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tisch mit Mo7i. morgieyisis Dupl., so daß wir also schließlich statt dreier 

 verschiedener Süßwassermonotiden nur eine, von drei verschiedenen 

 Fundorten vor ims haben. 



Weiterer Bemerkungen in faunistischer wie anatomischer Bezieh- 

 ung über die hiesigen Rhabdocoeliden enthalte ich mich an dieser 

 Stelle und verweise auf meine , voraussichtlich Ende dieses Jahres er- 

 scheinende Publication. 



III. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



17th November, 1885. — The Secretary read a report on the addi- 

 tions that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of 

 October, 1885, and called attention to a collection of North- American Rep- 

 tiles, presented by F. J. Thompson, Esq., amongst which were examples of 

 the Alleghany Snake, Coluber alleghaniensis, new to the Society's Collection; 

 and to an example of the Black-eyebrowed Albatross {Diomedea melanophrys) , 

 obtained in False Bay, Cape Colony, and presented to the Society by 

 W. Ayshford Sanford, Esq., F.Z.S. — The Secretary also exhibited to 

 the Meeting two curious Millipedes, believed to be Spirostreptus annulipes, 

 which had been sent home from the Cape by Mr. Fisk for the Insect-House. 

 — An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by Major 

 S. W. Ye r bury, respecting the exact locality of a Chameleon [Chamaeleon 

 calcarifer] presented to the Society by that gentleman in June 1885. Major 

 Yerbury had obtained this specimen near Aden. — Mr. S dater exhibited 

 and made remarks upon two Newts [Molge vittata) transmitted to the Society 

 by Dr. E. B. Dickson, of Constantinople, C.M.Z.S., by whom they had been 

 obtained from Brussa, Asia Minor. — Mr. H. E. Dresser exhibited and 

 made remarks on a female specimen of the Kildeer Plover [Aegialitis voci- 

 fera) , killed, in January 1885, by Mr. Jenkinson, on the Scilly Isles; and 

 a young female Desert -Chat [Saxicola desei-ti) obtained near Spurn Head, 

 Lincolnshire, in October 1885. — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell exhibited and 

 gave an account of a specimen of a species of Balanoglossus obtained by Mr. 

 Spencer at Herrn, Channel Islands, being the first recorded instance of the 

 occurrence of this Hemichordate in any part of the British seas. — Mr. 

 F. E. Beddard read the first of a proposed series of notes on the visceral 

 anatomy of birds. The present paper treated of the socalled omentum of 

 birds and its homologies. It was pointed out that this structure, present in 

 many birds, but apparently absent, or only present in rudiment, in a few 

 others, was represented by a structure having similar relations in the Cro- 

 codile, but in no other reptile. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas read a descrip- 

 tion of Heterocephalas Phillipsi, an extremely remarkable biirrowing Rodent 

 from Somali-land, belonging to a genus of which the only other known 

 species was based upon a single specimen obtained by Rttppell's collector in 

 Schoa. Mr. Thomas considered the affinities of this Rodent to be with Geo- 

 rychus and Bathyergtis. — Mr. S dater read a paper containing a description 

 of an apparently new species of Tanager of the genus Calliste, based on a 

 specimen formerly in the Gould Collection, now in the British Museum. 



