vi CONTENTS. 



XXXIX. On Ilancockia eutlactt/luta, a Genus and Species of Mol- 

 lusca supposed to be new. By Philip Henry Gosse, F.K.iS. 

 (Plate XI.) '^^^ 



XL. Descriptions of twenty-three new Species of Hesperidai fiom 

 his own Collection. By W. C. Hewitson. ._ 310 



XLI. Capture of a Right Whale in the Mediterranean. By 

 Alban DortAN 328 



XLII. Notes on the Pearly Nautilus {Nautilm pompilius). By 

 George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S 331 



XLIII. On a new Insect Pest at Madeira. By T. Vernon Wol- 

 LASTON, M.A., F.L.S 334 



XLIV. Remarks on Prof. E. Haeckel's Observations on Wyville- 

 thamsonia WaUichii and SquamuUna scopula. By H. J. Carter, 

 F.R.S. &c ^'^'^ 



XLV. Descriptions of Ceylon Lepidoptera. By F. Moore, F.Z.S. 339 



XLVI. On a Collection of Lepidoptera obtained by the Rev. S. J. 

 Whitmee from Lifu (Loyalty Group), with Descriptions of the new 

 Species. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 348 



New Book: — Researches on the Fossil Remains of the Extinct 

 Mammals of Australia ; with a Notice of the Extinct Marsu- 

 pials of England, by Richard Owen, C.B., F.R.S 359 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 361 



On some Points in the Embryology of Annelids, by M. C. Bar- 

 rois ; On a new Genus of the Family Tritoniidcs, by M. A. 

 Vayssiere ^^^' ^^^ 



NUMBER CXIX. 



XLVII. On Pteroplax cormda, H. & A. By Thomas Atthey. 

 (Plates XII. & XIII.) ^^^ 



XLVIII. Characters of new Genera and of some undescribed 

 Species of Phytophagous Beetles. By Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S. . . 377 



XLIX. Note on Lichens. By G. H. K. Thwaites, F.R.S 38ij 



L. Contributions to Micro-Palaeontology.— II. On Prasoporii 

 Graxice a new Genus and Species of Silurian Corals. By H. 

 Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.E., and Robert Lthe- 

 RIDGE, Jun., F.G.S "^'-^ 



LI. Descriptions of new Species of Heterocera from Japan.— 

 Part i. Sphinges and Bombyces. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., ^ 

 F.Z.S., &c ''*''■' 



LII Description of an apparently new Species of Humming-bird 

 of the Genus AmaziUa. By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. &c 404 



LIII. Studies on Fossil Sponges.— I. Hexactinellida. By Karl 

 Alfbbd Zittel ^^^ 



