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of a rare Papilio [Papilio porthaon) from Delagoa Bay, reared in the Society's 

 Gardens. — Prof. Howes exhibited a drawing of a head of Palinur us peni- 

 cillatus, received from M. A. Milne-Edwards, and remarked on the assump- 

 tion of antenniform characters by the left ophthalmite shown in this spe- 

 cimen. — A paper was read by Mr. W. F. Kirby, F.E.S., Assistant in the 

 Zoological Department, British Museum, entitled »A Revision of the Sub- 

 family LibellulincB, with descriptions of new Genera and Species«. The last 

 compendium of this group was piiblished by Dr. Brauer in 1868^ in which 

 40 genera were admitted. Mr. Kirby now raised the number to 88, all fully 

 tabulated and described in his paper, which likewise included descriptions 

 of 52 new species. Mr. Kirby gave a short sketch of the characters of the 

 Libellulince, and more especially of the neuration, which he considered to be 

 of primary importance. — Mr. R. Bowdler Sharp e, F.Z.S., read the third 

 part of his series of notes on the Hume Collection of Birds, which related to 

 Syrnium maingayi^ Hume, and to the various specimens of this Owl in the 

 British Museum. — A communication was read from Mr. A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, F.Z.S., on the presence of a canal-system, evidently sensory, in the 

 shields of Pteraspidian fishes. Mr. Woodward described a specimen which 

 seemed to prove that the series of small pits or depressions upon the shields 

 of these ancient fishes, observed by Prof. Ray Lankester, are really the 

 openings of an extensive canal-system traversing the middle layer of the 

 shield. — A second communication from Mr. A. Smith Woodward con- 

 tained some notes on the »lateral line« of Scpialoraja, in which it was shown 

 that the «lateral line« of this extinct Liassic Selachian was an open groove 

 supported, as in the Chimseroids, by a series of minute ring-like calcifications. 

 — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Versammlung Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte. 



Von den Geschäftsführern der 60. Versammlung Deutscher Natur- 

 forscher und Arzte, welche dahier vom 18. bis 24. September d. J. 

 tagen wird, aufgefordert, haben Unterzeichnete es übernommen, für die 



Section für Zoologie 

 die vorbereitenden Schritte zu thun. Um den Sitzungen unserer Sec- 

 tion zahlreichen Besuch und gediegenen Inhalt zuzuführen, beehren 

 wir uns, zur Theilnahme freundlichst einzuladen. Beabsichtigte Vor- 

 träge oder Demonstrationen bitten wir frühzeitig bei uns anzumelden. 

 Die Geschäftsführer gedenken Mitte Juli allgemeine Einladungen zu 

 versenden, und wäre es wünschenswerth, schon in diesen Einladungen 

 das Programm der Sectionssitzungen wenigstens theilweise veröffent- 

 lichen zu können. 



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