Kolliker’s and Siebold’s Zeitschrift fur Wissench. Zoologie. Part II, 1868.

1. “A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Tæniæ,” by Johannes Feuereisen, of Dorpal. One plate, forty-five pages.

2. ‘‘Anatomy of the Bed-bug (Cimex lectularius, L.), by Dr. Leonard Landois, of Greifswald.—This is a detailed memoir of nineteen pages, illustrated by two plates, and is a worthy successor to the author’s treatises on the anatomy of the Pediculi infesting the human species. The various glands of the insect—salivary, Malpighian, and stink-glands—are carefully described and figured. Dr. Landois has examined especially the secretion of the last. He finds that it crystallizes from an ethereal solution in colourless prisms, and has a powerfully acid reaction. Its chemical formula appears to be C30H28O4 The name Cimicin acid is given to this body.

3. “On the Tunics which surround the Yelk of the Bird’s Egg,” by W....

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