CONTENTS. Vll 



Page 

 XL. Descriptions of two new Species 'of the Homopterous Genus 

 Plafiiijleura from Madagascar. Bv Arthur Ct. Butler, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c " ..~ 388 



XLI. Form and Nature of the Cirrous Appendages on the Stato- 

 blast of Cartcrella latitenfa, I'otts, &c., originally designated ^'Spongio- 

 lihacja Pottsi." By H. J. Carter, F.R.S, &c. (PLate XIV. ) 390 



XLII. Undescribed Rhopalocera from the Malay PeniusuLa. By 

 \V. L. Distant 396 



XLIII. On a Case of complete Abortion of the Reproductive 

 Organs of Vitrina. By F. d'Arruda Furtado 397 



Proceedings of the Geological Society 400, 401 



Neio Book : — Aid to the Identification of Insects. Edited by Charles 



Owen Waterhou^e. Lithographs by Edwin Wilson 402 



Charles Darwin ; On a new Apterous Male among the Coccidce 

 (Acanthococcus aceris, Sign.), by M. J. Lichtenstein ; Note on 

 Euripus eonshnilis of Westwood, by Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., kc. ; Descriptions of Spirostreptns from Madagascar, by 

 Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c. ; The x\lcyonaria of the 

 Bay of Marseilles, by M. A.. F. Marion; Alteration of Generic 

 Names ; On the Development of the Ganglion and of the " Cili- 

 ated Sac " in the Bud of Pyrosoma, by M. L. Joliet ; Develop- 

 ment oiLimulus, by Prof H. N. Moseley, F.R.S 402—412 



NUMBER LIV. 



XLIV. On two new Muriclce from Tasmania. By Oldfield 

 Thomas, F.Z.S., British Museum ' 413 



XLV. Remarkable Forms of Cellepora and Pahjthoa from the 

 Senegambian Coast. By H. J. Carter, F.R.S. &c. (Plate XVI.). 416 



XL VI. Descriptions of new Genera and Species of Longicorn 

 Coleoptera {Lamiida) from Madagascar. By Charles O. Water- 

 house 420 



XLVII. Description of a new Species of Mantidce. By Francis 

 P. Pascoe 423 



XLVIII. Note on the Classification of tlie Ilomoptera. By 

 Francis P. Pascoe 424 



XLIX. The Sponge-fauna of Norway ; a Report on the Rev. A. 

 M Norman's Collection of Sponges from the Norwegian Coast. By 

 Prof. W. J. Sollas, M.A., F.R.S.E., &c. (Plate XVII.) 426 



L. Description of a new Species of Crastia, a Lepidopterous Genus 

 belon"-ing to the Family Euplceince. By F, JNIoORE 453 



LI. Researches on the Nervous System of the Lar\-a3 of Dipterous 

 Insects. Bv Prof. Edward Brandt ib. 



