CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



NUMBER I. 



Page 



I. On the Propagation of the Desmidiece and DiatometB. By W. 

 HoFMEiSTER. (With a Plate.) 1 



II. Brief Diagnostic Characters of undescrihed Madeiran Insects. 



By T.Vernon WoLLASTON, M.A.,F.L.S. (With two Plates.) ... 18 



III. Notice of two new species of Brownia, a genus of Oceanic 

 Mollusca. By Arthur Adams, F.L.S 28 



IV. On Specific Character, Fecundation, and Abnormal Develop- 

 ment in (Edogonium. By H. J. Carter, Esq., Assistant Surgeon 

 H.C.S. Bombay. (With a Plate.) 29 



V. Gleanings in British Conchology. By J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 Esq., F.R.S. (With a Plate.) 39 



VI. Descriptions of three new species of Diurnal Lepidoptera. By 

 Frederic Moore 48 



VII. On a new species of Vaginula from Ceylon« By Robert 

 Templeton, Esq. (With a Plate.) 49 



VIII. On the Occurrence of Marine Animal Forms in Fresh Water. 



By Dr. E. von Martens 50 



New Books : — The Natural History of the Tineina, by H. T. Stainton, 

 assisted by Prof. Zeller and J. W. Douglas. — The Entomologist's 

 Annual for 1858. — The Handbook of British Ferns, by T. Moore, 

 F.L.S 63—66 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society Q6 



On some Eggs of Insects employed as Human Food, and giving rise 

 to the formation of Oolites in Lacustrine Limestones in Mexico, 

 by M. Virlet d'Aoust ; On a new Lagomys and a new Mustela 



