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INDEX. 



Ruticilla, monograph of the genus^ 



450. 

 Salamander, new species of, 134. 

 Salmon, on the external membrane of 



the ova of the common, 307. 

 Saturnia, new species of, 294. 

 Savory, Dr. W. S., on the develop- 

 ment of muscular fibre in mamma- 



ha, 234. 

 Scalaria, new species of, 2/4. 

 Scanzoni, M., on Trichomonas vagi- 



nahs, 464. 

 Schiodte, M., on some Staphylinidse 



found in the nests of Termites, 224. 

 Schistochlamys, new species of, 345. 

 Schizaster, new species of, 264. 

 Sclater, P. L., on a new species of 



Dendrocolaptes, 223 ; on new spe- 

 cies of Bucconidaj, 292. 

 Sea-water, on artificial, 17. 

 Senna, on the characters and syno- 

 nyms of the genus, 147. 

 Senoner, Dr., on natural self-printing, 



236. 

 Sertularia, new species of, 127. 

 Smith, Rev. W., on the Diatomacese 



of the South of France, 1 . 

 Sorex, new species of, 238. 

 Sowerby's Ferns of Great Britain, 



reviewed, 354. 

 Spatangus, new species of, 178. 

 Spathura, new species of, 318. 

 Sphacelaria, on the germination of, 



348. 

 Spirachtha, characters of the new 



genus, 226. 

 Stainton's, H. T., Entomologist's 



Annual for 1855, reviewed, 53, 356. 

 Staphylinidae, notes on some, 224. 

 Starch-granule, on the structure of 



the, 386, 426. 

 Stickleback, on the impregnation of 



the ovum in the, 229. 

 Taenia, new species of, 74. 

 Templeton, R., on a new species of 



Sorex, 238. 

 Termites, on some particulars in the 



natural history and habits of, 310. 

 Testudo, new species of, 135. 

 Tetraogallus, new species of, 143. 

 Tetrarhynchus, new species of, 74. 



Thamnophilus, nerw^ species jbfj 345. ' 

 Thompson, W., on a new species of 



Corynactis, 314. 

 Thwaites, G. H. K., on the genua 



Ancistrocladus of Wallich, 149. 

 Tortoises, new species of, 67, 135. 

 Trichomonas vaginalis, on the, 464. , 

 Tridacna crocea, on the animal of, 



100. 

 Trochilus, new species of, 146. 

 Valenciennes, M., on the metamor- 

 phoses of intestinal worms, 462. 

 Vaucheria, on the impregnation and 



germination of, 346. 

 Vegetable placentation, on, 336. 

 Vegetation in the Crimea, notice of 



the, 155. : 



Vine disease, remarks on the, 236. 

 Vivarium, marine, on the, 130. ~- 



Wallace, A. R., on the ornithology of 



Malacca, 95. 

 Walrus, on the anatomy of the, 226 j 



on the attitudes and figures of the, 



339. : 



Warington, R., on the habits of the 



common prawn, 247. 

 Weinland, Dr. D. F., on a marsupial 



frog, 158. 

 Welwitsch, Dr. F., on the vegetatioii 



of Sierra Leone, 305. 1 



Westwood, J. O., on new species of 



Saturnia, 294. : 



Wheat, on the origin of, 383. 

 White, A., on a new species of iEgo- 



soma, and on the genus Cyrtonops, 



137 ; on anew species of Anomou- 



rous crustacean, 307. 

 White, Dr. W. A., on the vegetation 



of the Crimea, 155, 

 Wilson, A., on the textile plants of 



Jamaica, 369. 

 Woodward, S. P., on the animals of 



certain genera of bivalve shells, 99. 

 Worms, intestinal, on the metamor- 

 phoses of, 462 ; new species of, 223, 

 Wright, Dr. T., on fossil Echinoderms 



from the Island of Malta, 101, 175, 



262. 

 Zoological Society, proceedings of the, 



64,218,292,375,450. 

 Zoophytes, new species of British, 1 27. 



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