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INDEX TO VOL. I. 



AciNiA, new species of, 116. 

 Actiniadse, on the poison-apparatus 



in the, 311. 

 Actiniae, on the electrical power pos- 

 sessed by, 308 ; synopsis of the 

 families, genera and species of the 

 British, 414. 

 Actinoida, on the chylaqueous fluid 



in the, 172. 

 Adams, A., on two new species of 

 Brownia, 28 ; on three new species 

 of Sinusigera, 125. 

 Altingiaceae, on the stmctm-e and 



aiEnities of, 104. 

 Ammonites, on the dorsal cavity of 



certain, 465. 

 Amphitoe, new species of, 362. 

 Auabazenops, new species of, 303. 

 Ancei, on the metamorphosis of the 



PraniziE into, 467. 

 Anemone nemorosa purpurea, note 



on, 397. 

 Animal forms, on the occuiTcnce of 



marine, in fresh water, 50. 

 Aoust, V. d', on some eggs of insects 

 employed as human food, and 

 giving rise to the formation of 

 oolites, 79. 

 Ascaris mvstax, on the fecundation 



of, 176.' 

 Ascidians, observations on some, 404. 

 Ascogaster, new species of, 24. 

 Aspergillum, on the development of 



the shell and tube of, 423. 

 Asychna, new species of, 123. 

 Balbiani, M.,.on the existence of a 

 sexual reproduction in the Infu- 

 soria, 435. 

 Bassus, new species of, 23. 

 Bate, C. S., on the nidification of 

 Crustacea, 161,317; on some new 

 genera and species of amphipod 

 Crustacea, 361. 

 Batrachians, Urodele, observations on 



the, 353. 

 Benson, W. H., on Camptonyx, 336; 



on the genus Tanysiphon, 407. 

 Berkeley, Rev. M. J., on a peculiar 



form of Fungus, 154. 

 Bethylus, new species of, 27. 

 Beyrichia, new s])ecies of, 242, 252. 



Birds, new species of, 150, 239, 302. 

 Blackwall, J., on some new species of 



Spiders, 426. 

 Blandia, new species of, 220. 

 Blatta, new species of, 21. 

 Books, new : — Stainton's Natural 

 History of the Tineina, 63 ; The 

 Entomologist's Annual for 1858, 

 65 ; Moore's Handbook of British 

 Ferns, 66 ; Dallas's Elements of 

 Entomology, 135 ; Agassiz's Con- 

 tributions to the Natural Historj' 

 of the United States, 289 ; Prest- 

 wich's Ground beneath us, 362 ; 

 Horsfield's Catalogue of Lepido- 

 pterous Insects in the Museum of 

 the Hon. East India Company, 

 367 ; Baird's Report on the Zoo- 

 logy of the Pacific Raiboad Routes, 

 369; Baird's Cyclopaedia of the 

 Natural Sciences, 438. 

 Botanical Society of Edinburgh, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 154, 209, 374, 

 454. 

 Brownia, new species of, 28. 

 Brvozoon, lacustrine, description of a, 



169. 

 Buist, Dr., on the Lotus or sacred 



bean of India, 456. 

 Bunbury, C. J. T., on a remarkable 

 fossil belonging to the genus Neu- 

 ropteris, 232. 

 Calathus, new species of, 18. 

 Camptonyx, description of, 336 ; on 



the atfinities of the genus, 406. 

 Campvlorhynchus, new species of, 



302. 

 Canella, on the species of, 346. 

 Canellacese, on the, 342. 

 Cannan, T., on a species of Loran- 



thus, 374. 

 Capsus, new species of, 124. 

 Carrington, Dr. B., on the suborder 



Orthotricheae, 374. 

 Carter, H. J., on specific character, 

 fecundation and abnormal develop- 

 ment in CEdogonium, 29 ; on a 

 lacustrine Bryozoon allied to Flus- 

 tra, 169 ; on the red colouring 

 matter of the sea, 258; on Dra- 

 cunculus, 410. 



