CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV. 



[SIXTH SERIES.] 



NUMBER LXXIX. 



I. On Lepidosiren paradoxa, Fitzinger, and Lepidosiren articulata, 



sp. n., from Paraguay. By Prof. E. Ehlers 1 



II. Scarabaidte in tbe British Museum. — A Sixth Contribution. 



By Charles O. Waterhouse 9 



III. Two new Coccidce from the Arid Region of North America. 

 By T. D. A. Cockerell, Entomologist to the New Mexico (U.S.A.) 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 12 



IV. On a Small Collection of Odonata (Dragonrlies) from Queens- 

 land, with Descriptions of Five new Species. By W. F. Kirb y, F.L.S., 

 E.E.S., Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum (Natural 

 History), South Kensington 15 



V. Descriptions of some new Species of Agaristidce. By Herbert 

 Druce, F.L.S 21 



VI. Descriptions of Two more new Species of Butterflies from New 

 Britain, in the Collection of Mr. Grose Smith, captured by Captains 

 Cay ley Webster and Cotton. By II. Grose Smith 25 



VII. On Parthenogenesis in Spiders. By N. Daiiin 26 



VIII. On a Medusa observed by Dr. Tautain in the River Niger 



at Bamakou (French Soudan). By M. Jules de Guerne 29 



IX. On the Development of the Fins of Teleosts. By Ross Gran- 

 ville Harrison 34 



X. On the Habits of the Amphictenida. By Arnold T. Watson. 43 



XL Descriptions of One new Genus and Six new Species of 

 Hyaienoptera Terebrantia from Queensland. By W. F. Kirby, 

 F.L.S., F.E.S., Assistant in Zoological Department, British Museum 

 (Natural History), South Kensington , 45 



XII. On the Nutritive and Excretory Processes of Porifera. By 

 Arthur T. Masterman, B.A., Assistant-Professor of Natural 

 History, University of St. Andrews 48 



