IV CONTENTS. 



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X. On Additions to the Madeiran Coleoptera. By T. Vernon 

 WoLLASTON, M.A., F.L.S 99 



XI. Observations on the Bi^«oraJace<E. By John Miers, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S. &c Ill 



XII. Observations on British Protozoa and Zoophytes. By T. 

 Strethill Wright, M.D., F.R.C.P.E., Pres. Roy. Phys. Soc. 

 Edin. (Plates III. IV. & V.) 120 



XIII. On some new Species of MoUusca from the North of China 

 and Japan. By Arthur Adams, F.L.S. &c 135 



XIV. On the Palaeontology of the Coralline Oolites of the Neigh- 

 bourhood of Oxford. By J.F. Whiteaves, F.G.S. &c. (Plate IX. B.) 142 



XV. Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amazon Valley. 

 Coleoptera : Longicornes. By H. W. Bates, Esq 147 



XVI. A Catalogue of the Zoophytes of South Devon and South 

 Cornwall. By the Rev. Thomas Hincks, B.A. (Plate VL) 152 



XVII. On the Nomenclature of the Foraminifera. By W. K. 

 Parker, M. Micr. Soc, and T. R. Jones, F.G.S 161 



XVIII. Notes on the Hydroid Zoophytes. By Prof. Allman ... 168 



New Books: — British Wild Flowers, illustrated by J. E. Sowerby. — 

 Narrative of the Canadian Red River Exploring Expedition of 

 1857, and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Exploring Expe- 

 dion of 1858, by Henry Youle Hind, M.A., F.R.G.S.— Tabular 

 View of the Orders and Leading Families of Myriapoda, Arach- 

 i, Crustacea, Annelida, and Entozoa 1 73 — 1 78 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society 179 — 189 



Classification of the Foraminifera, by A. E. Reuss; On the Symmetry 

 of the Echinodermata, by Prof. Sars ; On the Occurrence of the 

 Opah (Lampris lauta) on the British Coasts, by Dr. J. E. Gray, 

 F.R.S. &c. ; On the Japanese and Formosan Deer, by Robert 

 Swinhoe 190— L92 



NUMBER XLV. 



XIX. On the Organic Origin of the so-called ' Crystalloids ' of the 

 Chalk. By H. C. Sorby, F.R.S. &c 193 



XX. On the Sexual Life of Plants, and Parthenogenesis. By Dr. 



H. Karsten, Lecturer on Botany at the University of Berlin 200 



XXI. Description of a new Species of Branchipus (B. exiniius), 



