

PRINCIPAL CONTENTS OF VOL. XVI. 



Edw. Burgess. Custodian's Report 1 



Edw. Pickering. Treasurer's Report 10 



A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. Californian Phalaenidae (Plate I.) 13 



W. H. Niles. Phenomena at the Monson Quarry, Mass 41 



Robert Ridgway. Catalogue of the Society's Ornithological Collec- 

 tion, Falconidas 43 



Revision of the Genera Micrastur, Geranospiza, 



Rupornis, and Glaucidium ':. .. .' .. . 73 



T. M. Brewer, M.D. Description of the Nests and Eggs of some 



Arizona Birds 106 



A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. Rare Myriapods in Massachusetts . . . . Ill 



T. D wight, Jr., M.D. Action of the Intercostal Muscles 113 



F. W. Putnam. Remarks on the Liparidas 114 



S. H. Scudder. Rabbit-cats 114 



T. M. Brewer, M.D. Remarks on the group of Hermit Thrushes . . 115 

 T. Sterry Hunt. On the Crystalline Rocks of the Blue Ridge . . . 115 



S. H. Scudder. Remarks on Papilio Ajax 117 



Thos. D wight, Jr., M.D. Structure and Action of Striated Muscu- 

 lar Fibre (Plate II.) 120 



F. W. Putnam. Notes on the Genus Myxine 127 



A. S. Packard, Jr., M.D. Transformation of the Common House 



Fly (Plate III.) 136 



L. S. Burbank. Surface Geology of North Carolina 150 



F. W. Putnam. Notes on Bdellostoma 156 



Alex. Murray. Notice of a Gigantic Squid 161 



B. P. Mann. On a Monstrous Female Imago of Anisopteryx Pometaria. 163 



S. H, Scudder. Ocelli in Butterflies 165 



A. Hyatt. Evolution of the Arietidse 166 



John McCrady. Observations on Ostrea virginiana, and a new Parasite. 170 

 H. Hagen, M.D. Origin of the " Tailed Man." 193 



