500 
INDEX tro VOL. XVII. 
ACHATINA, new species of, 442. 
Achatinella, remarks on the genus, 133. 
Acmeeodera, new species of, 64. 
Acronema, characters of the genus, 50. 
Actzon, on the embryology of, 137. 
Agelina, new species of, 43. 
Agrilus, new species of, 64. 
Agrimonia odorata, notice respecting, 210. 
Alcedo Alcyon, notice respecting the oc- 
currence of, 69. 
Alcyone, new species of, 491. 
Alderia, description of the new genus, 4. 
Alexander, Dr. R.C., on the flora of Sicily, 
124; account of a botanical excursion 
in Lower Styria, 457. 
Algze, on the occurrence of tetraspores 
in, 262. 
Allman, Prof. J., on a new genus of nu- 
dibranchiate mollusca, 1; on a new 
genus of pulmonary gasteropods, 297 ; 
on a new genus of helianthoid zoo- 
phytes, 417. 
Ambrosinia ciliata, observations on, 272. 
Anous, observations on the genus, 285. 
Anous tenuirostris, description of, 87. 
_Anthaxia, new species of, 63. 
Aphana, new species of, 330. 
Aramus scolopaceus, notes on the ana- 
tomy of, 26. 
Arpacticus, new species of, 416. 
Ascidians, simple, on the embryogeny, 
anatomy and physiology of the, 248. 
Athene, new species of, 491. 
Babington, C. C., on the British Rubi, 
165, 255, 314. 
Baird, Dr. W., on some new genera and 
species of British Entomostraca, 410. 
Balfour, Prof., account of a botanical trip 
to Ben Voirlich, 124. 
Bats, new species of fossil, 450. 
Begbie, Capt. P. J., on the natural history 
of the Malayan peninsula, 395. 
Belted kingfisher, notes on the, 69. 
Beneden’s, P. J. van, Recherches sur ]’Ana- 
tomie et l’Embryologie des Bryozoaires, 
noticed, 120; on the physiclogy and 
embryology of the simple Ascidians, 
&c., 248. 
Bertia, characters of the genus, 227. 
Birds, new, 85, 126, 286, 452; notes on 
some, 26, 285, 310, 476, 491; compa- 
ae anatomy of the vocal organs of, 
9. 
Blackwall, J., on new species of spiders 
captured in Canada, 30, 76. 
Blood, on the size of the red corpuscles 
of the, 200. 
Blyth, E., on Caprolagus, a new genus of 
leporine mammalia, 163. 
Bone, on the intimate structure of, 374. 
Bonyun, Dr. G. R., on the disease of the 
plantain, 212. 
oot Dr. F., on new species of Carices, 
1. 
Botanical Society of Edinburgh, pro- 
ceedings of the, 68, 123, 275, 3738. 
Botany of Scinde, notes on the, 419. 
Botaurus lentiginosus, occurrence of, in 
Ireland, 91. 
Boyes, Capt. W. J. E., on the ceconomy 
of the Pausside, 88; on the habits of 
the Termites, 495. 
Bridges, T., on the habits of some mam- 
malia, 481. 
Brightwell, T., on a specimen of the 
bottle-nosed dolphin, 21. 
Brodie, Rev. P. B., on the fossil insects of 
the secondary rocks of England, 347. 
Brongniart, A., on the relations of the ge- 
nus Noggerathia to living plants, 101. 
Bryozoa, observations on the anatomy 
and embryology of the, 120. 
Bulimus, new species of, 441. 
Buprestide, descriptions of new, 62. 
Callimome, new species of, 110. 
Candona, new species of, 415. 
Cantor, Dr. T., on a species of Semnopi- 
thecus, 335. 
Caprolagus, description of the genus, 163. 
Carex, new species of, 51. 
Careya, on the seeds of, 359. 
Cells, on the formation of, 94. 
Cerchysius, new species of, 114, 
Ceroplastes, new species of, 333. 
Cetacea, observations on the British, 82. 
Cheetopisthes, characters of the new 
genus, 49 
Chalcidites, descriptions of new species 
of, 108, 177, 270. 
Chara, on the development of, 254, 323, 
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