We have frequently met with fine large specimens of C. punctata, in which there was no such marked difference in the somites. Of the Syllidea, we have the genus Syllis, a new genus Gattiola, Myrianida and Joida. This important family has lately been reduced into order by Ehlers,* and we feel some surprise that his researches are not alluded to in the Appendix, the more especially as the position of the new genus Gattiola could have been easily decided. We give the divisions of this family according to Ehlers, adding the species at present known as British.

A. Syllidea with Palpi.

I. First segment, without tufts of bristles.

1. First segment always with more than two tentacular cirri. Procome, Ehlers.

2. First segment always with two tentacular cirri.

Gnathosyllis, Schmarda.

Odontosyllis, Clprd.

Pterosyllis, Clprd.

At the entrance of the tubular esophagus, only

soft papillæ, the armature at most a single tooth.

a Palpi quite or partially divided, central cirri present.

Syllis, Savigny.

S. armillaris, Oersted.

S. cornuta, Rathke.

S. ? monoceros, Dalyell.

It is impossible, from the wretched description of this species, to assign it to its proper place.

S. tubifex, Gosse. This species was described in Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 2nd Series, Vol. 16. Habitat, Ilfracombe. It is not alluded to in the present work.

3. First segment, with but one tentacular cirrus, ventral cirri absent.

a Microsyllis, Clprd.

6 Exotocas, Ehlers.

4. First segment without tentacular cirri, ventral cirri present.

Exogone, Oersted. E. longiseta, Cosse. This spe

* Die Börstenwürmer. Von E. Ehlers, M.D. Leipzig, 1864.

cies was described in the same volume of the Annals as above referred to. It is not mentioned in the text or appendix.

II. First segment, with tufts of bristles. In this section there are four genera-distinguished by the number of their antennæ— which number from three to four. None are native.

II. Only the first segment has elongated cirri.

1. The first, second and third segments with long cirri.

Proceræa, Ehlers.

2. The first and second segments with long cirri.

Autolytus, Grube.

A. prolifer. This species

is included under the genus Syllis. We should have expected to have had its synonymy corrected in the Appendix, from the researches of A. Agassiz. The following amended list of synonyms we take from Ehlers, abridging the references.

Autolytus prolifer, Grube.

Nereis prolifera, O. F. Müller.
Syllis prolifera, Johnston.

Nereis corniculata, O. F. Müller.
Diproceræa corniculata, Grube.
Crithidia thalassina, Gosse.

Polybostrichus Müllerii, Keferstein.

Sacconereis helgolandica, M. Müller.

Mr. Gosse's new genus and species which, through the researches of Mr. A. Agassiz noticed in our last number, has proved to be but a stage of Autolytus prolifer, should have been noticed in a supplement which purports to give the additional species found since Dr. Johnston's death. But we content ourselves once for all by saying that this has not been done, and while we in this review record all the additional species that for the moment occur to us, yet it is pretty certain that several will escape our notice. This will be of the less consequence, as the newly projected "Record of Zoological Litera

ture" promises year by year to supply this want; nevertheless, it would have been well had the Supplement been a more faithful record, not only of the present existing British species, but also of their classification and synonymy. Among the Syllideæ described in Johnston, of the place of which we are uncertain, is the now first of all described genus, Gattiola, for an undescribed species of Gosse. The diagnosis of this genus does not say a word as to the presence or absence of palpi, but from the drawing we should refer it as a synonym to Cirrosyllis, Schmarda.

Joida macrophthalma, is described from a single specimen. If the figure is to be trusted, we cannot agree with Ehlers in referring this genus to Syllis, but we rather think it has affinities to the Syllis maculosa of Cuvier, and should along with the latter be placed under Isosyllis. Johnston's figure, Plate xiva. fig. 5, shows that it belongs to the section which have their "erstes Segment mit Börsten." The next family is that of the Spiodea-of this we have the genus Nerine (2 species), Spio (2 species), Leucodore (1 species). Here comes in the family Chaetopterida, according to Carus' arrangement, and from a perusal of the views of Dr. Baird, who describes the only native species of this interesting family, we should have thought that this would have been his arrangement too. But in the Appendix we are desired to place it at the end of the Aricies. Chaetopterus insignis, Baird, is at present the only British species, but we suspect it will be found pretty generally around the coasts. Of the Ariciea, we have donis (1 sp.). [This genus, added in the Appendix, we are desired to insert after the genus Cirratulus, in the family of the Cirratulida; surely it has much more affinities here]; Ephesia (1 sp.); Sphærodorum (1 sp.); this genus we believe to be identical with the previous one, but we are unable to say which name has the priority. Rathke's was published the same year as Oersted's (1843), but the month of publication of No. XX. of the "Nova Acta Academiæ Cæsarea Leopoldino-Carolinæ Naturæ Curiosorum," is unknown to us.

The family Cirratulida has as native genera, Cirratulus (2 sp.), and Dodecaceræa (1 sp.): Opheliacea has Ophelina, with one species, O. acuminata. [The synonym of this is given as Ammotrypane aulogastra, Rathke; but A. aulogastra, Rathke, is Ophelia aulogaster of Grube, a very different thing from Ophelina acuminata. Very probably there may be among the specimens marked a, b, c, in the British Museum, specimens of the former; otherwise it is not as yet recorded as native] Ammotrypane (1 sp.); Travisia (1 sp.): Areuicolida has Eumenia (1 sp.), Arenicola (3 sp.).

The second section of the Sedentaria contains the families Pherusea with the genera Siphonostomum (2 sp.): Maldania with Crymene (2 sp.): Terebellacea with Terebella (10 sp.), a new genus Venusia, for the reception of the Terebella conchilega of Dalyell [it would appear to differ from Terebella, in having all its segments provided with setigerous and uncinated feet, and the tube adherent throughout, horizontal. The branchia are in tufts of simple filaments] and Terebellides (1 sp.): Amphictenea with Pectinaria (2 sp.), [here we would add the Amphicteis midas, Gosse, described in the Annals of Natural History, 2nd Series, Vol. XVI., under the name of Crossostoma midas]; Hermellacea with Sabellaria (3 sp.), Serpulacea with Sabella (6 sp.) [A new genus, Arippasa, is made for the reception of the Amphitrite infundibulum of Montagu, but this must subside into a synonym of Myxicola of H. Koch.] Protula (2 sp.), Serpula. Of this genus following Phillipi we have as subdivisions Serpula (2 sp.), Eupomatus (2 sp.), Placostegus (2 sp.), Vermilia (1 sp.), Pomatoceros (2 sp.), and Spirorbis (17 sp.).

The last two genera of this family are Filograna (1 sp.), and Fabricia (=Othonia, Johnston). This genus was thoroughly revised by Mr. Gosse, who added to it two species. When we recollect their names (Bairdii and Johnstonii), we wonder how they could have been overlooked. Here, too, for want of knowing where else to place them, must be assigned the two species hippocrepia and cralis, of the very anomalous genus Phoronis of Strethill Wright. The last family given by Dr. Johnston, is called Campontiada, and contains Campontia eruciformis. This larval form we believe not to be annelidan, but it is hardly within the province of a review to enter into details on such a subject, and besides we are mindful of the rather hard words with which this work closes," Mr. MacLeay thinks this to be a dipterous larva. Mr. Green thinks he has proved this, but in truth his remarks are very irrelevant, and deserve no consideration"!

There is a genus called Maa, described for the first time, and an allusion made to details on the 22nd Plate, but our copy has but 21 Plates, so we can make no guess as to its probable affinities.

We have thus endeavoured, somewhat briefly, to give an account of the leading features of this the last, though by no means the best, of the British Museum Catalogues. Posthumous works are always more or less unfortunate. This one is peculiarly so, for it relates to a portion of Zoology which has lately made, and is now making, great progress, and though published but yesterday, dates some twelve

years back. We have before suggested that the Appendix might have partly made up for this defect, but, at best, this could only have been partly done. It is not "addenda and corrigenda" that were needed so much as a thorough revision of the whole subject. To do this, all the specimens in the British Museum must be once more examined in detail, more especially the types. Good descriptions are better, inasmuch as they are cheaper, than illustrations, but bad descriptions are a torment and a worry to the working naturalist.

One good we predict from the publication of this volume, that the students of this branch of Natural History will be now somewhat better able to make out the species, and that we shall very probably have an increase in the number of those studying the Annelida. Let us hope that the result may not be merely a great increase in the list of British species, and a more exact description thereof, but that it may lead to the publication of an illustrated work on this subject, in which the pen of the Editor of this volume may, with due credit, record the labours of one who has made Berwick-onTweed classic ground to the Zoologist.

XLIII.-LUBBOCK'S PREHISTORIC TIMES.

PREHISTORIC TIMES AS ILLUSTATED BY ANCIENT REMAINS AND THE MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF MODERN SAVAGES. By John Lubbock, F.R.S., &c. London: Williams and Norgate. 1865. As a large part of the series of essays which have been combined to form the present volume have already appeared in the pages of this Journal, and as, moreover, the author of them is one of our own editorial body, it will hardly be expected that anything like a critical review of the work can be given in these pages. Nevertheless, so much interest has been manifested, both at home and abroad, concerning Sir John Lubbock's labours, and his resumé of the several great questions of the day is of such importance as regards the future of ethnological science, that it will be neither just to ourselves, nor fair to our readers, to pass over the issue of the present work altogether in silence. We shall, therefore, devote a few paragraphs to a survey of the nature and contents of the present volume.