153 Rev. T. Hincks's Catalogue of Zoophytes the British Museum, adopted the genus, adding to it the Acan-t/wdcres funestus of Erich son. A. funerarius, however, is a true Acanthoderes, having dilated and fringed fore tarsi in the males : it differs from most of the species only in the rounded tips of the elytra, a character presented by many of its congeners ; therefore the generic name can apply only to A. funestus. Myoxomorpha, as thus defined, is very closely allied to AcayUhoderes, its chief distinction being the simple fore tarsi in the males. The un-grooved antennal joints, the voluminous eyes, narrow prosternum and horizontal mesosternum also separate it well from the ma-jority of the species. 1. Myoxomorpha funesta, ^I'ichs. Acanthoderes funestus, Erichson in Schomb. Reise, iii. 573. In facies and colours this species has some resemblance to A. funerarius. It is black, clothed beneath and on the legs with a fine silvery hoary tomentum. The forehead, vertex, a broad central vitta on the thorax, the scutellum, and the apical half of the elytra are also clothed with a very fine silky whitish pile, — the apical half of the elytra having a large patch on each side, and a number of small rounded spots of a black colour. Found throughout the Amazon region, sparingly, under the loose bark of felled trees, chiefly of Inc/a and other Leguminosae, in newly-made plantations. It is very sluggish in its motions [To be continued.] XVI. — A Catalogue of the Zoophytes of South Devon and South Cornwall. By the Rev. Thomas Hincks, B.A. [Plate VI.] The title of this paper requires a word of explanation. The term Zoophyte is adopted for the sake of convenience, and is used in the sense in which it was employed by Dr. Johnston, to embrace the Hydroid, Asteroid, and Helianthoid polypes, and the Poly-zoa. According to the later and more accurate classification, the beings associated under this common name are thus distri-buted : — The subkingdomCtELENTERATA has been constituted for the true Polypes and the Medusae; and in this the Hydroids and the Lucernaridse rank under the class Hydrozoa, the Asteroids and Helianthoids under the class Actinozoa. The Polyzoa, by virtue of their MoUuscan affinities, take their place amongst the Molluscoida. No apology need be offered for adding one more to the num-ber of local catalogues. Their significance and value, when carefully and conscientiously prepared, are now fully appreciated. My object has been not merely to draw up a bare list of species.
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