CONTENTS OF NUMBER b^.— Eighth Series. 



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 XLVIII. Notes on Fossorial Hymenoptera. — X. By Rowland 

 E. TrENEE, E.Z.S., P.E.S 361 



XLIX. The Osteology and Classification of the Teleostean Fishes 

 of the Order Apodes. By C. Tate Regan, M.A 377 



L. A Revision of the South- American Characid Pishes of the 

 Genera Chalceus, Pyrrhulma, Co^eina, and Pogonocharax. By 

 C. Tate Regan, M.A 387 



LI. On a Collection of Small Mammals from the Tsin-ling 

 Mountains, Central China, presented by Mr. G. Fenwick Owen to 

 the National Museum. By Oldfield Thoaias 395 



LII. New Bats and Rodents from S. America. By Oldfield 

 Thomas 403 



LIII. New Land and Freshwater Shells collected by Dr. J. 

 Elbert in the Malay Archipelago. By Dr. F. Haas, Frankfurt-a.-M. 412 



LIV. Descriptions of new Reptiles from the Andes of South 

 America, preserved in the British Museum. By G. A. Botjlengeb, 

 F.R.S 420 



LV. A Contribution to the Knowledge of the Fauna of Bromeliacece. 

 By Hugh Scott, M.A.(Cantab.), F.L.S., F.E.S., Curator in Entomo- 

 logy in the University of Cambridge. Including Descriptions of 

 new Insects by W. L, Distant, F.E.S., and the late R. Shelfobd, 

 M.A., F.L.S. (Plate X.) 424 



LVI. Descriptions of some new Homoptera. By W. L. Distant . 438 



LVII. On the Structure of Stromatoporoids and of Eozoon. By 

 R. KiEKPATEicK. (Plates XL & XII.) 446 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE. 

 Recent Foreign and Colonial Natural History Periodicals 460 



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