AND

MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY,

INCLUDING

ZOOLOGY, BOTANY, AND GEOLOGY.

(BEING A CONTINUATION OF THE MAGAZINE OF BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY,' AND OF
LOUDON AND CHARLESWORTH'S 'MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY.')

CONDUCTED BY

SIR W. JARDINE, BART., F.L.S.-P. J. SELBY, Esq., F.L.S.,
GEORGE JOHNSTON, M.D.,

CHARLES C. BABINGTON, Esq., M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.,
J. H. BALFOUR, M.D., Prof. Bot. Edinburgh,

AND

RICHARD TAYLOR, F.L.S., F.G.S.

VOL. IV.-SECOND SERIES.

LONDON:

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY R. AND J. E. TAYLOR.

SOLD BY S. HIGHLEY; SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; SHERWOOD AND CO.; W. WOOD,
TAVISTOCK STREET; BAILLIÈRE, REGENT STREET, AND PARIS:

LIZARS, AND MACLACHLAN AND STEWART, EDINBURGH:
CURRY, DUBLIN: AND ASHER, BERLIN.

1849.

"Omnes res creatæ sunt divinæ sapientiæ et potentiæ testes, divitiæ felicitatis humanæ :—ex harum usu bonitas Creatoris; ex pulchritudine sapientia Domini; ex œconomiâ in conservatione, proportione, renovatione, potentia majestatis elucet. Earum itaque indagatio ab hominibus sibi relictis semper æstimata; à verè eruditis et sapientibus semper exculta; malè doctis et barbaris semper inimica fuit."LINNÆUS.

The sylvan powers

Obey our summons; from their deepest dells
The Dryads come, and throw their garlands wild
And odorous branches at our feet; the Nymphs
That press with nimble step the mountain thyme
And purple heath-flower come not empty-handed,
But scatter round ten thousand forms minute
Of velvet moss or lichen, torn from rock

Or rifted oak or cavern deep: the Naiads too

Quit their loved native stream, from whose smooth face

They crop the lily, and each sedge and rush

That drinks the rippling tide: the frozen poles,

Where peril waits the bold adventurer's tread,
The burning sands of Borneo and Cayenne,
All, all to us unlock their secret stores
And pay their cheerful tribute.

J. TAYLOR, Norwich, 1818.

CONTENTS OF VOL. IV.

[SECOND SERIES.]

NUMBER XIX.

Page

I. Account of a Ribbon Fish (Gymnetrus) taken off the coast of

Northumberland. By ALBANY HANCOCK and DENNIS Embleton, M.D.

(With two Plates.)

II. Ornithological Notes. By JOHN BLACKWALL, F.L.S.

1

18

III. A few remarks upon a species of Zoophyte discovered in the

New Docks of Ipswich. By Mr. EDWIN GILES and Dr. W. B. CLARKE 26

IV. On Odontites rubra, Pers., and the allied forms, including a

notice of a new species. By JOHN BALL, M.R.I.A.

28

........

V. Contributions to the Botany of South America. By JOHN MIERS,

Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S.

31

VI. On the Identification of a Genus of Parasitic Hymenoptera.

By J. O. WESTWOOD, F.L.S.

39

41

VII. Descriptions of Aphides. By FRANCIS WALKER, F.L.S.

VIII. On the Animal of Kellia rubra. By JOSHUA ALDER, Esq. ... 48

Proceedings of the Zoological Society

56-73

On the Development of the Purkinjean Corpuscle in Bone, by Dr.

Leidy; Mode of Progression with Animals, by W. A. Pike; De-

scriptions of new species of the genera Nyctale, Brehm., and Sy-

cobius, Vieill., by John Cassin; Description of a new species of

Salamander from Upper California, by Edward Hallowell,
M.D.;

The Pine Tree of the Tenasserim Provinces, by the Rev. F. Ma-

son; Description of a new Helix and Streptaxis, from the Collec-
tion of H. Cuming, Esq., by Dr. L. Pfeiffer; Meteorological Ob-
servations and Table

....

74-80

NUMBER XX.

IX. A descriptive Account of the Freshwater Sponges (genus Spon-

gilla) in the Island of Bombay, with Observations on their Structure