CONTENTS. Vll 



Plateau ; On the Femoral Brushes of the Mantidce and their 

 Function, by Prof. J. Wood-Mason ; On the Geographical Dis- 

 tribution oiSchizocepliaIn, a Genus ofManfidcs, by Prof. J. Wood- 

 Mason ; On the Capture of Rattlesnakes, and on the Associ- 

 ation of these Serpents with a small Owl and a little Marmot, by 

 M. A. Trecul 437 — 439 



NUMBER CVIII. 



XLIV. Description of a new Species of Mantidce with Pointed 

 Eyes. By Prof. James Wood-Mason 441 



XLV. On some new and little-known Amphipodous Crustacea. 

 By the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, M.A. (Plates XIX, & XX.) .... 443 



XLVI. Descriptions of twenty-five new Species oi Hesperidm from 

 his own Collection. By W. C. Hewitson 449 



XLVII. Descriptions and Figures of Deep-Sea Sponges and their 

 Spicules, from the Atlantic Ocean, dredged up on board H.M.S. 

 ' Porcupine/ chiefly in 1869. By H. J. Carter, F.R.S. &c 458 



XLVIII. On a Collection of Lepidoptera recently received from 

 Abyssinia. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 480 



XLIX. New and peculiar MoUusca of the Kellia, Lvcina, Cyprina^ 

 and Corhida Families procured in the ' Valorous ' Expedition. By 

 J. GwYN Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S 490 



L, List of MoUusca collected by the Rev. A. E. Eaton at Spits- 

 bergen during the third Voyage of B. Leigh Smith, Eq. Stel. Pol., 

 in the Greenland Sea. Determined by J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S. 499 



LI. Description of a new Species of Vesperugo hoisi Zanzibar. By 

 G. E. DoBSON, M.A., M.B., F.L.S., &c ". 500 



Neio Books : — Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of 

 Northern Tibet, being a Narrative of Three Years' Travel in 

 Eastern High Asia by Lieut.-Col. N. Prejevalsky. — The School 

 Manual of Geology, by thelate J. B. Jukes, F.R.S. &c. Third Edi- 

 tion, revised and enlarged, by A. J. Jukes-Browne, F.G.S. &c. 501, 603 



Anatomical and Morphological Researches on the Nervous System 

 of Hymenopterous Insects, by M. Ed. Brandt ; On some Re- 

 markable Species of Mantidce, by Prof. J. Wood-Mason ; On 

 Rhabditis stercoralis, by M. Bavay ; On the intimate Phenomena 

 of Cell-Division, by M. H. Fol ; On a Species of lapyx, by 

 Prof. J. Wood -Mason ; " On the Fecundation of the Egg in the 

 Common Fowl " 504 — 611 



Index 512 



