VI CONTENTS. 



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 XXX'N'. Description of a new Species of Heb'x of the Subgenus 

 Plectopylis. By Lieut.-Col. II. II. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., ifcc. . . 300 



XXXVI. Uescriptiiius of new Reptiles aud Batrachians from the 

 Loo Choo Islands. By (i. A. Boulengeb 302 



XXXVII. On the Larva of Molge Montandoni. By G. A. Bou- 



LENGER .' 304 



XXXVIII. Liphistius and its bearing upon the Cla.'^sification of 

 Spiders. By R. i. Pocock 30G 



XXXIX. Revision of the Noctuid Genus Melipotis, Iliibn., with 

 Lescriptions of Two new Species. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., &c 315 



New Books : — The Study of Animnl Life. By J. Arthur Thomson, 

 M.A. &c., Lecturer on Zoology, School of Medicine, Edinburgh. 

 — Rhopalocera Exotica ; being Illustrations of New, Rare, and 

 Unfigured Species of Butterflies. Bv H. Grose Smith and W. 

 F. KiRBY. Vol. I '. 328-332 



Proceedings of the Geological Society 333-335 



Additional Note on the Occurrence of LicJda vadujo on the Cornish 

 Coast, bj^ Dr. A. Giinther, F.R.S. ; On the Stridulating- 

 apparatus of the Red Ocypode Crab, by A. Alcock, M.B. ; The 

 Coxal Gland of the Scorpion aud its Morphological Relations 

 with the Excretory Organs of the Crustacea, by M. Paul 

 Marchal ; On the Freshwater Fauna of Iceland, by JNLM. Jules 

 de Guevne and Jules Richai-d ; On a Sporozoon parasitic in the 

 Muscles of Decapod Crustacea, by MM. F. Heuneguy and P. 

 Th(5lohan ^ . . 33o-3-42 



NUMBER LIX. 



XL. Natural History Notes from II. M. Indian Marine Survey 

 Steamer '■ Investigator,' Lieut. G. S. Guun, R.N., commanding. 

 — Series II., No. 5. On the Bathybial Fishes collected during the 

 Season of 1891-92. Bv A. Alcock, M.B , Surgeon-Naturalist to 

 the Survey. (Plate XVIII. ) 345 



XLI. On the Origin and Development of the Mammalian Phylum. 

 By Dr. W. Kukenthal 305 



XLII. Additions to the Shell-Fauna of the Victoria Nyanza or 

 Lake Ouk^r^w6. By Edgar A. S.mith 380 



XLIII. New and obscure Britislx Spiders. By the Rev. Frederick 

 O. Pickard-Cambridge. (Plates XX. & XXI.) 384 



XLIV. Description of a new Moth of the Genus Annphe from 

 Madao-ascar, with a Note on the Natural Position of the Genus. By 

 Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., F.Z.S., &c 393 



XLV. The Interpretation of the Sponge Organism, and some 

 Recent Works on Spouges. By Dr. Otto Maas 399 



