CONTENTS, V 



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XX. Description of Niphargus puteamis, var. Forelii. By Alois 

 Humbert 243 



XXI. Hermaphroditism amonff the Parasitic Isopoda. Iteply to 

 Mr. Moseley's Remarks on the Generative Organs of the Parasitic 

 Isopoda. By J. Bullae, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge 254 



XXII. Additions to the Coleopterous Fauna of Tasmania. By 

 Charles O. Waterhouse 256 



New Books : — Ostriches and Ostrich-Farming, by Julius de Mosen- 

 thal, Consul-General of the South- African Republics for France, 

 &c. &c., and James Edmund Ilarting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., vfec. — On 

 the Foraminifera of Barbadoes (Etude sur les Foraminiferes de 

 la Barbade, &c.), by M. Ernest Vanden Broeck, &c 257, 260 



Proceedings of the Geological Society 260 



Note on the Femoral Brushes of the Mantidce, by Prof. J. Wood- 

 Mason ; On the Development of the Autennee in the Pectinicorn 

 Mantidce, by Prof. J. Wood-Mason ; On the Power possessed by 

 certain Mites, ■udth or without Mouths, of living without Food 

 through entire Phases of their Existence or even during their 

 whole Lives, by M. M^gnin ; Note on the Nidification of the 

 Aye-Aye, by MM. A. Milne-Edwards and A. Grandidier ; Note 

 on the Phenomena of Digestion and on the Structure of the 

 Digestive Apparatus in the Phalangida, by Felix Plateau ; The 

 Gourami and its Nest ; Zoology of the ' Challenger ' Expedi- 

 tion : Rate of Growth of Corals 269—276 



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XXIII. On the Distribution of Birds in North Russia. — I. On the 

 Distribution of Birds on the Lower Petchora, in North-east Russia. 



By J. A. Harvie Brown, F.Z.S 277 



XXIV. Description of some Sponges obtained during a Cniise of 

 the Steam- Yacht * Argo ' in the Caribbean and neighbouring Seas. 



By Thomas Higgin, F.L.S. (Plate XIV.) 291 



XXV. On the Structiu-e of the Lower Jaw in Rhizodopsis and 

 Rhizodiis. By R. II. Traquair, M.D., F.G.S., F.R.S.E., Keeper of 

 the Natural-History Collections in the Museum of Science and Art, 

 Edinburgh 299 



XXVI. Description of a new Form of Ophiuridce from New Zea- 

 land. By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S,, Zoological Department, British 

 Museum. (Plate XV.) 305 



XXVII. The Vates Ashmolianus of Westwood, the Type of a new 

 Genus of Mantidce. By Prof, J. Wood-Mason 308 



XXVIII. Hermaphroditism in the Parasitic Isopoda. Further 

 Remarks on Mr. Bullar's Papers on the above subject. By H. N. 

 Moseley, Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford 310 



