VI CONTENTS. 



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 XXXIX. On Hancochia eudactt/lufa, a Genus and Species of Mol- 

 hisca supposed to be new. By Philip Henky Gosse, F.K.S. 

 (Plate XL) -Sie 



XL. Descriptions of twenty-three new Species of Hespericlee frona 

 his own Collection. By W. C. Hewitson 319 



XLI. Capture of a Right Whale in the Mediterranean. By 

 Albax Doran 328 



XLII. Notes on the Pearly Nautilus {Nautilus pompilius). By 

 George Bennett, M.D., F.L.S 331 



XLIII. On a new Insect Pest at Madeira. By T. Vernon Wol- 

 LASTON, M.A., F.L.S ' 334 



XLIV. Remarks on Prof. E. Haeckel's Observations on Wyville- 

 tJiomsonia Wallichii and Squamidina scopula. By H. J. Carter, 

 F.R.S. &c 337 



XLV. Descriptions of Ceylon Lepidoptera. By F. Moore, F.Z.S. 339 



XLVI. On a Collection of Lepidoptera obtained by the Rev. S. J. 

 AVhitmee from Lifu (Loyalty Group), with Descriptions of the new 

 Species. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., k.c 348 



Neiv Book: — Researches on the Fossil Remains of the Extinct 

 Mammals of Australia ; with a Notice of the Extinct Marsu- 

 pials of England, by Richard Owen, C.B., F.R.S 359 



Proceedings of the Royal Society 361 



On some Points in the Embryologj^ of Annelids, by M. C. Bar- 

 rois ; On a new Genus of the Family Ti-itoniida, by IM. A. 

 Vayssiere : 365, 367 



NUMBER CXIX. 



XL VII. On Pteroplax cormita, H. & A. By Thomas Atthey. 

 (Plates XII. & XIIL) 369 



XL VIII. Characters of new Genera and of some undescribed 

 Species of Phytophagous Beetles. By Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S. . . 377 



XLIX. Note on Lichens. By G. 11. K. Thwaites, F.R.S 38a 



li. Contributions to Micro-Palaeontology.— II. On Prasopora 

 GraycB, a new Genus and Species of Silurian Corals. By H. 

 Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, F.R.S.E., and Robert E'the- 

 ridge, Jun., F.G.S 388 



LI. Descriptions of new Species of Ileterocera from Japan. — 

 Part I. Sphinges and Bombyces. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c. ! : 393 



LII. Description of an apparently new Species of Humming-bird 

 of the Genus Amuzilia. By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.P]. &c 404 



Lin. Studies on Fossil Spong6s. — I. Ilexactinellida. By Karl 

 Alfred Zittel 405 



