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JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY. 



Vol. VIII. ZOOLOGY. No. 30. 



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CONTENTS:-s%Jrt-^.i^* ■ ^ Page 



I. The CEsophagus of the Iluminantia>>.^iB5&£"^ipLi^M 

 RuTHEEPOED, M.D., Eesident Surgeon, Boyarin- 

 firmary, Edinburgh ; formerly Demonstrator of Ana- 

 tomy at the Eoyal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh ; 

 President of the Eoyal Medical Society. (Plate III.) 53 



II. Descriptions of New Species of Hymenopterous Insects 

 from the Islands of Sumatra, Sula, Grilolo, Salwatty, 

 and New G-uinea, collected by Mr. A. E. Wallace. 

 By Eredebick Smith, Assistant in the Zoological 

 Department, British Museum. (Plate IV.) ... 61 



III. Account of a Heronry, and Breeding-place of other 



"Water-birds, in Southern India. By John Shoett, 

 M.D., F.L.S 9-i 



IV. A brief Account of the Myrmica Kirhii as found in 



Southern India. By John Shoett, M.D., E.L.S. . 100 



V. Descriptions of New Species of the Dipterous Insects 



of New Guinea. By Eeancis Walkee, E.L.S. . . 102 



Additions to the Library xlix 



Index to Proceedings, Vol. VIII Ixix 



LONDON: 



SOLD AT THE SOCIETY'S APAETMENTS, BUELINaTON HOUSE ; 



AND BY 



LONQMAN, GEEEN, LONGMAN, EOBEETS, & GEEEN, 



and 



WILLIAMS AND NOEGATE. 



1865. 



