lO PEOCEEDHfaS OF THE 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited and made remarks upon a collection 

 of "West-African Lepidoptera which had been forwarded by 

 Mr. J. T. Studley from Old Calabar, and was to be presented to 

 the British Museum. 



Mr. Howard Saunders exhibited a specimen of the European 

 "White-winged Crossbill which had been shot in Co, Fermanagh 

 in February last, and was lent for exhibition by Mr. C. Langham. 



Some photographs of the heads of Englisb Red Deer, showing 

 successive growths of antlers in the same stag by comparison of 

 the shed horns, were exhibited on behaK of Mr. Lucas of 

 Warnham Court, Horsham. 



The following paper was read : — 



" Observations on the Loranthaeese of Ceylon." By E. W. 

 Keeble, B.A. (Communicated by E, Darwin, E.E.S., E.L.S.) 



Mr. Trevor-Battye exhibited and gave an account of some 

 plants observed by him during his recent sojourn on the Island 

 of Koiguev. 



May 2nd, 1895. 



Mr. Chaeles Baeon Claeke, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Dr. C. E. Otto Nordstedt, Dr. Michael Woronin, and Dr. 

 Eudolph A. Philippi were elected Foreign Members. 



Mr. H. M. Bernard showed, under the microscope, the circum- 

 scribed patches of setae above and below the stigmata on the 

 pupa of the Vapourer Moth {Orgyia antiqua). The arrangement 

 suggested a vanished notopodium just wliere in the Hexapods a 

 dorsal branch of a parapodium ought to have vanished according 

 to the exhibitor's method of deducing the different groups of the 

 Arthropoda from their Annelidan ancestors, as sketched in his 

 recent paper on the Galeodidae. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited some new British Algse from 

 Dorsetshire and Sussex, amongst others TJlvella confluens and 

 Ectocarpus Beinholdi, both discovered last month at Weymouth, 

 and the latter previously known only from the Baltic. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited and made remarks on a specimen 

 of Cuculus canorus in the rare hepatic plumage of the so-called 

 Cuculus Tiepaticus, Sparrman, recently obtained at Bishops 

 Waltham, Essex. 



