4 PEOCEEDIKGS or THE 



the Chair. Once more expressing my gratitude for the great 

 honour that has been done to me. 



" Believe me, dear Mr. Harting, 

 " Sincerely yours, 



" Leonaed Blomefield." 



Messrs. H. and J. Groves exhibited specimens of several Irish 

 Characeae collected during the past summer. JS'itella tenuissima, 

 from Westmeath and Gralway, had not been previously recorded 

 from Ireland, and a larije form of iV. gracilis, from two lakes in 

 "Wicklow, had been only once previously met with. Referring to 

 the former, Mr. H. Groves remarked that, although it might be 

 expected to occur ia all the peat districts, it had only been found 

 ill two widely separated localities in England, viz., in the Cam- 

 bridgeshire Fens and in Anglesea. 



Mr. Arthur Lister made some remarks on the nuclei of My- 

 cetozoa, exhibiting some preparations under the microscope. 



Mr. E. Cambridge PhilUps forwarded for exhibition a hybrid 

 between Eed and Black Grouse, which had been shot in August 

 near Brecon. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited and made remarks on some 

 Coleopterous larvae which had been vomited by a child at Tintern, 

 and had been forwarded by the medical attendant, Dr. J. Taylor 

 Brown, for identification. The precise species had not been 

 determined, but it was considered to be allied to BIcqjs mortisaga. 

 Mr. Harting drew attention to the fact that cases of voiding 

 Coleopterous larvffi were mentioned by Kirby and Spence (' In- 

 troduction,' 7th ed. p. 71), and by the late Dr. Spencer Cobbold 

 in his work on ' Parasites ' (1879, p. 269). 



Mr. D. Morris exhibited some tubers of Calatliea Allouia, 

 eaten as potatoes in Trinidad, where it is known as " Tapa Nam- 

 bour." 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on (Ecodoma cephalotes and the Eungi it cultivates." 

 By John H. Hart, E.L.S. 



2. " On a small Collection of Crinoids from the Sahul Bank, 

 North Australia." By Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell. (Communicated 

 by W. Percy Sladen, Sec.L.S.) 



3. " Descriptions of 26 new Species of Land-shells from 

 Borneo." Bv Edgar A. Smith. (Communicated by W. Percy 

 Sladen, Sec.L.S.) 



December 15th, 1892. 

 Prof. Chaeles Stewabt, President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



