NATURAL SCIENCES OP PHILADELPHIA. 221 



38. ^THRA SCRUPOSA, M. Edwards ; Hist. Nat. des Crust, i. 371. Ad insulas 

 freti Gaspar ; sublittoralis. 



39. Ceratocarcinds albolineatus. Hurrovia alboUneata, Adams et White ; 

 Voy. Samarang, Crust, p. 55. pi. xii. f. 5. Carapax hexagonus ; margine froa- 

 tali dimidiam partem latitudiuis vix superante, pauUo coovexa, media emar- 

 ginata. Deas prceorbitalis sinu e froute discretus, et frontem nou longiludinaliter 

 superans. Margo antero-lateralis qiiadridentata, angulo orbitae vix promiaente 

 incluso; deate posteriore raagoo, acuto. Margo postero-Uteralis et posterior 

 oequales, L'eves. Dorsum paullo convexum, tomentosum et versus marginem 

 graaulatum ; regionibus vix distinctis ; tuberculis duobus in regione gastrica, 

 et UDO in utraque regioae branchiali prope dentem lateralem. Oculi retractiles. 

 Chelopoda valida, carapace plus duplo longiores, granulala ; mero supra prope 

 basim spinoso ; carpo uni-tuberculato ; maau laevi. Pedes ambulatorii minute 

 villosi. Long, carapacis, 0.35; lat. 0.44 poll. 



Hab. — la portu "Ilong Kong." 



ONCINOPIDiE. 



40. Oncinopus suppelluoidds, nov. sp. Corpus subpellucidum, ubique 



*u. WNUlNOl'Ua sU-i'l'liiliLiUUiUUS, uov. sp. uurpus Huupcuuuiuuui, UUUJUC 



pubesceate. 0. aranece valde affinis, diversus carapace post orbitas paullo 

 expanso et Subau'^'ulatO : nrtir.nlo npnnltimn Tiprinm amhnlatoriorum nrimi 

 secuadique paris gracilior 

 mis et penultimis pedum 

 pacis, 0.48; lat. 0.36 poll. 



Hab. In portu Jacksoni Australiensi ; later spongias e prof. 6 org 



ibesceate. 0. aranece valde affinis, diversus carapace post orbitas paullo 

 cpauso et subaagulato ; articulo penultimo pedum ambulatoriorum primi 

 scuadique paris graciliore et longe ciliato. A 0. Ncpiuno differt articulis ulti- 

 ,is et penultimis peduai posticorum miaoribus et gracilioribus. Long, cara- 

 , 0.36 poll. 



The Kecording Secretary read the following Annual Report : 



REPORT OF THE RECORDING SECRETARY FOR 1857. 



During the past year there have been elected forty-nine Members and two 

 Correspondents. 



Three Members have died, to wit: Dr. E. K. Kane, Mr. John A. Guex, and 

 Mr. Thomas Biddle. 



The deaths of the following Correspondents have been announced to the 

 Academy: — Professor J. W. Bailey, of West Point ; Prince Charles Lucien Bona- 

 parte ; Mr. Henry Pratten, of New Harmony, Ind. 



The following Papers have been presented and ordered to be published in the 

 Proceedings or Journal of the Academy. 



By W. G. Binney, two, to wit : " Description of American Land Shells ; " 

 " Notes on American Land Shells, No, 2." 



By John Cassin, three, to wit: "Catalogue of Birds collected at Cape Lopez, 

 Western Africa, by Mr. P. B. Duchaillu in 1850, with notes and descriptions of 

 new species;" "Catalogue of Birds, collected by P. B. Duchaillu, on the River 

 Muni, in 1856, wtih descriptions of new species ;" "Description of North Ameri- 

 can species of Archibutes and Lanius, and description of a new species of Toucan 

 of the genus Selenidera." 



By T. A. Conrad, six, to wit: "Description of three new genera, twenty-three 

 species of middle Tertiary fossils from California, and one species from Texas;" 

 " Descriptions of two new genera of Shells ; " " Rectification of some of the gen- 

 eric names of American Tertiary Fossils ; " " Description of a new species of 

 Myacites; " "Description of a new genus of the family Dreissercidai." 



By Joseph Barnard Davis, " On the Crania of the ancient Britons, with remarks 

 on the people themselves." 



By Charles Girard, M. D., three, to wit : "Description of some new Reptiles 

 collected by the United States Exploring Expedition, etc., parts 3d and 4th.' 



1857.] 



