CONTENTS OF VOL. XIII. 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



NUMBER LXXIII. 



Page 



I. On the Structure of the Eehinoderms. By Johannes Muller. 1 



II. On a new species of Tanager in the British Museum. By 

 Philip Lutley Sclater, M.A 24 



III. Descriptions of new or httle-known species of Reptiles col- 



- lected in Ceylon. By E. F. Kelaart, M.D., F.L.S. &c 25 



IV. Tfote on Spadix purpurea, Gosse. By Professor Edward 

 .Forbes, F.R.S. &c 31 



V. Descriptions and Illustrations of new species of Verrucaria and 

 Sagedia found about Torquay, Devonshire. By Richard Deakin, 

 M.D. (With four Plates.) 32 



VI. Account of a MS. of Laurence Theodore Gronov lately pur- 

 chased for the British Museum, with a Collection of Dry Fish which 



it describes. By John Edward Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. ... 41 



VII. A Catalogue of the Species of Ants found in Southern India. 

 By T. C. Jerdon, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Esta- 

 blishment 45 



New Books : — The Palm Trees of the Amazon and their Uses, by 

 A. R. Wallace. — The Botanist's Word-Book : an Etymological 

 and Explanatory Vocabulary of the Terms employed in the Sci- 

 ence of Botany, by G. Macdonald and J. Allan. — A Narrative of 

 Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Account of the 

 Native Tribes and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and 

 Natural History of the Amazon Valley, by A. R. Wallace ... 56 — 58 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society; Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh; Royal Society of Edinburgh 58 — 72 



On the Anatomy of Terebratula australis, by M. P. Gratiolet; On the 

 Teeth of Peronia and Otina, by Dr. J. E. Gray ; Habits of 



