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INDEX TO VOL. XVII. 



Agave Americana, on the floAver- 

 ing of, 284. 



Algae, unusual dearth of, 76. 



AhcEEus, new species of, 225. 



Amphijihora, on the conjugation of, fi. 



Amphora, on the conjugation of, 1. 



Anabates, new species of, 468. 



Anaulus, notes on the genus, 342. 



Animals, mai-ine, on the geographical 

 distribution of, 165. 



Ant, house, of Madeu-a, on the, 209, 

 322. 



Anthracosia, on the fossil genus, 51 ; 

 new species of, 56. 



Antilocapra, new species of, 424. 



Araneidea, new species of, 233. 



Arctium, on the British species of, 

 369. 



Arremon, new species of, 515. 



Assimiuia, on the genus, 5/. 



Astropyga, new species of, 282. 



Aulosteges, new species of, 262. 



Babington, C. C, on some species of 

 Epilobium, 236, 311 ; on the Bri- 

 tish species of Arctium, 369. 



Backhouse's, J. jun.. Monograph of 

 the British Hieracia, re^newed, 418. 



Baker's, J. G., Flowering Plants and 

 Ferns of Great Britain, reviewed, 

 199. 



Barrett, L., on the animal of Scissu- 

 rella crispata, 206 ; on the ]Mollusca 

 observed between Dronthcim and 

 the North Cape, 378. 



Bate, C. S., on the British Diastylidse, 

 449. 



Beetles, on the bhstering, of Monte- 

 video, 75. 



Benson, W. H., on the genus Sca- 

 phula, 127 J on Tanystoma tubi- 

 ierum, 129; on new forms of Cy- 

 ciostomacea, 225 ; on the genera 

 Tanystoma, Nematura and Anaulus, 

 .342; on new species of Paludomus, 

 and on some forms of Stenothvra, 

 494. 

 Birds, new species of, 63, 77.. 78, 428, 



435, 466, 511, 515, 518; habits of 

 some Indian, 65, 200, 362, 431, 

 511 ; notes on some, 426, 510. 



Blackwall, J., on new species of 

 Aianeidea, 233. 



Blyth, E., on the Indian species of 

 Shrews, 11. 



Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 

 proceedings of the, 356. 



Books, new : — De Koninck and Le 

 Hon's Crinoides du Terrain carbo- 

 nifere de la Belgique, 58; T. R. 

 Jones's Lecture on the Geological 

 Histor) of Newbuiy, 60; Seemann's 

 Popular History of Palms, 194; 

 Hooker's Museum of Economic Bo- 

 tany, 196; Gosse's Handbook to the 

 Marine Aquarium, 197; E. M. C.'s 

 Popular Geography of Plants, 198 ; 

 Baker's Flowering Plants and Ferns 

 of Great Britain, 199 ; Stainton's 

 History of the Tineina, 272 ; Mon- 

 tague's Sylloge Geuerum Specie- 

 rumque Cryptogamicarum, 277; 

 WoUaston's Insecta Maderensia, 

 348 ; Backhouse's British Hieracia, 

 418; Dawson and Clark's List of 

 British Coleoptera, 419; Rymer 

 Jones's Outline of the Animal King- 

 dom, 507. 



Botanical Societv of Edinburgh, pro- 

 ceedings of the, 7-4, 205, 283, 519. 



Brachygalba, new species of, 72. 



British Museum, Catalogues of the, 

 441. 



Burgess, Lieut., on the habits of some 

 Indian birds, 65, 200, 362, 431, 

 511. 



Campvlorhvnchus, new species of, 

 429. 



Carpenter, Dr. W. B., on the minute 

 structm'e of certain Brachiopod 

 shells, and on vegetable cell-for- 

 mation, 502. 

 Carter, H. J., on the conjugation of 

 Cocconeis, Cymbella and Am])hora, 

 with some remarks on Aniphiphora 



