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KITE. 



INDEX. 



LAML/a. 



on the relative size of the sexes in 

 insects, 279 ; on the Fulgoridse, 



281 ; on the habits of Termites, 

 291; on difference of colour in the 

 sexes of beetles, 294 ; on the horns 

 of the male lamellicorn beetles, 

 297 ; on hornlike processes mmale 

 Curculionidse, 299 ; on the pug- 

 nacity of the male stag-beetle, 299. 



Kite, killed by a game-cock, 363. 



Knot, retention of winter plumage by 

 the, 391 



Knox, R., on the semilunar fold, 17 ; 

 on the occurrence of the supra- 

 condyloid foramen in the humerus 

 of man, 21 ; on the features of the 

 young Memnon, 168. 



Koala, length of the ccecum in, 20. 



Kobus ellipsiprymnus, proportion of 

 the sexes in, 247. 



Kolreuter, on the sterility of hybrid 

 plants, 172. 



Koodoo, development of the horns of 

 the, 234 ; markings of the, 54-3. 



Koppen, F. T., on the migratory lo- 

 cust, 283. 



Kordofan, protuberances artificially 

 produced by natives of, 574. 



Koraks, marriage customs of, 598. 



K6rte, on the proportion of sexes in 

 locusts, 254 ; Russian locusts, 283. 



Kovalevsky, A., on the affinity of 

 the Ascidia to the Vertebrata, 159, 

 160. 



■ , W., on the pugnacity of the 



male capercailzie, 363 ; on the 

 pairing of the capercailzie, 367. 



Krauze, on a convoluted body at the 

 extremity of the tail in a Macacus 

 and a cat, 23. 



Kupffer, Prof., on the affinity of the 

 Ascidia to the Vertebrata, 160. 



Lahidocera Parwinii, prehensile organs 

 of the male, 266 



Labrus. splendid colours of the species 

 of, 342. 



mixtus, sexual differences in, 



337, 341. 

 pavOj 342. 



Lacertilia, sexual differences (f, 354. 



Lafresnave, M. de, on birds of para- 

 dise, 385. 



Lamarck, on the origin of man, 3. 



Lamellibranchiata, 262. 



Lamellicorn beetles, horn-like pro- 

 cesses from the head and thorax of, 

 295, 298 ; influence of sexual selec- 

 tion on, 301. 



Lamellicornia, stridulation of, 303. 



Lamont, Mr., on the tusks of the 

 walrus, 502 ; on the use of its 

 tusks by the walrus, 513 ; on the 

 bladder-nose seal, 528. 



Lumpornis porphyrurus, colours of 

 the female, 454. 



Lampyridaa, distasteful to mammais, 

 277. 



Lancelet, 159, 165. 



Landois, H., gnats attracted by sound, 

 280 ; on the production of sound 

 by the Cicadas, 281 ; on the stimu- 

 lating organ of the crickets, 284 ; 

 on Decticus, 285 ; on the stimula- 

 ting organs of the Acridiidse, 286 ; 

 stridulating apparatus in Orthop- 

 tera, 288 ; sounds produced by 

 Atropus, 291 ; on the stridulation 

 of Necrophorus, 302 ; on the stridu- 

 lant organ of Cerambyx heros, 303 ; 

 on the stridulant organ of Geo- 

 trupes, 303 ; on the stridulating 

 organs in the Coleoptera, 304 ; od 

 the ticking of Anobi'im, 306. 



Landor, Dr., on remorse for not obey 

 ing tribal custom, 114. 



Language an art, 86; articulate, origin 

 of, 86 ; relation of the progress of, 

 to the development of the brain, 

 87 ; effects of inheritance in pro- 

 duction of, 88 ; complex structure 

 of, among barbarous nations, 91; 

 natural selection in, 91 ; gesture, 

 178 ; primeval, 180; of a lost tribe 

 preserved by a parrot, 181. 



Languages, presence of rudiments in, 

 90 ; classification of, 90 ; variability 

 of, 90 ; crossing or blending of, 90 ; 

 complexity of. no test of perfection 

 or proof of special creation, 92 ; re- 

 semblance of, evidence of commu- 

 nity of origin, 148. 



and species, identity of evidence 



of their gradual development, 90. 



Lanius, 462 ; characters of young, 

 464. 



rtcfus, anomalous voung ot. 



482. 



