CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI. 



NUMBER CII. 



Page 



I. On some species of Cuscuta. By Charles C. Babington, M.A., 

 F.L.S., F.G.S. &c. (With a Plate.) I 



II. Miscellanea Zoologica. By George Johnston, M.D., Fellow of 



the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. (With a Plate.) 4 



III. On the British Desmicliece. By John Ralfs, Esq., M.R.C.S., 

 I'enzance. (With a Plate.) c. 10 



IV. On the Colours of Leaves and Petals. By William E. C. 

 NouRSE, M.R.C.S 16 



V. Descriptions of Coleopterous Insects collected by Charles Darwin, 

 Esq., in the Galapagos Islands. By George R. Waterhouse, Esq.... 19 



VI. On the Organization of the Lucince and of Corbis. By M. A. 

 Valenciennes 41 



New Books : — The Genera of Birds, by G. R. Gray, F.L.S., illustrated 

 by D.W. Mitchell, B.A., F.L.S. — Descriptiones Animalium quae in 

 itinere ad Maris Australis terras per annos 1772-74 suscepto col- 

 legit J. R. Forster, nunc demum editse curante H. Lichtenstein 45 — 47 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society ; Microscopical Society ; Entomo- 

 logical Society ;..... 48—00 



Observations on the grdup Schizopetalets of the family of Cruciferce, by 

 J. Marius Barneoud ; On the Microscopic Constituents of the Ash 

 of Fossil Coal, by Professor Ehrenberg and Dr. F. Schulz ; On the 

 Tendrils of the Cucurbitacece, by M. J. Payer; Meteorological Ob- 

 servations and Table QQ — 72 



NUMBER cm. 



VII. Notes of a Microscopical Examination of the Chalk and Flint 

 of the South-east of England ; with remarks on the Animalculites of 

 certain Tertiary and Modern Deposits. By Gideon Algernon Man- 

 tell, LL.D., F.R.S. 73 



