CONTENTS OF VOL. XIV. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



NUMBER LXXIX. p^ 



I. Outline of the Geolog} of the Maltese Islands, by Dr. Leith 

 Adams, of the 22nd Regiment; and Descriptions of the Brachiopoda, 



by Thomas Davidson, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S. &c. (Plate I.) I 



II. Contributions to an Insect Fauna of the Amaxon Valley. 

 CoLKOPTERA : LoNGicoRNES. By II. W. Bates, Esq 11 



III. Histological Researches on the Formation, Development, and 

 Structure of the VegeUble Cell. By Prof. H. Kabsten 24 



IV. Descriptions of Seven new Species of East-Indian Spiders 

 received from the Rev. O. P. Cambridirc. Bv John Blackwall. 



F.L.S ' m; 



V. Diagnoses of new Forms of Mollusks collected at C&pe St. Lucas 



by Mr. J. Xantus. By Philip P. Carpenter, B..\., Ph. D 45 



VI. On the Menispermacea;. By John Miers, F.R.S., F.L.S. &c. 49 



VII. Observations on Raphides. By Georqb Gulliver, F.R.S. 53 



VIII. Notes on the Hydroida. By Professor Allman, F.R.S. 

 (PUte II.) 57 



New Books .• — British Conchologj', or an Accoimt of the Mollusea 

 which now inhabit the British Islands and the surrounding Seas. 

 Vol. II., by John Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S., F.G.S. &e.— The 

 School-Manual of Geologj', by J. Beete Jukes, M.A., F.R.S. &c. 

 —A Guide to Geology, by John PhilUps, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S. &c. 



64—70 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society 70 — 78 



Migration of Lemmings, by the Rev. Edward Gillett, M.A. ; Examina- 

 tion of the Structure of the Hair-follicle in Man and in the 



