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Die ausführlichen Untersuchungen über die Anatomie und Syste- 

 matik der Regenwürmer sind in den Arbeiten des Laboratoriums des 

 Zoologischen Museums der Moskauer Universität von mir gedruckt 

 worden. Meine Untersuchungen sind unter der Leitung des Herrn 

 Prof. A. P. Bogdanoff gemacht. Ich halte es für meine Pflicht Prof. 

 A. P. Bogdanoff hier meinen verbindlichsten Dank auszusprechen. 



III. Mittheilimgen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



17th June, 1890. — Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a 

 mounted head of a Pallah Antelope, obtained by Capt. F. Cookson, F.Z.S., 

 on the Cunene river, in South-western Africa, which was distinguished by 

 its black face from the ordinary form of the Cape Colony. — Mr. Sclater 

 also exhibited a large photograph of Grévy's Zebra [Equus Grevyi) , taken 

 from the specimen in the Natural-History Museum at Paris by Mr. Gambier 

 Bolton. — A specimen of Pallas's Plover [Aegialitis asiatica), obtained in May 

 last near Great Yarmouth, and now in the Norwich Museum, was exhibited ; 

 and a note upon its occurrence by Mr. T. Southwell was read to the Meeting. 

 — A communication was read from Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell containing some 

 notes received from Mr. Edgar Thurston, C.M.Z.S., of the Madras Museum, 

 on the habits of the Pennatulids of the genus Virgularia. — ■ A communi- 

 cation was read from Mons. P. A. Pichot, C.M.Z.S., containing exact par- 

 ticulars of the locality on the Lower Rhone in which the Beaver is still found 

 in its native state. — Mr. W. Bateson, F.Z.S., read a paper on some cases 

 of repetition of parts in animals, and exhibited a series of specimens illus- 

 trative of this subject. — Mr. Henley Grose Smith, F.Z.S., gave an account 

 of the Diurnal Lepidoptera collected by Mr. W. Bonny, of the Emin llelief 

 Exepedition, on the river Aruwimi, Central Africa. — A communication was 

 read from Mr. W. L. Distant, F.E.S., containing descriptions of some 

 Hemiptera collected by Mr. W. Bonny during the same expedition. — A 

 communication was read from Mr. H. \V. Bates, F.R.S., on some of the 

 Coleoptera collected by Mr. W. Bonny during the same expedition. — Mr. 

 Herbert Druce, F.Z.S., read the descriptions of ninety-five new species of 

 Lepidoptera Heterocera from Central and South America. — Mr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, F.Z.S., pointed out the secondary sexual characters in the 

 South-African Tortoises of the genus Homopus. — A communication was 

 read from Mr. W. L. Sclater, F.Z.S., containing a series of critical notes 

 on the Indian species of the family Muridae. — A communication was read 

 from Mr. J. T. Cunningham, containing some notes on the secondary 

 sexual characters of the genus Arnoglossus. The author showed that the so- 

 called Arnoglossus laterna is only the female of A. lophotes. — Mr. R. 

 Bowdler Sharp e read the sixth part of his series of notes on the Hume Col- 

 lection of Birds. The present communication treated of the Coraciidae of the 

 Indian region, and contained descriptions of three new species. — A com- 

 munication was read from Miss E. M. Sharpe containing an account of a 

 collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Edmund Reynolds on the rivers To- 

 cantins and Araguaya, and in the province of Goyaz, Brazil. — Mr. Edmund 



