IV CONTENTS. 



NUMBER LXIL 



PftlTC 



XI. Summary of Zoological Observations made at Naples in the 

 winter of 1871-72. By E. Ray Lankestek, M.A., Fellow and Lec- 

 tm-er of Exeter College, Oxford 81 



XII. On the Geographical Distribution, Migration, and Occasional 

 Habitats of Whales and Dolphins {Cete). By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 



&c 98 



XIII. Notes on the Whales and Dolphins of the New-Zealand 

 Seas. By Dr. James Hector, F.R.S. With Remarks by Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, F.R.S. &c IO4 



XIV. A Monographic List of the Species of the Genus Gmyleptes, 

 with Descriptions of three remarkable new Species. By Arthur 

 Gardiner Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S,, &c. (Plate 111.) 112 



XV. Notes on the Longicorn Coleoptera of Tropical America. By 



H. W. Bates, F.L.S II7 



XVI. On a new Species of Turkey Vulture from the Falkland 

 Islands and a new Genus of Old- World Vultures. By R. Bowdler 

 Sharpe, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c., Senior Assistant, Zoological Depart- 

 ment, British Museum I33 



XVII. On some Fossils from the Quebec Group of Point Le'vis, 

 Quebec. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, M.A., F.R.S.E., 

 Professor of Natural History in University College, Toronto ih. 



XVIII. Notes on Tortoises. By Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &c 143 



New Books: — Records of the Rocks 5 or Notes on the Geology, 

 Natural History, and Antiquities of North and South Wales, 

 Devon, and Cornwall, by the Rev. W. S. Symouds, F.G.S. &c. 

 — A Manual of Palajoutology for the Use of Students, with a 

 General Introduction on the Principles of Palaeontology, by H. 

 A. Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, &c 149—151 



Anatomical Investigations on the Limnli, by A. Milne-Edwards ; On 

 the Boomdas {Dendrohyrax arbor eus), by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 

 &c. ; On Deep-sea Dredging in the Gulf of St. La-s\Tence, by J, 

 F. Whiteaves, F.G.S. &c. ; Nitophrjllum litteratum, a new Bri- 

 tish Alga, by Prof. T. G. Agardh ; On a new Freshwater Tortoise • 

 from Borneo {Orlitia borneensis), by Dr. J. E. Graj', F.R.S. &c.; 

 Descriptions of three new Species of Crustacea parasitic on the 

 Cetacea of the N.W. coast of America, by W. H. Dall, U.S. 

 Coast Survey ; Orca stemrhyncha (the Narrow-nosed Killer) ; 

 Preliminary Descriptions of new Species of Mollusks from the 

 North-west coast of America, by W. H. Dall, U.S. Coast Sur- 

 vey; Projectile Power of the Capsules oi Hamamelis virginica, 

 by Mr. T. Meehan 152 160 



