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The genera Atilax aud A ri el a are resuscitated, and the 

 reasons for so doing are detailed. The article is copiously 

 illustrated (text-figures). 



In the Se[)tember number appears : " On the Structure o£ 

 the Skull in Chrysochloris," by R. Broom, M.D., etc. 

 (Plates 1 and 2) ; and in the December number " Scent 

 Glands in Mammals," by R. I. Pocock (text-figures 1-12). 

 In this article ]\Ir. Pocock describes several discoveries o£ 

 his, notably the inguinal glands of the aardvark (Orycte- 

 ropus) ; these contain a yellow secretion smelling like that 

 of the anal glands of a pole-cat (M. putorius). Digital 

 glands were found on the fore and hind feet of a male South 

 African Bush Pig (Potamochoerus choeropotamus), 

 and a preputial gland was located in the Grysbok (Noto- 

 tragus melanotus). 



Sundry. 



P. Z. S. 1916. — The March number contains a paper on 

 " The Morphology of the Cyprinodont Fishes,'"' by C. Tate 

 Regan (Plates 1-4). The June number has an interesting 

 speculative paper by J. C. Mottram, M.B., entitled " An 

 Experimental Determination of the Factors which cause 

 Patterns to ajjpear conspicuous in Nature. '^ He divides his 

 paper in two parts, Morphology and Ethology. 



Entomology. 



Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London for lOlG. 



The March number contains the foUowino- : — 

 " On a Collection of Moths made in Somaliland by W. 

 Feather/' by Professor E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 

 With descriptions of New Species by Sir G. F. Hampson, 

 Bart., L. B. Prout, J. H. Durraut, and Dr. Karl Jordan. 

 (Plates 1 and 2). 



" Studies on the Anoplura and Mallophaga, being a Report 

 upon a collection from the Mammals and Birds in the 

 Society's Gardens ; Part I. with a Preface." By Bruce F. 

 Cummirigs, British Museum (Natural History) (text- 

 figures 1-21). Part II. of this paper appears in the Decem- 

 ber number. The September number contains four papers 



