Contents. 



XII. Notes on Oriental Diptera — Page 

 No. I. — Note on Sphyraccphala hearseyana , with a 



list of the Oriental species of Diopsinae . . 163 



No. II. — Preliminary report on a collection from 



Simla . . . . . . . . 166 



Miscellanea (pp. 171 — 178) :— 



The occurrence of Gecko verticillatiis in Calcutta . . 171 



The distribution of Kachuga sylhetensis . . . . 171 



The distribution of Bitfo andersom . . . . 171 



Note on Ridilia nitens . . . . . . 172 



Records of some Indian Cerambycidje . . . . 172 



Notes on some Indian Hemiptera . . • • ^74 



A preoccupied specific name in Macrothrix . . 176 



An enemy of certain Pearl Oysters in the Persian Gulf 176 

 The distribution in India of the African Snail, Achatina 



fitUca . . . . . . . . 176 



Statoblasts from the surface of a Himalayan Pond . . 177 



Notes on HisJopia lacustris . . . . . . 177 



Part III, October. 



XIII. Report on the Marine Polyzoa in the collection of the 



Indian Museum . . . . . . . . 179 



XIV. The Fauna of Brackish Ponds at Port Canning, Lower 



Bengal — 



Part VI. — Observations on the Polyzoa, with fur- 

 ther notes on the ponds . . . . . . iq; 



XV. A third note on Earwigs (Dermaptera) in the Indian 



Museum, with the description of a new species . . 207 



XVI. Notes on Oriental Diptera — 



No. III. — Review of the Oriental species of Sepe- 

 don, with descriptions of two new species . . 211 



XVII. Description of a New Snake from Nepal . . . . 217 



XVIII. Notes on a collection of marketable fish from Akyab, 



with a description of a new species of Lactarius . 219 



XIX. Description of two freshwater Oligochsete Worms from 



the Punjab . . . . . . . . 233 



XX. Notes on Phosphorescence in Marine Animals . . 257 



XXI. Notes on the Rats of Dacca, Eastern Bengal . . 263 



XXII. Notes on Freshwater vSponges^ — 



No. I. — The hnds oi Spongilla proliferens .. 267 



,, II. — Gemmules of Trochospongilla phillottiana 269 



269 

 270 



,, III. — Embryos of Ephydatia hlemhingia 

 ., IV. — The nature of the pores in Spongilla 

 ,, V. — The systematic position of Ephydatia 

 nieyeni and E. indica 



Miscellanea (pp. 275—280) : — 



The original home of Mus decumamis 

 Colour change in Hylohates hoolock 



272 



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