The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . r inimica fuit.— LiNNjEUS. Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut quouvrir les yeux pour voirquelle est le chef-doeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rapportenttoutes ses operations.—Bruckner, Theorie dti Systeme Animal, Leyden, 1767. 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
The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology . r inimica fuit.— LiNNjEUS. Quel que soit le principe de la vie animale, il ne faut quouvrir les yeux pour voirquelle est le chef-doeuvre de la Toute-puissance, et le but auquel se rapportenttoutes ses operations.—Bruckner, Theorie dti Systeme Animal, Leyden, 1767. 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 adventurers 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. ALEBE u, CONTENTS OF VOL. XX. [THIRD SERIES.] NUMBER CXV, p I. On the Annelid Genus Spharodorum, OErsted, and a new Repre-sentative of it, S. Claparedii. By Dr. Richard Greeff. (Plate I.) 1 II. On the MenispermacecE. By John Miers, , ,&c. 11 III. List of Coleoptera received from Old Calabar, on the WestCoast of Africa. By Andrew Murray, 20 IV. Remarks on the Potton Sands, in reply to Mr. Walkers Paperin the Annals of Natural History for November 1866. By HarryGovier Seeley, , of the Woodwardian Museum in the Uni-versity of Cambridge 23 V. Remarks on Pyrula (Fulgur) carica (Lamarck) and Pyrula(Ftdgur) perversa {). By T. Graham Ponton 28 VI. On the Tunnelling Coleopterous Genera Bledius, Heterocerus,Dyschirius, and their Danish Species. By Professor J. C. Schiodte 30 VII. Description of a new Australian Tortoise (Elseya latisternum). By Dr. J, E. Gray, &c 43 VIII. Additions to the k
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