VI CONTENTS. 



XXXI. Miscellanea Zoologica. By George Johnston, Esq., M.D., 

 &c. — Beania mirabilis, a new Genus of Zoophyte page 272 



XXXII. Descriptions, &c. of some rare or interesting Indigenous 

 Insects. By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., &c 274 



XXXIII. Information respecting Botanical and Zoological Travellers : — 

 Mr. Schomburgk's recent Expedition in Guiana : — Otters of 



Guiana 282 



New Booh : — A Manual of the Land and Freshwater Shells of the 

 British Islands, with Figures of each of the kinds, by William Tur- 

 ton, M.D. A new Edition, by John Edward Gray, F.R.S 288 



Proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society : Microscopical 

 ^ Society 290, 291 



On a Torpedo taken on the Irish Coast, by Wm. Thompson^ Esq. ; 



Meteorological Observations and Table 292 — 296 



NUMBER XXXII. 



XXXIV. Notes on some Viviparous Plants. By George Dickie, 

 Esq., A.L.S., Lecturer on Botany in Marischal College, Aberdeen ... 297 



XXXV. On Ulex. By Charles C. Babington, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., &c. (With Wood Engravings.) 300 



XXXVI. Miscellanea Zoologica. By George Johnston. M.D., 

 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh : — Irish Anne- 

 iides. (With a Plate.) 305 



XXXVII. On the Corymorpha nutans of Sars, a remarkable Hy- 

 droid Polype. By Edward Forbes, Esq., and John Goodsir, Esq.... 309 



XXXVIII. Monograph of the DorylidcB, a Family of the Hyme- 

 noptera Heterogyna. By W. E. Shuckard, Esq. (Concluded.) 315 



XXXIX. Description of a new Species of the genus Lophotus, from 

 the collection of Charles Darwin, Esq. By G. R. Waterhouse, Esq., 

 Curator to the Museum of the Zoological Society, &c. &c 329 



XL. Description of a new Species of Balanus, from the Cabinet of 

 Samuel Wright, Esq., of Cork. By the Rev. W. Hincks, F.L.S 333 



XLI. On the Effects produced upon Animal and Vegetable Life by 



the Winter of 1838. By P. J. Selby, of Twizel House 331 



XLII. Information respecting Botanical and Zoological Travellers : — 

 Dr. Parnell, Mr. Jerdon, Mr. Cuming, Dr. Krauss, and Mr. 

 Schomburgk 340 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Botanical Society of London ; 



Royal Irish Academy; Orkney Natural History Society 348 — 360 



Prize Question in Vegetable Physiology; Bottle-nosed Whale; Re- 

 markable change of Habit in the Hare ; Note on Animalcules, 



