CONTENTS OF VOL. XIII. 



[SECOND SERIES.] 



NUMBER LXXIII. 



Page 



I. On the Structure of the Echinoderms. By Johannes Muller. 1 



II. On a new species of Tanager in the British Museum. By 

 Philip Lutlhy Sclater, M.A 24 



III. Descriptions of new or little-known species of Reptiles col- 

 lected in Ceylon. By E. F. Kelaart, M.D., F.L.S. &c 26 



IV. Note on Spadix purpurea, Gosse. By Professor Edward 

 Forbes, F.R.S. &c 31 



V. Descriptions and Illustrarions of new species of Verrucaria and 

 Sagedia found about Torquay, Devonshire. By Richard Deakin, 

 M.D. (With four Plates.) 32 



TI. Account of a MS. of Laurence Theodore Gronov lately pur- 

 chased for the British Museum, with a Collection of Drj- Fish which 

 it describes. By John Edward Gray, Ph.D., F.R.S.,' V.P.Z.S. ... 41 



VII. A Catalogue of the Species of Ants found in Southern India. 

 By T. C. Jerdon, Esq., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Esta- 

 blishment 45 



New Books: — The Palm Trees of the Amazon and their Uses, by 

 A. R. Wallace. — The Botanist's Word-Book : an Etjmological 

 and Explanatory- Vocabulary- of the Terms employed in the Sci- 

 ence of Botany, by G. Macdonald and J. Allan. — A Narrative of 

 Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, with an Accoimt of the 

 Native Tribes and Obser^•ations on the Climate, Geologj-, and 

 Natural History of the Amazon Valley, by A. R. Wallace ... 56 — 58 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society; Botanical Society of Edin- 

 burgh; Royal Society ©f Edinburgh 58 — 72 



On the Anatomy of Terebratula australis, by M. P. Gratiolet ; On the 

 Teeth of Peronia and Otina, by Dr. J. E. Gray; Habits of 



