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branchial bars or ceratobranchials form no part of the adult hyoid, but are 

 entirely resorbed, and that the thyrohyal of the adult is developed from that 

 . part of the hypobranchial plate of the larva which forms the inner boundary 

 of the thyroid foramen. — Mr. F. O. Pickard-Cambridge read a paper »on 

 the Cteniform Spiders of Africa, Arabia, and Syria«, which contained a list 

 of the species already described from these countries , with notes on their 

 identities, and descriptions of nine new species. — Mr. L. A. Borradaile 

 gave an account of the Crustaceans of the order Stomatopoda represented in 

 the collections made by Messrs. J. S. Gardiner and Dr. A. Willey in several 

 of the South Pacific Islands. Ten species were enumerated, of which three, 

 viz. Gonodactylus espmosus, Pseiidosquilla oxyrhyncha^ and Squilla multiiuber- 

 culata^ were described as new. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



1st February, 1897. — Mr. Oldfield Thomas exhibited the skull of a 

 Giraffe from the Niger Region, which had been shot by the late Lieut. R. H. 

 McCorquodale, and presented to the British Museum by his brother, Mr. W. 

 Hume McCorquodale. No Giraffes had previously been received from this 

 region, and as the skull proved to differ from that of the typical species in 

 its greater size, longer muzzle, and more divergent horns, it was considered 

 to represent a special subspecies, for which the name of Giraffa camelopar- 

 dalis per alta was suggested. — Mr. Sclater exhibited some photographs of 

 Giraffes in order to show the differences in markings between the two forms 

 Giraffa camelopardalis typica and G. c. capensis. — A letter was read from 

 Mr. J. Graham Kerr, F.Z.S., containing notes on the Paraguayan Lepido- 

 sireti, as observed by Mr. R. J. Hunt. It was shown that during the dry- 

 season it retired into burrows like its African relative Protopteriis. — Mr. G. 

 A. Boulenger, F.R.S., gave an account of the Fishes collected by Dr. J. 

 Bach, in the Rio Jurua, Brazil. Fifty-one species were enumerated, of which 

 nine were described as new. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper on 

 the Anatomy of an Australian Cuckoo, Scythrops novae-Ziollandtae, which he 

 was disposed to regard as being more nearly allied to Eudynamys than to 

 any other form of the Cuculidae. — Dr. A. G. Butler, F.Z.S., read a paper 

 "on a Collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. F. V. Kirby, chiefly in Portu- 

 guese East Africa". Ninety- two species were enumerated, of which one 

 [Euralia Kirbyi) was described as new. The paper also contained the descrip- 

 tion of a new species of Cyclopides^ viz. Cyclopides Carsonij from Fwambo, 

 collected by Mr. A. Carson. — A communication from Dr. N. H. Al cock 

 "on the Vascular System of the Chir optera!'' was read by Prof. Howes. The 

 anatomy of the vascular system of Pteropus médius was described and shown 

 in its general plan to resemble in many respects that occurring in the Rodentia, 

 and observations of a comparative nature were added on the pleurae, pericar- 

 dium, and lungs. A summary of the literature upon the Chiroptera was also 

 included in the paper. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. IV. Internationaler Zoologischer Congrefs. 



Cambridge, August 1898. 



Nach Beschluß des dritten, im September 1895 in Leiden abge- 

 haltenen internationalen Congresses wird der vierte Congreß in Eng- 

 land abgehalten werden. Als Versammlungsort ist die Universitätsstadt 



