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und bei Hepiolus fehlt sie und daher könnte man auch dieselbe als ein 

 dem Scrotum der Wirbelthiere analoges Gebilde betrachten. 



IV. Hepiolus ist sehr wichtig für die Morphologie der männlichen 

 Geschlechtsorgane der Lepidopteren, als Repräsentant einer typischen 

 Form des Hodens dieser Ordnung, welche dadurch entstand, dass 

 dieses Organ in einem gewissen Stadium der Entvvickeluug stehen ge- 

 blieben ist. 



St. Petersburg, 18. Jan. 1880. 



III. Mittlieiluiigeii aus Instituten, (jesellsoliaften etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London, 



3rd February 1S80. — Captain W. Vincent Legge, R. A., exhibited 

 and made remarks upon some specimens of the Little Ringed Plovers of India 

 and Ceylon. — A communication was read from Dr. G. Hartlaub, 

 F. M.Z.S., containing the description of a new species of Heron, obtained 

 in Mohambo in Northern Madagascar, which he proposed to name Ardea 

 rutenberc/i. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a note on a specimen oï AIi/oxus 

 elegans Temminck, which had been obtained by Mr. H. Pry er, near Yoko- 

 hama, Japan. — A communication was read from Mr. H. Moseley, F.R.S., 

 containing the description of a new species of Simple Coral, which he pro- 

 posed to call Desmophi/llum lumprosteiclma . — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell gaA'e an 

 account of Palaeolampas, a new species of irregular Echinoidea, which pre- 

 sented, among others , the following archaic points: (1) the rows of pores 

 were completely parallel, and extended regularly to the ambitus ; (2) some 

 of the pores exhibited an elongation indicating the appearance of the con- 

 necting grove ; {?>) the outer row of each pore-series was continued uninter- 

 ruptedly to the actinostome ; and (4) two of the ocular pores retained indi- 

 cations of their primitively double character. — Messrs. C. J. Danford 

 and E. R. Alston read a paper »On the Mammals of Asia Minor, Partii.,« 

 in which they added certain species to their former list, and described a new 

 species of Vole, under the ,name of Arvicola guenthari. — Mr. S dater e.v- 

 hibited and made remarks on a fifth collection of Birds from Duke of York 

 Island and its vicinity, which he had received from the Rev. George Brown, 

 CM. Z. S. Four species were described as new, and proposed to be called 

 Megalurufi inter scapularin, Poecilodryas aethiaps, Munia melaena and Rallus in- 

 signis. — P. L. S dater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of London, 



5th February, ISSU. — Dr. Francis Day exhibited examples of Sal- 

 monidae some of which had been reared under natural and others under un- 

 natural conditions. A Salmo fontinalis which had passed its existence in the 

 Westminster Aquarium had the head preternaturally elongated and a very 

 narrow suboperculum, thus in striking contrast to examples reared from the 

 same hatcli of imjiorted eggs and kept in a wild state in Cardiganshire. — 

 Mr. A. Hammond showed a larva of Tavypiis 'maeidatus. He mentioned that 



