# Transactions of the Linnean Society of London/Volume 4

TRANSACTIONS
OF THE
LINNEAN SOCIETY.
VOLUME IV.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY J.DAVIS.
SOLD AT THE SOCIETY's HOUSE, No. 10, PANTON-SQUARE, COVENTRY-STREET,
AND
BY JOHN WHITE, FLEET-STREET.
M.DCC.XCVIII.
CONTENTS.
| I. AVES Sussexienses; or, A Catalogue of Birds found in the County of Sussex, with Remarks, by William Markwick, Esq. F.L.S. | Page 1 |
| II. Anecdotes of the late Dr. Patrick Browne, Author of the Natural History of Jamaica. By Aylmer Bourke Lambert, Esq. V.P.L.S. | p. 31 |
| III. Descriptions of Three rare Species of British Birds. By G. Montagu, Esq. F.L.S. | p. 35 |
| IV. Account of some Species of Fossil Anomiae found in Derbyshire. By Mr. William Martin, F.L.S. | p. 44 |
| V. Essay on the Eye-like Spot in the Wings of the Locustae of Fabricius, as indicating the Male Sex. By Professor Anthony Augustus Henry Lichtenstein, F.M.L.S. | p. 51 |
| VI. A New Arrangement of the Genus Polytrichum, with some Emendations. By Mr. Archibald Menzies, F.L.S. | p. 63 ​ |
| VII. Observations on the Spinning Limax. By John Latham, M.D. F.R.S. and L.S. Romsey | Page 85 |
| VIII. An Essay on the Tracheae or Windpipes of various Kinds of Birds. By John Latham, M.D. F.R S. and L.S. Romsey. | 90 |
| IX. Observations on Bituminous Substances, with a Description of the Varieties of the Elastic Bitumen. By Charles Hatchett, Esq. F.R.S. Lond. and Edin. F.L.S. &c. | p. 129 |
| X. An Account of the Jumping Mouse of Canada. Dipus Canadensis. By Major-General Thomas Davies, F.R.S. and L.S. | p. 155 |
| XI. Observations on the Flowering of certain Plants. By the Rev. Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R.S.V.P. L.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge | p. 158 |
| XII. Remarks on some Foreign Species of Orobanche. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. | p. 164 |
| XIII. A Description of Five British Species of Orobanche. By the Rev. Charles Sutton, B.D. A.L.S. late Fellow of St. Johns College, Cambridge | p. 173 |
| XIV. Account, accompanied by a Figure, of a minute Ichneumon. By George Shaw, M.D. F.R.S. V.P.L.S. | p. 189 |
| XV. Description of the Phasma dilatatum. By Mr. John Parkinson, F.L.S. | p. 190 |
| XVI. Description of the Blight of Wheat, Uredo Frumenti. By A. B. Lambert, Esq. F.R.S. V.P.L.S. | p. 193 ​ |
| XVII. Ammophila, a New Genus of Insects in the Class Hymenoptera, including the Sphex sabulosa of Linnaeus. By the Rev. William Kirby, F.L.S. | Page 195 |
| XVIII. The Characters of Twenty New Genera of Plants. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. | p. 213 |
| XIX. Further Observations on the Wheat lnsect, in a Letter to the Rev. Samuel Goodenough, LL.D. F.R.S. Tr.L.S. By Thomas Marsham, Esq. Sec. L.S. | p. 224 |
| XX. History of Tipula Tritici, and Ichneumon Tipulae, with some Observations upon other Insects that attend the Wheats, in a Letter to Thomas Marsham, Esq. Sec. L.S. By the Rev. William Kirby, F.L.S. | p. 230 |
| XXI. Account of a New Species of Muscicapa, from New South Wales. By Major-General Thomas Davies, F.R.S. and L.S. | p. 240 |
| XXII. Observations on the Genus Pausus, and Description of a New Species. By Adam Afzelius, M.D. Demonstrator of Botany in the University of Upsala, F.R.S. and F.M.L.S. | p. 243 |
| XXIII. Observations on the British Species of Bromus, with Introductory Remarks on the Composition of a Flora Britannica. By James Edward Smith, M.D. F.R.S. P.L.S. | p. 276 |
| XXIV. Some Corrections of the general Description of Polytrichum rubellum, p. 79, with an Account of another New Species of the same Genus. By Mr. Archibald Menzies, F.L.S. | p. 303 |