756 INDEX. 



Kingsley, C, on the sounds produced by Umhrina, 394. 



Kirby and Spence, on sexual differences in the hni^th of the 

 snout in Curculionidae, 236; on the courtship of insects, 250; on the 

 elytra of I)i/tiscn, 313; on peculiarities in the legs of male insects, 

 313; on the relative size of the sexes in insects, 316; on the Fulgor- 

 idie, 319; on the habits of Termites, 330; on difference of color in the 

 sexes of beetles, 333; on the horns of the male lamellicorn beetles, 

 336; on hornlike processes in male Curculionidae, 339; on the pug- 

 nacity of the male stag-beetle, 339. 



Kite, killed by a game-cock, 412. 



Knot, retention of winter plumage by the, 444. 



Knox, R., on the semilunar fold, 19; on the occurrence of the 

 supra-condyloid foramen in the humerus of man, 23; on the features 

 of the young Memnon, 192. 



Koala, length of the coecum in, 22. 



Kobiiit ellipdjjrymnus, proportion of the sexes in, 280. 



Kolreuter, on the sterility of hybrid plants, 196. 



Koodoo, development of the horns of the, 265; markings of the, 621. 



Koppen, F. T., on the migratory locust, 320. 



Koraks, marriage customs of, 683. 



Kordofan, protuberances artificially produced by natives of, 655. 



Korte, on the proportion of sexes in locusts, 287; Russian locusts, 

 320. 



Kovalevsky, A., on the affinity of the Ascidiatothe Vertebrata, 181. 



Kovalevsky, W., on the pugnacity of the male capercailzie, 412; 

 on the pairing of the capercailzie, 416. 



Krause, on a convoluted body at the extremity of the tail in a 

 Macaeus and a cat, 25. 



Kupffer, Prof., on the affinity of the Ascidia to the Vertebrata, 181. 



Labidocera Darwinii, prehensile organs of the male, 301. 



Labrus, splendid colors of the species of, 382, labrus mixtus, sexual 

 differences in, 382, 386; labrus pavo, 388. 



Lacertilia, sexual differences of, 401. 



Lafresnaye, M. de, on birds of paradise, 439. 



Lamarck, on the origin of man, 3. 



Lamellibranchiata, 296. 



Lamellicorn beetles, horn-like processes from the head and thorax 

 of, 334, 336; influence of sexual selection on, 341. 



Lamellicornia, stridulation of, 343. 



Lamont, Mr., on the tusks of the vralrus, 572; on the use of its 

 tusks by the walrus, 585; on the bladder-nose seal, 603. 



Lampornis porphyrurus, colors of the female, 516. 



Lampyridae, distasteful to mammals, 314. 



Lancelot, 181, 187. 



Landois, H., gnats attracted by sound, 318; on the production of 

 sound by the Cicadae, 319; on the stridulating organ of the crickets, 

 321; on Decticus, 323; on the stridulating organs of the Acridiidae, 

 324; stridulating apparatus in Orthoptera, 326; on the stridulation of 

 Necrophorus, 342; on the stridulant organs of Cerambyx heros, 343; 

 on the stridulant organ of Oeotritpes, 343; on the stridulating organs 

 in the Coleoptera, 344; on the ticking of Anobinm, 347. 



Landor, Dr., on remorse for not obeying tribal custom, 130. 



Language, an art, 97; articulate, origin of, 98 ; relation of the 



