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Ornithorhynchns paradoxus^ and compared them with those of man and the 

 rabbit. Prof. Lankester also made some observations on the fossa ovalis of 

 the Monotremes, — Prof, Huxley, F.R.S., read a description of the re- 

 spiratory organs of Aptéryx, which he showed did not differ fundamentally 

 from the Avian type, find pointed out that neither of the structures that had 

 been termed diaphragms in the Aptéryx was really in correspondence with 

 the Mammalian diaphragm. — Mr. W.A.Forbes read the sixth of his 

 contributions to the anatomy of Passerine birds. In the present communi- 

 cation the author showed that Xeniciis and Acunthmtta, hitherto considered 

 to be allied to Certhia, Sttta, and Sittella, were really mesomyodian forms, 

 most nearly allied perhaps to Pitta. The discovery of such low forms of 

 Passerine birds in New Zealand was a fact of considerable interest, none of 

 the allied groups being at all represented there at the present day. — A 

 communication was read from Mr. Sylvanus Han le y on the shells of the 

 genus Leptomya, to which Avas added the descriptions of two new species. — 

 Mr. S dater read a note on Rüppell's Parrot, and showed that the more 

 brightly-coloured individuals, ordinarily supposed to be the males of this 

 Parrot, were really the females. — A second paper from Mr. S dater gave 

 the description of two new species of the genus Synallaxis from the collection 

 of Messrs. Salvin and Godman. A communication was read from Prof. 

 M. Watson containing an account of the muscular anatomy of Proteles as 

 compared with that of Hyaena and Viverra. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas 

 read a paper containing the description of a new species of Rat from China. 

 The specimens upon which the author had founded the description had been 

 sent by the Abbé Armand David to Mr. Milne-Edwards, of Paris, who had 

 placed them in the hands of Mr. Thomas for identification. The author pro- 

 posed to call this Rat Mus Edwardsi. — A communication was read from 

 Mr. E.W^. White, F.Z.S., of Buenos Aires, in which he gave an account 

 of the birds collected by him in the Argentine Republic. — Mr. R. Row- 

 dier S h arpe read the descriptions of two apparently new species oi Ery- 

 thropygia, one from the Zambesi, the other from the Congo river, which he 

 proposed to call respectively E. zambesiana and E. rvßcauda. — A second 

 paper by Mr. S h arpe contained the description of a new Flycatcher which 

 had been obtained by the late Governor Ussher on the Gold Coast. The 

 author proposed to call it Mtiscicapa Ussheri, in acknowledgment of the ser- 

 vices which its discoverer had rendered to ornithological science. — A com- 

 munication was read from Mr. F. Moore on the Lepidoptera collected by 

 the Rev. J. H. Hocking, chiefly in the Kangra District, N.W. Himalaya. 

 The present communication, being the second on the same collection, con- 

 tained the descriptions of seven new genera and of forty-eight new species. 

 An account of the transformation of a number of the species was also given. 

 — P. L. S dater, Secretary. 



IV. Personal-Notizen. 



N e e r I g. 



Am 15. Juni starb in Wismar der Kreiswund arzt Franz Schmidt, be- 

 kannt als Lepidopterolog. 



Druck von Breitkopf und Härte) in Leipzig. 



