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XL. On some new Species of Araneidea. By the Rev. O. P. 

 Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S., &c. (Plate XVII.)" 343 



XLI. Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera from Japan. By 

 Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 349 



XLII. On the Nutritive and Reproductive Processes of Sponges. 

 By H. J. Carter, F.R.S. &c 374 



XLIII. Preliminary Notice of a new Genus (Parectatosotna) of 

 Phasmida from Madagascar, with brief Descriptions of its two 

 Species. By J. Wood-Mason 386 



XLIV. Monobia conjluens, a new Moneron. By Aime Schneider. 

 (Plate XVIII.) 388 



New Books : — On the Structure and Affinities of the " Tabulate 

 Corals " of the Palaeozoic Period, with Critical Descriptions of 

 Illustrative Species. By H. Alleyne Nicholson, M.D., D.Sc, 

 F.L.S., &c. — Geological Survey of Canada. Mesozoic Fossils, 

 Vol. i. part ii. On the Fossils of the Cretaceous Rocks of Van- 

 couver and adjacent Islands in the Strait of Georgia. By J. F. 

 Whiteaves, F.G.S 391, 395 



On Hyale Lubbockiana (=AUorchestes imbricatus, Sp. Bate, and 

 Nicea Lubbockiana, Sp. Bate), by the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing; 

 On Robert Kerr's Translation of the ' Systema Naturae' of Lin- 

 naeus, by Oldneld Thomas, Assistant in the Zoological Depart- 

 ment, British Museum ; On the Structure of the Cephalic Gan- 

 glia of Insects, by M. N. Wagner ; On the Part played by 

 Insects during the Flowering of Arum crinitum, Ait., by M. B. 

 Schnetzler ; On a new Species of Wild Dog from Demerara, by 

 Dr. Albert Giinther, F.R.S. &c 396—400 



NUMBER XXIV. 



XLV. On the Structure of Astrophiura, a new and aberrant Genus 

 of Echinoderuiata. By W. Percy Sladen, F.L.S., F.G.S. (Plate 

 XX.) 401 



XL VI. On two new Isopods (Arcturtis, sp., and Tanais, sp.) from 

 New Zealand. By George M. Thomson. (Plate XIX. figs. 1-0.) 41S 



XLV1I. On a new Species of Nebalia from New Zealand. By 

 George M. Thomson. (Plate XIX. figs. 7-9.) 418 



XLVIII. More Moot Points in Ornithological Nomenclature. By 

 Alfred Newton, M.A., F.R.S., &c 419 



XLIX. On the Geological Distribution of the Pliabdophora. 

 By Charles Lapwortii, F.G.S. &c 423 



