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JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ROYAL MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY, 



VOL. III. No. 2. 



CONTENTS. 



Tbansactions of the Society — rxcr. 

 VII. A Further Contribution to the Knowledge of British 

 Oribatid^. (Part II.) By A. D. Michael, P.L.S., F.R.M.S. 

 (witli the assistance of C. F. George, M.R.C.S.E.). (Plates V. 



and VI.) 177 



VIII. The President's Address. By Lionel S. Beale, F.R.S. .. 202 



IX. On a Means of obviating the Reflection from the inside 

 OF the Body-tubes of Microscopes, with Suggestions for 

 Standard Gauges for the same and for Substage Fittings, 

 &c. By J. W. Groves, F.R.M.S , Demonstrator of Physiology 



in King's College, London (Fig. 14) .. 225 



X. On a Pbtrographical Microscope. By A. Nachet, F.R.M.S. 



(Fig. 15) 227 



Record of Current Rkseabches relating to Invertebrata, 



Cryptogamia, Microscopy, &c. .. .. .. .. 229 



Zoology. 



Morris's Third Corputcular Element in Blood 229 



Bemarkahle Phenomena presented by the Coloured Blood-corpuscles of the 



Frog 2:'>1 



Cartilage-eells of Salamandra maculata , 232 



Diffusion of Copper in the Animal Kingdom 2i^3 



Comparative Value of Monochromatic Impressions in Invertebrates .. .. 234 



Development of Pidmonata 235 



Neio Fossil Polyzoa 237 



Embryology of BowerhanJcia 238 



Locomotion of Insects and Arachnida 239 



Beetle loith Proboscis of Butterfly 239 



Sexual Colours of certain Butterflies .. .. 240 



Bees eating Entrapped Moths 242 



Honey Aiit — Myrmecocystus Mexicanua 243 



Phosphorescence of the Gloicicorm 243 



Rhynchopsyllus — a New Genus of Pulicida 245 



Besistance of Aphides to severe Cold .. .. 245 



Destruction of Insect Pests by means of Fungi 246 



New Arachnid •• .. •■ 248 



Poison Glands of Soliniga 248 



Generative Organs of the Phalangida 248 



Post-embryonal Development of Glyripihagus 249 



New Crustacea 249 



New Fossil Decapod .. . . 249 



Blind Amphipoda of the Caspian Sea 250 



Systematic Arrangement of the Platyscelida 252 



