INDEX. 



471 



Momotus, new species of, 373. 

 Monstrosity in fishes, on double, 47. 

 Moore, F., on the species of the genus 

 Orthotomus, 128; on some new 

 and little-known species of birds, 

 65, 225, 226, 367, 369; on the 

 species of the genus Accentor, 285. 

 More, A. G., on the flora of the neigh- 

 bourhood of Castle Taylor, 72. 

 Morrisia, new species of, 443. 

 Miilleria, on the genus, 290. 

 Murchison, Dr. C., on the white se- 

 cretion of the Flata limbata, 356. 

 Mus, new species of, 112. 

 Mustela, new species of, 107. 

 Myra, new species of, 364. 

 Myrodes, description of the new 



genus, 364. 

 Naesea bidentata, note on, 308. 

 Nemosia, new species of, 382. 

 Nemura, on some species of, 67- 

 Nereis bilineata, note on, 78. 

 Neriene, new species of, 121. 

 Noctua indica, on the habits of, 61. 

 Nolella, description of the genus, 35. 

 Nursia, new species of, 366. 

 Nursilia, on the genus, 366. 

 Nycticejus, new species of, 104. 

 Orbitolites, monograph of the genus, 



207. 

 Oreophorus, new species of, 366. 

 Oriolus aureus, on the habits of, 225. 

 Orites, new species of, 367. 

 Orthotomus, new species of, 129. 

 Osmia, on the habits of the species of, 



125. 

 Othonia, new species of, 33. 

 Otogyps, on the egg of, 78. 

 Owen, Prof., on the anatomy of the 

 Great Anteater, 374; on the bones 

 of the leg of Dinornis, 460. 

 Pachybdella, on the genus, 153. 

 Pachygnathus, new species of, 305. 

 Palapteryx gracilis, on the bones of 



the leg of, 462. 

 Palms, fossil, remarks on, 55. 

 Paludomus, new species of, 135. 

 Paradoxurus, new species of, 105. 

 Parlatore, M., on Aphyllanthes mons- 



peliensis, 300. 

 Patellidae, on the branchial system of 



the, 412. 

 Peachia, on the genus, 294. 

 Peltogaster, on the genus, 153. 

 Persephona, new^ species of, 363. 

 Petrogale, new species of, 383. 

 Philopotamis, new species of, 139. 

 Philyra, new species of, 365. 



Phlyxia, new species of, 365. 

 Phoenicornis Peregrinus, on the habits 



of, 64. 

 Phoxichilidium, new species of, 30. 

 Phytolitharia, on the presence of, in 

 soils which support vegetation, 219. 

 Pinus hirtella and P. religiosa, on the 



identity of, 54. 

 Pipilopsis, new species of, 381 . 

 Placuna placenta, on the animal of, 23. 

 Plants, new habitats for rare British, 

 72, 212, 292, 295 ; on the origin of 

 vessels in, 214. 

 Plecotus, new species of, 103. 

 Pnoepyga, new species of, 65. 

 Poliospiza, new species of, 299. 

 Polyzoa, descriptions of new, 35. 

 Praniza caeruleata, note on, 307. 

 Prinia, on some species of, 68. 

 Procnias, new species of, 380. 

 Prosthemadera, on the egg of, 78. 

 Protula Dysteri, note on, 312. 

 Pucrasia, new species of, 222. 

 Pycnogonidae, on the heart and circu- 

 lation in the, 176. 

 Pyctorhis, new species of, 226. 

 Pyrenestes, new species of, 299. 

 Quekett's, Prof., Catalogue of the His- 

 tological Series in the Museum of 

 the Royal College of Surgeons, 454. 

 Quelea, new species of, 299. 

 Quenstedt, Prof., on the mode in which 

 Brachiopoda open and close their 

 shell, 436. 

 Ramphocelus, new species of, 142. 

 Ranunculi, on the Batrachian, 385. 

 Respiration, on the mechanism of 

 aquatic, in invertebrate animals, 

 315, 404. 

 Rhynchonella, new species of, 444. 

 Rissoa anatina, note on, 117. 

 Robertson, P. S., on the germination 



of some species of Coniferae, 7'^- 

 Royal Institution of Great Britain, 



proceedings of the, 69. 

 Royal Society, proceedings of the, 205, 

 Sagartia, on the genus, 294. 

 Saint- Pierre, E. G. de, on the mor- 

 phology of the lenticels, 273. 

 Salmon, on the food of the, 60 ; on 



the ova of the, 205. 

 Salticus, new species of, 329. 

 Schmidt, Prof. O., on the sexes and 



ova of the Brachiopoda, 439. 

 Sciurus, new species of, 113. 

 Sclater, P. L., on some new or imper- 

 fectly described species of Tanagers, 

 140, 150, 377 ; on a collection of 



