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in dei- bereits erschienenen 5. Abtheilung- meiner »Vergleichend- physio- 

 logischen Studien« (Heidelberg, C. Winter's Verlagsbuchhandl. 1881). 

 Triest, K. K. Zoolog. Station, d. 14. April 1881. 



III. Mittheilungen aus Instituten, Gesellschaften etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



3rd May, 1881. — Professor F. Jeffrey Bell, F.Z.S., read the first of 

 a series of papers on the systematic arrangement of the Asteroidea. In the 

 present communication the author directed attention to the large number — 

 more than 80 — of described species of the genus Asterias, the subdivision 

 of which had never yet been attempted. After a list of the species with re- 

 ference to one description of each, and a list of the synonyms, he proceeded 

 to describe and make use of certain characters as an aid in the classification 

 of the species ; the number of rays, of madreporiform plates, and of ambu- 

 lacral spines forming the more important, and the form and character of the 

 spines the less important points. The author then proposed a mode of for- 

 mulating results by the use of certain symbols, and concluded by describing 

 five new species. — A communication was read from Dr. M. Watson, 

 F.Z.S., containing some observations on the anatomy of the generative or- 

 gans of the Spotted Hyaena, in continuation ol a previous paper on the same 

 subject. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.Z.S., read a memoir on the Indian 

 species of the genus Mus. The present paper was an attempt to clear up the 

 existing confusion in the synonymy of the Indian species of this genus, of 

 which the author recognised about 19 as valid. — A communication was 

 read from Mr. Edgar A. Smith, containing remarks on some specimens of 

 Cypraea decipiens, lately received by the British Museum. — A second paper 

 by Mr. Smith contained the description of two new species of Shells from 

 Lake Tanganyika. — Captain G. E. Shelley read a paper containing an 

 account of seven collections of Birds recently made by Dr. Kirk in the little 

 explored regions of Eastern Africa. Two new species were proposed to be 

 called Coccystes albo - notafus and Urobrachya zanzibarica. ■ — Mr. Arthur G. 

 Butler, F. Z.S., read a paper on a collection of Lepidoptera made in 

 Western India , Beloochistan , and Afghanistan by Major Charles Swinhoe. 

 The collection contained examples belonging to three new genera and i 5 new 

 species. — P. L. Sci at er. Secretary. 



Berichtigung. 



In No. 80, p. 188 Zeile 16 v. u. ist »keine« vor Faltungen zu streichen. 



Bitte. 



Vor länger als einem Jahre habe ich einem meiner geehrten Correspon- 



denten Neues Jahrbuch f. Miner., Geol. u. Palaeontol., Jahrg. 1879. 2. Heft 



geliehen, aber bis jetzt noch nicht zurückerhalten. Ich bitte den mir leider 

 aus dem Gedächtnis entfallenen Entleiher dringend, mir das Heft baldmög- 

 lichst zurückzusenden. J. YictOr CaruS. 



Druck von Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig. 



