CONTENTS. V 



Page 

 XXIV. Drafts for a Fauna Indica. By Ed. Blyth, Curator of the 

 Asiatic Society's Museum, &c. &c 179 



New Book : — Lectures on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology 

 of the Vertebrate Animals; Part I, Fishes, being Vol. II. of 

 Hunterian Lectures, by Richard Owen, F.R.S 187 



Proceedings of the Linnaean Society ; Royal Institution ; Botanical So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh , 190—209 



Description of a new genus and species of Entozoa, by Joseph Leidy, 

 M.D. ; Description of two living Hybrid Fowls, between Gallus and 

 Numida, by Samuel George Morton, M.D. ; On the Habits of the 

 Honey Buzzard in Confinement, by Gordon Jos. Forster, Esq. ; 

 Larus ehurneus ; Fossil Human Bones ; On the Mechanism which 

 closes the Membranous Wings of the genus Locustn, by Joseph 

 Leidy, M.D. ; On the genus Caloptylum ; Meteorological Obser- 

 vations and Table 209—216 



NUMBER CXXVI. 



XXV. Notes on the genus of Insects Trachyphloeus, with descrip- 

 tions of new species. By John Walton, F.L.S 217 



XXVI. Comparison of the Periods of Flowering of certain Plants 

 in the early Spring of 1846, in the. Botanic Garden of Belfast and the 

 Jardin des Plantes at Paris. By William Thompson, Esq. (Belfast),.. 223 



XXVII. Notice of anew species o{ Dawsonia. By Robert Kaye 

 Greville, LL.D., F.R.S.E., F.L.S. &c. (With a Plate.) 226 



XXVIII. Notes on some Chalcidites and Cynipites in the Collection 



of the Rev. F. W. Hope. By Francis Walker, F.L.S 227 



XXIX. The Birds of Calcutta, collected and described by Carl 



J. SUNDEVALL 232 



XXX. On the Development of the LycopodiacecB. By Karl Mijl- 

 LER. (With five Plates.) 240 



XXXI. On the Siliceous Bodies of the Chalk and other Formations, 



in reply to Mr. J. Toulmin Smith. By J. S. Bowerbank, F.R.S. &c. 249 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Royal Institution ; Botanical 



Society of Edinburgh 262—278 



Reproduction of Lost Parts in Articulata ; Note on a British specimen 

 of Oculina prolifera ; On a new species of Penella ; Report on be- 

 half of the Section of Zoology by the Secretary, Prince Bonaparte, 

 read at the concluding General Meeting of the Eighth Italian Sci- 

 entific Congress ; Observations on the Development of the Echi- 



