LIST OE CONTENTS. 



PART III.— 1878. 



May 7, 1878. 



Page 

 The Secretary. Eeport on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in April 1878 441 



1. Note on the Stridulating Organ of Palinurus vulgaris. By T. Jeffery Parker, Assoc. 



E.S.M. (Plate XXX.) 442 



2. Contributions to a Knowledge of the Hemipterous Fauna of St. Helena, and Specula- 



tions on its Origin. By P. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S. (Plate XXXI.) 444 



3. Further Kemarks on Fuligula nationi. By P. L. Sclater. (Plate XXXII.) 477 



4. On a small Collection of Lepidoptera from Jamaica. By Arthur G. Butler, F.L.S., 



F.Z.S., &c 480 



5. Descriptions of new Land-Shells from Japan and Borneo. By Edgar A. Smith, F.Z.S. 495 

 6 On the Fruit-Pigeons of the Genus Ptilopus. By D. G. Elliot, F.R.S.E. &c. (Plates 



XXXIII. & XXXIV.) 500 



May 21, 1878. 



1. Description of a new Genus of Snakes of the Family Calamaridce, from Southern India. 



By Lieutenant-Colonel R. H. Beddome, O.M.Z.S 576 



2. Eeports on the Collections of Birds made during the Voyage of H.M.S. ' Challenger.' — 



No. X. On the Birds of the Atlantic Islands and Kerguelen's Laud, and on the 

 Miscellaneous Collections. By P. L. Sclater, M.A., F.R.S 576 



3. On new and little-known Mantidce. By J. Wood-Mason. (Plates XXXV. & XXXVI.) 580 



4 On new Genera and Species of Geodephagous Coleoptera from Central America. By 



H. W. Bates, F.L.S 587 



5 Description of a new Species of Tudicula. By George French Angas, C.M.Z.S., 



F.L.S., &c 610 



6. Contributions to the Ornithology of the Philippines. — No. IX. On the Collection made 

 by Mr. A. H. Everett in the Island of Palawan. By Arthur, Marquis of Tweed- 

 dale, F.R.S., President of the Society. (Plates XXXVII. & XXXVIII.) 611 



7 On the Trachea of Tantalus loculator and of Vanelhis caycnncnsis. By A. H. Garrod, 



M.A., F.R.S 625 



8. On the Anatomy of the Maleo (Megacephalon maleo). By A. H. Garrod, M.A., F.R.S. 629 



June 4, 1878. 



The Secretary. Report on the additions to the Society's Menagerie in May 1878, and re- 

 marks on Tapirus roulini. (Plate XXXIX.) 631 



Mr. F. Holmwood. Remarks upon a young specimen of Temminck's Mania (Manis tem- 



mincki) 632 



Mr. Sclater. Remarks upon the living examples of Ciconia maguari and Ciconia episcopus 



now in the Society's Gardens 633 



Mr. Edward R. Alston. Exhibition, on behalf of Dr. Elliott Coues, C.M.Z.S., of two spe- 

 cimens of Synaptomys cooperi, Bd 



Prof. Ray Lankeater, M.A., F.R.S. Notice of a memoir on the hearts of Ceratodus, Proto- 



pterus, and Chimeera 634 I 



1. On the Skull of a Rhinoceros (2?. lasiotis, Scl. ?) from India. By William Henry 



Flower, F.R.S. V.P.Z.S C 



2. Catalogue of Lepidoptera collected by Mr. S. N. Walter in the Island of Billiton. 



Rhopalocera by F. D. Godman and Osbert Salvin. Heterocera by H. Druce. 

 (Plate XL.) 63JJ 



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