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 III. Mittheiluugen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



17tli February, 1885. — A report was read on. the additions that had 

 been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of January 1885, 

 and special attention was called to a Black-and-Yellow Ha^vfinch [Mycero- 

 bas vielanoxanthus) from Northern India, and an Andaman Starling [Sturnia 

 andamanensis] from the Andaman Islands, new to the Society's Collection ; 

 and to a young male European Moose [Aloes machlis), presented by Evelyn 

 Hubbard, Esq. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.Z.S., read a paper upon the 

 structure of the Cuckoos (Cuculidae), and pointed out the differences in the 

 pterylosis and the structure of the syrinx in the various forms Avhich he had 

 examined. It was proposed to divide the family into three subfamilies ; Cu- 

 culinae, Phoenicophainae, and Centropodinae. — Mr. F. E. Beddard read 

 a paper upon the heart of Aptéryx, and called attention to the variations in 

 the condition of. the right auriculo-ventricular valve observed in different 

 individuals of this bird. — A communication was read from Mr. M. Ja cob y 

 containing the first part of an account of the Phytophagous Coleoptera ob- 

 tained by Mr. George Lewis during his second journey in Japan, from 

 February 1880 to September 1881. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of London. 



5th February, 1885. — A paper was read on the Arbaciadae Gray, 

 part I. The morphology of the Test in the genera Coelopleurus and Arbacia, 

 by Prof. P. Martin Duncan and W. Percy Sladen. The species of recent 

 and fossil Coelopleurus and the recent forms of Arbacia examined, present 

 some structural detail^ of both primary and secondary Classificatory im- 

 portance, which have hitherto been neglected and not recorded. The ambu- 

 lacral plates differ from those of all other Echinoidea in the arrangement of 

 the triplets, there being a central primary plate with an adorai and an aboral 

 demi-plate. It is shown that there are no additional plates near the peri- 

 stome in the species of Arbacia. The structure of the sutures especially of 

 the median interradiais is a modification of the doubling which has been 

 described in Temnopleurus, by one of the authors. The double optic pore 

 noticed by Lovén occurs in the fossil species of Coelopleurus and in C. Mail- 

 larcli, a recent species. The authors compare the different forms and exclude 

 Arbacia nigra from the genus Arbacia. The next part will deal with the 

 classification. — Mr. W. F. Kirby , read a paper »On the Employment of the 

 names proposed for genera of Orthoptera previously to 1840«. The author 

 shows the application of every name proposed from the time of Linné to the 

 publication of Servilles »Histoire Naturelle des Insectes Orthoptères« and he 

 appends a full bibliography of the subject. — J. M urie. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



31st December, 1884. — 1) Botanical. 2) Geological. — 3) Note on 

 an apparently New Parasite affecting Sheep. By R. von Lendenfeld. In 

 several localities sheep were affected by a disease, similar in appearance to 

 Epithelial cancer, which appeared on the feet behind the hoofs and on the 

 lips. The histological investigation shows, that the Rete Malphigii is infla- 

 med and the Papillae attain a very large and abnormal size : the outer layer 



