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genus of Butterflies Aiigerona, and confirmed by Wallace and other observers, 

 to the presence of a pair of strong corneous hooks on the thorax, which play 

 on a pair of curved hooks with spatulate ends attached to the inner margin 

 of the fore-wing close to the base , and surrounded by a membranous sac 

 which acts as a sounding-board. An account was given of a similar sound 

 produced by the males of a Burmese moth of the family Agaristidae and of 

 a buzzing sound in an allied Australian form, both of which have a patch of 

 ribbed hyaline membrane below the costa of the fore-wing. The sound was 

 attributed to the friction of spines, attached in the former to the first pair 

 of legs , in the latter to the second pair , on the ribbed membrane. — A de- 

 scription was then given of the transformation of the costal half of the hind 

 wing in the Noctuid genus Pattila into a large scent-gland , and of the man- 

 ner in which this had distorted the neuration. The still greater distortion 

 of the neuration in the allied genus Argida was attributed to its once having 

 possessed a similar scent-gland, now become rudimentary by disuse. — A 

 communication was read from Prof. W. N. Parker, F.Z.S., on the reten- 

 tion of functional gills in young Frogs [Rana iemporaria), which he had 

 succeeded in producing in specimens reared in his laboratory. Prof. Par- 

 ker described the method employed with this object, and made remarks on 

 the way in which the fore limbs are protruded. — Prof. F. Jefi"rey Bell, 

 F.Z.S., read a paper entitled a contribution to the classification of Ophiu- 

 Toids, to which were added descriptions of some new and little-known forms 

 of this group. — Mr. M. F. Woodward gave an account of an abnormal 

 Earthworm [Lumbricus terrestris) possessing seven pairs of ovaries situated 

 on the eighth and following somites to the fourteenth. — P. L. Sclater, 

 Secretary. 



2. Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft. 



Wahl des Vorstandes am 16. März 1892. 



Die Eröffnung der bis zum 15. März 1892 incl. bei dem Unter- 

 zeichneten eingegangenen 95 Wahlcouverts , von welchen 1 ungültig, 

 da ohne Bezeichnung des Absenders war, geschah am 16. März auf der 

 Amtsstube des Großherz. Notars Lugo zu Heidelberg, welcher ein zu 

 den Acten der Gesellschaft gehendes Protokoll über den Wahlvorgang 

 aufnahm. 



Eines der Couverts enthielt einen weißen Zettel; auf einem der 

 Stimmzettel fehlte die Bezeichnung der drei stellvertretenden Vor- 

 sitzenden, auf einem weiteren dagegen die des Schriftführers. 

 Als Vorsitzender erhielten an Stimmen: 



Prof. F. E.Schulze51, Prof. Bütschli 25, Prof. Carus 4, Prof. 

 Weismann und Prof. Möbius je 2 und Prof. v. Graff 1. 



Als stellvertretende Vorsitzende erhielten an Stimmen: 



die Prof. Bütschli 44, Ehlers 41, Carus 37, Ludwig 25, Weis- 

 mann 24, v. Graff 21, Hertwig 17, Leuckart 14, Schulze 10, Goette 9, 

 Möbius 9, Claus 5, Braun 4, Hatschek 3, Chun, P. v. Beneden und 

 Grobben je 2, Frhr. v. Berlepsch, Prof. Dohrn, Greeff, Grenacher, 

 Lang und Selenka je 1. 



