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INDEX TO VOL. XVII. 



AcHATINA, new species of, 442. 



Achatinella, remarks on the genus, 133. 



Acmseodera, new species of, 64. 



Acronema, characters of the genus, 50. 



Actaeon, on the embryology of, 137. 



Agelina, new species of, 43. 



Agrilus, new species of, 64. 



Agrimonia odorata, notice respecting, 2 10. 



Alcedo Alcyon, notice respecting the oc- 

 currence of, 69. 



Alcyone, new species of, 491. 



Alderia, description of the new genus, 4. 



Alexander, Dr. R. C, on the flora of Sicily, 

 124 ; account of a botanical excursion 

 in Lower Styria, 457. 



Algae, on the occurrence of tetraspores 

 in, 262. 



Allman, Prof. J., on a new genus of nu- 

 dibranchiate moUusca, 1 ; on a new 

 genus of pulmonary gasteropods, 297 ; 

 on a new genus of helianthoid zoo- 

 phytes, 417. 



Ambrosinia ciUata, observations on, 272. 



Anous, observations on the genus, 285. 



Anous tenuirostris, description of, 87. 



Anthaxia, new species of, 63. 



Aphana, new species of, 330. 



Aramus scolopaceus, notes on the ana- 

 tomy of, 26. 



Arpacticus, new species of, 416. 



Ascidians, simple, on the embryogeny, 

 anatomy and physiology of the, 248. 



Athene, new species of, 491. 



Babington, C. C, on the British Rubi, 

 165,235,314. 



Baird, Dr. W., on some new genera and 

 species of British Entomostraca, 410. 



Balfour, Prof., account of a botanical trip 

 to Ben Voirlich, 124. 



Bats, new species of fossil, 450. 



Begbie, Capt. P. J., on the natural history 

 of the Malayan peninsula, 395. 



Belted kingfisher, notes on the, 69. 



Beneden's, P. J. van, Recherches sm: 1' Ana- 

 tomic et I'Embryologie des Bryozoaires, 

 noticed, 120; on the physiology and 

 embryology of the simple Ascidians, 

 &c., 248. 

 Bertia, characters of the genus, 227. 

 Birds, new, 85, 126, 286, 452; notes on 



some, 26, 285, 310, 476, 491 ; compa- 

 rative anatomy of the vocal organs of, 

 499. 



Blackwall, J., on new species of spiders 

 captured in Canada, 30, 76. 



Blood, on the size of the red corpuscles 

 of the, 200. 



Blyth, E., on Caprolagus, a new genus of 

 leporine mammalia, 163. 



Bone, on the intimate structure of, 374. 



Bonyun, Dr. G. R., on the disease of the 

 plantain, 212. 



Boott, Dr. F., on new species of Carices, 

 51. 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 68, 123, 275, 373. 



Botany of Scinde, notes on the, 419. 



Botaurus lentiginosus, occurrence of, in 

 Ireland, 91. 



Boyes, Capt. W. J. E., on the ceconomy 

 of the Paussidae, 88 ; on the habits of 

 the Termites, 495. 



Bridges, T., on the habits of some mam- 

 malia, 481. 



Brightwell, T., on a specimen of the 

 bottle-nosed dolphin, 21. 



Brodie, Rev. P. B., on the fossil insects of 

 the secondary rocks of England, 347- 



Brongniart, A., on the relations of the ge- 

 nus Noggerathia to hving plants, 101. 



Bryozoa, observations on the anatomy 

 and embryology of the, 120. 



Bulimus, new species of, 441. 



Buprestidae, descriptions of new, 62. 



Callimome, new species of, 110. 



Candona, new species of, 415. 



Cantor, Dr. T., on a species of Semnopi- 

 thecus, 335. 



Caprolagus, description of the genus, 163. 



Carex, new species of, 51. 



Careya, on the seeds of, 359. 



Cells, on the formation of, 94. 



Cerchysius, new species of, 114. 



Ceroplastes, new species of, 333. 



Cetacea, observations on the British, 82. 



Chaetopisthes, characters of the new 

 genus, 497. 



Chalcidites, descriptions of new species 

 of, 108, 177, 270. 



Chara, on the development of, 254, 323, 



