CONTENTS. 



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XXV. On the S110W7 Owl (Surnia nyctea). By William Thomp- 

 son, Esq 241 



XXVI. The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. By 

 William Baird, Esq. (With a Plate.) 245 



XXVII. Notices of British Fungi. By the Rev. M. J. Berkeley. 

 (With a Plate.) 257 



XXVIII. Remarks on the Ant Tree of Guiana {Triplaris Ameri- 

 cana). By Robert Scuomburgk, Esq 264 



XXIX. On the Root of the Madder. By M. Decaisne 267 



XXX. A Catalogue of the Slender-tongued Saurians, with De- 

 scriptions of many new Genera and Species. By J. E. Gray, Esq. . 274 



XXXI. Characters of Nine new Species of Glumacece. By Dr. C. 



G. Nees v. Esenbeck ; communicated by Dr. Lindley 283 



XXXII. An Attempt to ascertain the Fauna of Shropshire and 

 fJorth Wales. By T. C. Eyton, Esq 285 



XXXIII. Remarks respecting Phalangista Cookii. By J. E. Gray, 

 Esq 293 



XXXIV. Prodromus of a Monograph of the Radiata and Echino- 

 dermata. By Louis Agassiz, D.M 297 



XXXV. Descriptions of British Chalcidites. By F. Walker, Esq. 307 



XXXVI. Description of a new Species of Tetrapturus from the 

 £ape of Good Hope. By J. E. Gray, Esq. (With a Plate.) 313 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle. Superintended by 

 Charles Darwin, Esq. F.G.S. Part I. No. I. Fossil Mam- 

 malia. By Richard Owen, Esq., F.R.S 314 



A Geographical and Comparative List of the Birds of Europe and 

 North America. By Charles Ltjcian Bonaparte, Prince of 

 Musignano 318 



Malacologia Monensis : a Catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the 



Isle of Man. By E. Forbes, Esq 320 



Wiegmann's Archiv der Naturgeschichte 321 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



Zoological Society : — Colonel Sykes on the identity of the Wild Ass 

 of Cutch and the Indus, with the Dzeggetai (Equus Hemionus, 

 Pallas) 322 



Linnaean Society : — Mr. Curtis on some new genera of Coleoptera; 



Mr. Bentham on the Affinities oiArachis and Voandzeia .... 328 



Royal Society of Edinburgh : — Professor Traill's remarks on the 



Ossiferous Caves of Cefn in Denbighshire 330 



Royal Academy of Berlin : — M. v. Buch on the Jura in Germany . . 332 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Fungi of India 334 



Trachypterus Vogmanus 334 



Otis tarda 334 



Zoology of Java — Two Species of Echidna 335 



