CONTENTS. vii 



Page 

 XLV. Remarks on the Genus Liclmwcrinus. By F. B. Meek . . 341 



XLVI. Notes on Coleoptera, with Descriptions of new Genera and 

 Species.— Part I. By Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S. &c. (Plate XIV.) 345 



New Book : — M. Terquem's Researches on the Foraminifera of the 



Lias and the Oolites 361 



Note on the Ptilornis Alberti, by G. R. Gray ; Notes on Australian ' 

 Freshwater Tortoises, by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. &-c. ; Damonia 

 oblonc/a, a new Species of Freshwater Tortoise, by Dr. J. E. Gray, 

 F.R.S. &c. ; Delphinus microjys] Life in the Wyandotte Cave, 

 by Prof. Cope ; Note on Spongia linteiformis, Esper, by Dr. J. E. 

 Gray, F.R.S. ; On " Sargasso-Seas ;" The Chinese Long-tailed 

 Goat Antelope (JJrotragus caudatus), by Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S. 

 &c. ; On the Phosphorescence of the Eggs of the common Glow- 

 worm, by M. Joussetj Water unfrozen at a Temperature of 

 -18° Centigrade 365—372 



NUMBER XLVIII. 



XL VII. Memoir on the Hydrographical System and the Fresh- 

 water Fish of Algeria. By Lieut.-Colonel R. L. Playfair, H.M. 

 Consul General, and M. Letourneux, Conseiller a la Cour d'Appel, 

 in Algeria '. 373 



XLVIII. Notes on Holoptis and Pentacrinus. By Dr. J. E. Gray, 

 F.R.S 394 



XLIX. On the Coleoptera of St. Helena. By T. Vernon Wol- 

 LASTON, M.A., F.L.S .396 



L. On the Early Stages of Terehrattdina se2'>tentnonalis (Couthouy). 

 By Edward S. Morse, Ph.D. &c. (Plates XV. & XVI.) 414 



LI. Notes on the New-Zealand Eared Seal (Phoca ursina, Forster ; 

 Arctocephahis Forsteri, Gray). By Dr. James Hector, F.R.S 427 



LII. On a new Species of Caprimulgus. By G. R. Gray, F.R.S. 428 



LIII. Notice of Spiders captured by Miss Himter in Montreal, 

 Upper Canada, with Descriptions of Species supposed to be new to 

 Arachnologists. By John Blackwall, F.L.S 429 



LIV. On two imdescribed Species of European Birds. By R. B. 

 Sharps, F.L.S., Librarian to the Zoological Society of London, 

 and H. E. Dresser, F.Z.S. &c 436 



On a new Species of Buceros, by G. R. Gray (Plate XVII.) : Obser- 



