CONTENTS OF VOL. XVII. 



[FOURTH SERIES.] 



NUMBER XCVII. 



Page 



I. On the Classification of Scorpions. By Prof, T. Thobell .... 1 



II. On some Species of Terchratulina, Waldheimia, and Terebra- 

 tella from the Upper Tertiary Deposits of Mount Gambier and the 

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

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



III. Critical Notes on the New-Zealand Ilydroida, Suborder The- 

 caphora. By Millen Coughtrey, M.B., O.'M. Ediub. Univ., Hon. 

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

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



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

 and a Minla from the Naga Hills, with Remarks on Picto7-his {Chry- 

 somma) altirostre, 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 Astmidce and Lmkiidce in the 

 British Museimi. 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 Palseozoic 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 Bt(p?-estidce and Melolonthidce. By Charles O.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 Books : — Geological Survey 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 Ilemiscpius, a new Genus of the Family Sepiidtp, with some 

 Remai'ks on the Species of the Genus Sepia in general, bv M. 

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

 Paul, by M. II. F. Sauvage ; On a gigantic Stridulating Spider, 

 bv James Wood-Mason ; On the ^lechanism and Causes of the 



