﻿CONTENTS 
  OF 
  VOL. 
  III. 
  

  

  [SIXTH 
  SERIES.] 
  

  

  NUMBER 
  XIII. 
  

  

  Page 
  

  

  I. 
  A 
  Preliminary 
  Notice 
  of 
  a 
  Stalked 
  Bryozoon 
  {Ascorhiza 
  occiden- 
  

   talis). 
  By 
  J. 
  Walter, 
  Fewkes. 
  (Plate 
  I.) 
  1 
  

  

  II. 
  Contributions 
  to 
  our 
  -Knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  Crustacea 
  of 
  Domi- 
  

   nica. 
  By 
  R. 
  I. 
  Pocock, 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  Museum 
  (Natural 
  History). 
  

   (Plate 
  II.) 
  6 
  

  

  III. 
  Observations 
  on 
  Noctiluca 
  miUaris, 
  Suriray, 
  and 
  the 
  Sea- 
  

   luminosity 
  produced 
  by 
  it. 
  By 
  Dr. 
  L. 
  Plate 
  22 
  

  

  IV. 
  The 
  Staphylinidce 
  of 
  Japan. 
  By 
  Dr. 
  D. 
  Sharp 
  28 
  

  

  V. 
  Ophiopteron 
  elegans, 
  a 
  new, 
  probably 
  Natatory, 
  Form 
  of 
  Ophi- 
  

   urid. 
  By 
  Dr. 
  Hubert 
  Ludwig 
  44 
  

  

  VI. 
  Descriptions 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  Genus 
  and 
  some 
  new 
  Species 
  of 
  Cica- 
  

   didce 
  belonging 
  to 
  the 
  Oriental 
  Region. 
  By 
  W. 
  L. 
  Distant 
  49 
  

  

  VII. 
  Preliminary 
  Notice 
  of 
  new 
  Fossil 
  Chelonia. 
  By 
  R. 
  Lydek- 
  

   ker, 
  B.A., 
  F.Gr.S. 
  " 
  53 
  

  

  VIII. 
  The 
  Systematic 
  Position 
  of 
  Meiolania, 
  Owen. 
  By 
  Dr. 
  G. 
  

  

  1 
  Satjr, 
  New 
  Haven, 
  Conn 
  o4 
  

  

  New 
  Book 
  : 
  — 
  Die 
  Calaniden 
  Finlands. 
  Von 
  Osc. 
  Nordquist 
  62 
  

  

  Preliminary 
  Note 
  on 
  the 
  Functions 
  and 
  Homologies 
  of 
  the 
  Contrac- 
  

   tile 
  Vacuole 
  in 
  Plants 
  and 
  Animals, 
  by 
  Professor 
  Marcus 
  M. 
  

   Hartog, 
  D.Sc, 
  M.A. 
  ; 
  On 
  Adelphotaxy, 
  an 
  undescribed 
  Form 
  of 
  

   Irritability, 
  by 
  Professor 
  Marcus 
  M. 
  Hartog, 
  D.Sc, 
  M.A. 
  ; 
  On 
  

   the 
  Hersiliidce, 
  a 
  new 
  Family 
  of 
  Commeusal 
  Copepoda, 
  by 
  M. 
  

   Eugene 
  Canu 
  ; 
  Pebrilla, 
  a 
  new 
  Genus 
  of 
  Infusoria 
  living 
  on 
  the 
  

   Hermit-crab, 
  by 
  Prof. 
  A. 
  Giard 
  ; 
  On 
  the 
  Nutrition 
  of 
  the 
  Pro- 
  

   tozoa, 
  by 
  Dr. 
  M. 
  Meissuer 
  ; 
  A 
  Study 
  of 
  the 
  Hydrangea 
  in 
  rela- 
  

   tion 
  to 
  Cross-Fertilization, 
  by 
  Thomas 
  Meehan 
  04 
  — 
  71 
  

  

  