LANKE3TER. 



INDEX. 



LIBELLULID/E. 



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Lankester, E. R., on comparative lon- 

 gevity, 133, 136 ; on the destruc- 

 tive effects of intemperance, 137. 



Lanugo, of the human foetus, 19, 

 600. 



Lapponian language, highly artificial, 

 91. 



Lark, proportion of the sexes in the, 

 248 ; female, singing of the, 370. 



Larks, attracted by a mirror, 413. 



Lartet, E., comparison of cranial ca- 

 pacities of skulls of recent and 

 tertiary mammals, 55 ; on the size 

 of the brain In mammals, 81; on 

 Dryopithecus, 155 ■ on ore-histcric 

 flutes, 570. 



Lams, seasonal change of plumage in, 

 492. 



Larva, luminous, of a Brazilian beetle, 

 278. 



Larynx, muscles of the, in song-birds, 

 371. 



I.asiocampa querents, attraction of 

 males by the female, 252 ; sexual 

 difference of colour in, 316. 



Latham, R. G., on the migrations of 

 man, 48. 



Latooka, perforation of the lower lip 

 by the women of, 576. 



Launllard, on the abnormal division 

 of the malar bone in man, 39. 



Lawrence, W., on the superiority of 

 savages to Europeans in power of 

 sight, 33 ; on the colour of negro 

 infants, 558 ; on the fondness of 

 savages for ornaments, 578 ; on 

 beardless races, 581 ; on the beauty 

 of the English aristocracy, 586. 



Lavard, E. L., on an instance of ra- 

 tionality in a cobra, 352 ; on the 

 pugnacity of Galhis Stanleyi, 363. 



Laycock, Dr., on vital periodicity, 8 ; 

 theioid nature of idiots, 36. 



Leaves, autumn, tints useless, 262. 



Lecky, Mr., on the sense of duty, 97 ; 

 on suicide, 117; on the practice of 

 celibacy, 119 ; his view of the 

 crimes of savages, 119 ; on the 

 gradual rise of morality, 125. 



Leconte, J. L., on the stridulant or?au 

 in the Coprini and Dynastini, 303. 



Lee, II., on the numerical proportion 

 of the sexes in the trout, 249. 



Leg, calf of '.he, artificial. y modified, 



fr74v 



Legitimate and illegitimate children, 

 proportion of the sexes in, 244. 



Legs, variation of the length of the, in 

 man, 26 ; proportions of, in sol- 

 diers and sailors, 32 ; front, atro- 

 phied in some male butterflies, 277 ; 

 peculiarities of, in male insects, 277. 



Legiu y, on the occurrence of the 

 supra-eondyloid foramen in the 

 humerus of man, 22. 



" Lek " of the black-cock and caper- 

 cailzie, 405. 



Lemoine, Albert, on the origin of lan- 

 guage, 87. 



L< mur macaco, sexual difference of 

 colour in, 537. 



Lemuridae, 152 ; ears of the, 15 ; 

 variability of the muscles in the, 

 41 ; position and derivation of the, 

 157 ; their origin, 165. 



Lemurs, uterus in the, 38. 



Lenguas, disfigurement of the ears of 

 the, 575. 



Leopards, black, 539. 



Lepidoptera, 307 ; numerical propor- 

 tions of the sexes in the, 250 ; 

 colouring of, 308 ; ocellated spots 

 of, 427. 



Lepidosiren, 159, 165. 



Leptalides, mimicry of, 325. 



Leptorhynchus anyustatus, pugnacity 

 of male, 299. 



Leptwa testarea, difference of colour 

 in the sexes of 294. 



Leroy, on the wariness of young foxes 

 in hunting-districts, 80; on the 

 desertion of their voung bv swal- 

 lows, 108. 



Leslie, D., marriage customs of Kaffirs. 

 598. 



Lesse, valley of the, 22. 



Lesson, on the birds of paradise, 219, 

 403 ; on the sea-elephant, 528. 



Lessona, M., observations on ScrraK <s 

 162. ' 



Lethrus-. ceplalotes, pugnacity of tht 

 males of, 297, 300. 



Leuckart, R., on the vesicula prosta- 

 tica y 24 ; on the influence of the 

 age of parents on the sex of off- 

 spring, 245. 



Levator clavicular muscle, 42. 



Lihellnla depressa, colour of the maic, 

 290. 



Libeliulidae, relative size of the sfXft 



