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Notes on the Varieties of the "Western-Americau Weasels, by Dr. J. 

 E. Gray, F.R.S. kc. ; On the Encystation of Bucephalm Hai- 

 meanus, by M. A. Giard ; Note ou the Enemies of Diffiuyia, by 

 J. Leidy -/On the Colour of the Kittens of the Species of Cats 

 {FeU(l(e), by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. ; A Scarlet Ear Shell, 

 probably Artificial, by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. ; Descriptions 

 of two new Species of Fishes from the Bermuda Islands, by G. 

 Brown Goode ; on the Embryogeny of the Rliizocephala, by M. 

 A. Giard ; Notice of some new Freshwater Ehizopods, by J. 

 Leidy; On the Skull of the Leopard {Leopardas pardus), bv 

 Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c. ; On the Ethology of Saccnlina car- 

 cini, by M. A. Giard ; A Record of Geological Literature . . -374 — .^SS 



NUMBER LXXXIV. 



L. Development of the Marine Sponges from the earliest recog- 

 nizable Appearance of the Ovum to the Perfected Individual. By 

 H. J. Carter, F.R.S. &c 389 



LI. Description of a new Helix from Southern India. By W. T. 

 Blanford, F.R.S 40G 



LII. Notes on the ALgeriidte, with Descriptions of new Genera 

 and Species. By Arthur Gardiner Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 Senior Assistant, Zoological Department, British Museum 407 



LIII. On the Invertebrate Marine Fauna and Fishes of St. 

 Andrews. By W. C. M'Intosh 412 



LIV. On a Collection of Hemiptera Heteroptera from Japan. 

 Descriptions of various new Genera and Species. By John Scott . 426 



LV. Descriptions of new Species of Fishes in the British Museum. 

 By Dr. Albert Gunther, F.R.S. &c 453 



LVI. Further Instances of the Sponge-Spicule in its Mother Cell. 

 By H. J. Carter, F.R.S. &c. (Plate XXI. figs. 26 & 27.) 456 



L^T^I. Note on the Planula- or Gastrula--^\\&.SQ of Development in 

 Mollusca. By E. Ray Lankester, M.A 458 



New Book : — Evenings at the Microscope ; or Researches among the 

 Minute Organs and Forms of Animal Life, by Philip Ilenrv 

 Gosse, F.R.S ".460 



Note on Ahlepharus pusillm, by W. T. Blanford ; The Winged Fruits 

 of the Carboniferous Genus Cardiocarjnis ; Remarks on the 

 Fishes of the Algerian Sahara, by M. P. Gervais ; On Fossil 

 Evidences of a Sirenian Mammal {Eotherimn csgyptiacnm, Ow.) 

 from the Nummulitic Eocene of the Mokattam Cliffs, near 

 Cairo, by Prof. Owen, F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. ; Coal of the Car- 

 boniferous Era not made of Bark 461 — 463 



Index 464 



