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liizard from British Guiana. The specimen in question was contained in a 

 small collection of Reptiles made bj^ Mr. \V. L. Sclater on the Pomeroon 

 river. The author described it as Gonatodes annularis. — A communication 

 was read from Mr. Charles O. Wat erhouse , containing an account of a 

 new parasitic Dipterous Insect of the family Hippoboscida?. The author 

 stated that this insect had been found on a species of Swift [Cypselus melano- 

 leiicus] by Dr. E,. W. Shufeldt, at Fort Wingate, New Mexico. It was 

 closely allied to Anapera pallida, a European Dipterous parasite found on 

 C. opi/s, and was proposed to be named Anapera fimbriata. — Mr. John H. 

 Ponsonby, F.Z.S., communicated on behalf of Mr. Andrew Garrett the 

 first part of a paper on the Terrestrial Mollusks of the Viti or Fiji Islands. 

 — Mr. F. E. Bed dard read a paper on the structure of a new genus of 

 Lumbricidce [Thamnodrilus) discovered by Mr. W. L. Sclater in British 

 Guiana, which he proposed to characterize as Thamnodrilus Gulielmi. — 

 P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of London. 



17*^^ February, 1S87. — The only zoological paper read at this Meeting 

 was by Dr. P. P. C. Hoek, of Leiden, — On Dichelaspis pellucida Darwin, 

 from the scales of an Hydrophid, obtained at the Mergixi Archipelago by 

 Dr. John Anderson. Asfar as the author's knowledge goes this species of 

 Cirripede has not been observed since Darwin published his description from 

 specimens got in the Indian Ocean, and also from a sea snake. It seems that 

 although somewhat larger in dimensions, and with other slight differences, 

 which may be due to difference of age, there can be little doubt of the iden- 

 tity of the Mergui specimens with Darwin's D. pellucida (Monogr. Cirripede 

 I, 125Ì. —J. Murie. 



IV. Personal -Notizen. 



Necrolog. 



Am 20. August 1SS6 starb in Brüssel Valére Liénard. Er war 1856 

 geboren, studirte in Loewen und Gent, wurde an letzterem Orte Plateaus 

 Assistent und hat mehrere sehr gute vergleichend-anatomische Arbeiten ver- 

 öffentlicht. 



Am 11. November 1886 starb in Wien Dr. Eduard Be eher, Assistent 

 am kais. Hof-Museum, durch entomologische Arbeiten rühmlich bekannt. 



Am 19. November 18 86 starb in Berlin Dr. J. E. Schödler, durch 

 seine Arbeiten über Daphniden bekannt. 



Am 30. November 1886 starb in Montpellier Jules Lichtenstein, 

 68 Jahre alt, der bekannte Forscher in der Biologie der Aphiden. 



Am 21. Januar 1887 starb in Erfurt der als Lepidopterolog bekannte 

 Oberforstmeister Adolf Werneburg. 



Am 1. Februar 1887 starb in Stettin der geschätzte Lepidopterolog^ 

 Professor C. W. Hering, 85 Jahre alt. 



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