l^eF 



CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII 



[FIFTH SERIES.] 



iN UMBER XCVII. 



I. On a liviug Spiuose Rhynchonella from Japan. By the late 

 Thomas Davidson, LL.D., F.R.S j 



II. An Account of the Earth-Snakes of the Peninsula of India 

 and Ceylon. By Colonel R. H. Beddojie, F.L.S , . 3 



III. On the Bruchidce of Japan. By D. Sharp 34 



IV. A new Genus of Heteromerous Coleoptera allied to Kotoj:us, 



By Charles O. Waterhouse 39 



V. Descriptions of Sponges from the Neighbourhood of Port 

 Phillip Heads, South Australia, continued. By H. J. Carter, 

 F.R.S. &c.- \ 40 



VI. On the Occurrence of Sowerby's Whale {Mesoplodon hideiis) 

 on the Yorkshire Coast. By Thomas SouTH^yELL, F.Z.S., and 

 William Eagle Clarke, F.L.S 53 



VII. On Vulsella, a Genus of Acephalous MoUusca. By Alfred 

 Ha:nds Cooke, M.A., Curator in Zoology, Museum of Zoology and 

 Comparative Anatomy, Cambridge 59 



VIII. Description of an apparently new Species of Scincus from 

 Muscat. By Jaiies A. Murray, Curator of the Kurrachee Museum 67 



IX. On the Geodephagous Coleoptera collected by Mr. George 

 Lewis in Ceylon. By H. W. Bates, F.R.S 68 



Ketv Book : — Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria per familias et genera 



et species descripta a Gustavo Budde-Lund 81 



Diagnoses of three new Oriental Mammals, by Oldfield Thomas, Natu- 

 ral History Museum ; An Endoparasite of Nolens, by Sara 

 Gwendolen Foulke ; On the Stellerida collected during the Expe- 

 dition of the 'Talisman,' by M. E. Perrier ; Reproduction of 

 Freshwater Planari;e bv Transverse Division 84—88 



