CONTENTS. V 



Page 



McLauchlan, Henry, F.G.S. 



Notice of the capture of a Hoopoe at Fishguard, Pembroke.. . . 250 



Morris, John, Esq. 



A Systematic Catalogue of the Fossil Plants of Great Britain. 

 (Continued from vol. iii. p. 548.) 75, 179 



Nangle, Edward. 



On some observations in Mr. Newsman's ' Notes on Irish Na- 

 tural History,'&c 247 



Newman, Edward, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



Notes on Irish Natural History, more especially Ferns 



16, 64, 112, 173 

 Notice of the capture of Calosoma sycophanta, at Brighton, 



Ramsgate, and Hastings 150 



Description of a few Longicorns, MS. names of which are 



published in the Sale-Catalogue of Mr. Children's Insects. 194 



A few Notes on British Ferns 241 



Descriptions of eight new Cryptocephali, captured near St. 



John's Bluif, East Florida, by E. Doubleday, Esq 249 



Descriptions of some new species of Coleopterous Insects. ... 362 



Prestwich, Joseph, Jun., Esq., F.G.S. , &c. 



On the occurrence of Mammalian Remains in the Lower 

 Eocene deposits of Epernay, Marne 187 



Prideaux, Charles. 



On the occurrence of the Little Bustard in Devonshire 47 



Rylands, Peter, Esq. 



Notes on Telephori 133 



SowERBY, James De C. 



Upon the ^s^rea from Bracklesham Bay 27 



SowERBY, Mr. G. B., jun. 



Descriptions of some new Chitons 287 



Strickland, H. E., Esq., F.G.S. 



Observations upon the Affinities and Analogies of Organized 



Beings 219 



On a Fossil Dragon-fly in the Lias at Warwickshire 301 



Sweeting, R. H., Esq. 



Dimensions and description of a supposed new species of Ba- 

 IcBnoptera, stranded on Charmouth Beach, Feb. 5, 1840.... 341 



Thompson, William, Esq. 



On a new Genus of Fishes from India 184 



Thompson, Robert, Esq. 



On the fall of a Meteorolite at the Cape of Good Hope 201 



Waterhouse, G. R., Esq. 



Description of a new Marsupial Mammal, belonging to the 

 genus Phascogale 299 



