Contents. Transactions. I.—Zoology. Pages Art. I. Descriptions of New Zealand Micro-Lepidoptera. By E. Meyrick, B.A. 1–49 II. A Monograph of the New Zealand Geometrina. By E. Meyrick 49–113 III. Notes on a Native Species of Mantis. By T. H. Potts. With a Descriptive Note, by Prof. Hutton 113–118 IV. Description of a new Species of Cidaria (Lepidoptera). By R. W. Fereday, M.E.S.L. 119–120 V. Further Notes on Coccidæ in New Zealand, with Descriptions of new Species. By W. M. Maskell, F.R.M.S. 120–144 VI. On the Anatomy of Sepioteuthis bilineata, Quoy and Gaimard. By H. B. Kirk, M.A. 145–160 VII. Notes on some New Zealand Land Shells, with Descriptions of new Species. By Prof. F. W. Hutton 161–186 VIII. Revision of the Land Mollusca of New Zealand. By Captain F. W. Hutton 186–212 IX. Notes on some Marine Mollusca, with Descriptions of new Species. By Prof. F. W. Hutton 212–216 X. Revision of the recent Rhachiglossate Mollusca of New Zealand. By Captain F. W. Hutton 216–233 XI. Descriptions of new Crustaceans. By Geo. M. Thomson, F.L.S. 234–240 XII. On a new Species of Daphnia. By Geo. M. Thomson 240–241 XIII. On the New Zealand Pycnogonida, with Descriptions of new Species. By Geo. M. Thomson 242–248 XIV. Additions to the Sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand. By Charles Chilton, M.A. 249–265 XV. On the Habits of Earth-Worms in New Zealand. By A. T. Urquhart 266–275 XVI. Effect of Cold on Fishes. By Neil Heath 275–278 XVII. On the Occurrence of Phalaropus fulicarius, Pennant (the Red Phalarope), in New Zealand. By Julius von Haast, C.M.G., Ph.D., F.R.S. 279–280 XVIII. On the Occurrence of the Spinous Shark (Echinorhinus spinosus) in New Zealand Waters. By T. Jeffery Parker, B.Sc.Lond., Professor of Biology in the University of Otago 280–281 XIX. On a Torpedo (T. fusca,? n. sp.) recently caught near Dunedin. By T. Jeffery Parker 281–284 XX. On a Specimen of the Great Ribbon Fish (Regalecus argenteus, n. sp.), lately obtained at Moeraki, Otago. By T. Jeffery Parker 284–296 XXI. On the Structure of the Head in Palinurus, with especial Reference to the Classification of the Genus. By T. Jeffery Parker 297–307 XXII. Observations on the Breeding Habits of the Eastern Golden Plover (Charadrius fulvus). By C. H. Bobson. Communicated by W. L. Buller, C.M.G., Sc.D., F.R.S. 308