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on the Oviparity of the larger Victorian Peripatiis , generally known as P. 

 leuchart'ii. By Arthur Dendy, D.Sc. The author admits that the New South 

 Wales Peripatus is viviparous ; but adduces certain observations pointing 

 to the conclusion that this is not the case with the Victorian form. On 

 April 14th, 1892, an exanaination of one of three eggs of the larger Victo- 

 rian Peripatus remaining out of the batch of about fourteen obtained in July 

 of the previous year, revealed the presence of an embryo with antennae, oral 

 papillae , jaws, and fifteen pairs of claw-bearing legs; whence the author 

 concludes that he may fairly claim to have now definitely proved that the 

 larger Victorian Peripatus at any rate sometimes lays eggs , and that these 

 eggs are capable of undergoing development outside the body of the parent. — 

 Mr. Pedi e y exhibited a very fine and perfect saw, about 5 ft. long, of the 

 saw-fish Pristis zysroii , Bleeker. The fish without the saw was about 19 ft. 

 long, and was captured in a net at Evans River, N.S.W. The number of 

 pairs of rostral teeth for this species is usually given as from 26 — 32 ; the 

 specimen exhibited had only 25 pairs, all in place. — Mr. Froggatt exhi- 

 bited three female specimens of an undescribed species of Coelostoma (Fam. 

 Coccidae) found on Acacia stricta; the only other known species, C. australe, 

 was recently described by Mr. Maskell in the Proceedings of this Society. 

 Also a robber-fly (Fam. Asilidae) together with a bee [Apis mellifica) , its 

 victim; and he mentioned that one of these flies, Trupania apivora, Feitch, 

 in North America was known to be a ruthless destroyer of honey bees. — 

 Mr. H e die y exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Rainbow, a spider of the family 

 Epëiridae. This rare and remarkable insect furnishes an addition to our 

 fauna, and a new genus may be required for its reception. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Chairmen of Committees on anatomical and biological nomenclature: 



correction. 



By Burt G. Wilder, M.D., Professor in Cornell University. 



In a circular, »American Reports upon Anatomical Nomenclature« issued 

 last winter by Prof. Wilder, as Secretary of the Committee of the Asso- 

 ciation of American Anatomists, in the third paragraph of the third page, 

 the Chairman of the Committee of the Anatomische Gesellschaft should be 

 Prof. A. vonKölliker, and the Chairman of the American division (appoin- 

 ted in 1891 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) 

 of the International Committee on Biological Nomenclature should be Prof. 

 G. L. Goodale. Prof. Wilder desires to express his regret for the errors, 

 due in the one case to his own misapprehension and in the other to a cleri- 

 cal mistake. 



Ithaca, N. Y. June 8. 1892. 



Druck von Breitkopf Ss Härtel in Leipzig. 



