.
+ The following is an abstract of Professor Hyatt’s paper presented to
the Boston Society of Natural History, January 20, 1875, entitled “Notice
of Jurassic and Cretaceous Ammonites collected in South America by
Professor James Orton, with an Appendix upon the Cretaceous Ammonites
of Professor Hartt’s collection ” :—
“ Jurasstc AMMONITES (lias) :—Arnioceras ceras, Agassiz (Amm.
ceras, Giebel) : under this name I have been obliged to describe several
badly preserved specimens, which resemble in their characteristics very
closely this well-marked species of the Lower Lias: Joc. Piscoguaiiuna,
Northern Peru. Arnioceras miserabilis?, Hyatt (Amm. miserabilis?,
Quenst.): doc. Piscoguanuna. Caloceras Ortoni, Hyatt: this new species
is closely allied to Amm. stronotus, Quenst., also a Liassic species: Joc.
Tingo, Northern Peru. Phylloceras Loscombi, Hyatt (Amm. Loscombi,
D’Orb.): this is another Lias form, probably Middle Lias, from the same
locality. Perisphinctes anceps, Waagen : this species indicates the presence
of the higher divisions of the Jura, the Lower Oxford of Oppel, perhaps
362 Prof. J. Orton on the Geological
age. This Punta, the saddle which divides the rivers Cachi-
yacu and Mayo, continues northward ; and through its limestone
strata the Marajion has cut the Pongo de Manseriche. The
limestone at the Pongo yielded me a Protocardia, a linguiform
Ostrea, and an Exogyra of Cretaceous type. All the Pongos
on the Upper Marafion are made through limestone mountains.
The Punta de Schalca is also a prolongation of the calcareous
range which crosses the Hualliga at the Pongo de Aguirre.
It is probable therefore that this western wall at the head of
the Amazons valley is of Cretaceous age.
The Cerro de Icuto is flanked on the east with saliferous
red sandstone. It contains the valuable salt-mines of Cachi-
puerto, on the Cachiyacu; and without doubt the salt-hills of
Chasuta and Pilluana on the Hualliga belong to the same
formation, as also the gypsum-beds in the elevated ridge sepa-
rating the Hualléga from the Ucayali. The Cerro de Sal,
further south, near the head of the Pachitea, may likewise be
contemporaneous*. ‘The Icuto rock is unfossiliferous, and I
could not find its relation to the Schalca limestone. The
great Moyobamba valley, enclosed between the Schalca and
Piscoguaituna ranges, 1s lined with friable shales of divers
colours (red, yellow, purple, blue, and black), with overlying
soft white sandstone. Drs. Raimondi and Spruce refer this
to the Triassic. Near Tarapoto, where the shales contain
Ammonites of immense size, there are jointed columns of trap-
rock and cliffs of white salt.
In crossing the Andes in the latitude of Lake Titicaca east-
ward, we first find Oolitic formations largely covered with in-
trusive rocks. After passing the summit of the coast Cordillera
the Kelloway division of that formation: Joc. Compuerta, near Lake
Titicaca, fifty miles north-west of Puno, altitude of 15,500 feet. Stephano-
ceras macrocephalum, Waagen: the identity of this, as well as the former,
with European species cannot be doubted ; it indicates the same division
of the Jura: loc. Caracolis, near Lake Titicaca. It is probable that the
whole series of Jurassic rocks exist in Peru and Bolivia.
“CRETACEOUS AMMONITES.—The remarks upon the specimens in this
division are interesting simply because they have furnished me the means
of establishing a new genus to include the forms which have hitherto
been regarded as Cretaceous Ceratites. This genus I have called Buchi-
ceras, in honour of the great German geologist Leopold von Buch. It
includes the following species :—B. bilobatum, Hyatt, n. sp., loc. Punta de
Schalea, Northern Peru; this would be generally supposed to be identical
with the Amm. syriacus, Von Buch, but the comparison of authentic spe-
cimens shows specific differences; B. serratum, Hyatt, n. sp., loc. Cachi-
yacu, Northern Peru, doubtless washed down from the Punta de
Schalea.”
* The gorge of Tunkini on the Upper Ucayali is described by Castelnau
as ‘‘freestone.”
Structure of the Amazons Valley. 363
we have purely sedimentary strata, contorted, but dipping
easterly—conglomerate, sandstone, slate, and Jurassic lime-
stone. -Then follow, in succession :—Tiassic beds (remarkably
like those in the Moyobamba valley, capped with white sand-
stone, and broken by protruding igneous rocks); Carboniferous,
at the south end of the lake, and reappearing east of Cocha-
bamba on the headwaters of the Chapara; and the Devonian
and Silurian, forming the mass of the high Andes.
If now we examine the valley of the Amazons, we shall
be struck with its remarkably uniform character, such as is
presented by no other region on the globe of equal area. From
the Andes to the Atlantic, and from the Falls of the Madeira
to the Orinoco, scarcely any thing is visible but clays and
sandstones.
The fundamental rock is metamorphic, chiefly gneiss and
granite. It is exposed at the falls of the tributaries, especially
on the Madeira; it is greatly disturbed, and frequently broken
through by porphyritic dykes. The granite contains little
mica and much quartz. ‘The valley is bounded on the north
and south by immense metamorphic areas. The low water-
shed between the Amazons and Paraguay is covered with
Tertiary beds ; but the still lower region of the Upper Rio
Negro is one great undulating sheet of granite and gneiss
completely denuded of the stratified rocks that once overlay
it, save here and there a thin covering of white sand and red
loam filling the hollows, and abrupt peaks that suddenly rise
from the plain.
Silurian formations are rarely visible. The gold and topaz-
bearing rocks of Minas Geraes probably belong to this age ;
but they are greatly altered. In the Bolivian Andes, facing
the Madeira valley, is an extensive development of Silurian
slates and sandstones. ‘The only undoubted Devonian forma-
tion in the valley is the plain north of the Serra of Ereré,
discovered by Hartt.
The horizontal limestone strata at Itaituba on the Tapajos,
and on the Trombetas across the Amazons, abound with
Brachiopods of the Coal-measures. D’Orbigny and Forbes
have pointed out isolated Carboniferous deposits in the Titi-
caca basin and near Santa Cruz, on the Mamoré. From the
Pichis, which flows directly from the Cerro de Sal (a spur of
the eastern Cordillera), I obtained several fossils of limited
vertical range which go to show that the Pichis, Bolivian, and
Itaituban beds are identical. The Pichis, Titicaca, Oruro, and
Guaco (province of San Juan) deposits lie in the same line,
north-west south-east, along the Andes. The altitude of the
Tapajos beds is 125 feet, of the Pichis over 700 feet, of the
364 Prof. J. Orton on the Geological
Titicaca 12,500 feet; and Raimondi has found Carboniferous
rocks on the Apurimac at the height of more than 14,000 feet.
It is evident that through the Paleozoic ages at least the basin
of the Amazons was an open sea*,
No‘Mesozoic rocks are visible east of the Andes, except
the Cretaceous conglomerate found by Chandless on the
Upper Purtis, which, however, was evidently washed down
* A pebbly bottom is first struck in ascending the Ucayali about fifteen
miles up the Pachitea. Now and then bluffs of yellowish-grey sandstone
abound on the Pachitea; but the Ucayali, for 700 miles from its mouth,
flows through a vast pampa, overflowed in the rainy season. The rocky
bed of the Pichis (lat. 10°, long. 75°) is filled with fragmentary fossiliferous
limestone of an ash-grey colour. At Puerto Tucker, the highest point
navigable in canoes, lofty mountains are seen about seven miles distant,
extending east and west. Iam indebted to the Hydrographical Commis-
sion for specimens from the bed of the Pichis. Among them are two
corals, which I have submitted to Professors Hall and Pourtales. One
is cyathophylloid, having the structure of Amplerus; but it is com-
pound. The other has the aspect of Syringopora, and may be an Edrio-
phyllum of small size. The evidence is in fayour of their Carboniferous
age. The following note on the mollusks is by Mr. Orville A. Dewey, of
Cornell University :—“ On his return from Peru in 1874, Prof. James Orton
submitted to me for examination a piece of fossiliferous limestone from
the Pichis river. The mass was a waterworn pebble of dark-blue stone,
scarcely larger than one’s fist. The fossils being silicified, the specimen
was treated with acid, and a number of species of Brachiopoda obtained.
The only other fussil was a slender ramose coral or Bryozoan, which, being
imperfectly silicified, could not be obtained for identification. The number
of individuals and species occurring in so small a mass indicate an ex-
ceedingly rich fauna in the locality. The following are the species de-
termined :—
“ SPIRIFERA CAMERATA, Morton: this widely distributed species is
represented by several specimens, one of which is of considerable size, and
shows unmistakably the characteristics of the species; the fasciculated
arrangement of the ribs, though distinct, is not strongly marked; and in
this as in other respects it agrees with the forms found on the Tapajos.
The occurrence of this form in the Andes strengthens the view which I
had taken in my paper on the Brazilian Carboniferous Brachiopods (Bull.
Cornell Univ. vol. i.), that S. condor, D’Orb., from Lake Titicaca is identical
with the North-American species. SPrIRIFERA or SPIRIFERINA, sp.:
there is also a fragment with rather coarse simple ribs not recognizable
specifically ; the aspect is that of a Spiriferma; but no puncta have been
observed. SPrRIFERA PERPLEXA, M‘Chesney-: a single dorsal valve is
referred to this species. In the paper above cited I have endeavoured to
show that this well-known and widely distributed American form is
distinct from the European S. lineata, Martin, to which it has usually been
referred. An exceedingly small specimen, presenting the characters of a
smooth Spirifera, is probably the young of this species or of S. plano—
convera, Shumard. Eumrrria Mormonu, Marcou (Retzia punctulifera,
Shumard), is by far the most abundant species, being represented by ten or
a dozen specimens in the rock examined; one of these is figured on pl. viii. fig. 8
in my paper referred to. TEREBRATULA BOVIDENS, Morton(?): a crushed
specimen agrees perfectly with Morton’s species from Missouri in the cha-
racters of the beak and in general form, as far as the latter can be observed.
This species is known from two Bolivian localities. Salter identified it,
Structure of the Amazons Valley. 365
from a higher locality further south*. The Andean region
was covered by the Jurassic sea, and was afterward elevated
(in Northern Peru) 11,000 feet. ‘The moment the Andes began
to rise, the topography of the Amazons valley was fore-
shadowed. The superficial Cretaceous strata up the Parana-
pura, at the Pongo de Manseriche, and from ‘lomependa up
the remarkable longitudinal valley of the Upper Marafion to
Balsas, into the department of Ancachs, would indicate that
so much at least of the great river began to exist in the
early Tertiary. Without doubt, during the Cretaceous period
the Atlantic and Pacific were continuous oceans, flowing over
not only the Panama isthmus, but also over all Kquatorial
America, save a few islands and reefs. We are not surprised
therefore to find the same Cretaceous (and even Miocene)
species on both sides of the Andesf,
The vast basin (whether Carboniferous or Cretaceous I will
not say) formed by the rise of the Andes and the metamorphic
regions on the north and south received an immense sheet of
coloured clays, sands, and sandstones. This deposit, unique in
its extent and origin, is known as the Amazonian Tertiary
formation. It was the sediment of a brackish Mediterranean,
or of a quiet lake to which brackish water had occasional
access. ‘The argillaceous and loamy beds are universal; the
sandstone has been reduced by subsequent denudation, and is
now nearly confined to the Lower Amazonsf. [Excepting this
under the name of 7. mllepunctata, among some specimens brought from
Santa Cruz by My. Cummings (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe. vol. xvii. p- 50) ;
and Toula describes an apparently identical form from Cochabamba as 7.
Hochstettert (Proc. Vienna Acad. lix.). RyHNCHONELLA or CAMARO-
PHORIA, sp.: a small specimen; ovate, about as long as wide; ventral
valve iopreeed, convex, with a ‘broad shallow sinus extending but little
beyond the middle, and marked by two rounded ribs ; dorsal valye gibbous ;
surface smooth. Should this prove to be new, I would suggest the name
of R. (or C.) Orton. Of these species, S. camerata, S. per rplesva, and £.
Mormon occur on the Tapajos in beds equivalent to the North-American
Coal-measures, of which the same species, with 7. bowidens, are charac-
teristic. I have endeavoured to show (Bull. Cornell Univ. vol. i. part 2,
p- 6) that the fossils found in various Bolivian localities belong to the
same division of the Carboniferous age. The existence of a Carboniferous
basin in Peru quite widely removed ‘from the Titicaca basin on the south,
and from the T'apajos basin on the east, is an exceedingly interesting
point in South-American geology.
* Dr. Galt brought an Ammonite from the mouth of the Pichis on the
Pachitea (Upper Ue: ayali), which appears to be Cretaceous. It was pro-
bably washed down from the south.
+ Mr. Bland informs me, after an examination of my land-shells, that
the general aspect of the living Budimi from the Peruvian Andes is
remarkably like the Lower Californian.
{ Vesicular ferruginous sandstone occurs far up the Madeira and
Negro. I am not aware of its existence in any part of the Marafion
region,
566 Prof. J. Orton on the Geological
sandstone, the material is so thoroughly comminuted that a
pebble is a rarity. The Marafion Indians, upon returning
from up the Ucayali and other tributaries, bring home rocks
to sharpen their knives. I have seen, however, concretions,
nodular and stalactiform, strikingly similar to the marly con-
cretions noticed by Darwin in the Pampean mud.
Previous to the expedition of the writer across the continent
in 1867, this vast homogeneous formation along the great
river had not yielded a single fossil. In the words of Professor
Agassiz, ‘Tertiary deposits have never been observed in any
part of the Amazonian basin.” And it was on this negative
evidence mainly that the distinguished naturalist hazarded the
conjecture that the formation was drift*. But the banks of
the Marajion prove to be highly fossiliferous. At Pebas, near
the mouth of the Ambiyacu, | discovered in one of the beds
of blue clay, 12 feet below the surface, a multitude of fossil
shells. Below this bed is a seam of lignite, and then another
layer of fossils. I engaged Mr. Hauxwell, an English col-
lector, to search for other localities ; and in 1870 he reported
a large deposit on the south side of the Marafion, below Pebas,
at Pichana. he shells were larger and more plentiful than
at Pebas, and were found from 6 to 20 feet beneath the soil.
In revisiting the Amazons in 1873, I discovered at Iquitos,
more than a hundred miles west of Pebas, a still more prolific
bedt. Here the shells occur above, below, and in the lignite
band, beginning about 20 feet from the surface. They are
best exposed about two miles below the town. A well dug at
Iquitos shows :—first, 7 feet of variegated clays, 9 feet of fine
* The history of the attempt to find the traces of glaciation in this
equatorial region is short. The Cambridge professor, who had berated
other naturalists for theorizing without facts, entered the mouth of the
Amazons for the first time in his life with the confidence of a prophet,
foreordaining boulders, moraines, striz, and all the other appurtenances
of a gigantic glacier. All proved to be imaginary; yet the chief and
his satellites stoutly kept their original faith. Professor Hartt, after
propounding several modifications, the last one being the possible glacial
origin of the superticial layer (to which the Pebas shells had driven
him), finally owns that, “ having no evidence whatever of the former
existence of glaciers in the Amazons, the question of the glacial origin
of the valley need not be raised.” For evidence against the supposition
of a glacial epoch at the Equator, see ‘Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1871,
vol. viii. p. 297. Keller, in his late exploration of the Madeira, searched
diligently for erratic boulders; but not a trace of the “ foundlings ” could
he discover. ‘TI never believed for a moment,” writes Mr. Darwin, “ in
Agassiz’s idea of the origin of the Amazonian formation.”
+ It is very singular that Castelnau and Herndon overlooked the
shells at Pebas, since they are plainly exposed—and still more strange
that Mr. Steer, who examined the beds at Pebas and Pichana in 1871,
found nothing at Iquitos, where I found shells even more abundant
than below. All the known localities were discovered by myself and
by Mr. Hauxwell, under my instructions.
Structure of the Amazons Valley. 367
sand; next, several feet of pebbles ; and then blue clay con-
taining shells. From the collections made at these localities,
the following thirty species have been determined :—
BIVALVES. UNIVALVES.
Pachyodon carinatus, Conrad. Iseea Ortoni, Gabb.
— obliquus, Gadd. lintea, Conrad.
tenuis, Gabb. Liris laqueata, Conrad.
erectus, Conrad. Ebora crassilabra, Conrad.
—— cuneatus, Conrad. Nesis bella, Conrad.
ovatus, Conrad. Neritina Ortoni, Conrad.
cuneiformis, Conrad. Dyris gracilis, Conrad.
dispar, Conrad. Hemisinus sulcatus, Conrad.
Dreissena scripta, Conrad. Steerei, Conrad.
Anodon Batesii, Woodward. Tquitosa tuberculifera, Conrad*,
pebasana, Conrad. Pachytoma tertiana, Conrad.
Triquetra longula, Conrad. Toxosoma eborea, Conrad.
Ostomya papyria, Conrad. Cirrobasis venusta, Conrad.
Haplotherus capax, Conrad. Liosoma curta, Conrad.
Cyclocheila pebasana, Conrad.
Bulimus linteus, Conrad.
These interesting fossils have attracted much attention by
their extraordinary character, and by the light which they throw
upon the largest continuous Tertiary formation in the world.
All the species and twelve of the genera are extinct. The
impalpable clay in which they were imbedded was admirably
fitted for their preservation. Some have retained their colours
and epidermis ; and the bivalves generally occur with the valves
united and closed. ‘They exist also in such vast numbers that
they must have lived and died on the spot. The bivalves
are most abundant at Pichana, and the univalves at Iquitos—
localities at least 150 miles apart: the former may be the lower
stratum, and the other the upper. The Hemistnus is particu-
larly abundant at Iquitos, and very rare in the Pebas district.
Mr. Gabb led me astray in saying that these shells are marine.
_Most of them are freshwater; many are estuarine (but might
have lived in fresh or brackish water); and a few are terres-
trial. Mr. Conrad, who examined my large collections, and
is better prepared to speak than any other paleontologist,
considers the beds Hocenef.
* This beautiful and characteristic shell was originally described, in
Proceed. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad. vol. xxvi., as a Hemisinus; but Mr.
Conrad has since decided that it belongs to a new genus, distinguished
by its high Melania-like spire and short patuluus aperture. ‘ Subulate,
subturreted ; whorls numerous, spirally ribbed ; aperture short, oval ; colu-
mella regularly arched, solid, subtruncated at base; outer lip regularly
curved.” The name is derived from Iquitos, Peru, where it is very
abundant. Hemisinus and Triquetra are characteristic genera of South-
American rivers.
+ Per contra, Professor Hartt, who has never seen the Maraiion, de-
cides “ that it was in the latter part of the stage of growth of the basin
that the clays of the Upper Amazon were deposited and the Pebas
shells lived. This appears to have been near the close of the Tertiary.”
368 On the Geological Structure of the Amazons Valley. °
I am not prepared to give the vertical or horizontal distri-
bution of these fossils. So far as visible at low water, they
appear to range over 20 feet of depth, coming nearer to the
surface at Pebas than at Iquitos; but the main layer lies
nearly parallel with the level of the river, which falls about
40 feet between the two places. They occur on both sides of
the lignite, which is traceable from Tabatinga to the Huallaga.
The shell-bed must extend far west of Iquitos; and in my
last expedition I procured a mass of yellow clay, containing
the “ Pebas shells,” from a point several hundred miles up the
Ucayali: the precise locality I cannot give, as I did not visit
it. Evidently this Tertiary basin is not so contracted as the
glacialists have tried to made it. Dr. Galt brought from the
Pachitea (near the junction of the Pichis and Palcazu) a beau-
tiful Ostrea, which Conrad calls O. callacta, and says it is a
Tertiary form, and was filled with a light-coloured clay strikingly
similar to that of the Pebas beds*. Mastodon remains have
been found near Moyobamba; and silicified wood is occasionally
seen in the hands of the Marafion Indians.
It is evident that such an even sheet of fine earth could not
have been spread over such a vast area by streams from the
rising Andes; it must be the deposit of a quiet inland lake.
It is evident that the Amazons estuary extended further west
than now, the result of a gentle oscillation: a subsidence of
one hundred feet at Tabatinga would make the tides felt on
the Marafion. It is evident that the condition of things in
the Brazilian Amazons, both during and after the deposition of
the formation, was different from that in the Maraiion region.
If there is any difference in age, I should give the priority
to the latter. It is evident that the Andes did not reach their
present altitude until after the deposition of the Amazonian
formation,—though it was a slow movement, in mass; for the
beds are nowhere unequally tilted or dislocated. The clay-
beds ascend with gentle inclination the eastern slope, being
visible far up the Napo, Pastdssa, and Hualliga. Balsa Puerto,
3° 15! west of Iquitos and 400 feet higher, stands on a thick bed
of red, yellow, and white clays, resting on a soft slate, dipping
easterly}. By the continued rise of the Andes, the great
equatorial lake, already shallowed by sediment, was drained,
leaving only a network of rivers, igarapes, and lagunes.
Poughkeepsie, New York,
September 22, 1875.
* In the ferruginous clay at Villa Bella, Lower Amazons, I found
imbedded a little shell, which Conrad refers to Aczcula.
+ At the head of the Napo and Pastassa the Andes begin with a soft
slate of great thickness, overlying mica-schist and trachyte.
W. C. M'Intosh on Linotrypane apogon. 369
L.—WNote on Linotrypane apogon. By W. C. M‘InTosn.
To the Editors of the Annals and Magazine of Natural History.
GENTLEMEN,
In the ‘Annals’ for this month (October) is mentioned an
article, by M. Edmond Perrier, “‘On a new intermediate Type
of the Subkingdom Vermes (Polygordius?, Schneider).”” Se
far as can be seen, this form is very closely allied to, if not
identical with, that previously described in the ‘ Proceedings
of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’ (1873-74, vol. viii. p. 386),
from specimens dredged in abundance in the skell-gravel of
Bressay Sound, Shetland, in 1871. M. Perrier classifies it
with Polygordius, as an intermediate type between the Anne-
lids and the Nemerteans. From the structure of the preserved
examples formerly alluded to, it was provisionally associated
with the Opheliide, and named Linotrypane apogon. The
accompanying outlines (A and B) will explain the general
vy q Lip
Op
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structure of the body-wall, and supplement the description in
the ‘ Proc. Royal Soc. Edinb.,’ since there was no opportunity
for the illustration of that paper otherwise than by the coloured
drawings at the reading of it.
If the oblique muscle (m) in Linotrypane (fig. A), passing
upwards on each side, be greatly strengthened, the upper region
of the body will be drawn inwards and downwards, whilst a
ventral ridge (bounded superiorly by the oblique muscle) will
be formed at each side. ‘This is just what happens in a new
Ammotrypane from Connemara (fig. B), in another from Kil-
libegs Harbour, and a third (noticed in the former paper) from
Valentia. The great oblique muscle springs in each case
from the raphe at the nerve-cords, and passes upwards and
outwards to the body-wall. Moreover, between the extremes
of structure (as shown in Linotrypane on the one hand, and
Ophelia Uimacina with its two prominent ventral ridges, or
Ammotrypane aulogaster with its single basal and two terminal
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 26
370 On a new Species of Kupetomena.
ventral processes, on the other) there is a series of intermediate
forms, which bridge over the apparent gaps.
The bristles are very feebly developed in the Irish forms ;
and from these it is but a brief step to their total vanishing
in Linotrypane. A similar tendency to the disappearance of
the bristles occurs in a new and remarkably elongated Ammo-
trypane recently brought by Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys from a depth
of 1750 fathoms, while dredging in H.M.S. ‘ Valorous.’ The
segmentation in this annelid is only indicated by the very
minute bristle-tufts, which are invisible to the naked eye, so
that, from the dorsum, it resembles a large Linotrypane.
I am, Gentlemen,
Murthly, Your obedient Servant,
October 8, 1875. W.C. M‘InTOsH.
LI.—On a new Species of the Genus EKupetomena.
By Joun GOuLp, F.R.S.
I AM indebted to Mr. Henry Whitely for the opportunity of
describing, through the ‘Annals,’ a fine species of humming-
bird which has just arrived in this country. This new bird
(E. hirundo) is very similar to the Hupetomena macroura, and
is the western representative of that bird on the great con-
tinent of South America.
The new bird differs from the old by having a shorter tail,
the feathers of which are broader and less rigid; the wing, on
the other hand, is larger and longer. In colour, while the
FE. macroura is always blue on the head and breast, the new
species is distinguished by these parts being washed with green.
The following is a correct description of 4. hirundo :—
Head and throat deep blue, with a wash of green on the crown;
body both above and beneath green; wings, tail, and under-
coverts steel-bluish black; bill jet-black. Female similarly
coloured to the male; but the outer shaft of the wing is not
enlarged as in the male, where the stem of this feather is
dilated as in £. campyloptera. ‘Total length 64 inches, bill 3,
wing 34, tail 33.
Mr. Whitely found numbers of this bird flying over the
open plains in pursuit of insects. He says, ‘“ they rarely ap-
proach a flower, but appear to take their food hawking about
in the air in the manner of swallows—in fact, at first sight
might be easily mistaken for those birds.”
Habitat. Huiro, in the Valley of Santa Ana, Peru (eleva-
tion 4800 feet).
Bibliographical Notice. 371
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE.
Figures of Characteristic British Fossils ; with Descriptive Remarks.
By W. H. Baty, F.LS., F.G.S., &. &. Part IV. 8vo, with
12 plates. London: Van Voorst, 1875.
We welcome with pleasure the fourth Part of Mr. W. H. Baily’s
work, completing the first volume, which is devoted to the Paleozoic
Fossils, and has 48 lithographic plates, drawn by the author himself,
and comprising more than 700 figures of fossils ; and of these over
300 are original. The descriptive remarks on the natural history of
the groups of fossils are illustrated with 18 woodcuts, engraved
by Mr. W. Oldham, and including 58 figures. The figures are of
natural size, except where otherwise mentioned ; and the subjects are
arranged zoologically and stratigraphically.
In this lately published Part IV. we have (pp. li-lxiv) an account
of the Old Red Sandstone and Devonian Rocks and their fossils,
both those (Plants, Crustaceans, and Fishes) of the possibly fresh-
water sandstones and those of the marine beds of Devonshire ;
there must, however, be a slip of the pen at page lx, where the
Amorphozoa are included in the Foraminifera. The Carboniferous
rocks and their fossils succeed (pp. lxiv-lxxv). The Permian rocks
and their fossils are treated of in pp. lxxvy—Ixxviii; but their Crustacea,
numerous though small, are only noticed by the remark that there
are no Permian Trilobites! A short summary of the Paleozoic
fossils follows (pp. lxxix,1xxx); but the notice of the Cambrian
fossils ignores what has been worked out of late years in that old
Trilobitic fauna (Plutonia, &e.) by Mr. Hicks and others; and the
occurrence of the first land-plant in the Uppermost Silurian and of
the first fish in the Lower Ludlow (not “ the very uppermost ”’) beds
would be of interest to the student.
The subjects of the plates are carefully chosen and truthfully drawn
by the author, as in the earlier Parts; and some are clearer in out-
line, apparently engraved on stone. The “ Explanations” are well
planned and concise, as usual. Fig. 16 of plate 41, though not in
the Explanation, is noticed at p.lxxv. “ End view” at p. 119,
third line, should be “ edge view.” ‘ Scowleri ” for ‘‘ Scouleri,” and
other slight mistakes, show the want of literary editing, which 1s still
more evident throughout the Descriptive Remarks. A long list of
Errata and Addenda (pp. 125, 126) in some measure meets this
deficiency ; and the reader, correcting for himself as he proceeds,
will find no hindrance to his becoming acquainted with upwards of
700 characteristic fossil forms, carefully selected out of the 4000
British Paleeozoic species, well illustrated, and elucidated by descrip-
tive remarks on their natural history and their places in the geological
series.
There is no doubt of Mr. Baily’s well-arranged Book of British
Fossils being of the greatest use to the geological professor, student,
and amateur. Mr. Baily is an ardent paleontologist, skilled artist,
and experienced teacher; and he has evidently devoted his scant
ole Miscellaneous.
leisure most untiringly to this labour of love. Withm the narrow
hmits of this book the author has indeed amassed great stores of
information, and has referred the reader to most of the original
sources, should he desire to follow up the study of Paleontology.
This first volume is to be followed by others on the Secondary
and Tertiary Fossils.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On some Lepidoptera with Terebrant Trunks, destructive of Oranges.
By M. J. Kincxen.
A Frenca botanist, M. Thozet, residing at Rockhampton, in Aus-
tralia, called my attention some years ago (in 1871) to a Lepido-
pteron of the genus Ophideres (O. fullonica, Linn.), which he charged
with piercing oranges in order to feed upon their juice. Being con-
vineed, like all other naturalists, that the Lepidoptera have without
exception flexible trunks, with no rigidity, I doubted the observation
of M. Thozet, and shut up in a box the asserted depredators, pro-
posing to examine them at my leisure. This examination I put off
from day to day, until I lately read in an Australian journal* an
article in which an anonymous author noticed the depredations com-
mitted by O. fullonicat, and affirmed, with all the guarantees of care-
ful observation, that these moths perforate the skin of the oranges
in order to pump out their juice. During the summer nights they
may, without great precautions, be detected at work; absorbed in
the operation they are performing, they allow themselves to be
captured by hand even upon the oranges. Being curious to obtain
evidence of the correctness of these observations, I now carefully
examined the trunk of these insects. What was my surprise at
discovering a singular and most unexpected fact of adaptation.
It is well-known that the Lepidoptera are distinguished from alk
other insects by a character of organization of absolute fixity: the
buccal organs are modified to form a trunk; or, more explicitly, as.
was demonstrated by Savigny, the excessively elongated maxillee
constitute an organ of suction. These long, slender, flexible maxille,
terminated by a thin point of great flexibility, are applied to each
other, but leave between them a fine canal. The Lepidoptera are
therefore constructed te suck up the nectar of open flowers, to imbibe
various fluid aliments. By a strange exception, the moths of the
genus Ophideres, Boisd., possess a rigid trunk, a true borer of ideak
perfection, capable of piercing the skin of fruits, of boring through
even the thickest and most resistent envelopes. This trunk is a
perfect mstrument, which would be an excellent model for the
* ©The Capricornian,’ vol. i. no. 9, May 8, 1875, published at Rock-
hampton. Kindly communicated to me by M. Carriére, head gardener of
the nurseries of the Museum.
+ In the article in question the moth is by mistake called O, zudllonia-
Miscellaneous. 313
making of new tools to be employed in boring holes im various
materials. Partaking at once of the barbed lance, the gimlet, and
the rasp, it can pierce, bore, and tear, at the same time allowing
liquids to pass without impediment by the internal canal. The two
applied maxille terminate in a sharp triangular point, furnished
with two barbs; they then become enlarged, and present on the
lower surface three portions of the thread of a screw; while their
sides and their upper surface are covered with short strong spines,
projecting from the centre of a depression with hard and abrupt
margins. The purpose of these spines is to tear the eells of the
orange-pulp, as the rasp serves to open the eells of the beetroot, in
order to extract the sugar from them. The upper region of the
trunk is covered below and on the sides with fine close-set strix,
arranged in half-screws, which give it the properties of a file; the
striz are interrupted here and there by small spines of soft con-
sistence, which serve for the pereeption of tactile sensations. The
orifice of the canal through which the liquids ascend is situated on
the lower surface below the first serew-thread. The annexed figures
will serve to render this short description sufficiently intelligible.
A B C
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SS BIE.
SSSSSSSESSS SSS SSX
LE LLL
Trunk of Ophideres fullonica. , internal muscular layer ; c, cavity continuous
with that of the proboscis-sac ; within these the invaginated
portion of the proboscis with the layers reversed; 0b, internal
muscular layer; a, external gelatinous layer; d, central tube
filled with dark amorphous matter (from the proboscis-sac ?).
LIIT.—On three new and curious Forms of Arachnida. By
the Rev. O. P. CamBripce, M.A., C.M.Z.S., Hon. Memb.
N.Z. Inst.
“Plate XIIL]
THE three singular Arachnids described in the following
pages belong to.widely separated localities. The jist (Ca-
lyptostoma Hardit, upon which I have based a new genus of
the family Trombidides in the order Acaridea) is a British
form, discovered by Mr. James Hardy (of Old Cambus, Ber-
wickshire) on Cheviot Hill, Northumberland, and sent to me
among numerous examples of spiders. The second (West-
woodia obtecta) is of the order Phalangidea, and appears to me
incapable of inclusion in any family or genus hitherto charac-
terized; it is altogether one of the most remarkable Arachnids
that have lately come under my notice: owing, however, to
the minuteness of the creature itself (less than 1 line in length),
and the necessarily still more minute and curiously concealed
mouth-parts, the special structure of these important features
is uncertain; and their minuteness also almost precludes the
possibility of satisfactory dissection. Probably, when in use,
the parts of the mouth (the palpi and falces at least) could be
extruded; so that we must await the examination of living
specimens for further knowledge of their structure. This
minute Arachnid was received from Otago (New Zealand),
where it was found by Capt. I’. W. Hutton, and kindly sent to
me among other examples of this class. The third is also
of the order Phalangidea, family Cyphophthalmides (Joseph),
genus Cyphophthalmus (ejusd.), of whichitis avery distinctnew
Species ; it was sent to me, among numerous other new and
rare Arachnids, from Ceylon, by Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites.
For this, which in its general appearance bears a strong re-
semblance to some forms of Hemiptera heteroptera, I propose
the name of Cyphophthalmus cimictformis.
384 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on three new
Order ACARIDEA.
Family Trombidides.
Gen. nov. CALYPTOSTOMA.
Characters of the Genus.
Body oblong oval, rather broader before than behind (the
fore part somewhat obtusely subangular), upper surface very
convex; epidermis continuous, without any contractions or
foldings to indicate the limits of the cephalothorax, caput, or
abdomen.
Mouth-parts apparently very minute, concealed in a deepish
circular cavity at the extremity of the fore part.
Eyes six in number, in three pairs, forming a triangle on
the upperside of the fore part of the body; the apex of the
triangle (being the most obtuse of its angles) directed forwards :
the eyes of each pair are contiguous to each other, and seated
on very slight tubercles.
Legs short, slender, 7-jointed; the legs of the first and
second pairs and third and fourth pairs, respectively, on either
side, have their basal joints in contact with each other, de-
scribing nearly a square on the under surface of the body,
towards the fore part; their relative length appears to be 4, 1,
2, 3, though those of the fourth and first pairs are very nearly
of the same length, and those of the third pair but little, if any
thing, shorter than those of the second. Each tarsus termi-
nates with two curved claws, which spring from a cleft at the
extremity of its upperside.
The genital aperture(¢) is placed just behind the basal
joints of the third and fourth pairs of legs.
Calyptostoma Hardit, sp.n. Pl. XIII. fig. 1.
Adult female, length 2 lines.
The colour of this interesting Acarid is a uniform reddish
yellow (which, however, may possibly, in life, have beena bright
red), the legs and genital and anal apertures being light yel-
low-brown ; the whole epidermis, which is of a somewhat cori-
aceous nature, is thickly covered with minute round punctures,
connected, in somewhat regular series, with slight groovings
or wrinkles of the skin; and from each puncture there issues a
short, strongish, curved, pale amber-coloured diaphanous bristle.
Ten small dark red-brown points, or spots, in so many very
slight depressions of the surface, and forming two longitudinal
lines, occupy the median line of the upper surface ; from be-
hind each of the last two of these points runs a short oblique
line or very slight indentation. The underside has two small
and curtous Forms of Arachnida. 385
dusky red-brown spots, one a little way behind each of the
basal joints of the second pair of legs. The genital aperture has
a somewhat corneous appearance; it is of an oval form, con-
vexly prominent, and divided longitudinally by a gaping inci-
sion ; not far behind it is the anal orifice, which is of the same
form and character externally as the genital aperture, though
not a fourth of its size.
The eyes (seated as above described) are very distinctly
visible: those of the foremost pair (forming the apex of the
triangle in which the three pairs are placed) are of a triangular
shape, closely contiguous to each other, and smallest of the
six; those of each lateral pair are also contiguous, on a di-
stinct tubercle, the posterior eye of each being the largest of
the six; they are of a pale dull amber-colour, and margined
with red-brown.
The /egs are furnished with short hairs ; the basal joints are
the strongest; the next are very short, and turned on the
outer side: the tarsi, metatarsi, and femora of each pair are
of very nearly equal length; the tarsi of the first pair are
rather dilated towards their fore extremities, and are (like
those of the other three pairs) cleft at the fore extremities on
the upperside, two apparently simple terminal curved claws
springing from the cleft.
The palpi are very minute, and, with the other parts of the
mouth, placed at the bottom of a deep circular pit or cavity at
the extreme fore end of the body; being thus minute, and
sunken below the surface, as well as covered with the hairs
fringing the cavity, their form and structure could not be
ascertained with the magnifying-powers at my disposal.
Two examples (both females) of this remarkable Acarid
were received, among numerous spiders, from Mr. James
Hardy, of Old Cambus, Berwickshire, by whom they were
found (probably among moss) on Cheviot Hill. It is unlike
any thing I have ever seen before; and Dr. L. Koch agrees
with me in the opinion that it is new to science. The
curious position of the parts of the mouth, with the eyes and
other characters, necessitates the formation of a new genus for
its reception. It is with much pleasure that I connect the
name of Mr. Hardy with this interesting addition to the known
species of our indigenous Acaridea.
Order PHALANGIDEA.
Fam. nov. Crotonoides.
General appearance somewhat Acarideous, the caput,
thorax, and abdomen being so united as to make their junc-
386 Rev. O. P. Cambridge on three new
tions imperceptible. Legs nearly equal in length; thorax
~ and abdomen surmounted by a large, somewhat irregular elon-
gated hump or eminence, sloping upwards from the fore to the
-hinder part.
Habit of life and habitat unknown.
Gen. nov. WESTWOODIA.
Characters of Genus.
Cephalothorax and abdomen with no apparent divisional
marks, but elevated gradually to a considerable height at the
posterior extremity of the latter.
Eyes two, one on either side, just above the basal joints of
first pair of legs.
Mouth-parts very minute, closely compacted, and almost
entirely concealed within an oval corneous cavity beneath the
caput, just in front of the first pair of legs. Genital aperture
of considerable size, close behind the basal joints of the fourth
pair of legs. Anal orifice (?) of still larger dimensions, a little
way behind the genital parts, at the lower extremity of the
hinder part of the abdomen.
Legs 6-jointed, articulated beneath the cephalothorax, but
with no distinct sternum; relative length 1, 4, 2, 3, but not
greatly differing in actual length ; tarsi rather long, undivided,
and terminating with three claws of equal size, and, apparently,
side by side, ¢. e. not divided into a superior pair and a single
inferior claw.
Westwoodia obtecta, sp.n. Pl. XIII. fig. 2.
Adult female, length rather less than 1 line.
Looked at from above, this curious Arachnid is of an elon-
gated oval shape, but in profile it is of a triangular form, and
nearly black colour mixed with dark red-brown; the fore ex-
tremity of the caput projects forwards, and is of a flattened
oblong form; the upperside of the abdomen, which is not
distinguishable from the cephalothorax, is much elevated,
rising gradually from the thoracic region to its highest part at
the hinder extremity; the surface is uneven and rough, and
the upperside of the abdomen has a laterally crushed appear-
ance, which, however, may be from accidental pressure ; it
was so covered with débris of an earthy nature, that its tex-
ture and clothing were not distinguishable, except a few curved,
pale, bristly hairs on the highest (posterior) part of the abdo-
men: the underside shows a subtriangular space, on either
side of which the legs are articulated ; behind the legs are two
large, oval, rather convex, corneous, red-brown prominences ;
and curious Forms of Arachnida. 387
the foremost of these is immediately behind the basal joints of
the fourth pair of legs, and is divided longitudinally by a
gaping incision; the posterior one is much the largest, and
has several longitudinal incisions, of which the central one
appears to be the true orifice. This latter I take to be the
anus, the former the genital aperture.
The parts of the mouth (falces, maxillee, palpi, and labium)
are exceedingly minute, and packed away within a large oval
cavity beneath the caput and close in front of the basal joints
of the first pair of legs. The details of the form and structure
of these parts are incapable of satisfactory observation by
even a lens of high magnifying-power ; there appears, how-
ever, to be a labium of considerable size, with two pointed
oval parts in front of it, which I take to be the forcipate ex-
tremities of the falces. No palpi could be discerned.
The eyes are two in number, small, and widely separated
from each other, in a transverse line near the hinder part of
the caput, just above the basal joints of the first pair of legs.
The legs are short and strong, and do not differ much in
their length; those of the first pair appear to be rather the
longest, then those of the fourth pair, and the third pair
rather the shortest. The separate joints were (some of them
at least) scarcely discernible, owing to the spines and bristles
with which they are furnished being almost completely matted
with earthy particles; but there appear to be six joints, of
which the terminal one is long, nearly cylindrical in form,
and undivided, but probably representing the ordinary tarsal
and metatarsal joits, and ending with three rather long and
somewhat S-curved diaphanous claws, placed side by side in
close contiguity to each other, besides numerous bristles and
hairs of a similar nature ; the uppersides of some of the other
joimts are furnished with blunt spinous tubercles surmounted
by a curved bristle.
A single example of this remarkable Arachnid was received
in 1874 from Otago, New Zealand, where it was found by
Capt. Hutton, who kindly sent it to me among some spiders
from the same locality. Although, for the reasons mentioned
above, I am unable to give a satisfactory description of some
important portions of structure, yet the mere position of the
mouth-parts, as well as other points in the external structure,
is amply suflicient for the characterization of a new and very
distinct genus of a new family of Phalangidea.
It is with great pleasure that I confer upon this genus the
name of Professor Westwood, to whom the entomological
world is indebted for the knowledge of so many strange and
singular forms of the Articulata.
388 Rey. O. P. Cambridge on three new
Family Cyphophthalmides.
Genus CYPHOPHTHALMUS (Joseph).
Cyphophthalmus cimiciformis, sp.n. Pl. XIII. fig. 3.
Length 1? line, breadth nearly 1 line.
Nearly the whole of this Arachnid is of a dull amber-colour,
the legs and falces being rather paler than the body, the fore
part of which (the cephalothorax) is the darkest, the colour of
the palpi being palish yellow ; the entire surface (including
the legs and falces) is completely covered with shallow punc-
tures, giving it a somewhat rugose appearance, with a shining
look in different lights ; the under surface, as well as the legs
and palpi, is furnished with fine hairs; but the upper surface
has few or none (perhaps rubbed off).
The form of the cephalothorax and abdomen is oval, the
former, however, being of a somewhat subtriangular shape ;
they are only distinguishable from each other by a transverse
suture ; the abdomen consists, on the upperside (which with the
cephalothorax is considerably convex), of eight segments, of
which the last is divided into two roundish caudal prolongations.
The segmental plates of the underside, which is much more
flattened than the upper, are similar in number; the posterior
one contains the anal orifice, which is of a transverse oval
form and a little prominent ; the inferior segmental plates are
quite separate from the superior (see fig. 3, c), the latter form-
ing a strong projecting lateral marginal ridge: in front of and
adjoining the foremost inferior segment is a small, subtri-
angular, dark reddish-brown corneous plate, the fore side of
which is free; this plate is no doubt the covering of the
genital aperture, which, as far as concerns the external appear-
ance, is probably similar in both sexes. Immediately in front
of this is a small sternal point, at which the basal joints of
the legs meet; directly in front of this, between the basal
joints of the first pair of legs, are two pairs of very small, but
prominent, white maxillary organs; the foremost pair of
these is the largest ; the hinder extremities of the basal joints
of the second pair of legs are a little prominent, and appear to
subserve the part of a labium, and to form the hinder boundary
of the mouth. These maxillary organs seemed to be inde-
pendent of the ordinary maxilla, ¢. e. the basal joints of the
palpi; but the mouth-parts are so crowded together behind
the basal joints of the first pair of legs, that, without very
careful and skilful anatomy, their structure and position can
scarcely be ascertained. The spiracles (two in number) are
and curious Forms of Arachnida. 389
very indistinct, one on either side of the first segment, under-
neath the fore extremity of the abdomen.
The cephalothorax, united to the abdomen as above men-
tioned, slopes forward by an even curve slightly steeper than
that of the abdomen.
The eyes are two in number, and seated on two blunt,
conical, tubercular eminences, one on either side of the upper
fore part of the caput; they are rather small and indistinct,
being coloured like the surrounding surface.
The legs, consisting of seven joints, are moderately long
and tolerably strong, their relative length being 4,1, 3, 2,
the difference between 3 and 2 being exceedingly small, if any;
the basal jomts are strong, those of the fourth pair imordi-
nately so, showing in this feature an aftinity to Gonyleptes :
the tarsi end with a single, strong, curved, simple claw, and
are much longer than the metatarsi; they are undivided, those
of the fourth pair having a conical protuberance at their base
on the upperside, and those of the first pair being strongly
protuberant or tumid on their undersides near the middle.
The palpi are moderately long, slender, and destitute of
any terminal claw ; the radial is longer than the cubital, which
last is of the same length as the digital joint.
The falces are long, three-jointed; the basal joint short,
with a small eminence on the upperside: the second joint
strong and rather long, but not so long as the third; it is of a
somewhat subconical form, with a small protuberance at its
base on the upperside, in contact with that on the first joint :
the terminal joint is long (longer than the two others together) ;
it tapers slightly towards the fore extremity, which terminates
with a small denticulate forciple.
A single example of this curious and distinct species was
received from Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites, by whom it was sent
to me from Ceylon.
Three species only (including the present) are yet known of
this genus :—one, C. duricorius, Joseph (from the Luéger
Cave in Carniola), upon which it was founded by Herr Gus-
tav Joseph; another, C. corstcus, Sim., from Corsica; and
the present, from Ceylon. It appears to me questionable how
far the genus Stylocellus (Westwood) is distinct from Cyphoph-
thalmus. I have not yet had an opportunity of examining
S. sumatranus, Westw., the type of Stylocellus ; but, from the
description and figures of it (‘Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxo-
niensis,’ 1874, p. 200, pl. xxxvul. fig. 7), there would seem to
be no sufficiently distinctive characters for the foundation of a
separate genus.
390 Messrs. Leckenby and Marshall
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XIII
Fig. 1. Calyptostoma Hardw: a, magnified view, from above; 6, ditto,
underside; ¢, ditto, in profile; d, fore part more enlarged,
showing the eyes; e, tarsus of leg of first pair; f, natural
length.
Fig. 2. Westwoodia obtecta: a, magnified view, from above; 6, ditto, in
profile ; c, underside, with legs truncated; d, oval cavity con-
taining the mouth-parts, highly magnified; e, leg of first pair ;
f, terminal claws of ditto; g, natural length.
Fig. 3. Cyphophthalmus cimiciformis: a, magnified view, from above and
behind ; 4, ditto, in profile, with legs and palpi partly removed ;
c, ditto, underside ; d, leg of fourth pair; e, tarsus of leg of first
pair; 7, natural length.
LIV.—North-Sea Dredging. By Joun LEcKENBY, F.G.S.,
and J. T. MARSHALL.
THE Dogger bank and its slopes have always been considered
(and deservedly) the El Dorado of conchologists ; and having
made three dredging-cruises there, twice in 1868 and again in
August of this year, with results satisfactory to ourselves, and,
we hope, of interest to conchologists generally, we are induced
to publish a list of those species which have occurred to us,
premising that only those are enumerated which have been
met with out at sea, between 20 and 90 miles from land, in
depths ranging from 7 to 50 fathoms.
The Dogger bank occupies the centre of the North Sea, is
200 miles in length and from 30 to 50 broad, commencing
about 60 miles from the Yorkshire coast, and intermediate
between the shores of England and Denmark. Its average
depth is 15 fathoms, though in a few places it is only 7, with
pits of deep water here and there, the most notable of which
are the Great and Little Silver Pits and the Well Pit. The
Bank gradually slopes into deeper water ranging from 40 to
50 fathoms; and it is here that the rarer species of Hust &e.
are found, the fauna on the Bank itself corresponding to that
found in shallow water near the shore.
Our dredgings were carried on in a cutter of 45 tons, chartered
at Scarborough, with a crew of five Naval-Reserve men.
We have adopted the nomenclature of Jeffreys’s ‘ British
Conchology,’ and have marked with an asterisk those which
have not been before recorded.
Scarborough, October 1875.
on North-Sea Dredging. 391
CONCHIFERA.
Anomia ephippium, ZL.
, var. squamula.
, var. aculeata.
Ostrea edulis, Z.
Pecten pusio, ZL.
varius, L.
—— opercularis, LZ.
var. lineata, Da Costa.
—— tigrinus, Mill.
, var. costata.
Lima Losecombii, G. Sow.
Mytilus edulis, Z.
modiolus, Z. This species
attains a monstrous size in 40
to 50 fathoms on hard ground,
and makes sad work with the
dredges ; one specimen has been
found 9 inches long. It grows
equally large in the Hardanger
Fjord, Norway, in 200-300
fathoms.
Modiolaria
Very large.
nigra, Gray. This also at-
tains a very large size, our
largest being 24 ‘inches long.
It is found with Mytilus modi-
olus.
Nucula nucleus, Z.
, var. radiata, F’. § H.
—— nitida, G. Sow. Very fine.
, var. turgida, Marshall.
Shell more triangular and beaks
more swollen. Corresponding
with the deep-water varieties
of N. nucleus and N. tenuis.
Leda minuta, Mill. Very fine.
Pectunculus glycimeris, L.
*Arca imbricata (?), Pols. [ Associ-
ated with ordinary Doggerbank
shells, such as Fusus norvegi-
cus, F. Turtont, &c. Fishermen
often bring us masses of F%/o-
grana complexa, from one of
which I extracted the speci-
mens which Dr. Jeffreys has
referred to A. imbricata. I do
not, howeve:, detect the notched
inside margin ; and believe they
may with more propriety be
referred to A. nodulosa.—Note
by J. L.]
Montacuta substriata, Mont.
bidentata, Mont.
ferruginosa, Mont. We may
marmorata, Forbes.
SSapee
here mention that this species
is sometimes quasi-parasitic or
“commensal.” In one part of
the Channel Islands, between
tide-marks, it is parasitic on
Spatangus purpureus, in com-
pany with M. substriata, but
always occupying the opposite
end of the Echinid, M. sub-
striata occupying the ventral
end. [t occurs in all stages of
erowth, from the fry to the
adult.
Kellia suborbicularis, Mont.
, var. lactea, Brown.
Lucina borealis, L.
Axinus flexuosus, Mont. Small
form in mud, 45 fathoms.
Cardium echinatum, Z.
, var. expansa.
— fasciatum, Mont.
—— edule, ZL.
norvegicum, Spengl.
Cyprina islandica, L.
, Var. erassior,
Astarte sulcata, Da Costa.
* , var. paucicostata.
== » var. minor.
*—_ , var. incrassata, Broce.
*$—__ , var. multicostata.
(These last four varieties have
been hitherto recorded from
the Shetland seas only.)
compressa, Mont., and var.
striata. The latter abundantly
diffused over the entire area.
Venus exoleta, Z.
lincta, Pult.
fasciata, Da Costa.
casina, L.
— ovata, Penn.
gallina, L.
, var. laminosa, Mont.
Tapes virgineus, LZ.
Lucinopsis undata, Penn.
Tellina fabula, Gron.
pusilla, Phe.
‘Psammobia tellinella, Zam.
ferrdensis, Chem.
Donax vittatus, Da Costa.
, var. nitida. This va-
riety was obtained on the Dog-
ger bank, in 15 fathoms; and
fully half of them were infested
with a pea-crab.
392
Mactra solida, ZL.
, var. elliptica, Brown.
subtruncata, Da Costa.
stultorum, Z.
, var. cinerea, Mont.
(All the Mactre are of a much
thinner consistency than usual.)
Scrobicularia prismatica, Mont.
Very large.
nitida, Miill.
— alba, Wood.
Solen pellucidus, Penn.
siliqua, L.
Lyonsia norvegica, Chemn.
Thracia preetenuis, Peilt.
*—— papyracea, var. gracilis.
*Neeera cuspidata, Odivi.
Messrs. Leckenby and Marshall
Mud, in
45 fathoms, 75 miles from
land.
Corbula gibba, Oliv. A dwarf
form, in 36 fathoms.
Mya truncata, LZ.
, var. abbreviata.
Saxicava norvegica, Spengl. Spa-
ringly distributed, and rarely
brought up in the dredge.
—— rugosa, L.
, var. arctica, L.
, var. pholadis, Z.
Pholas crispata, Z. Valves, pro-
bably drifted.
SOLENOCONCHIA.
Dentalium entalis, Z.
*Dentalium entalis, Z., var. infun-
dibulum.
GASTROPODA.
Chiton cinereus, L.
*Tectura testudinalis, Mill, The
most southern limit hitherto re-
corded for this species is Hartle-
pool ; it would therefore appear
to be migrating southwards.
Puncturella Noachina, LZ.
Emarginula fissura, L.
Capulus hungaricus, LZ.
Trochus tumidus, Mont. Off Scar-
borough ; very large.
cinerarius, var. electissima,
Bean.
Montacuti, W. Wood.
zizyphinus, L.
, var. Lyonsii, Leach.
occidentalis, Mighels. Three
fine living examples, in gravelly
sand, 40 fathoms, about 85 miles
N.E. by E. off Scarborough.
Its nearest recorded locality,
according to Dr. Gwyn Jeflreys,
is Aberdeenshire.
Lacuna crassior, Mont.
Littorina rudis, Maton. Drifted.
litorea, Z. Drifted.
Rissoa punctura, Mont.
striata, Adams.
Turritella terebra, L.
* , Var. nivea.
—— ——., var. gracilis.
*
Scalaria Turtone, Zwrt.
in shallow water.
communis, Lam.
— Trevelyana, Leach. Not un-
common in 40 fathoms, 30 miles
off Whitby.
Odostomia rissoides, Hanley, var.
dubia.
conoidea, Broccht.
—— unidentata, Mont.
insculpta, Mont.
interstincta, Mont.
spiralis, Mont.
rufa, Philippi, var. fulvo-
cincta.
— acicula, Phil.
(The paucity of Rissoa and
Odostomia from our dredgings
is somewhat remarkable. More
than a hundredweight of fine
material has been examined, the
result being only one or two
specimens of the foregoing.
Rissoa is scarcely represented
at all, not even by the ubiqui-
tous Fssoa parva.)
Kulima polita, L.
distorta, Desh.
bilineata, Alder.
Natica islandica, Gmelin. Ex-
ceedingly rare, on hard ground,
Living
on North-Sea Dredging.
40 miles N.E. by E. from Scar-
borough.
Natica groenlandica, Beck. Not
uncommon, living with Sealaria
Trevelyana. As the animal has
not hitherto been described,
we subjoin the following note,
taken on board:—‘ Body canary-
colour; snout depressed in
front, not quite so wide as the
shell, slightly narrowing; ten-
tacles one eighth of an inch
long, pointed at the extremities
and flattened at the base, turned
backon the shell; eyes none; foot,
when fully expanded (which
is rarely), twice as long as the
shell, posterior portion rounded,
partly enveloping the shell ;
ovary reddish oe liver deep
olive.” It is a very sluggish
animal; and our first living
example tantalized us for three
hours before fully exposing it-
self, although kept in a saucer
with a little water; while others
never showed themselves at all,
though kept for two or three
days.
Natica catena, Da Costa. Ex-
ceedingly large.
, var. Leckenbyi, Mar-
shall. Shell brown, without
any coloured markings. It has
much the appearance of NV. sor-
dida, but is thinner and more
globose. Searles Wood’s N. ca-
tena, from the Coralline Crag,
is similar to this. We obtained
them on the Dogger bank, in
10 fathoms.
—— Alderi, Forbes.
, var. lactea. (There
occurred also a small pellucid
form, one third the usual size.)
Montacuti, Forbes. Abun-
dant and fine, with WN. gran-
landica.
ees
*.
, var. albula.
Lamellaria perspicua, var. lata.
Velutina levigata, Penn.
393
Trichotropis borealis, Brod. § Sow.
Aporrhais pes-pelecani, L.
Buccinum undatum, LZ.
— —, var. littoralis, King.
, var. striata, Penn.
, var. pelagica, King.
Buccinopsis Dalei, J. Sov.
Trophon barvicensis, Johnst. Very
fine examples.
truncatus, Strom.
Fusus antiquus, L.
, var. alba.
, var. ventricosa.
_
_
Deo
—
* , monst. cinctum. One
small specimen,
norvegicus, Chemn.
Turtoni, Bean. In muddy
ground, exceedingly rare ; more
often procured by deep-sea fish-
ermen than by the dredge.
gracilis, DaCosta.
pee Alder.
erniciensis, Aing.
Nassa reticulata, L.
incrassata, Strdm.
——, var. minor. Also
found at low-water mark at
Filey (Jeffreys).
Defrancia linearis, Mont.
Pleurotoma nebula, Mont.
* , var, elongata.
rufa, Mont.
turricula, Mont. Very fine.
*+—__ , var. rosea, Lovén.
Trevelyana, Turt. With the
last, generally diffused through-
out the North Sea.
Cypreea europa, Mont. Dead,
drifted.
Cylichna nitidula, Lovén,
— unbilicata, Mont.
cylindracea, Penn.
Utriculus hyalinus, Turt.
Actzeon tornatilis, L.
, var. subulata, S. Wood.
, var. tenella, Lovén.
Bulla utriculus, Broce.
Philine scabra, Mill.
catena, Mont.
quadrata, S, Wood, Living
in mud, 45 fathoms.
*.
*.
The Starfish and Crustacea were everywhere most abundant,
but nothing calling for special remark.
On one occasion,
Ann..& Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 28
394 Mr, A. G. Butler on a Collection of
mixed with the typical form, two specimens of Goniaster
equestr7s occurred, one having four rays, the other six, besides
the variety abbensis.
By the kindness of Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, we are enabled to
add the following species and varieties, which he dredged
last May during a short cruise in H.M.S. ‘ Porcupine’ off
Scarborough :—
1. Leda minuta, var. brevirostris. 5. Thracia convexa, W. Wood.
2. Tellina balthica, Z. A valve, Young. Distinguishable with
in apparently a _ semifossil difficulty from the young of
state. T. truncata or T. myopsis.
3. calcarea, Chemn. An im- | 6. Panopea plicata, Mont. An im-
perfect valve, in the same state perfect valve.
of preservation. 7. Cerithium reticulatum, Da Costa.
4. tenuis, Da Costa. 8. Defrancia teres, Forbes.
LV.—On a Collection of Lepidoptera from Southern Africa,
with Descriptions of new Genera and Species. By ARTHUR
Garpiner Burtier, F.LS., F.Z.8., &e.
THE collection of the British Museum has lately been en-
riched, through the liberality of C. R. N. Burrows, Esq., with
a series of Lepidopterous insects collected or bred by him-
self, chiefly at Natal, The following is a list of the species.
RHOPALOCERA.
Family 1. Nymphalide.
Subfamily Dawarz.
Genus 1. Amauris, Doubleday.
1. Amauris echeria, Stoll, var. albimaculata.
Natal.
Primaries spotted with white, as usual in Natal examples.
Subfamily Sarrrmz.
Genus 2. MreLanitis, Fabricius.
2. Melanitis bankia, Fabricius, var.
Natal.
Genus 3. Mycauesis, Hiibner.
3. Mycalesis evenus 9 , Hopffer.
Natal.
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 395
Subfamily Nrupzariz.
Genus 4. PHrLoGNoMA, Westwood.
4. Philognoma varanes g , Fabricius.
D’ Urban (March 1875).
Genus 5. JunontA, Hiibner.
5. Junonia clelia § 2, Cramer.
Natal.
6. Junonia elgiva g , Hewitson.
Natal.
7. Junonia ceryne, Boisduval.
Natal.
8. Junonia natalica, Felder.
Natal.
Genus 6. SALAMIS, Boisduval.
9. Salamis Anacardiz, Linneeus.
D’Urban (Christmas time).
Genus 7. Eurauia, Doubleday.
10. EHuralia anthedon, Doubleday, var. marginalis.
D’ Urban (March 1875).
The South-African representative has the black area of the
secondaries confined to the outer margin, instead of running
over the internal areas nearly to the median nervure.
Genus 8. ATELLA, Doubleday.
11. Atella columbina, Fabricius.
Natal.
Subfamily Acrarmz.
Genus 9. TELCHINIA, Doubleday.
12. Telchinia cepheus § ? , Linneus.
Natal (bred from the larve, February 1875).
13. Telchinia Buxtoni, n. sp.
Acrea serena (part.), Trimen, Rhop. Afr. Austr. i. p. 107. n. 67 (1862),
This species differs from 7. eponina of Cramer (serena,
part., Fabricius), an insect confined to the west coast of Africa,
mm the abbreviated oblique postmedian band of primaries in
the male, and in the continuation of the white band in the
2g%
396 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of
female in the form of a curved decreasing series of about eight
elongate diffused white spots. Expanseof wings 1 inch 10 lines;
9 2 inches 1 line.
Cape of Good Hope (May 1872).
Several years ago Mr. E. C. Buxton kindly presented a
series of both sexes of this species to the British-Museum
collection, at the same time expressing his conviction that it
was distinct from the West-African insect; I quite agreed
with him and kept them separate, but until now have had no
good opportunity of describing the species.
14. Telchinia cabira, Hopfter.
Natal.
Genus 10. Acra:A, Fabricius.
15. Acrea rahira, Boisduval.
Natal.
16. Acrea horta 8 2? , Linneus.
Cape-Town.
Genus 11. PLANEMA, Doubleday.
17. Planema protea 8 ° , Trimen.
Natal.
The female is interesting, being coloured like the male, with
the exception of the postmedian band of primaries, which is
white as usual.
Family 2. Lycenide.
Subfamily Lyrczxwinz.
Genus 12. PenriLa, Westwood.
18. Pentila tropicalis, Boisduval.
Natal.
Genus 13. Lycana, Fabricius.
19. Lycena gaika 3? , Trimen.
Natal.
This female is so different from that of Z. lysimon, that I
prefer to consider the African species distinct.
20. Lycena knysna ? , Trimen.
Natal.
The single example sent has the purple at the base of the
wings well marked.
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 397
Genus 14. LycanesruEs, Moore.
21. Lycenesthes messapus, Godart.
Natal.
This and the next species do not quite agree with Lyce-
nesthes proper, since they do not possess the hair-like scales
on the outer margin of secondaries ; I am, however, unwilling
to grieve my entomological friends by characterizing a new
genus for their reception.
22. Lycenesthes asopus, UWopfter.
Natal.
Genus 15. Lamerpes, Hiibner.
23. Lampides osiris, Hopfter.
Natal.
This is the African representative of L. enejus.
24. Lampides pulchra, Murray.
Natal.
I suspect that this is the ZL. telicanus of Trimen’s ‘ Rhop.
Afr. Austr.’
25. Lampides palemon, Cramer.
Natal.
Genus 16. Tuestor, Hiibner.
26. Thestor bibulus ? , Fabricius.
Natal.
Subfamily Tzzcrm2.
Genus 17. Iotaus, Hiibner.
27. Lolaus hirundo, var.?,'Trimen.
Natal.
The two examples sent are smaller, and darker on the upper
surface, than in ‘Trimen’s figure.
Genus 18. Hypotycana, Felder.
28. Hypolycena philippus, Fabricius (var. certhis, Doubleday).
Natal.
This insect seems to come very close to Lolaus orejus g of
Hopfter.
Family 3. Papilionide.
Subfamily Prermz.
Genus 19. Mytornris, Hiibner.
29, Mylothris agathina ? , Cramer.
Natal.
398 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of
Genus 20. Coiias, Fabricius.
30. Colias electra $ 2 , Linneus.
Natal.
Genus 21. TrrtAs, Swainson.
31. Terias Desjardinsii, Boisduval.
Natal.
Genus 22. TERACOLUS, Swainson.
32. Teracolus tone, Godart.
Natal. .
33. Teracolus keiskamma, Trimen.
Natal.
34. Teracolus achine 3 , Cramer.
Natal.
Genus 23. SyncHLo#, Hiibner.
35. Synchloé hellica, Linneus.
Algoa Bay (May 1872).
Subfamily Paprzrowrz.
Genus 24. Papirio, Linneus.
36. Papilio demoleus, Linneus.
Natal.
37. Papilio anthemenes, Wallengren.
Natal.
Family 4. Hesperiide.
Genus 25. Hesperia, Fabricius.
38. Hesperia forestan, Cramer.
Natal.
Genus 26. Pampnita, Fabricius.
39. Pamphila hottentotta, Latreille.
Natal.
Genus 27. Pyraus, Hiibner.
40. Pyrqus elma, Trimen.
Natal.
HETEROCERA.
Family 5. Sphingide.
Subfamily Macroezossivz.
Genus 28. LopHura, Walker.
41. Lophura plagiata, Walker.
Natal.
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 399
Subfamily Cua@rocampPrn#.
Genus 29. Cu@rocampa, Duponchel.
42. Cherocampa eson, Cramer.
Natal.
43. Cherocampa celerio, Linnzus.
Natal.
Subfamily Seurmermz.
Genus 30. Proroparce, Burmeister.
44, Protoparce convolvuli, Linneeus.
Natal.
Genus 31. Hytorcus, Hiibner.
45. Hyloicus junipert, Walker.
Natal.
Family 6. Agaristide.
Genus 32. Pats, Hiibner.
46. Pais decora, Linneus.
Algoa Bay (May 1872).
Family 7. Zygenide.
Genus 33. ANACE, Walker.
47. Anace rubra, Walker.
Natal.
Genus 34. ZyG@NA, Fabricius.
48. Zygena contraria, Walker.
Natal.
Genus 35. EucHroMta, Hiibner.
49. Euchromia lethe, Fabricius.
Natal.
Family 8. Lithosiida.
Genus 36. DEIOPEIA, Stephens.
50. Detopeta ocellina, Walker.
Natal.
Family 9. Nyctemeride.
Genus 37. Nycremera, Hiibner.
51. Nyctemera leuconoé, Hopfter.
Natal.
This species is well figured by Hopffer: it differs from N.
apicalis, Walker, in the width of the white band of primaries.
400 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of
Family 10. Liparide.
Genus 38. Eayzortra, Boisduval.
52. Hgybolia Vaillantina, Stoll.
Natal.
I think this genus has a much greater affinity to the Lipa-
ride than to the Arctiide.
Genus 39. AroA, Walker.
53. Aroa terminalis, Walker.
Natal.
An unusually large example.
54, Aroa crocata g 2, Herrich-Schiffer.
Natal.
Genus 40. Leucoma, Stephens.
55. Leucoma dealbata, Herrich-Schiiffer.
Genus 41. Loprra, Walker.
06. Lopera punctulata, n. sp.
3. Bright ochreous: primaries with an abbreviated trans-
verse macular dusky streak just beyond the end of the dis-
coidal cell; a bisinuated transverse discal series of six black
dots, and a black dot at centre of interno-median interspace ;
body ochreous, pectinations of antenne blackish; wings and
body below uniformly ochreous. Expanse of wings | inch
3 lines.
Natal.
The genus Lopera, to which this species appears to belong,
is nearly allied to Orgyia, much more so than to Poloma.
Genus 42. Potoma, Walker.
57. Poloma angulata, Walker.
Natal.
Natal.
Genus 43. Dreata, Walker.
58. Dreata edulis, Boisduval.
D’Urban (March 1875).
Family 11. Psychide.
Genus 44. CRYPTOTHELEA, Templeton.
59. Cryptothelea Tuckeri, n. sp.
&. Sepia-brown: primaries with a black bilobed spot upon
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 401
the middle of the inner margin; secondaries with the apical
area tinted with cupreous; costal margin greyish; anal tuft
of abdomen greyish in the centre; central stem of antenne
sordid whitish; wings and body below dull sepia-brown.
Expanse of wings 10 lines.
Natal.
Mr. Burrows has requested me to name this after a gentle-
man who lent him a box to secure the specimen, which must
otherwise have been lost.
Family 12. Notodontide.
Genus 45. DERRIOIDES, gen. nov.
Genus gracile: antennis elongatis, late pectinatis; capite modice
parvo, oculis exstantibus ; palpis brevibus crassis ; thorace robusto;
abdomine tenui, gradatim attenuato ; pedibus modice crassis, tarsis
tenuibus ; tibiis posterioribus spinosis; alis amplis, marginibus
externis leviter undatis, margine costali anticarum paululum
excavato; venis discocellularibus transversis arcuatis. Generis
typus D. hypenissa, n. sp.
60. Derrioides hypenissa, n. sp.
Rosy madder-brown: primaries with a broad oblique band
of darker colour beginning at basal two fifths of inner margin,
its outer edge running to apex, its inner edge to median ner-
vure, whence it turns inwards at an abrupt angle to costa, the
edge is blackish, bordered externally by a whitish line; a
blackish dot on upper discocellular; outer margin dusky :
secondaries with a central transverse, waved, whitish-edged
blackish line: head dull brown, with a whitish transverse
frontal line; collar and palpi dull red; antenne white, with
testaceous pectinations: thorax red-brown; tegule large,
hairy, dark brown: abdomen rosy madder-brown, with cupre-
ous reflections. Wings below pale rosy brown; a dusky spot
on discocellulars; a common, waved, pale-edged, dusky central
line ; secondaries with abdominal margin greyish : body below
pale rosy brown, front of pectus deep dull red; tibie and tarsi
sordid whitish. Hxpanse of wings | inch 2 lines.
Natal.
This is a remarkable genus, allied to Paravetta of Moore.
Family 13. Bombycidz.
Genus 46. LasrocAMPA, Schrank.
61. Lasiocampa rudis 8 , Walker.
Natal.
402 Mr. A. G. Butler on @ Collection of
Family 14. Cosside.
Genus 47. Cossus, Fabricius.
62. Cossus tncanescens, n. sp.
Primaries silvery whitish, transversely speckled with black
hatchings, crossed near base by a broad inarched band, and
on disk by an irregular, slightly narrower oblique band, the
two connected by a slender oblique streak, thus forming a
pale brown H; secondaries silky pale grey: head and thorax
whitish; collar transversely spotted with brown; thorax
behind collar and in front of metathoracic portion transversely
banded with blackish: abdomen densely clothed with long
brown hairs, base and anus whitish: antenne white, with
pale brown pectinations : wings below shining whity brown ;
pectus clothed with sordid whitish woolly hairs. Expanse of
wings 1 inch | line.
Natal.
Allied to C. impeditus of Walker.
Family 15. Hepialide.
Genus 48. Gorcopis, Hiibner.
63. Gorgopis libania?, Cramer.
Natal (six examples).
I am very doubtful of the correct identification of this
species. It is the G. Mébania of Walker; but it is totally
unlike Cramer’s figure in coloration and pattern, although like
it in form. We previously only had one specimen in the
collection, so that Walker may have looked upon it as a pos-
sible variety of Cramer’s insect; so far as I can see, the only
chance of its being the same rests in the possibility that the
figure is taken from a rubbed and greasy example.
Family 16. Glottulide.
Subfamily Xyzorwasiwaz,
Genus 49. PRopENIA, Guénée.
64. Prodenia retina, Guénée.
Natal.
Previously in the Museum from the Congo.
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 403
Subfamily Apamers.
Genus 50. APAMEA, Ochsenheimer.
65. Apamea natalensis, n. sp.
Primaries above sandy whitish, sparsely speckled with black
and clouded for a short distance round the discocellulars
with rusty brownish ; margins spotted with black ; a blackish
interno-median basal spot, surmounted by a black dot; a
V-shaped whitish marking at end of cell, bounded externally
by a semicircular black spot; two submarginal semicircular
blackish spots, and between them a small black denticle; fringe
whity brown, spotted with blackish: secondaries dark grey,
dusky externally ; fringe whity brown: body sandy whitish ;
_ collar with a black dot on each side, behind which is a trans-
verse bisinuate black line, followed by a thicker brown line ;
tegule longitudinally speckled with black. Wings below whity
brown, costal areas speckled with blackish grey ; discocellular
area of primaries and apical area of secondaries rosy brownish ;
a dusky transverse discal streak, abbreviated in secondaries ;
a blackish lunule on discocellulars of the latter wings: body
below whity brown. Expanse of wings 1 ineh 23 lines.
Natal.
Not unlike pale examples of A. gemina.
Genus 51. CARADRINA, Ochsenheimer.
66. Caradrina partita, Walker.
Natal.
Previously known from the Congo.
Genus 52. AMyNnA, Guénée.
67. Amyna undulifera, n. sp.
3. Nearly allied to A. selenampha, but smaller, redder in
tint, with the undulated transverse lines of primaries less irre-
gular, sharply defined, edged with grey ; secondaries shorter,
with no trace of a transverse line on upper surface. Hxpanse
of wings 1 inch 2 lines.
Natal.
Family 17. Hadenida.
Genus 53. EUPLEXIA, Stephens.
68. Huplexia amaranta, Felder.
Natal.
404 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of
Family 18. Acontiide.
Genus 54. AconTIA, Ochsenheimer.
69. Acontia formosa, wu. sp.
Primaries creamy white, sericeous ; a subbasal mustard-
yellow arched band, whitish within the discoidal cell, and
interrupted by a large dusky spot upon the inner margin at
base ; a minute rounded pale grey spot, edged with dark grey
towards the end of the cell, and immediately beyond the cell
a larger similar spot, between them an oblong olive-green
spot ; a broad discal band widening from the costa to the inner
margin, olive-green internally, olive-brown and mustard-yellow
externally, traversed by two transverse, irregular, interrupted
plumbaginous lines, and interrupted at base of second median
interspace by a hastate creamy whitish spot, uniting at. its
apex with the ground-colour: secondaries pale greyish white
with brassy reflections, especially round the margins; fringe
creamy white: head and thorax white, frons and palpi sordid
yellow, antenne dull brown; abdomen silky testaceous.
Primaries below pale grey, with the costa and outer margin
pale testaceous; a broad dark grey discal band, widest on
costa; a triangular dark grey spot, edged with whitish, placed
across the discocellulars ; inner margin broadly white ; secon-
daries as above: body below white. Expanse of wings
11 lines.
Natal.
Family 19. Erastriide.
Genus 55. ERASTRIA, Ochsenheimer.
70. EHrastria africana, Felder.
Natal (three examples).
Can this be the Microphysa decissima of Walker ?
Family 20. Anthophilide.
Genus 56. Microprysa, Boisduval.
71. Microphysa abscissa, Walker.
Natal.
Family 21. Plusiide.
Genus 57. PLusta, Ochsenheimer.
72. Plusia aurifera, Hiibner.
Natal.
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 405
Family 22. Gonopteride.
Genus 58. CosMOPHILA, Boisduval.
73. Cosmophila indica, Guénée.
Natal.
If it be thought necessary to reject this name as inappro-
priate, Walker’s name of C. edentata may be used.
Genus 59. GoniTIs, Guénée.
74. Gonitis pusilla, n. sp.
Primaries greyish brown, clouded with dull yellowish, crossed
at nearly equal distances by five irregular dusky lines—the
first, third, and fifth bounded internally by dusky brownish
nebulous diffusions, almost uniting the lines into three bands,
the fifth line with a whitish and the others with a pale external
edging; a submarginal series of minute dark brown lunulate
dots : secondaries pale grey-brown, fringe darker ; two parallel
ill-defined, white-edged, angulated discal dusky lines, the inner
one abbreviated, the outer one originating at anal angle; outer
margin with a slender, interrupted, yellowish-bordered, black
terminal line: body brown, abdominal segments margined
with whity brown. Primaries below grey-brown ; costal area
pale testaceous, crossed beyond the cell by a dusky line; several
testaceous subapical dots : secondaries testaceous ; apex, a spot
at end of cell, and two discal lines dusky; fringe grey ; body
sordid testaceous. Hxpanse of wings 11 lines.
Natal.
The smallest species in the genus.
Family 23. Polydesmidz.
Genus 60. PoLypDEsMA, Boisduval.
75. Polydesma laudula, Guénée.
Natal.
Family 24. Homopteride.
Genus 61. Homoptera, Boisduval.
76. Homoptera delineosa, Walker.
Natal.
Family 25. Hypogrammida.
Genus 62. CALLYNA, Guénée,
77. Callyna decora, Walker.
Natal.
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Family 26. Catephiide.
Genus 63. AupEA, Walker.
78. Audea bipunctata, Walker.
Natal.
Family 27. Ommatophoride.
Genus 64. PatuLa, Guénée.
79. Patula Walkert, n. sp.
Patula macrops, Walker (nec Linnzus).
The African form differs from the Indian in its deeper colour
and less pointed primaries ; all the black bands much more irre-
gular, strongly dentated; the central band much broader at
costa of primaries, placed much closer to the subcentral bar of
secondaries so as to give the impression of a distinct broad
fascia across the wing ; the discal black spots more distinctly
lunate; the ocellus of primaries darker and considerably
narrower ; wings below darker, all the white spots smaller.
Expanse of wings 5 inches 3 lines.
D’ Urban (March 1875).
At first sight this would appear to be merely a dark form of
P. macrops; but I believe it to be quite distinct.
Family 28. Hypopyride.
Genus 65. ENTOMOGRAMMA, Guénée.
80. Entomogramma pardus, Guénée.
Natal.
This species is identical with Walker’s Hypopyra ante-
ponens and Remigia venusta.
Family 29. Ophiuside.
Genus 66. SPHINGOMORPHA, Guénée.
81. Sphingomorpha Montetronis, n. sp.
The example in this collection being in poor condition, I
shall take my description from an example collected by Mr.
Monteiro at Ambriz.
Very like S. chlorea (8. sipyla, Guén.), but differing as
follows :—Primaries much narrower, more pointed ; basal half
confused, not interrupted by a white line so as to separate the
external area as a darker spot ; pale subapical transverse streak
widened into a broad diffused spot; black spots bounded by
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 407
the dentated yellowish discal line much larger; secondaries
with brown band broader, pale discal band more distinctly
interrupted; wings below not so much speckled with dark
brown ; front legs clothed with longer masses of hair. HEx-
panse of wings 3 inches.
Ambriz (Monteiro) ; Natal (Burrows).
This species is clearly distinct from S. chlorea; the form
and pattern of the primaries is strikingly different. Mr. Mon-
teiro took a long series at Angola; he says that it is very
common. It always flew into the house when he was at dinner ;
so that he gave it the name of ‘‘the dinner-moth.”
M. Guénée has described a species from Senegal, which he
considers a variety of his S. s¢pyla, of which he says :—‘ Je
n’ose en faire une espéce séparée, car elle différe 4 peine du
type.” It may perhaps be my S. Montecronis; but the de-
scription scarcely suits it.
Genus 67. OpHismA, Guénée.
82. Ophisma crocetpennis, Walker.
Natal.
The West-African representative of this species, noted by
Walker as “ var. y,” is totally distinct, the transverse lines
on primaries being all undulated, and the black spots of secon-
daries united into a subcuneiform black patch. It may take
the name of Ophisma rivularis.
Genus 68. OpHiusA, Guénée.
83. Ophiusa properans, Walker.
Natal.
Genus 69. GRAMMODES, Guénée.
84. Grammodes geometrica, Fabricius.
Natal.
It is difficult to distinguish this species from G. ammonia.
Genus 70. Triganusa, Walker.
85. Triganusa euproctisoides, Walker.
Natal.
This genus would, I think, be better placed next to Ophisma ;
but even there it does not look well; it certainly ought not
to come between Girrammodes and Trigonodes (which is where
Mr. Walker has put it in the Collection). The example taken
by Mr. Burrows has a second black spot on primaries, at
basal third of interno-median interspace.
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Family 30. Euclidide.
Genus 71. TRIGONODES, Guénée.
86. Trigonodes acutata, Guénée.
Natal.
Family 31. Remigiide.
Genus 72. RemiGiA, Guénée.
87. Remigia congregata, Walker.
Natal.
88. Remigia nigrifrontalis, Walker. (See Herminia.)
Wings pale grey, shading into testaceous upon the disk; a
deeper-coloured central oblique band, margined by black lines,
beginning at middle of abdominal margin of secondaries, run-
ning obliquely to third branch of median nervure in primaries,
whence it recurves with a double angle to just beyond the
middle of costal margin ; several minute black liture on basal
area; outer margin tinted with tawny, edge stramineous ;
fringe dark greyish brown; a discal series of pale-bordered
black dots, becoming larger towards apex of primaries; apex
with a white spot, becoming grey, and bounded by an oblique
brown litura internally: head and collar black, front margin
of collar white; thorax and abdomen grey ; antenne brown,
ferruginous below ; palpi black, grey internally. Wings below
greyish brown, with three parallel, continuous, nearly equi-
distant, arched dusky bands; secondaries with a dusky dot
on discocellulars: body whitish. Hxpanse of wings 1 inch
7 lines.
Natal.
Family 32. Thermesiide.
Genus 73. TATORINIA, n. gen.
Nearly allied to Thermesta; but at once distinguished by
its smaller eyes and considerably Jonger palpi with shorter
terminal joint. Type 7. Burrowsii, n. sp.
89. Tatorinia Burrowsii, n. sp.
General coloration of the darker examples of Azazia rubri-
cans ; pattern almost as in Thermesia creberrima.
Wings dark greyish brown, basal and external areas tinted
with olivaceous; basal area crossed by two irregular and much
interrupted dusky lines; primaries with two central badly
defined parallel dusky lines; a whitish-centred spot in the
middle of the discoidal cell, and a second (larger and sinuate)
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 409
on discocellulars ; a discal distinct yellowish white line cross-
ing the two wings from near apex to near anal angle, inter-
rupted at costal areas, and margined with piceous, on secon-
daries terminating in a diffused spot on discoidal interspace ;
internervular folds terminating in black dots, united by a fine,
black, waved marginal line ; fringe reddish: body olivaceous
brown, abdomen paler. Wings below testaceous, speckled with
grey, veins ochraceous; three nearly equidistant lunulated
black lines, and between them series of ill-defined dusky
lunules; a white-centred black spot within the cells, and
another on the discocellulars ; outer margin as above: body
below sandy whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch 9 lines.
Natal.
Genus 74. Renopes, Guénée.
90. Renodes nigriceps, Walker.
Natal.
The type is a faded and rubbed specimen from Sierra Leone.
91. Renodes pallidula, n. sp.
Sandy whitish, speckled with black atoms: primaries with
an oblique, abbreviated, pale brown streak from inner margin,
beyond it a zigzag discal line and a broad external border
(tapering to apex) of the same colour; three or four black
discal dots towards apex; a black marginal line: secondaries
with three nearly equidistant parallel, pale brown, discal bands,
and between them two series of black dots ; outer margin with
a black edge: head, collar, palpi, and anterior femora and tibize
black; thorax and abdomen sandy whitish, the latter black-
speckled, with whitish margins to the segments. Wings below
pale testaceous, densely sprinkled with brown scales; disk
crossed by three brown lines, the two inner ones dentate-
hastate, irregular, and approximating on primaries, between
the two outer ones a series of black spots; external area of
primaries dusky in the centre; a black dot on discocellulars ;
body below whitish ; legs (excepting anterior femora and tibie)
testaceous. Hixpanse of wings | inch 3 lines.
Natal.
Genus 75. SELENIS, Guénée.
92. Selenis costalis, n. sp.
Basicostal area creamy white; two oblique liture and a
brown subapical line, crossed by three white dots, on costa of
primaries ; a broad central mahogany-brown band tapering
from abdominal margin to discoidal interspace towards apex
of primaries, and bordered externally by a silvery line; a
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410 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of
discal tapering pale testaceous streak bounding the central
band, and bordered externally by a red-brown line margined
with silvery grey; outer margin pale brown, with a sub-
marginal series of black dots; fringe dark grey; primaries
with an oblique apical brown litura; head, collar, and abdomen
brown, the latter with white margins to the segments; thorax
creamy white. Wings below grey, crossed by two darker grey
discal lines ; discocellular and submarginal black dots; apical
half of costa of primaries spotted with white: body below
pale testaceous Expanse of wings 10 lines.
Natal.
Genus 76. GRACILODES, Guénée.
93. Gracilodes caffra, Guénée.
Natal.
Genus 77. ScamBina, Walker.
94. Scambina larvata, Walker.
Natal.
Family 33. Platydide.
Genus 78. Hyprena, Schrank.
95. Hypena obacerralis, Walker.
Natal.
A very variable species.
96. Hypena senialis, Guénée.
Natal.
M. Guénée says that his description is taken from a speci-
men in poor condition; when fresh it more nearly resembles
H., obesalis in colouring than H, obsitalis ; it is, however, the
size of the latter.
97. Hypena varialis, Walker.
Natal.
Allied to the preceding species.
98. Hypena velatipennis, n. sp.
Allied to H. indicatalis. Very variable in tint; darker or
lighter grey : primaries with the basal half blackish, sharply
defined externally by a transverse, slightly trisinuate, white-
edged black line ; irrorated with green-shot scales, and crossed
by two irregular black lines, between which (within the cell)
is a black dot; apical half irrorated with black atoms, which
(in dark examples) form two transverse sinuated lines, the
sinuations together forming incomplete circles ; a heart-shaped
subapical black spot, edged externally with white, and bounded
below by a white longitudinal litura, the whole enclosed by an
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 411
angulated black line from apex; apical costa dotted with
white ; a submarginal series of black dots: segments of abdo-
men with pale hind margins, Wings below grey, secondaries
and costal area of primaries irrorated with brown; a sub-
marginal black line and a marginal whitish line; fringe pale
grey, intersected by two black parallel lines ; primaries with
apical costa white-spotted ; secondaries with a black dot on
discocellulars. Expanse of wings 1 inch 2 lines.
Natal.
Family 34. Herminiide.
Genus 79. HETEROGRAMMA, Guénée.
99. Heterogramma, sp. ?
Natal.
I feel very uncertain of the determination of this species,
and therefore do not describe it. It somewhat resembles a
figure in the fourth part of the Lepidoptera of the ‘ Novara’
Expedition; unfortunately we have no species of Heterogramma
with which to compare it.
Genus 80. Bocana, Walker.
100. Bocana esopusalis, Walker.
Natal.
Family 35. Pyralide.
Genus 81. Pyratis, Linneus.
101. Pyralis smaragdina, n. sp.
General appearance of P. costalis. Wings above red-brown,
clouded with slaty grey; a lunate golden-yellow spot near
base of cell, from which an arched dusky line runs to inner
margin; a second similarly coloured spot at basal two fifths
of costal margin, below which is a quadrate pearly spot with-
in the cell; a golden irregular costal streak from end of cell
to apex, cut by a black line, which also bounds a quadrate
pearly spot at end of cell; a third, black-edged, pearly spot
at base of first median interspace; outer margin and fringe
irregularly golden yellow, interrupted in the middle by a brown
spot; secondaries crossed by two irregular dusky lines; anal
half of outer margin and entire fringe golden yellow; head
testaceous ; anal segments golden yellow. Wings below pale
grey ; all the markings as above, but paler; secondaries with
an additional grey spot at centre of cell; body below white.
Expanse of wings 9 lines.
Natal.
Differs from P. costalis in its narrower wings, more pointed
29%
412 Mr. A. G. Butler on a Collection of
primaries, the three pearly spots in primaries, less regular and
interrupted golden-yellow borders, and yellow anal segments
of abdomen.
Genus 82. AGLossa, Latreille.
102. Aglossa noctuina, n. sp.
Primaries dark rosy brown, base blackish; two transverse
irregular black lines and a black discocellular dot, exactly as
in A. laminalis; a marginal row of black dots; fringe red-
brown, shining: secondaries whity brown, with the veins
slightly reddish ; a dusky spot at base of discocellular cleft,
and an irregular dusky discal line parallel to the outer margin :
palpi, antenne, head, and thorax deep rosy brown; abdomen
dull black, with pale margins to the segments ; anus testaceous.
Wings below pale grey; costal areas rosy tinted, costal margins
black, dotted with whitish; a continuous dusky discal line ;
dusky lunate spots on discocellulars ; cell of primaries spotted
with dusky: body below shining rosy brownish; front of
pectus deep chocolate-brown ; legs testaceous, tibiz and tarsi
of two front pairs black above, dotted with whitish. Expanse
of wings 1 inch.
Natal.
Allied to A. laminalis, but easily distinguished by its much
deeper coloration and the markings on secondaries.
103. Aglossa ocularis, n. sp.
Primaries above grey; a cuneiform patch of stramineous
crossed by the discocellulars, the position of which is marked
by an oblique reniform stigma; a very oblique black line
beginning, distinct, at base of inner margin, but fading away
as it reaches the back of the stramineous patch; a second,
dentate-sinuate oblique line from near the centre of inner
margin, bounding the stramineous patch externally, and run-
ning almost to costa; an irregular zigzag discal stramineous
band; a submarginal series of eight black lunular liture :
secondaries sordid pale testaceous, with a broad external grey
border, interrupted by a submarginal pale stramineous streak ;
two dotted grey discal lines, and a dusky spot at end of cell:
body grey, head and collar slightly reddish, fringe at back of
thorax whitish. Primaries below grey, internal area pale; a
patch over the end of cell whitish, crossed by an oblique dusky
spot; costa white-dotted: secondaries creamy white; a black
spot at end of cell and another at anal angle, two discal dotted
grey lines; a broad grey border as above ; a submarginal dull
red streak, leaving one spot of whitish near apex, its anal
termination being also whitish: body below sordid greyish
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testaceous; tarsi of anterior legs blackish above and spotted
with testaceous. Hxpanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines.
Natal.
104. Aglossa fragilis, n. sp.
Primaries stramineous, discocellular area and apex clouded
with burnt sienna; outer margin with a red-brown border,
tapering to apex, partially varied with dark grey; a marking,
like the figure 8, enclosing two black dots at the end of the
cell; two irregular oblique red-brown lines, the one towards
the base ill-defined and broken up into dots, the other beyond
the cell crossing the wing, and well-marked; a marginal row
of black dots: secondaries greyish brown: head and collar
dark grey, thorax stramineous, abdomen testaceous. Primaries
below grey, reddish along the costa; a whitish subcostal dis-
coidal litura, and a whitish spot at end of cell: secondaries
testaceous, tinted with rosy : body greyish testaceous. Hx-
panse of wings 1 inch.
Natal.
105. Aglossa inconspicua, n. sp.
Primaries above dove-colour, crossed by two slightly waved
and divergent, oblique red-brown lines, the inner one bordered
within and the outer without with ochreous, the outer one also
bounding a transverse diffused brown streak; a black dot at
end of cell; a waved discal series of dusky dots; outer margin
slightly dusky: secondaries whity brown, the basal area and a
diffused streak at anal angle irorated with slightly darker
brown: head and thorax grey, abdomen pale testaceous.
Primaries below grey, sprinkled with whitish ; an ill-defined,
scarcely visible, waved dusky discal line: secondaries creamy
whitish, sparsely speckled with brown; a brown dot at end
of cell: body below whitish; legs and palpi stramineous.
Expanse of wings 1 inch 1 line.
Natal.
106. Aglossa formosa, n. sp.
Allied to the Pyralis ratoalis of Walker. Wings above
cream-colour ; primaries with an orange streak from base along
median nervure, and joining a red subquadrate spot at middle
of inner margin; a white spot with a black dot on each side
of it within the cell, and another below it and touching the red
internal spot; an angular black-edged white spot at end of
cell; outer margin broadly plumbaginous, the inner margin of
the border being distinctly conical, the apex of the cone touch-
ing the white spot at end of cell; a subapical red-edged sagit-
tate yellow spot: secondaries with a slender marginal black
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line; fringe white: head black, collar reddish ; thorax creamy
white ; abdomen red-brown, with white segmental bands and
anus. Primaries below shining grey; secondaries white, with
grey costal area: body sordid testaceous, with sides of pectus
white. Expanse of wings 10 lines.
Natal.
107. Aglossa magnifica, n. sp.
Primaries above deep reddish castaneous, clouded with
shining grey or plumbaginous, crossed by two diverging un-
dulated black lines, partially bordered with white, outer margin
plumbaginous; fringe pale grey, varied with castaneous : secon-
daries grey, with faint lilacine reflections ; outer border dusky,
with a white marginal line; fringe grey: body reddish casta-
neous, centre of abdomen greyish, margins of the segments
paler. Wings below shining grey, with cupreous reflections ;
body creamy white. Expanse of wings 10 lines.
Natal.
Family 36. Ennychiide.
Genus 83. Pyrausra, Schrank.
108. Pyrausta aurea, n. sp.
Ochreous: primaries above with a dusky transverse angu-
lated line crossing the end of cell, and running to inner margin ;
an abbreviated arched line from subcostal nervure to second
median branch: secondaries with an irregular dusky discal
line parallel to the outer margin, and a dot at end of cell:
primaries below tinted with grey. Expanse of wings 73 lines.
Natal.
Unlike any other species of Pyrausta known to me in
coloration.
Family 37. Asopiide.
Genus 84. SynGamiA, Guénée.
109. Syngamia merionealis, Walker.
Natal.
Genus 85. AGATHODES, Guénée.
110. Agathodes modicalis, Guénée.
Natal.
111. Agathodes ostentalis, Hiibner.
Natal.
One small example. I believe this species has not hitherto
been recorded as African.
Lepidoptera from Southern Africa. 415
Genus 86. HymentA, Hiibner.
112. Hymenia recurvalis, Fabricius.
Natal.
113. Hymenia perspectalis, Hiibner.
Natal.
114. Hymenia griseata, n. sp.
Primaries dull greyish brown; a minute basicostal testaceous
spot, and another, edged with black, near base of cell; a small
whitish spot at base of interno-median interspace, and a black-
edged, straight, transverse whitish litura just beyond it; two
small angular black markings just beyond the middle of the
cell; a testaceous costal streak, crossed by a black spot, from
the end of cell, a very irregular black-edged whitish line from
end of cell to inner margin ; apical half of cell sordid whitish ;
a marginal macular black line; fringe white, spotted with
grey: secondaries grey, costal area whitish ; a broad external
brown border, bounded within by an irregular brown-edged
white line: body dark brown, head and base of abdomen
greyish. Wings below very pale brown ; a black-edged brown
spot on discocellulars; a broad discal grey band, obsolete
towards the inner margins, bounded within by a very irregular
dusky-edged whitish line: body very pale brown. Expanse
of wings 10 lines.
Natal.
Most like H. mertdionalis in general appearance.
Family 38. Hydrocampide.
Genus 87. Caractysra, Hiibner.
115. Cataclysta fraterna, n. sp.
Closely allied to C. elutalis from Ceylon; but with the
wings comparatively longer, the body more slender; the
basal area of the wings paler, with dark brown markings and
better-defined silvery spots ; the central series of silvery spots
bounded within by a distinct irregular black line; external
area dark brown, outer margin grey; marginal spots of secon-
daries well defined. Hxpanse of wings 8} lines.
Natal.
Family 39. Spilomelide.
Genus 88. ZeBroniA, Hiibner.
116. Zebronia cassusalis, Walker.
Natal.
This species is scarcely distinguishable from the Ceylonese
Zebronia aurolinealis of Walker.
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Family 40. Margarodide.
Genus 89. PHAKELLURA, Guilding.
117. Phakellura indica, Saunders.
Natal.
I think Guénée’s name of P. gazorialis would be better than
P. indica.
Genus 90. MArGaroniA, Hiibner.
118. Margaronia transvisalis, Guénée.
Natal.
Family 41. Botyde.
Genus 91. Borys, Latreille.
119. Botys straminea, n. sp.
Allied to B. pholausalis, but much more like the Australian
B. ptasusalis in marking.
Stramineous, with pink reflections ; an irregular brown line
crossing the wings at basal third; a second, very iuregular
discal line, widely interrupted on primaries, where it runs
from the subcostal nervure to the middle of the second median
branch, and recommences near the base of the same branch ;
a black dot just beyond the middle, and a black litura at the
end of discoidal cell of primaries; a continuous marginal
series of brown dots ; fringe silvery white: wings below paler,
otherwise as above; body white. Expanse of wings 1 inch.
Natal.
Genus 92. PIonEA, Guénée.
120. Pionea africalis, Guénée.
Natal.
P. africalis is identical with Walker’s Scopula? concisalis.
Genus 93. ScopuLA, Schrank.
121. Scopula martialis, Guénée.
Natal.
122. Scopula ferriscriptalis, Walker.
Natal.
Family 42. Scopariide.
Genus 94. STENOPTERYX, Guénée.
123. Stenopteryx hybridalis, Hiibner.
Natal.
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Family 43. Ennomida.
Genus 95. HypreryTHRA, Guénée.
124. Hyperythra leucicolor, n. sp.
Hyperythra limbolaria (part.), Walker.
3. Bright saffron-yellow, more or less speckled with brown,
crossed by two diffused pale reddish grey bands or lines, the
external one internally bisinuate on both wings, bounded ex-
ternally near outer angle of primaries by one dusky spot, and
near apex of secondaries by two. Wings below paler, the inner
band only represented by a reddish spot on interno-median
interspace, the outer one by a continuous chain-like discal
series of rosy spots with carmine margins; a black dot on
discocellulars. expanse of wings 1 inch 1 to 3 lines.
?. Not unlike Guénée’s figure of H. imbolaria, but with
only three (almost equidistant) lines across the primaries and
two across the secondaries, the inner band below much inter-
rupted. Hxpanse of wings 1 inch 7 to 9 lines.
Natal (one male).
We received both sexes of this species in a collection sent
to England last year by Mr. J. V. Gooch. It was at the
time supposed to be the Javan H. lutea of Cramer (H. limbo-
laria, Guénée) ; but it is clearly quite distinct.
Genus 96. CABERODES, Guénée.
125. Caberodes interpellans, n. sp.
g. Wings greyish brown, slightly shot with a rosy tint;
markings precisely like Hllopia flagitiarta—that is, a curved
subbasal and a waved discal dark brown line, with a black
spot on discocellulars in primaries, and a subangulated discal
line and black dot in secondaries; antennz rather unusually
wide towards the base, and thorax very robust. Expanse of
wings 1 inch 7 lines.
Natal.
Family 44. Boarmiide.
Genus 97. GnopuHos, Treitschke.
126. Gnophos umbratilis, n. sp.
$. Wings greyish brown in appearance, but really yellowish
testaceous, densely mottled with blackish brown, crossed in the
middle by two ill-defined dusky lines; black discocellular
dots; asmall elongate black dot at centre of second median
interspace of secondaries: wings below much less mottled
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with paler brown, the transverse lines widened into diffused
bands, very distinct on secondaries ; costa of primaries, area
between the bands of secondaries, and the body very slightly
mottled, and consequently much yellower in appearance than
the rest of the underside. Expanse of wings I inch 5 lines.
Natal.
Family 45. Acidaliide.
Genus 98. AcIDALIA, Treitschke.
127. Acidalia natalica, n. sp.
Whity brown; wings crossed by two brown lines, the inner
line diffused, oblique in primaries, and crossing discocellulars
to near the middle of inner margin, arched in secondaries and
crossing the apical fourth of discoidal cell ; the outer line dark
brown, irregularly sinuated, crossing the disk of both wings,
and succeeded by a narrow diffused brown streak, which gives
it the appearance of being double; a black dot at the end of
the cells, and a marginal series of black dots; frmge whity
brown: wings below slightly paler than above, mottled with
darker brown ; the two lines better defined. Expanse of wings
1 inch 2 lines.
Natal.
The frons is not black, as in several of M. Guénée’s African
species. A. natalicais most nearly allied to A. strigulifera.
128. Actdalia lactaria, Walker.
Natal.
This species is identical with A. derasata of Walker (part
xxvl. p. 1604).
129. Acidalia instructata, Walker.
Natal.
This species varies much in tint.
130. Acidalia cinerascens, n. sp.
Pale grey, mottled with brown; black discocellular dots ;
a marginal series of black dots; primaries with a transverse
zigzag discal brown line ; secondaries with two central, slightly
irregular, subangulated brown lines: wings below testaceous,
mottled with brown, less densely on costa of primaries; a
transverse subapical costal brown litura. Expanse of wings
1 inch 2 lines.
Natal.
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Genus 99. ArGyRIS, Guénée.
131. Argyris latonaria, Guénée.
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132. Argyris vestalis, n. sp.
Somewhat like A. ocellata, but much smaller. White; both
wings with a central brown band from end of cell to inner
margin, varied with black, indistinctly streaked with plumba-
ginous, enclosing a black-edged discocellular white spot, the
upper end broad, the lower end pointed; a bisinuate brown
litura connecting central band with costal margin; a waved
undulated discal transverse line; two submarginal series of
grey spots, an interrupted marginal series of black dots; fringe
varied with grey. Wings below white, primaries sordid:
secondaries with a blackish discocellular litura, an ill-defined
postmedian dusky line, a continuous dentate-sinuate discal
black line, and a sinuated marginal black line: primaries with
two submarginal series of grey spots; fringe white, varied
with grey and dotted with black: body white; antenne, tibie,
and tarsi testaceous. Expanse of wings 11 lines.
Natal.
Family 46. Fidoniida.
Genus 100. TrEpHrina, Guénée.
133. Tephrina deerraria, Walker.
Natal.
Genus 101. Srerrua, Hiibner.
134. Sterrha sacraria, Linneus.
Natal (six examples).
Genus 102. AsPILATES, Treitschke.
135. Aspilates meviaria, Guénée.
Natal (four examples).
136. Aspilates arenosa, n. sp.
3. General aspect and coloration of the preceding; it
differs as follows :—Discal band of primaries less oblique and
consequently nearer to outer margin; of secondaries paler,
widening from near anal angle to second subcostal branch,
where it becomes obsolete, broadly bordered on both sides with
whitish. Primaries below greyish, band as above: secondaries
much paler ; interno-median area dusky; discal band much
more abbreviated, but darker than above ; a black discocellular
spot. Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines.
Natal. :
420 Mr. H.J. Carter on the Relation of the Canal-System
Family 47. Gelechiide.
Genus 103. Exopomorpua, Walker.
137. Exodomorpha divisella, Walker.
Natal (eight examples).
Family 48. Pterophoride.
Genus 104. Aapisres, Hiibner.
138. Agdistes pustulalis, Walker.
Natal.
There are also in the Collection two species of Tortricites
and two Tineites which I have been unable to determine ; and
as at present I do not possess sufficient knowledge of the
groups to refer them to their proper positions, I cannot attempt
to name them. I have to thank Mr. F. Moore, of the Indian
Museum, for very kindly assisting me in determining some of
the more obscure genera of Pyralites and Geometrites.
LVI.—Relation of the Canal-System to the Tubulation in the
Foraminifera, with reference to Dr. Dawson’s ‘Dawn of
Life” By H. J. Carter, F.R.S. &e.
AS an illustration of the relation of the canal-system to the
tubulation in Foraminifera in the so-called “‘Hozoon canadense,”
Dr. Dawson repeats, in his book just published (the ‘ Dawn
of Life’), p. 43, a fac-simile of the woodcut which illustrates
his letter in ‘ Nature’ (vol. x. p. 103, June 1874), which illus-
tration had been previously published in the ‘Annals & Mag.
Nat. Hist.’ (vol. xiii. pl. xix. fig. 1, June 1874), and also
appeared about the same time in the ‘ Monthly Microscopical
Journal.’
By this I infer that the woodcut (which, in the ‘ Dawn of
Life,’ is stated to be “ after Carpenter ’’) is the most convincing
representation that Dr. Dawson can adduce of the identity of
Foraminiferal structure with that of the so-called ‘‘Hozoon cana-
dense” in the Laurentian limestone ; for we find in the ‘ Dawn
of Life,’ p. 204, the following paragraph :-—
“In the ‘Annals of Natural History’ for June 1874,
Dr. Carpenter has given a crushing reply to some objections
raised in that Journal by Mr. Carter. He first shows, contrary
to the statement of Mr. Carter, that the fine nummuline tubu-
lation corresponds precisely in its direction with reference to
to the Tubulation in the Foraminifera. 421
the chambers with that observed in Nummulites and Orbitordes.
In the second place, he shows by clear descriptions and figures
that the relation of the canal-system to the fine tubulation is
precisely that which he had demonstrated in more recent
nummuline and rotaline Foraminifera. In the third place,
he adduces additional facts to show that in some specimens of
Hozoon the calcareous skeleton has been filled with calcite
before the introduction of any foreign mineral matter. He
concludes the argument in the following words :— I have thus
shown,’” &c. (See the rest in Dr. Dawson’s book, and in the
‘Annals,’ 7. c. vol. xiii. p. 463.)
Now I do not hesitate to state that the woodcut to which I
have alluded, and which is one of the “ clear figures” to which
Dr. Dawson alludes, does not show “ that the relation of the
canal-system to the fine tubulation is precisely that which he
[Dr. Carpenter] had demonstrated in more recent nummuline
and rotaline Foraminifera,”—inasmuch as it is impossible to
demonstrate that which is utterly at variance with the principle
on which a Foraminiferous test is constructed.
This is a decided expression ; but having published nearly
as much of the anatomy of the Foraminifera in 1852 (‘Annals,’
vol. x. p. 161, pl. iv.) and, subsequently, in a more general
form, in 1861 (cb¢d. vol. viii. p. 309 et seg. pls. xv., xvi.,
xvi.) as Ihave of the Spongida during the present year, and
having now before me perhaps one of the finest collections of
Operculine, Nummuline, and Acervuline Foraminifera that
exist, both fossil and recent, simple and infiltrated (that is,
with the original cavities of the canal-system, tubulation, and
chambers filled with red oxide of iron to the minutest degree),
together with a knowledge of the active living animal in a
recent state gained here on the sea-side, and the typical piece
of the so-called ““Hozoon canadense”’ submitted by Dr. Car-
penter to Professors King and Rowney for conviction, I claim
to have a voice in the matter, and to be allowed to state in-
structively what the rea/ relation of the canal-system is to the
so-called ‘‘nummuline tubulation”’ in the Foraminiferal test.
For this, then, | must premise (what, I fear, judging from
that which others have published on the subject, is so little
understood generally) :—First, that in the ammonite-like
form of Operculina, where the chambers are only one deep and
therefore all the chambers on the same plane, the tubuli of the
chambers (that is, the “‘nummuline tubulation ’’) go straight
from the roof of the chamber to the surface of the Operculina,
thereby affording not only the shortest but the most direct
communication with the exterior that the sarcode and its con-
tents, with which the chamber is exclusively filled, can obtain ;
422 Mr.H.J. Carter on the Relation of the Canal-System
while the canal-system is entirely outside the tubuli and the
chamber with which they are connected. Thus the flat sur-
face of the vertically compressed chamber on either side of
the Operculina, as its ammonite-like form lies horizontally on
the table, is vertically pierced by the tubuli; while the narrow
part or vertical sides of the compressed chamber, which is con-
cealed within the test, is pierced alone by the ramuli coming
off from the large branches of the canal-system which border
upon the chamber all round.
Secondly, that as the single plane of chambers of Operculina
is multiplied vertically in the Nummulite, the same structure,
mutatis mutandis, is here repeated, while the tubuli go from
chamber to chamber; and nothing interferes with this arrange-
ment in the whole pile of chambers until the tubuli thus, at
last, open on the surface.
The reason of this is obvious; for the tubuli transmit the
sarcode from the chamber, which appears to be successively
engaged in forming the layers of the test, while there are no
tubuli in the contracted sides of the chamber, which, being
covered by the surface-layer of the test, do not need them,
but instead are pierced by the ramuli of the canal-system,
which thus communicate with the interior of the chamber.
The function of the canal-system has not yet been discovered ;
but the main canals, which border the contracted sides of the
chamber (viz. that part of it within the test) all round, send off
three sets of branches, viz. :—Ist, those which penetrate the
“contracted sides” of the chamber; 2nd, those which open on
the surface of the smooth aree of the test surrounding the
chamber ; and, 3rd, those which open on the convex surface
of the marginal cord. The latter I have been able to show
distinctly in a preparation lately made of a portion of the mar-
ginal cord of Nummulites levigatus, where, as in Operculina,
their apertures appear like puncta scattered over the convex
surface of the cord along the lines of the amorphous matter
which fills up the interstices between the hard crystalline, fusi-
form, spicule-like bodies that not only form the surface of the
cord here, as in Operculina, but, in some specimens of Oper-
culina, are continued inwards over the intercameral spaces to
the preceding turn of the spire, showing that Dr. Carpenter
is quite wrong when he states that this structure “is due to
the peculiar manner in which the homogeneous substance of
which it [the marginal cord] is composed is traversed by the
‘marginal plexus’ ”’ (‘ Introduction to Study of Foraminifera,’
p. 257, 1862)—-since there is no “plexus” here, any more than
in the marginal cord in direct contact with the spicular struc-
ture, simply because the latter is on the surface of the test,
to the Tubulation in the Foraminifera. 423
where alone the “puncta” (which are the openings of the
ramuli of the large canals forming the plexus) are present and
visible.
With reference to the function of the sarcode of the chamber,
all that can be stated at present is that, being for the most
part filled with bodies like ova, it is analogous to an ovi-
sac, and thus apparently designed chiefly for the purpose of
reproduction.
Thirdly, as regards the Acervuline forms of Foraminifera,
in which the chambers are heaped up upon one another as the
bulk of the mass increases, although this does not take place
with such regularity as in Nummulites, it will be seen that the
principle of structure must be the same from the simplest to
the most complicated form of Foraminiferal tests: viz. the
tubuli must be more or less perpendicular to the walls of the
chamber ; and therefore, as the lines of the chambers are neces-
sarily continuous from the centre to the circumference, the
gedaan cannot interrupt, but must be wholly outside them.
Thus it follows that the canal-system can never be opposite
the ends of the tubuli; for no portion of it can ever be within
the chambers, where alone the ends of the tubuli present them-
selves, till the latter reach the surface. Yet, on the other
hand, the canals may run directly parallel to or across the
long diameter of the tubuli at any angle; but it must be ouwt-
sidethem. No section could ever bring them opposite the ends
of the tubuli, if they are not 7m the chamber.
Now let us look at the woodeut to which I have referred,
and there we shall find the fragments of the so-called ‘ canal-
system ” (bb) cut across opposite the ends of the tubuli, show-
ing that they are on the same plane, whereby they must have
been zz the chamber, which, as I have shown, is an impos-
sibility in Foraminiferal structure.’
I therefore most unhesitatingly state that there is no identity
between this selected representation of the so-called ‘“Hozoon
canadense”’ and Foraminiferal structure. Such a relation of
“ canal-system ”’ to ‘‘ nummuline tubulation ”’ could not exist
in a Foraminiferal test either in theory or fact!
Since, then, Dr. Dawson could not see this, I am not sur-
prised that he should have stated that Dr. Carpenter had
“ oiven a crushing reply ” to my objections ; while the amount
of knowledge of Foraminiferal structure, both recent and fossil,
that is displayed in other parts of his book may suit popular
taste, but can hardly call for scientific reply.
This, however, is the age of wild speculation, and that which
is most sensational (alas for Science !) is also most attractive. It
puts one in mind of the Hindoo, who considers the simple truths
4924 Mr. J. Thomson and Dr. H. A. Nicholson on the
of Christianity not worth his notice ; but tell him there is a
ladder between the highest summit of the Himalaya and the
Heavens, on which there are Munis and Rishis going up and
down all the day long, and he will say “that’s worth believ-
ing!” Belonging to that school which can see nothing satis-
factory in a theory so elastic that no human argument can
cover it, and nothing so contemptible, in a scientific point of
view, as the habit of hastily theorizing, I have not much
sympathy with those who are always ready with a cause
and explanation for every thing. When facts are discovered,
they can be told in a few words; and the most palpable only
should be credited with a deduction like that of the ‘ dawn of
lite
LVII.—Oontributions to the Study of the chief Generic
Types of the Paleozoic Corals. By JAMES THOMSON,
¥F.G.S., and H. Autteyne Nicnorson, M.D., D.8Sc.,
F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural History in the University
of St. Andrews.
[Continued from p. 309.]
[Plate XII.]
Genus AMPLEXUS.
Amplexus, Sowerby, Mineral Conchology, vol. i. p. 165.
Gen. char. Corallum simple, subcylindrical or cylindro-
conical, tapering towards the base, frequently tall, and more
or less twisted. The epitheca is thin, with encircling lines of
growth ; and accretion-ridges are usually more or less con-
spicuously developed. Septa delicate and very short, never
reaching to near the centre of the calice. Tabule exceedingly
well developed, extending completely across the visceral
chamber, and invariably exposed over a wide central area,
into which the septa do not penetrate. A septal fossula is
present, which is usually formed by a slight lateral depression
of the tabule. Calice circular, moderately deep, with a thin
margin.
The nearest ally of Amplexus has generally been assumed
to be Zaphrentis ; and there is doubtless a close alliance be-
tween the two. ‘Typical examples of the former, however, are
very readily and completely separated from characteristic
species of the latter genus by the much more rudimentary
condition of the septa and the nature of the septal fossula.
chief Generic Types of Paleozoic Corals. 425
Upon the whole, therefore these two genera are marked off
from one another by characters of a more fundamental and
recognizable nature than those which separate Zaphrentis
from Cyathophyllum.
The external form of the corallum in Amplexus is charac-
teristically cylindrical, though this, of course, cannot be said
to be distinctive of this genus. In addition, the corallum is
very commonly tortuous, often of very unequal thickness in
different parts, and frequently of great length as compared
with its diameter. The accretion-ridges are sometimes very
marked, at other times not so much so; and the epitheca is
thin, and occasionally (as in A. nodulosus, Phill., Pl. XII.
fig. 2) marked with hollow spinulose or nodular outgrowths.
The septa afford one of the most striking of the generic
characters, being invariably very short and, comparatively
speaking, rudimentary. This is well seen in transverse sec-
tions of Amplexus coralloides, Sow., and A. nodulosus, Phill.
(Pl. XII. figs. 1& 2). They differ in their length; but in no
species of the genus do they ever extend further inwards to-
wards the centre of the visceral chamber than, perhaps, about
a third of the total diameter of the corallum, whilst in most
species they are much shorter than this. In typical species,
as in A. coralloides (Pl. XII. fig. 1), no secondary septa are
developed; and there may or may not be interseptal dissepi-
ments, whilst these, when present, are always comparatively
simple and few in number.
The tabule are very well developed, and are usually bent
in a more or less marked manner at their outer extremities
(see the longitudinal section of A. coralloides, Pl. XII. fig. 18).
Owing to the rudimentary condition of the septa, there is
invariably a space in the centre of the corallum which is occu-
pied exclusively by the tabule. This central space, in which
the tabule alone are exposed to view, varies from about a
third to three fifths or more of the total area included within
the wall of the corallum; and in no case which has come
under our observation are the septa continued over the bare
and smooth upper surfaces of the tabule. The distance of the
tabule from one another is variable ; but they usually extend
completely across the visceral chamber, unless they be much
crowded, in which case they may sometimes coalesce (see
longitudinal sections of A. coralloides, fig. 1B, and A. nodulosus,
fig. 3A). The tabule are approximately flat in the central
area of the corallum; and the fossula, when recognizable at
all, seems to be formed by a depression in the tabulee, which
ig occupied by a septum of smaller length than the others.
This is the ease, at any rate, with Amplexus coralloides, though
Ann. & Mag. N. Hist. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 30
426 Mr. J. Thomson and Dr. H. A. Nicholson on the
we are not prepared to assert positively that this character i 1s
distinctive of the genus.
The calice is approximately circular in form, with a thin
upper margin, and of. moderate depth. * Owing to the short-
ness of the septa, the bottom of the calice is nearly flat, and is
formed by the upper surface of the first: tabula.
Upon the whole the genus Amplexus must be regarded as
a very distinct one, the ‘type of which is found in A. coral-
loides, Sow., of the Carboniferous. The earliest examples of
the genus with which we are acquainted appear in the Upper
Silurian ; and the group undergoes a considerable development
in the Devonian, where it is represented by such typical forms
as A, Yandelli, Edw. & H. ., and A. tortuosus, Phill. ' It is,
however, the Lower Carboniferous that the headquarters
of the gents is found, and where it obtains its greatest deve-
lopment both as regards the number of species and the size of
individual examples.
Genus ZAPHRENTIS.
Zaphrentis, ape and Clifford, Ann. des Sci. Phys. de Bruxelles,
vol. v. p. 2
Gen. char. Corallum simple, turbinate, conical or eylindro-
conical, usually more or less curved. Calice deep, with a
large and conspicuous fossula, the position of which is variable,
but which is seen on transverse section to be formed by the
coalescence of a portion of the septa, which fold round and
form its walls. Septa weil developed, extending nearly or
quite to the centre of the visceral chamber. No columella is
developed. The tabule, though varying in their development,
are always a conspicuous feature ; and the septa are prolonged
over their upper surfaces. ‘The interseptal loculi are usually
filled wp towards the circumference of the corallum by convex
dissepiments; but these are generally more or less remote
and irregular, and the tabule are continued through them to
the wall. .
The general form of the corals belonging to Zaphrentis is
turbinate or trochoid; but they sometimes assume a more or
less cylindrical form, and may attain a very great size. Other
species, again, are singularly small in point of size. The
epitheca is thin, and is usually marked with fine encircling
strie, whilst accretion-ridges are not uncommonly present,
The calice is deep, with attenuated margins; and there is
always a large and deep fossula. The position of the fossula
varies, being sometimes on the convex or dorsal side of the
oO
cor allum, sometimes lateral, and commonly on the concave or
chief Generic Types of Paleozoic Corals. 427
ventral side. Generally speaking, there is only a single fos-
sula; but sometimes there are subordinate depressions, which
appear to be of the same nature, though these have not been
as yet sufficiently investigated. The most characteristic fea-
ture about the fossula, however, is the fact that it is formed
by the coalescence of a greater or less number of the septa,
which unite with one another towards the centre of the visceral
chamber and form the wallsof the fossette (Pl. XII. figs. 5 & 6).
The mode of formation of the fossula is thus entirely dif-
ferent in Zaphrentis from what obtains in Amplexus. We are
not aware that this peculiarity has been noticed before ; but all
transverse sections exhibit it, and we believe it to be a cha-
racter of primary importance in the definition of the genus.
The septa in Zaphrentis are differently developed in different
species—but are usually remarkably thick towards the margins
of the corallum, and become attenuated as they approach the
centre of the visceral chamber. Indeed in some forms the
septa are so much thickened towards the periphery, that they
coalesce at their outer margins, and form a thick false wall.
They also differ as to their extension inwards. Sometimes
they reach quite to the centre of the visceral chamber; but at
other times they fall short of this, and leave a small central
area occupied solely by the tabule. In silicified specimens,
however, the septa can often be traced on the upper surfaces
of the tabule as far as the centre of the corallum (see Pl. XII.
fig. 6, Zaph. patula). Small secondary septa are usually de-
veloped, one between each pair of primary septa; but they
do not appear to be universally present. According to Milne-
Edwards and Haime, the free edges of the septa are denticu-
late, as they project into the calice. This peculiarity, how-
ever, so characteristic of the genus Heliophyllum, we have not
been able to recognize in any of the species of Zaphrentis
which have come under our notice. ‘The development of the
interseptal dissepiments also seems to vary in different species
of the genus. In some of the Devonian species these struc-
tures do not appear to exist at all; and in others they are
but sparsely produced. Delicate curved dissepiments, how-
ever, with the convexity upwards, are commonly developed
towards the circumference of the corallum; but in no case,
are the dissepiments developed to such an extent as alto-
gether to obliterate the tabule or to form a distinct external
vesicular area. This latter structure is not found in any
true Zaphrentis; and we shall hereafter show that the so-
called Z. cylindrica of the Carboniferous, in the structure of
which an outer zone of vesicular tissue is a conspicuous feature,
is truly referable to the genus Cyathophyllum.
30*
428 On the chief Generic Types of Paleozoic Corals.
The tabule of Zaphrentis are usually remarkably well de-
veloped, and generally extend right across the entire space
occupied by the visceral chamber, from side to side. ‘They
very commonly also exhibit a very conspicuous downward
curvature near the circumference of the corallum. At other
times they become more or less completely blended externally
with the dissepiments, which then show a similar downward
bending.
Upon the whole, the genus Zaphrentis, as restricted by us,
may be readily recognized by the complete, or comparatively
complete, development of the septal system, the great deve-
lopment of the tabule, the existence of a fossula, which is
formed by the coalescence centrally of a certain number of
the septa, and the fact that the dissepiments are in no case
sufficiently developed to form an exterior zone of vesicular
tissue. Additional characters of more or less importance are
to be derived from the characters of the septa, the downward
curvature of the tabule at the outer margins of the corallum,
and the total absence of a columella.
The genus seems to make its first appearance in the Lower
Silurian, though much has yet to be done before we can speak
positively as to the affinities of some of these ancient forms.
{tis well represented in the Upper Silurian, and may be con-
sidered as attaining its maximum in the succeeding period of
the Devonian. It is also largely represented in the Carboni-
ferous period, after which it appears to have died out. Z. pa-
twla, Mich., and Z. Enniskillen’, Edw. & H., may be taken as
exhibiting the typical structure of this genus in its greatest
perfection.
In the Carboniferous deposits of Scotland, the species of
Zaphrentis appear to attain their greatest development in the
earlier portion of the Mountain-Limestone series. In the
upper portions of the same series they appear to be already
approaching extinction, and are usually much dwarfed and
stunted in growth.
EXPLANATION OF PLATE XII.
Fig. 1. Amplexus coralloides, Sow. ; 1 a, transverse section of the same;
1B, longitudinal section of the same.
Tig. 2. Amplexus nodwesus, Phill. ; 2 a, transverse section of the same.
dg. 5. Transverse section of another individual of the same; 3 A, longi-
tudinal section of the same.
Fig. 4. Amplexus, sp.; 4 A, transverse section of the same, cut somewhat
obliquely ; 48, longitudinal section of the same.
Fig. 5, Transverse section of Zaphrentis Enniskillent, E. & H. The sec-
tion is cut above the floor of the calice, and consequently shows
no interseptal dissepiments,
Mr. J. Gould on a new Species of Bower-bird. 429
Figs. 5 A—5», ‘Transverse sections of the same specimen, showing the ar-
rangement of the septa at different stages of growth.
Figs. 6-6 c. Transverse section of Zaphrentis patula, Mich., at different
points, showing the dissepiments, secondary septa, end mode of
formation of the fossula.
Fig. 7. Transverse section of Zaphrentis Guerangert, E. & H., showing
how the fossula is formed by the folding and coalescence of a
certain number of the septa; 7 A, longitudinal section of the
same, showing the arrangement of the tabulve.
[To be continued. ]
LVIU.—On the Bower-birds of Australia, with the Descrip-
tion of a new Species. By JOHN GOULD, F.R.S.
OF all the acts performed by birds, that of building themselves
beautiful bowers, variously decorated with shells, bleached
bones, glittering stones, and gaudily coloured feathers, must
ever be ranked amongst the most interesting traits in con-
nexion with ornithology. At present the only known country
in which these playing-places or halls of assembly are con-
structed is Australia. Whoever may have the good fortune
to lift up the curtain which separates New Guinea from other
countries, may probably find others.
Chlamydodera occtpitalis, n. sp.
In size a trifle larger than C. maculata, and in its general
aspect and spotted upper surface very similar; and, like that,
the present new bird has the usual occipital mark of lilac
feathers, except that it is twice as large and more beautiful
in colour, especially when seen from beneath. I have for
many years had two females in my collection, which differ
from the females of C. nuchalis, so common on the river-banks
of Mokai Guyder and other parts of the interior of New South
Wales ; but it is only lately that I have received the male.
That I ought to be an authority on the different species of the
Bower-birds is evidenced by my having lived among them,
studied their habits, and given double-sized plates of the
bowers of two of the species in my folio edition; but never
in all my encounters with the Chlamydodera maculata (and
they were many) have I seen any thing like the bird under
consideration. In giving North Queensland as the habitat
of this species, it must be taken in a general sense; for the
precise locality is unknown to me; and I await fresh infor-
mation with interest and anxiety.
430 Bibliographical Notices.
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compelled to call in the assistance of Professor Duncan, whose well-
known attainments in various departments of natural history are a
sufficient guarantee that his part of the work is executed in a
manner worthy of the reputation which the book had already
ccquired. The principal alterations in this edition are in the
articles relating to the members of the animal kingdom; and in his
treatment of these Dr. Griffith had already, in the portion edited by
Bibliographical Notices. 431
him, given up some of that extreme conservatism in the matter of
zoological classification which characterized the former editions.
Prof. Duncan has gone still further in his portion of the book
towards bringing the information contained in the zoologieal articles
into. full accordance with the most modern generally accepted views
on this department of natural history. One series of these articles
strikes us as being of special importance—namely that on the Fora-
minifera, in which we find an exposition of the views entertained
with regard to the classification of the animals of that class by the
distinguished English naturalists who have devoted so much atten-
tion to them, ‘This section of the Dictionary has been prepared by
Prof. T. Rupert Jones. The articles on the lower forms of vegeta-
tion, and especially those on the Fungi, have been placed under the
care of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley; and we need hardly tell the readers
of the ‘Annals’ that, under these circumstances, they are well
done
It is impossible in noticing a book of this nature to indicate all
the alterations and additions that have been made in it, especially as
the majority of them are in themselves but small. In the aggregate,
however, very considerable additions have certainly been made,
seeing that the present edition contains 100 pages more letterpress
than its predecessor. That exceedingly useful element, the biblio-
graphy appended to the various articles, has been considerably in-
creased in many instances.
The woodeut illustrations scattered through the text are, with
very few exceptions, the same as those used in the secord edition ;
but three new plates have been added, and all, or nearly all, the old
figures have been freshly engraved on copper.
No doubt there may be here and there in the ‘ Micrographic
Dictionary ’ things which one would like to see improved, and defi-
ciencies which require to be supplied; but they are generally in
small matters, and where the work done is so good it seems invidious
to point out little spots. The most important deficiency that we
have noticed is that of an article giving a summary of the modern
views on embryogeny—a subject which is daily at‘aining more and
more importance in connexion with zoological classification, rendering
some account of the principal phenomena observed in different
branches of the animal kingdom, and of the theories founded upon
them, quite indispensable in a book of reference like that now under
consideration.
But whatever defects may be noticed in this volume (and we
believe that microscopists think the portions of it devoted to purely
microscopic interests are a little behind the time),.1t seems to us
that naturalists are deeply indebted to the Hditors for what they
have given us. The book is, in fact, so far as 1t goes, a substitute for,
and guide to, a whole library of works on most branches of natural
history; and as such we may most heartily recommend it to the
notice of our readers.
432 Bibliographical Notices,
A Monographic Revision and Synopsis of the Trichoptera of the
European Fauna. By Rosrrr M‘Lacuzan. Parts I-III. 8vo,.
London: Van Voorst. Berlin; Friedlinder, 1874-1875.
Tuere is so much of the influence of fashion in the study of ento-
mology that one might almost number upon one’s fingers the natu-
ralists who devote any attention to insects not belonging to one or
other of three orders. The great majority commence by collecting
Lepidoptera, and never get much furthe~; a considerable number of
the rest give their minds up to Coleoptera; whilst a few choice
spirits take up the study of certain families of Hymenopterous
insects, such as the bees, wasps, sandwasps, and sawflies. But outside
these bounds the entomological field finds few labourers, a!though it
must be admitted that greater interest attaches to some of the other
orders, at least from a philosophico-zoological point of view, than to
those which are generally studied. This is especially the case with
the insects belonging to the orders Orthoptera and Neuroptera, both
as including the oldest known forms of the class, and as presenting
peculiarities of structure and life-history which give them the
highest importance in those discussions as to the classification of
insects, and especially as to the possible genetic relations of those
animals among themselves and with other groups of Annulosa,
which, since the prevalence of theories of evolution, have acquired
such prominence.
The Trichoptera, regarded by Kirby, Stephens, and Westwood as
constituting a distinct order, are not perhaps in this respect of so
much interest as some other divisions of the old order Neuroptera ;
and although the history of their metamorphoses undoubtedly has its
attractive side, the perfect insects themselves are not distinguished
for their beauty, or for any striking variety of form and colouring
such as might induce the ordinary collector to pay attention to them.
The minuteness of the characters by which the genera and species
are to be distinguished renders their study rather difficult; and
doubtless this also accounts partially for the neglect with which
they have generally been treated.
To this neglect, however, there have been some striking excep-
tions. In this country that universal genius, Dr. Leach, devoted a
good deal of attention to the Trichoptera, published descriptions of
some genera and species, and even projected a special work upon
them, which, however, never made its appearance. Leach was
followed in Britain by Stephens and Curtis, both of whom described
many new forms and introduced several new generic groups. Abroad
the most important early work specially devoted to the Trichoptera
was Pictet’s treatise on the Phryganides of Switzerland, published
some forty years ago; Kolenati in 1848 produced a revision of the
genera and species of the group; and since that date many memoirs
on these insects, especially by Hagen and Brauer, have appeared in
German natural-history periodicals.
In England at the same time we have had one entomologist
Bibliographical Notices. 433
working in the most painstaking and earnest manner upon this
difficult group of insects ; and Mr. M‘Lachlan’s papers relating to it,
which have appeared from time to time in the publications of the
Linnean and Entomological Societies, and in other periodicals both
in this country and abroad, have furnished sufficient evidence of his
determination to arrive, if possible, at trustworthy results in the
discrimination and classification of the group. His most important
contribution to Trichopterology (if we may use such a term) is un-
doubtedly his monograph of the British species of the group, pub-
lished in 1865 in the Transactions of the Entomological Society.
Of this he says, in the introduction to the work of which the title
stands at the head of this notice, that “the experience of nearly ten
years appears to show that this work has been of some service to
European entomologists generally ;” and, indeed, considering the
conscientious care with which it had evidently been prepared, we
can easily believe that this modest claim to merit is more than
justified. Nevertheless the author confesses ‘‘ to having for a long
time been dissatisfied with it. There are many points of detail,” he
says, ‘concerning which time has proved my earlier views to haye
been erroneous, or at any rate badly expounded; and the figures—
however gratifying to me they may have been in 1865—were ill-
drawn, and their original defects magnified by bad engraving.” How
far we are bound to accept Mr. M‘Lachlan’s estimate of the value
of his own work may be a question ; but there can be no doubt that
entomologists have every reason to be thankful that he has formed
it, seeing that his doing so has led to his undertaking the labour of
preparing the monographie revision of the Trichoptera of the Kuro-
pean faunal region, the first three parts of which are now before us.
His object in this work is to describe, figure, and classify all the
Trichoptera inhabiting Europe, Northern Asia, and the Mediter-
ranean district, the materials for which now existing in collections
he estimates will represent from 250 to 300 species, although he
anticipates that new forms will probably be brought under his notice
during the progress of the work. But the amount of labour involved
in the revision of these species cannot well be estimated from the
smallness of their number; the minuteness of the characters distin-
guishing the genera and species (which are in many cases derived
more or less exclusively from the peculiarities of the anal append-
ages) necessitates an enormous amount of careful examination,
whilst the neglect or misinterpretation of these characters by the
earlier describers adds immensely to the labour of determining the
species noticed by them; and the further fact that many of the
descriptions of species were written by entomologists who had made
no special study of these insects adds greatly to the difficulties of
nomenclature. In fact, considering hew little the study of the
Trichoptera has been in fashion among entomologists, the number of
synonyms pertaining to many of the species is really wonderful.
From its nature Mr. M‘Lachlan’s work is scarcely open to criticism,
except upon points of detail, into which no one who has not made
434. Bibliographical Notices,
the Trichoptera his special study can enter without presumption,
The author describes the general structure of the Trichoptera, and
characterizes the families, genera, and species constituting the group,
tabulating them in each case in order to facilitate the task of dis-
crimination, ‘The synonymy of the species is given in full; and we
would suggest that the synonymy of the genera should also be given,
as at present many contractions of generic names appear in the
specific synonymy, the meaning of which the student cannot ascer-
tain without referring to other works.
_ With regard to the position of the Trichoptera in the system, Mr.
M‘Lachlan is not inclined to adopt either of the two plans of dealing
with the Linnean Neuroptera advocated by different schools of
entomologists. He would neither retain the old order in its inte-
grity, nor, removing the groups with imperfect metamorphosis to
the Orthoptera, restrict the term Neuroptera to the Planipennia and
Trichoptera, which he thinks ‘“ do not show sufficient connexion to
warrant their being considered co-ordinate.” His own inclination
would be to split up the Neuroptera of the older entomologists into
several orders, of which, under such treatment, the Trichoptera
would undoubtedly be one; and in his present, as in former works,
he treats them as constituting an order.
As to the question of the relationship of the Trichoptera to the
Lepidoptera, there is, of course, room for considerable difference of
opinion. Mr. M‘Lachlan strongly maintains that there is such a
relationship, and that it ‘bears the impress of actual homology
rather than of casual analogy.” In this view, notwithstanding the
objections that may be urged against it, we are inclined to think he
is in the right; the perfectly phalenoid facies of so many of the
smaller Trichoptera, the clothing of the wings, the state of the
buccal organs, the form and structure of the larvae, and even their
habits, all seem to point towards a direct alliance with some of the
Micro-lepidoptera or with the Psychide.
The figures which illustrate this work, and show in outline the
venation of the wings and the characters of the anal appendages and
other organs upon which Mr. M‘Lachlan depends for the discrimi-
nation of the genera and species, are all drawn by himself under the
microscope, and certainly show a great advance, both in execution
and in fulness of detail, upon those accompanying his Monograph of
the British Caddis Fhes. The details of each species are represented ;
and, so far as we are acqua‘nted with the objects, the figures leave
nothing to be desired.
In concluding this notice we can only express a hope that ente-
mologists will regard it as a duty to subscribe to a work which is in
every way one of the most creditable that has appeared in Britain
for a long time, and thus, as far as possible, prevent what is un-
doubtedly a labour of love on the part of the author from being at
the same time a heavy loss to him.
Miscellaneous. 435
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the Development of the Heteropoda. By M. H. Fou.
Aurnover the excellent memoir of Krohn has furnished us with
numerous and precise details as to the larval development and the
metamorphoses of the Heteropod Mollusca, on the other hand we
only possess very scanty and unsatisfactory data as to the com-
mencement of their evolution, notwithstanding that the genus /iro-
loides ought certainly to be regarded as one of the most favourable
for the study of embryogeny.
The segmentation takes place in accordance with the same laws as
in the Pteropoda, except that the first four spherules of segmentation
are perfectly equal among themselves, and enclose the same pro-
portions of nutritive vitellus or protolecith and of formative vitellus
or protoplasm. Here also the nuclei disappear before each segmen-
tation, and are replaced by molecular stars. My memoir on the
development of the Geryonides furnished in 1873 the first known
example, in the animal kingdom, of this mode of segmentation.
The segmentation being completed, the embryonic sketch presents
the form of a cellular sphere, furnished with a central cavity, and of
which the histological elements are larger and more filled with
protolecith on the one side, the nutritive side, than on the opposite
or formative side. This latter bears in its centre the two polar
corpuscles. The nutritive side of the blastosphere enters afterwards
into the other; and the aperture of invagination, which is at first
very large, gradually narrows; 7 is the primitive mouth. This
opening of invagination occupies at first the pole exactly opposite to
that at which the polar corpuscles are; but this arrangement soon
begins to change gradually. In fact one of the halves, which we
may call the ventral half of the embryo, begins to grow much faster
than the opposite half, so that it affects more and more a bilateral
symmetrical form. The part of the ectoderm of the ventral surface
which abuts on the primitive mouth constitutes a protuberance
which will become the foot. Between this protuberance and the
polar corpuscles a depression of the external lamella is produced,
namely the preconchylian invagination.
The velum appears as a zone of cilia which passes between the
preconchylian invagination and the polar corpuscles, and unites at
the upper margin of the mouth. The polar corpuscles which adhere
to the point of the external lamella which was opposite to the
primitive mouth (that is to say, at the formative pole), are found to
occupy nearly the centre of the velum at the time when the larva
begins to turn. ‘This relative displacement is due to the more rapid
erowth of the tissues of the ventral surface of the embryo. Now
this ectodermic tissue, which occupies the centre of the velum, is
precisely that which gives origin to the cerebroid ganglia, the ten-
tacles, and the eyes. ‘The cells from which these nervous organs are
36 Miscellaneous.
derived occupy, therefore, originally the formative pole of the
embryo. It would be easy for me to found on this curious obser-
vation a theory of the neurea as a sequel to the gastrewa of M.
Hiickel. The newrula would be a gastrula which would possess, at
the pole opposite to that occupied by the aperture of invagination,
cells destined to become the central nervous system and the eyes ; it
might be compared to the Ctenophores in the adult state, as well as
to the embryos of many of the higher animals; but I have not any
predilection, I must confess, for hypotheses of this kind.
The primitive mouth soon penetrates into the interior of the
embryo; and the neighbouring parts of the ectoderm afterwards
follow it, constituting an infundibulum which becomes the cesophagus
with the sac of the radula. At the bottom of this infundibulum
there is a fine ciliated canal, by which it communicates with the
cavity of the inner lamella. ‘This canal corresponds to the primitive
mouth, which does not close up at any moment. ‘This observation,
so easy to verify in Firoloides, sufiiciently refutes the opinion of
certain phylogenists who believe that the primitive aperture of in-
vagination in the Gasteropods becomes the anus, and annihilates all
the conclusions that they have drawn from this supposition. It is
by this ciliated canal that the albumen of the egg penetrates into
the digestive cavity, or the primitive cavity of invagination. The
cells of the inner lamella absorb this albumen, and deposit it in their
interior under the form of strongly refracting masses, which I shall
name the deutolecith. It is nevertheless only at the ventral part of
the ectoderm that this storing of nutritive substance takes place, the
rest of the lamella preserving its character of embryonic cells. At
its aboral part it furnishes a hollow prolongation, which unites
with the ectoderm below the foot to form the intestine and the
anus.
The preconchylian invagination becomes filled with a viscous
brownish substance; then it spreads out, and the viscous substance
extends into a thin layer, which hardens on contact with the sea-
water, and constitutes the apex of the shell.
The otocysts are formed by invagination of the ectoderm on the
sides of the base of the foot. The cerebroid ganglia detach them-
selves from the internal surface of the part of the ectoderm circum-
scribed by the velum, the same which afterwards gives origin to tho
tentacles.
The ventral part of the entoderm forms a sac, which occupies the
apex of the shell; it is the nutritive sac. The rest of the walls of
the embryonic digestive cavity gives origin directly to the intestine
and stomach, which remains in communication with the nutritive
sac by a large aperture. After hatching, the deutolecith contained
in the walls of the nutritive sac becomes disaggregated, and falls
into the stomach to serve for the nourishment of the larva. This
sac afterwards acquires a lobed form, and gives origin directly to the
liver.
The retractor muscle originates in a small number of cells, which
Miscellaneous. 437
detach themselves from the internal surface of the entoderm in the
middle of the dorsal region, elongating and attaching themselves to
the velum on the one hand, and to the apex of the rudiment of the
shell on the other.
The branchial cavity is a depression of the ectoderm, which is
produced between the margin of the shell and the neck of the larva
on the dorsal side behind the anus, which is situated to the right.
The mucus-gland is originally a depression of the ectoderm in the
middle of the upper surface of the foot. The larvee brought up in
captivity all die at this degree of development: the sequel of their
evolution has not yet been observed in a manner complete enough to
be the subject of a communication.— Comptes Rendus, September 138,
1875, p. 472.
On the Sexual Reproduction of the Vorticellians.
By M. Bavsrant.
Since the time of Spallanzani(1776) it has been generally admitted
that the Vorticellians are reproduced by gemmiparity or external
budding. Professor Stein, of Prague, has the merit of haying shown
that this belief only rested on an illusion, and that what was take
for a bud separating itself from the parent was in reality the conger
gation of two individuals of unequal size fusing into a single animal-
cule. M. Stein sees in this phenomenon a multiplication of the
Vorticellians by sexual reproduction, and, as the description which
he gives of it differs considerably from the picture which I have
traced of this mode of reproduction in the other Infusoria, he uses
it as a weapon for attacking my works on this subject. Let us first
see how M. Stein describes the facts which he has observed, and take
for example his observations concerning a Vorticellian living in a
colony, and one of the most widely spread, namely Carchesium
polypinum.
By successive and rapid binary divisions a certain number of indi-
viduals of the colony break up into groups composed of four or eight
individuals, the size of which is, in consequence, four or eight times
as small as that of the ordinary individuals. They remain at first
united at the extremity of their common peduncle, and then detach
themselves from it successively by the agitation of the cilia which
form a crown at their posterior extremity.
As soon as it is free, each of these little individuals, or microgo-
nidia (the name given to them by M. Stein), whirls rapidly about
between the branches of the bush formed by the colony, and at last
makes choice of one of the large ordinary individuals, on the side of
which it fixes itself by its posterior extremity. The body-walls of
the two individuals are absorbed at the point of contact; and they
then communicate freely by their central cavities. During this time
the elongated and cylindrical nucleus of each is divided into a num-
ber of small rounded fragments, which are dispersed irregularly in
the internal parenchyma. Soon after, all the contents of the micro-
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gonidium, the parenchyma with the nuclear fragments, are seen to
pass slowly into the body of the large individual and mix with its
substance. The microgonidium is then reduced to its external en-
velope, empty and folded together; and this latter also at length,
penetrates to the interior of the other individual, where it disappears
without leaving any trace.
After mingling in the body of the individual resulting from the
conjugation, the fragments of the two nuclei approach one another,
and are fused into a common mass, to which M. Stein gives the name
of placenta. In the centre of this mass appear nucleated spheres
(Keimkugeln), which, in their turn, produce in their interior mobile
bodies furnished with vibratile cilia, which M. Stein regards as
the embryos of the Carchesium polypinum. These embryos escape
from, the mother by a special canal of parturition, while the un-
employed portion of the placenta lengthens and reconstitutes the
nucleus.
Such is, in few words, the manner in which M. Stein describes the
reproduction of Carchestum and of several other Vorticellians which
presented analogous phenomena. This description, indeed, presents
some considerable differences from that which I have given of the
sexual reproduction in the other Infusoria. It will be remarked,
above all, that there is no mention of the nucleolus, to which I ascribe
so important a part in this latter mode of multiplication, since, ac-
cording to me, it represents the male organ or testis of the Infusoria.
And, in fact, not only does M. Stein deny the existence of the
nucleus in all the Vorticellians, but im them he expressly attributes
the formation of the germinative spheres and of the embryos
which proceed from them to the copulation of the nuclear frag-
ments of different origin, a copulation which he interprets as a true
fecundation.
If things really occurred as M. Stein asserts, it would be neces-
sary to suppose one of two things—either the Vorticellians are re-
produced in accordance with other laws than those which govern
the other Infusoria, or else my observations are not correct. The
absence of a fecundation by filiform spermatozoids originating in the
nucleolus, would, above all, establish between them a difference of
the first importance. I hasten to say that there is nothing of the
kind. It is a long time since I described and figured the nucleolus
in several Vorticellians, amongst which is C archesium polypinum ;
and my observations on that subject have been confirmed by M.
Engelmann.
I can only confirm all that M. Stein says of the formation of the
small individuals or microgonidia by successive binary divisions of a
single animalcule. I have seen, like him, these little products of
division abandon, one at a time, their common peduncle, and, after
a few moments of brisk agitation in the liquid, enter into conjuga-
tion with the sedentary individuals. This conjugation is not effected
without a certain resistance on the part of these latter, if we may
judge from the quick contractions of their peduncle at each contact of
“‘Wiscellaneous. 439
the microgonidium. Moreover, in order to avoid being projected to a
distance, and to keep always near the individual with which it wishes
to conjugate; the microgonidium fixes itself on the anterior part of
the peduncle of the latter by a thin filament which it secretes from
its posterior part. It succeeds at length in attaching itself, by this
posterior part acting as a sucker, to a point of the surface of the
large individual, most frequently at a little distance above its imser-
tion on the peduncle. The microgonidium is furnished with an
elongated nucleus, and it possesses besides a nucleolar corpuscle
resembling that of the other individual. It is at the moment when
the cayities of the bodies of the two conjugated animalcules begin to
be put in communication, after the absorption of the parietal sur-
faces in contact, that the division of their respective nuclei into
smaller and smaller and more numerous fragments begins, as M.
Stein has described it. At the same time the nucleole in the micro-
gonidium is seen to enlarge and divide into two secondary nucleoli,
each of which is transformed into a voluminous ovoid capsule, in
which appear numerous filaments of extreme tenuity, arranged
parallel to one another. The transformations of the nucleolus and
the nature of its contents are identical in all points with what we
observe in the other Infusoria during sexual reproduction ; we must
therefore conclude that in the conjugation of the Vorticellians the
nucleolus plays the same part as in these latter (that is to say,
that of the male organ), and that the filaments developed in its in-
terior represent the spermatozoids of these animalcules.
In the other individual the nucleolus does not undergo the same
modifications, but preserves, during the whole of the conjugation, its
initial rudimentary state. After all the substance of the microgo-
nidium has passed into the cavity of the conjoint individual, we find
in the interior of the latter, with the mingled fragments of the two
nuclei, the seminal capsules of the microgonidium, easily recognizable
by their striated appearance, due to the presence of the spermatic
filaments. The aspect which the individual presents at this moment
entirely recalls that of a Paramecium which has just copulated, at
the phase in which the nucleus is divided into numerous fragments ;
and in the same way also as in this latter species, some only of the
nuclear fragments (from five to seven) become complete ova, while
the rest approach one another to reconstitute the nucleus. I have
never seen these fragments fuse together to form a placenta, in the
interior of which the living embryos originate, as M. Stein describes,
We must therefore believe that, in his present observations, this
naturalist has again been the victim of one of those illusions which
led him formerly to introduce, into the genetic cycle of the Paramecia,
Stylonychia, and other Infusoria, creatures connected with them by
simple relations of parasitism, as has been shown by my old obser-
vations, confirmed by those of M. Metschnikoff and the quite recent
observations of M. BitschliiComptes Rendus, October 18, 1875,
p. 676,
440 Miscellaneous.
The Effect of the Glacial Epoch upon the Distribution of Insects in
North America. By Ave. R. Grorr, A.M.
From the condition of an hypothesis the Glacial period has been
elevated into that of a theory by the explanations it has afforded of
a certain class of geological phenomena. The present paper endea-
vours to show that certain zoological facts are consistent with the
presence, during past time, of a vast progressive field of ice, which,
in its movement from north to south, gradually extended over large
portions of the North-American continent. These facts, in the
present instance, are furnished by a study of our Lepidoptera, or
certain kinds of butterflies and moths now inhabiting the United
States and adjacent territories. Before proceeding with the subject,
a brief statement of the phenomena assumed to have attended the
advent of the Glacial period is necessary.
At the close of the Tertiary, the temperature of the earth’s surface
underwent a gradual change by a continuous loss of heat. The
winters became longer, the summers shorter. The tops of granitic
mountains in the east and west of the North-American continent,
now in summer time bare of snow and harbouring a scanty flora and
fauna, became, summer and winter, covered with congealed deposits.
In time the mountain-snows consolidated into glacial ice, which
flowed down the ravines into the valleys. Meanwhile the northern
regions of the continent, which may have inaugurated the conditions,
submitted extendedly to the same phenomena. Glacial ice, first
made on elevations, finally formed at, and poured over, lower levels.
Glacial streams finally united to form an icy sea, whose frozen
waters slowly ploughed the surface of the rocks, and, in their move-
ment from north to south, absorbed the local glacial streams in their
course, and extended over all physical barriers. The Appalachians
and Rocky Mountains are supposed to have had local glaciers. The
animals must always have retreated before this frozen deluge. The
existing insects of the Pliocene, in submitting to the change of
climate which accompanied the advance of the glacier, must have
quitted their haunts with reluctance, and undergone a severe struggle
for existence, no matter how gradually they had been prepared for
the encounter. We may expect that multitudes of specific forms
ultimately perished, of whose remains no traces have been preserved.
After this brief statement of the outlines of the opening of the
Glacial period, we turn to some facts offered by a study of certain of
our existing species of butterflies and moths.
The tops of the White Mountains and the ranges of mountain-
elevations in Colorado offer us particular kinds of insects, living in
an isolated manner at the present day, and confined to their re-
spective localities. In order to find insects like them we have to
explore the plains of Labrador and the northern portion of the
North-American continent, in regions offering analogous conditions
of climate to those existing on the summits of these mountains.
Miscellaneous. 441
The genera @neis and Brenthis among the butterflies, and Anarta
and Agrotis among the moths, are represented by the same or
similar species in all of the above-mentioned localities. In the case
of the White-Mountain butterfly (@neis semidea) we have a form
sustaining itself on a very limited alpine area on the top of Mount
Washington*. Although there is some doubt whether precisely the
same form of @neis has been discovered in Colorado, the fact remains
that Gneis butterflies exceedingly like it, though registered by us
under different specific names, live in Labrador and Colorado.
Whether the White-Mountain butterfly (@neis semidea) be, as sus-
pected by Lederer, a modification of some of the Labradorian forms
of the genus, or not, the geographical distribution which its genus
enjoys cannot be meaningless. The question comes up, with regard
to the White-Mountain butterfly, as to the manner in which this
species of ners attained its present restricted geographical area—
How did the White-Mountain butterfly get up the White Mountains ?
And it is this question that I am disposed to answer by the action
attendant on the decline of the Glacial period.
I have before briefly outlined the phenomena attendant on the
advance of the ice-sheet; and I now dwell for a moment on the
action which must equally be presumed to have accompanied its
retirement. Many of the features of its advance were repeated, in
reverse order, on the subsidence of the main ice-sheet or glacial sea.
The local glaciers appeared again, separate from the main body of
ice, and filled the valleys and mountain-ravines, thus running at
variance with the main body of the glacier, being determined by
local topography. A reversal of the temperature shortened the
winters and lengthened the summers. Ice-loving insects, such as
our White-Mountain butterfly, hung on the outskirts of the main
ice-sheet, where they found their fitting conditions of temperature
and food. The main ice-sheet had pushed them insensibly before it,
and during the continuance of the Glacial period the geographical
distribution of the genus @neis had been changed from a high
northern region to one which may well have included portions of
the Southern States. And, on its decline, the ice-sheet drew them
back again after itself by easy stages; yet not all of them. Some
of these butterflies strayed by the way, detained by the physical
nature of the country and destined to plant colonies apart from their
companions. When the main ice-sheet left the foot of the White
Mountains, on its long march back to the pole, where it now seems
to rest, some of these wayward flitting @neis butterflies were left
behind. These had strayed up behind the local glaciers on Mount
Washington, and so became separate from the main body of their
* See Mr. Scudder’s article in the ‘Geology of New Hampshire,’ i. p.342.
Mr. Scudder first pointed out the existence of alpine and subalpine
faunal belts on Mount Washington, and makes the interesting remark
“that if the summit of Mount Washington were somewhat less than
2000 feet higher, it would reach the limit of perpetual snow.”
Ann. & Mag. N. list. Ser. 4. Vol. xvi. 31
449 Miscellaneous.
companions, which latter journeyed northward, following the course
of the retirement of the main ice-sheet. They had found in eleva-
tion their congenial climate; and they have followed this gradually
to the top of the mountain, which they have now attained and from
which they cannot now retreat. Far off in Labrador the descendants
of their ancestral companions fly over wide stretches of country,
while they appear to be in prison on the top of a mountain. I conceive
that in this way the mountains may generally have secured their
alpine animals. The Glacial period cannot strictly be said to have
expired ; it exists even now for high levels above the sea, while the
Esquimaux finds it yet enduring in the far north. Had other con-
ditions been favourable, we might now find Arctic man living on
snow-capped mountains within the temperate zone.
At a height of from 5600 to 6200 feet above the level of the sea,
and a mean temperature of about 48 degrees during a short summer,
the White-Mountain butterflies (@neis semidea) yet enjoy a climate
like that of Labrador within the limits of New Hampshire. And in
the case of moths an analogous state of things exists. The species
Anarta melanopa is found on Mount Washington, the Rocky Moun-
tains, and Labrador. Agrotis islandica is found in Iceland, Labra-
dor, the White Mountains, and perhaps in Colorado. As on islands
in the air these insects have been left by the retiring ice-flood
during the opening of the Quaternary.
On inferier elevations (as on Mount Katahdin, in Maine), where
we now find no (nets butterflies, these may formerly have existed,
succumbing to a climate gradually increasing in warmth from which
they had no escape; while the original colonization, in the several
instances, must have always greatly depended upon local topography.
I have briefly endeavoured to show that the present distribution
of certain insects may have been brought about by the phenomena
attendant on the Glacial period. The discussion of matters con-
nected with this theoretical period of the earth’s history thus brings
out more and more clearly, as it now appears, the fact of its
actuality, I hope that my present statements may draw the atten-
tion of our zoologists more to the matter, seeing that we have in our
own country fields for its full exploration.—Siliman’s American
Journal, Nov. 1878,
On the Reprodu tion of the Hels. By M. C. Darustn.
Last year M.- Syrski considerably advanced the question of the
reproduction of the eels, by showing that in certain eels there exist
in the place of the female reproductive organs, some organs of quite
different form and structure. M. Syrski regards these as male re-
productive organs. The description which he gives of their form
and structure renders his opinion very probable. It must, however,
be added that M. Syrski could not ascertain the existence of sperma-
tozoids in these organs, the proof of which alone could serve to
demonstrate certainly their true nature,
Miscellaneous. 443
The eels in which M. Syrski discovered what he regards as the
male organs, differ from the others by several characters, and especi-
ally by their small size and the great volume of their eyes.
Having been engaged during last year in a revision of the Anguil-
liform fishes, | have been able to ascertain the correctness of the
facts announced by M. Syrski; and I have convinced myself that in
many individuals of the species Anguilla vulgaris there exist, in place
of the ovaries, organs of very different form and structure, which are
very probably the male organs. I have also ascertained that these
individuals differed from the others by their small size and their
large eyes. They all belong to the variety known in France as the
Anguille pimperneau, which does not ascend rivers, but remains
always at their mouths, and at the expense of which Kaup has
formed three distinct species under the names of Anguilla Cuvieri,
A. Bibroni, and A. Savignyi. As I have hitherto been unable to
investigate these animals elsewhere than in the collection of the
museum and in individuals preserved in alcohol, I could not, any
more than M. Syrski, detect the presence of spermatozoids; but for
many reasons, which I cannot here develop, I share his opinion as to
the testicular nature of the organs discovered by him.
There is, however, one point upon which I cannot agree with M.
Syrski ; and it is that these small eels, of the variety called pimper-
neau, do not exclusively belong to the male sex. I have ascertained
the existence of perfectly well-characterized ovaries in several in-
dividuals belonging to this variety.
From this observation it follows that the Anguille pimperneau, an
essentially marine variety which does not ascend rivers, possesses
both sexes ; while those which ascend rivers and which belong to the
varieties called Latirostres and Acutirostres present only female indi-
viduals, in which, however, the ova never arrive at maturity, and con-
sequently they always remain barren.
The eels of North America do not differ specifically from those of
Europe; and we find there the same varieties of form. That which
represents our pymperneau, and which Kaup has described under the
name of Anguilla nove aurelianensis, has furnished me with the
form of reproductive organs which I regard as belonging to the
male sex.
The species Anguilla vulgaris would therefore present a sexual
form (the pimperneaw) and several sterile forms. This very remark-
able fact, however, is not isolated in fishes, since we meet with
analogous facts in the carp.
I have found these male organs in some individuals of another
species of eel, Anguilla marmorata, which belongs to the Indian
Ocean. Here the deficiency of materials has prevented my ascer-
taining the existence of a completely sexual form and of sterile
forms.—Comptes Rendus, July 19, 1875, p. 159.
444
INDEX to VOL. XVI.
ACALONOMA, characters of the new
genus, 57.
Acidalia, new species of, 418.
Acontia, new species of, 404.
Actinura, new species of, 540.
Actizeta, characters of the new genus,
214.
/Hga, new species of, 115.
Althreus, characters of the new genus,
65.
Agestra, new species of, 59.
Aglossa, new species of, 412.
Alexirhea, new species of, 55.
Alpheus, new species of, 545.
Amazons yalley, on the geological
structure of the, 359.
Amphicentrum granulosum, on the
structure of, 273.
Amplexus, characters of the genus,
424,
Amyna, new species of, 403.
Amytis, new species of, 286.
Anderson, Dr. J., on some new Asia-
tic Mammals and Chelonia, 282.
Antyllis, new species of, 60.
Anurosorex, new species of, 282.
Apamea, new species of, 403.
Arachnida, on new and curious forms
of, 383.
Ayrboricole, on the occurrence of a
superorbital chain of bones in the,
145.
Architeuthis princeps, observations
on, 266,
Arctomys, new species of, 283.
Argyris, new species of, 419.
Aspilates, new species of, 419.
Atypus, new species of, 242.
Austin, Major T., on the genus Pla-
tycrinus, 90.
Azygograptus, description of the new
genus, 269.
Balbiani, M., on the sexual repro-
duction of Vorticellians, 437.
Barrois, J., on the larval forms of the
Bryozoa, 301.
Bathybius, note on, 304; on the true
nature of the so-called, 522.
Bats, new, 252, 260.
Birds, new, 54, 228, 285, 339, 344,
370, 429.
Blanford, W. T., on new Mammalia
from Persia and Bahichistan, 309.
Books, new :—Baily’s Characteristic
British Fossils, 371; The Micro-
graphic Dictionary, 430 ; McLac-
land’s Trichoptera of the European
fauna, 432.
Borax, on the action of, in fermen-
tation and putrefaction, 148.
Botys, new species of, 416.
Brady, Prof. G.S., on new Entomos-
traca, 162.
Bryozoa, on the larval forms of the,
301.
Buccinopsis, new species of, 68.
Buccinum, new species of, 107.
Butler, A. G., on the genus Hemi-
spherius, 92; on the subfamily
Pericopiine, 163 ; on two new spe-
cies of Heterocerous Lepidoptera,
233; on South-African Lepido-
ptera, 594.
Caberodea, new species of, 417,
Calcispongiz, on the development of
the, 41.
Calyptostoma, characters of the new
genus, 384.
Cambridge, Rev. O. P., on new and
rare British Spiders, 237; on a
new genus of Trap-door Spider,
317 ; on new and curious forms of
Arachnida, 383.
Carpenter, Dr. W. B., on the anato-
my of Comatula, 202.
Carter, H. J., on the classification
and study of the Spongida, 1, 126,
177; on the relation of the canal-
system to the tubulation in the
Foraminifera, 420.
Cataclysta, new species of, 415.
Cecyropa, characters of the new
genus, 221,
Centropages, new species of, 162.
Cepbalophora, on the primary origin
of the sexual products in the, 157.
INDEX.
Cephalopod, on the occurrence of a
gigantic, on the west coast of Ire-
land, 123; on the coast of New-
foundland, 266.
Chelonia, new, 282.
Chiroptera, on a new arrangement of
the, 345.
Chlamydodera, new species of, 429.
Chlorodius, new species of, 341.
Clisis, characters of the new genus,
58.
Clytus quadripunctatus, on the larva
of, 235.
Coccospheres and coccoliths, on the
true nature of, 328.
Coleoptera, new genera and species
of, 55, 210.
Comatula, on the anatomy of, 202,
Corals, on the chief generic types of
the paleozoic, 305, 424; at the
Galapagos Islands, on the, 574.
Cossus, new species of, 402.
Cossypha pyrrhopygia, note on, 236.
Cranophorus, new species of, 222.
Crotonoides, description of the new
family, 385.
Crustacea, new, 73, 115, 341.
Curculionide, on new Australian,
55.
Cyclopsitta, new species of, 54.
Cydmeea, new species of, 59,
Cylichna, new species of, 115.
Cyphophthalmus, new species of, 588.
Dareste, C., on the reproduction of
Fels, 442.
Derrioides, characters of the new
genus, 401,
Dewitz, Dr. H., on the structure and
development of the sting and ovi-
positor of some Hymenoptera and
of Locusta viridissima, 154,
Diala, new species of, 105.
Dicomada, new species of, 60.
Didymograptus, new species of, 271.
Diptera, on androgynous, 79.
Dipus, new species of, 312.
Dobson, Dr. G. E., on a species of
Scotophilus, 122; on a new species
of Taphozous, 282 ; on new species
of Vespertilionide, 260; on a na-
tural arrangement of the Chiro-
ptera, 345.
Drassus, new species of, 244,
Dredging in the North Sea, results of,
590.
Ducula, new species of, 228.
Dynamene, new species of, 73.
445
Eaton, Rey. A. E., on the natural
history of Kerguelen’s Island, 287.
Eatonia, description of the new genus,
70
Eels, on the reproduction of, 442,
Himer, Dr. T., on Lacerta muralis
ceerulea, 254.
Entomostraca, new, 162.
Eoozoon canadense, on the structure
of, 420.
Erigone, new species of, 247.
Erinaceus, new species of, 510.
Eucyane, new species of, 174.
Euops, new species of, 61.
Kupetomena, new species of, 570.
Euthyphasis, characters of the new
genus, 57.
Fermentation, on the action of borax
in, 148
Fish, new, 3158.
Fol, H., on the primary origin of the
sexual products, 157; on the de-
velopment of the Pulmonate Gas-
teropoda, 575; on the develop-
ment of the Heteropoda, 435.
Foraminifera, on the relation of the
canal-system to the tubulation in
the, 420.
Fossil plants of the coal-measures, on
the organization of, 292,
Gasteropoda, on Japanese, 103; on
the development of the pulmonate,
375.
Geckotide, descriptions of new, 262.
Geoémyda, new species of, 284,
Gerbillus, new species of, 812.
Giard, H., on the position of Sagitta,
and on the convergence of types by
pelagic life, 81; on the embryo-
geny of Lamellaria perspicua, 119,
Gnophos, new species of, 417.
Gobius niger, on the development of
the spinules in the scales of, 298.
Godwin-Austen, Major H. H., on a
new Actinura from the Dafla Hills,
339.
Goniodactylus, new species of, 265.
Gonitis, new species of, 405.
Gonodactylus, new species of, 344,
Gould, J., on new Australian birds,
285 ; on a new species of Eupeto-
mena, 370; on the Bower-birds of
Australia, with description of a
new species, 429.
Graptolites, on a new genus and some
new species of, 269,
Grote, A. R., on the effect of the
446
glacial epoch upon the distribution
of insects in North America, 440.
Giinther, Dr. A., on two new species
of Mammals from Madagascar, 125;
on some Leporine Mammals from
Central Asia, 228.
Haminea, new species of, 114.
Hector, J., on Neobaleena marginata,
Helminthological fauna of the coasts
of Brittany, on the, 146.
Hemicentetes, new species of, 125.
Hemidactylus, new species of, 264.
Hemispheerius, on the species of, 92.
Herpestes, new species of, 282.
Heteropoda, on the development of
the, 435.
Higgin, T., on Hyalonema cebuense,
77; on a new species of Luffaria,
223.
Hutton, F. W., on some new species
of fish, 313; on the ‘ Cow-fish ”
of New-Zealand, 357.
Hyalonemacebuense, observations on,
76.
Hyalurga, new species of, 175.
Hydrobia, new species of, 105,
Hymenia, new species of, 415.
Hymenoptera, on the structure and
development of the sting and ovi-
positor of some, 154.
Hypena, new species of, 410,
Hyperythra, new species of, 417,
Inophlceus, characters of the new
genus, 219.
Insects, on some phenomena of di-
gestion in, 152; on the effect of
the glacial epoch upon the dis-
tribution of,in North America, 440.
Kaloxylon, on the structure of, 294.
Kerguelen’s Island, on the fauna and
flora of, 67, 73, 78.
Kiinckel, J., on some Lepidoptera
with terebrant trunks, 372.
Lacerta muralis, on a remarkable va-
riety of, 254.
Lacuna, new species of, 104.
Lagomys, new species of, 251.
Lamellaria perspicua, on the embry-
ogeny of, 119.
Lanen, M., on the fauna and flora of
Kerguelen’s Island, 78.
Layard, E. L., on a new species of
Trichoglossus, 544.
Leckenby, J., on North-Sea dredging,
390.
Lepidoptera with terebrant trunks,
INDEX.
on some, 372 ; new genera and spe~
cies of, 394.
Lepus, new species of, 229, 313.
Leucosia, new species of, 342.
mee apogon, observations on,
9.
Linyphia, new species of, 251.
Littorina, new species of, 69.
Locusta viridissima, on the structure
of the ovipositor of, 154.
et Dr., on androgynous Diptera,
9.
Lopera, new species of, 400.
Lutfaria, new species of, 225.
Lycosa, new species of, 253.
Lycosura, characters of the new
genus, d5.
Lysianassa, new species of, 74.
M‘Coy, Prof. F.,on a new Parrot
from Australia, 54; on a Tertiary
Pleurotomaria, 101, 235.
M‘Intosh, ie C., on Linotrypane
apogon, 369.
Marieealn, new, 125, 228, 282, 309.
Mammoth Cave, on the blind fish of
the, 79.
Marginella, new species of, 200.
Marshall, J.T., on North-Sea dred-
ging, 590,
Mecistocerus, new species of, 63.
Melanterius, new species of, 62.
Meles, new species of, 310.
Melithreptes, new species of, 287.
Methone, characters of the new
genus, 60.
Metschnikoff, E., on the development
of the Calcispongiz, 41.
oe Dr. ei B., on Hyalonema
cebuense, 76.
Miers, E. J., on new species of Crus-
tacea from Kerguelen’s Island, 73,
115; on new species of Crustacea
from the Samoa Islands, 341.
papa ee ro of the new
genus, 318.
More, A. G., on the capture of a
Se ae on the west coast
of Ireland, 125,
Morychus, new species of, 212.
Moseley, H. N., on a young specimen
a : Pelagonemertes __Rollestoni,
377.
Mus, new species of, 311.
Myelopteris, on the structure of, 293.
Myossita, new species of, 61.
Myoxus, new species of, 311.
Nanophyes, new species of, 61,
INDEX 447
Natica groenlandica,on the animal
of, 393.
Neobalzena marginata, note on, 80,
Nicholson, Prof. H. A., on a new
genus and some new species of
Graptolites, 269; on the chief
generic types of the Paleozoic
corals, 805, 424,
Notothenia, new species of, 315.
Nymphon, new species of, 76, 117.
Ophideres, on the structure of the
trunk of, 372.
Orchestes, new species of, 61.
Orton, Prof. J., on the geological
structure ofthe Amazonsvalley 359,
O’Shaughnessy, A. W. E., on new
species of Geckotidee, 262.
Palzemon, new species of, 343.
Paramcera, characters of the new
genus, 75.
—— australis, note on, 117.
Pascoe, F. P., on Australian Curcu-
lionidee, 55; on new genera and
species of New-Zealand Coleo-
ptera, 210.
Patula, new species of, 406.
Pelagonemertes Rollestoni, on the
anatomy of, 377.
Pericopiine, revision of the sub-
family, 163.
Perrier, E., on a new intermediate
type of the subkingdom Vermes,
295.
Phegoptera, new species of, 255.
Phaloésia, new species of, 171.
Phrynixus, characters of the new
genus, 221,
Phycosecis, characters of the new
genus, 213. :
Phyllodactylus, new species of, 263.
Plateau, F., on some phenomena of
digestion in Insects, 152.
Platycrinus, observations
genus, 90.
Platypheus, characters of the new
genus, 66,
Pleurotomaria,on a Tertiary, 101, 235.
Podocerus, new species of, 75.
Polygordius, on the organization of,
295, 369.
Pourtalés, L. F., on Corals at the
Galapagos Islands, 374.
Propithecus, new species of, 125.
Protoplasm, on the action of borax
on, 149.
Protozoa, on the nutrition of the, 322.
Psychrolutes, new species of, 316,
on the
Pteromys, new species of, 282.
Pterosoma’plana, observations on, 382.
Putnam, F. W., on the blind fish of
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky,
79.
Putrefaction, on the action of borax
in, 148.
Pyralis, new species of, 411.
Pyrausta, new species of, 414.
Remigia, new species of, 408.
Renodes, new species of, 409.
Rissoa, new species of, 69.
Royal Society proceedings of the, 287.
Sagitta, on the position of, 81.
Salcus, new species of, 64.
Schnetzler, J. B., on the action of
borax in fermentation and putre-
faction, 148.
Scissurella, new species of, 72.
Sciurus, new species of, 311.
Scotophilus, new species of, 122.
Selenis, new species of, 409.
Semper, Prof. C., on the anatomy of
Comatula, 202.
Serolis, new species of, 74, 116.
Sharpe, R. B., on Cossypha ’pyrrho-
pygia, 236.
Shells, new, 67, 103, 118, 200.
Skenea, new species of, 71.
Smith, E. A., on new shells from
Kerguelen’s Island, 67 ; on Japanese
Gasteropoda, 103; on a new species
of Solenella, 118 ; on new species
of Marginellidee, 200.
Solenella, new species of, 72, 118.
Sphingomorpha, new species of, 406,
Spiders, on new and rare British,
237 ; on a new genus of, 317; on
F=new and curious forms of, 383.
Sponges, new, 223.
Spongida, on the study and classifi-
cation of the, 1, 126, 177.
Stenopotes, characters of the new
genus, 216.
Struthiolaria, new species of, 67.
Stylopsis, new species of, 103.
Syagrius, characters of the new
genus, 56,
Sycon ciliatum, on the development
of, 41.
Synarthrus cinereiventris, note on, 79.
Syrphetodes, characters of the new
genus, 215,
Taphozous, new species of, 232.
Tarentola, new species of, 263.
Tatorinia, description of the new
genus, 408,
448
Telchinia, new species of, 395.
Teutheria, characters of the new
genus, 63.
Thalamita, new species of, 341.
Thamnograptus, new species of, 271.
Therapon, new species of, 314.
Thomson, J., on the chief generic
types of the Paleozoic corals, 305,
24.
Toxotes, new species of, 313.
Trachichthys, new species of, 315.
Traquair, Dr. R. H., on the structure
of Amphicentrum granulosum,
273.
Trematodes, on the migrations and
metamorphoses of the marine endo-
parasitic, 302.
Trichoglossus, new species of, 344.
Trionyx, new species of, 284.
Triphoris, new species of, 106.
Trochus, new species of, 110,
Trophon, new species of, 68.
Trygon, new species of, 317.
Tursio metis, observations on, 357.
Types, on the convergence of by
pelagic life, 81.
Tysius, characters of the new genus,
218.
Vaillant, L., on the development of
the spinules in the scales of Gobius
niger, 298.
Vermes, on a new intermediate type
of the subkingdom, 295, 369.
INDEX.
Verrill, Prof. A. E., on the occurrence
of another gigantic Cephalopod,
266.
Vespertilio, new species of, 261,
309.
Vesperugo, new species of, 262.
Villot, A., on the helminthological
fauna of the coasts of Brittany,
146; on the migrations and meta-
morphoses of the marine endo-
parasitic Trematodes, 302.
Vorticellians, on the sexual repro-
duction of the, 437.
Vulpes, new species of, 310.
Walden, Arthur, Viscount, on anew
species of pigeon, 228.
Wallich, Dr. G. C., on the true nature
of the so-called “ Bathybius,’ 822.
Waterhouse, C. O., on the larva of
Clytus quadripunctatus, 255,
Westwoodia, characters of the new
genus, 386.
Williamson, Prof. W. C., on the
organization of the fossil plants of
the Coal-measures, 292.
Wood-Mason, J., on the occurrence
of a superorbital chain of bones
in the Arboricolee, 145.
Xuthodes, characters of the new
genus, 217,
Yoldia, new species of, 73.
Zaphrentis, observations on the genus,
426.
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