354 Miscellaneous. are a species of Diptera of the genus Bibio or Cecidomya, several spe-cies of Tipularice, large Curculionitcs allied to the Otiorhynchus,li\rvse or nymphs of Libellula, Blattce, Ichneumonidce, FormicidcB and Arach-nida. All these fossils belong to extinct species, but their genera, which still exist, do not occur in Europe. " The diurnal lepidopterous insect belongs to one of those genera the species of which are not numerous, and are at present confined to the islands of the Indian Archipelago or the warmest countries of the Asiatic continent. According to M. Blum of Leyden, they hover around the palm-trees, on which perhaps they feed in the state of caterpillars. The incUvidual which has been named sej9?///«, to recall its antediluvian origin, belongs to the genus Cyllo, and is allied to the Rohria, Camntis, and other neighbouring species ; but it cannot be referred to any of those known at the present day. " The outline and form of this insect are so well-preserved, that one might imagine it lithographed on a schist : only the right side is alone preserved, which is perfectly untouched, with a portion of the thorax and a slight impression of the abdomen. The upper wing is in great part hidden by the under one, and it is impossible to say whether it presents other delineations than an apical ocellus sur-mounted by a white point ; the other, the whole surface of which is seen, is of a brownish gray colour, as in the allied species, with a white costal spot, a sinuated, median transverse band, of the same colour, followed by two black ocelli bordered in white, connected exteriorly with two white spots. The extremity of this same wing is rather paler, almost whitish, and divided, as in most of the living species, by two parallel brown marginal lines. The caudal appendix is rather longer than in the Rohria, but situated in the same manner. The preservation of the specimen admits of distinguishing the out-line, and probably the true colour of the butterfly as it was before its incrustation." I am not sufficiently acquainted with the species of exotic frogs to be able to compare them with the Rana aquensis, but I can assert that it differs entirely from those which exist in Europe. I await a favourable opportunity to allow me to describe and publish the fossil insects which for the last ten years I have collected in the gypsiferous beds of Aix ; the number of the species I possess at the present time amounts to more than sixty. — Bulletin de la Soci^te Geologique de France. April 21st, 1845. On a curious appearance presented by the contents of the Capsules of a Moss from Chili, extracted from a Letter to the^QV. M. J. Berke-ley, by Dr. Montagne. " I was engaged in describing for the Cryptogamic flora of Chili a new genus allied to Weissia, and in consequence was desirous of ascertaining the form and structure of the spores in the species which I had before me. What was my surprise to find, instead of spores in every cap.sulc which 1 opened, a kind of gemmae analogous to those which occur in the cups of Marchantiu ! They have not indeed the
On a curious appearance presented by the contents of the capsules of a Moss from Chili, extracted from a Letter to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, by Dr. Montagne
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