CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII. 



NUMBER CIX. 



Page 



I. Note on a new Genus of Niidibranchiate Mollusca. By Geo. J. 



Allman, M.B. &c., Professor of Botany in the University of Dublin... 1 



II. Contributions to the Physiology of Fecundation in Plants. By 

 G. Dickie, M.D., Lecturer on Botany in the University and King's 

 College of Aberdeen. (With a Plate.) 5 



III. Notes, &c. on the genera of Insects Phyllohius, Polydrosus and 

 Metallites. By John Walton, Esq., F.L.S 12 



IV. Observations on a specimen of the Bottle-nosed Dolphin, Del- 

 phinus Tursio, Fabr., taken at Great Yarmouth, October 1845. By 

 Thomas Brightwell, F.L.S. (With a Plate.) 21 



V. Descriptions of new or imperfectly described Diurnal Lepido- 

 ptera. By Edward Doubleday, Esq., Assistant in the Zoological 

 Department of the British Museum, F.L.S. &c 22 



VI. Notes on Birds. By T. C. Eyton, Esq., F.L.S. (With a 

 Plate.) 26 



VII. Notice of Spiders captured by Professor Potter in Canada, with 

 descriptions of such Species as appear to be new to science. By John 

 Blackwall, F.L.S 30 



VIII. Notice of what appears to be the Embryo of an Ichthyosaurus 

 in the Pelvic cavity of Ichthyosaurus {communis 1). By J. Chaning 

 Pearce, F.G.S., M.R.C.S 44 



IX. Journey through Java, descriptive of its Topography and Na- 

 tural History. By Dr. Fr. Junghuhn 46 



New Books : — Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. — 

 The British Desmidiece, with coloured Figures of the Species, by 

 J. Ralfs, M.R.C.S 48—49 



Proceedings of the Linnaean Society ; Entomological Society; Botanical 



Society of Edinburgh 50—69 



Additional note on the Belted Kingfisher, Jlcedo Alcyon, Linn., ob- 

 tained in Ireland ; Spicula of Mollusca ; Indian species oi' Papilio ; 

 Death of Dr. Moiler ; Meteorological Observations and Table 69 — 72 



