INDEX. 793 



Waders, young of, 553. 



Wagner, *R., on the occurrence of the diastema in a Kaflir skull, 

 45; on the bronchi of the black stork, 425. 



Wagtail, Kay's, arrival of the male before the female, 240. 



Wagtails, Indian, young of, 534. 



Waist, proportions of, in soldiers and sailors, 37. 



Waitz, Prof., on the number of species of man, 199; on the liabil- 

 ity of negroes to tropical fevers after residence in a cold climate, 221 ; 

 on the color of Australian infants, 636; on the beardlessness of 

 negroes, 639; on the fondness of mankind for ornaments, 654; on 

 negro ideas of female beauty, 660; on Javan and Cochin Chineses 

 ideas of beauty, 661. 



Waldever, M., on the hermaphroditism of the vertebrate em- 

 bryo, 183'. 



Wales, North, numerical proportions of male and female births 

 in, 274. 



VValkenaer and Gervais, spider attracted by music, 309; on the 

 Myriapoda, 310. 



Walker, Alex. , on the large size of the hands of laborers' chil- 

 dren, 37. 



Walker, F., on sexual differences in the diptera, 317. 



Wallace, Dr. A, , on the prehensile use of the tarsi in male moths, 

 237; on the rearing of the A'ilanthus silkmoth, 284; on breeding 

 Lepidoptera, 284: proportion of sexes of Bairibyr cyrdhia, B. yama- 

 mai, and B. Pernyi reared by, 285; on the development of Bambyx 

 cyiithia and B. yamamai, 315; on the pairing of Bombyx cyntJda, 360. 



Wallace, A. K., on the origin of man, 3; on the power of imita- 

 tion in man, 77; on the use of missiles by the orang, 92; on the 

 vary appreciation of truth among different tribes, 138; on the limits 

 of natural selection in man, 144; on the occurrence of remorse among 

 savages, 149; on the effects of natural selection on civilized nations, 

 151; on the use of the convergence of the hair at the elbow in the 

 orang, 172; on the contrast in the characters of the Malays and 

 Papuans, 191 ; on the line of separation between the Papuans and 

 Malays, 192; on the birds of paradise, 248; on the sexes of Omi- 

 thoptera Vrcesiis, 283; on protective resemblances, 295; on the rela- 

 tive sizes of the sexes of insects, 315; on Klaphomyia, 317; on the 

 pugnacity of the males of LeptorJiynchus angustatus, 339; on sounds 

 produced* by Kuchirus lonyimanus, 344; on the colors of Diadenw., 

 350; on Kallima, 353; on the protective coloring of moths, 355; on 

 bright coloration as protective in butterflies, 356; on variability in 

 the Papilionidae, 363; on male and female butterflies inhabiting dif- 

 ferent stations, 364; on the protective nature of the dull coloring of 

 female butterflies, 364, 365, 367; on mimicry in butterflies, 367; on 

 the bright colors of caterpillars, 369; on brightly colored fishes fre- 

 quenting reefs, 389; on the coral snakes, 400; on Paradisea apoda, 

 438; on the display of plumage by male birds of paradise, 449; on 

 assemblies of birds of paradise, 460; on the instability of the ocel- 

 lated spots in Hipparchia Janira, 486; on sexually limited inherit- 

 ance, 505; on the sexual coloration of birds, 514, 538, 539, 541. 546; 

 on the relation between the colors and nidification of birds, 515, 518; 

 on the coloration of the Cotingidae, 523; on the females of Paradisea 

 apoda and papuana, 535; on the incubation of the cassowary, 545; 



