j^ '^ef CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



NUMBER XCVII. 



Page 

 I. On the Classification of Scorpions. By Prof. T. Thohell .... 1 



n. On some Species of Terebratulina, Waldheimia, and Terebra- 

 tella from the Upper Tertiary Deposits of Mount Gambier and the 

 Murray-River Cliffs, South Australia. By R. Etheridge, jun., 

 F.G.S. (Plates I. & II.) 15 



III. Critical Notes ou the New-Zealand Hydroida, Suborder The- 

 caphora. By Millen Coughtrey, M.B., CM. Ediub. Univ., Hon. 

 Fellovf Historic Soc. Lane. & Ches., President of the Dimedin Natu- 

 ralists' Field-Club, N. Z., &c. &c. (Plate HI.) 22 



IV. Description of a supposed new SvfJtora from the Dafla Hills, 

 and a Minla from the Naga Hills, with Remarks on Picturhis (Chiij- 

 so7nma) altirodre, Jerdon. By Major H. H. Godwin-Austen, 

 F.R.G.S.; F.Z.S., &c.. Deputy Superintendent, Topographical Survey 



of India 32 



V. Diagnoses of new Species of Asteriidce and Linkiidce in the 

 British Museum. By M. Edmond Perkier 34 



VI. On the Foraminifera of the River Dee. By J. D. Siddall . . 37 



VII. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of New-Zealand 

 Coleoptera. — Part II. By Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S. &c 48 



VIII. Contributions to the Study of the chief Generic Types 

 of the Palteozoic Corals. By James Thomson, F.G.S., and H. 

 Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.E., Professor of Natural 

 History in the University of St. Andrews. (Plates VI. & VII.) .... 60 



IX. Descriptions of two new Coleopterous Insects belonging to the 

 Families Bitprestidce and Mehlonthidcc. By Charles 0. Waterhouse 70 



X. Description of a new Species of Sessile-eyed Crustacean, and 

 other Notices. By the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, M.A. (Plates IV. 

 &V.) 73 



New Boohs : — Geological Sm-vey of the North-western Territories of 

 the United States of America, by F.V. Hayden, U.S. Geologist. — 

 Geology of British North America, by G. M. Dawson, Assoc. 

 R.S.M. — Geology of Indiana, by E. T. Cox, State Geologist. .81 — 87 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 88 



On Hemisepius, a new Genus of the Family Sepiidcp, with some 

 Remarks on the Species of the Genus Sepia in general, by M. 

 J. Steenstrup ; Ou the Ichthyological Fauna of the Island of St. 

 Paul, by M. H. E. Sauvage ; On a gigantic Stridulating Spider, 

 bv James Wood-Mason ; On the Mechanism and Causes of the 



