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(les Herrn Prof. Brandt zu einer Fahrt in den Kaiser-Wilhelm-Canal 

 bis zur Hochbrücke von Levensan gefolgt, und am 1 1. wurde nach 

 gemeinschaftlichem Mittagessen in der »Seebadeanstalt« eine Fahrt 

 in See unternommen auf einem Dampfer, den die Commission zur Er- 

 forschung der Deutschen Meere zur Verfügung gestellt hatte. Eine 

 Anzahl der Theilnehmer machte am 12. einen Ausflug in die »Hol- 

 steinische Schweiz«. 



Der Gesellschaft sind als Mitglieder beigetreten die Herren: 



Pfarrer Fr. W. Konow in Teschendorf bei Stargard. 



Prof. K. Kraepelin in Hamburg. 



Dr. Job. Meisensteiner in Marburg. 



Dr. Mich. Siedlecki in Krakau. 



Dr. S. Strodtmann in Ploen in Holstein. 



Rieh. Woltereck in Freiburg i. B. 



Der Schriftführer: 

 Prof. J. W. Spengel. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



1st June, 1897. — A communication was read from Dr. John Anderson, 

 F.R.S., containing a water-colour drawing of the Egyptian Weasel [Mustela 

 subpalmata) , taken from living specimens which he had recently presented to 

 the Society's Menagerie. Dr. Anderson also sent some remarks on this rare 

 Egyptian mammal, and others were made by Mr. E. C. Taylor, F.Z.S. — A 

 communication was read from Prof, T. W. Bridge, F.Z.S. , "On the Mor- 

 phology of the Skull in the Paraguayan Lepidosiren and other Dipnoi." The 

 first part of this memoir treated in detail of the structure of the skull in one 

 of the specimens of Lepidosiren collected in the region of the Paraguay River 

 by the German traveller Dr. Bohls. In the second portion was included a 

 revised account of the cranial structure of Ceratodus and ProtopteruSj and a 

 detailed comparison of the two genera with one another and with Lepido- 

 siren. — A paper "On the Classification of the Thyrididae, a Family of the 

 Lepidoptera Phalaedae," by Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S., was 

 read. It contained short diagnoses of the 26 known genera (of which Pycno- 

 soma and Plagiosella were described as new) of the group, and a list of the 

 known species of each genus. — A second communication from Sir George 

 Hampson treated of the classification of the Chrysauginae^ a subfamily of Moths 

 of the family Pyralidae. Like the preceding paper, it contained diagnoses of the 

 known genera, of which 76 were enumerated, and a list of the known species 

 of each genus. Of the genera the following were characterized as new: — 

 Hyalosticta, Protrichia, Prionidia, Microzancla, Sarcisiis, Motioloxis, Dilaxis, 

 Tetraschisds, and Cyclopalpia. — Dr. A. G. Butler, F.Z.S., read a paper 

 "On a Collection of Lepidoptera obtained in East Africa in 1894 by Mr. F. 

 Gillett." Fifty-seven specis were enumerated, and the dates of the capture 

 of the specimens were recorded. — Dr. C. I. Forsyth Major, C.M.Z.S., 



