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the specimen purchased October 24*^, 1883, still living in the Society's 

 Gardens, and was, so far as could be at present ascertained, referable to the 

 Bald-headed Chimpanzee, Anthropopithecus calvus. — A letter was read from 

 Heer F. E. Blaauw of Amsterdam, containing an account of the development 

 of the horns of the Whitetailed Gnu as observed in specimens bred in his 

 Menagerie. — Professor Newton exhibited a specimen oi Pennula Millsi, 

 Dole, brought from the Sandwich Islands by Mr. S. B. Wilson, remarking 

 that it seemed to be identical specifically with Ralbis ohsciirus, Gmelin, a 

 species which has not been lately recognized. — Professor Bell made some 

 remarks on the question of the food oï Bipalium. — Canon Tristram made 

 some remarks on a specimen of Emberiza cioides, a Bunting of Siberia, of 

 which a specimen was believed to have been obtained in this country at 

 Flamborough in October 1887. — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a note on the 

 Echinoderm fauna of the Bay of Bengal. — Mr. F. E. Beddard, F. Z. S., 

 and Mr. Frederick Treves, F. Z. S., F. R. C. S., gave an account of the 

 anatomy of the Sumatran Rhinoceros as observed in two specimens of this 

 animal that had lately died in the Society's Gardens. The muscular anatomy 

 of the limbs of this Rinoceros was especially treated of. — Prof. Newton 

 read a paper on the breeding of the Seriema [Cariama cristata) in the 

 Society's Gardens, — P. L. S dater, Secretary. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



28*^ November, 1888. — 1) Contributions towards a knowledge of the 

 Coleoptera of Australia, No. V. By A. Sidney Olliff, F.E.S., Assistant 

 Zoologist, Australian Museum. This short paper contains descriptions of 

 several new species belonging to genera hitherto unrecorded as Australian. 

 Of these Rhinosimus corticalis and Dryophilus sordulentus are perhaps the most 

 interesting. — 2) Descriptions of hitherto undescribed Australian Lepi- 

 doptera [R hop aloe er a). By W. H. Mi s kin, F.E.S. Besides an account of 

 the males of Delias nigidius and Hypochrysops hecalius, and a record of the 

 occurrence of Zeritis Thyra, L., an African species of Lycaenidae, at New- 

 castle, N.S.W., the following species are made known in this paper: 



— Tachyris asteria from Port Douglas, Pyrameis Lucasi from Fernshaw, 

 Victoria, Hypochrysops eticlides from Gippsland , and H. Olliffi from Fre- 

 mantle, W.A., &c. — 3) Notes on Australian Earthworms, Part V. By J. 

 J. Fletcher, M.A., B.Sc. This paper includes descriptions of about twenty 

 new species of earthworms, the majority of them from New South Wales, 

 but with a few from Queensland and South Australia. There are added a 

 new species to each of the genera Digaster and Perissogaster, two to Mega- 

 scolides [Notoscolex] ^ twelve to Cryptodrilus, and the remainder to Perichaeta \ 

 they include several species of considerable interest from a morphological 

 stand-point. — Dr. Cox exhibited a Crustacean, [Squilla sp.) numbers of 

 which have of late been brought to market with the large prawns now abun- 

 dant, having been captured in the prawn-nets'. — Mr. O gilb y exhibited 



— (1) A specimen of a fish, Apogon Guentheri, whose mouth was crammed 

 with ova, suggesting the possibility of this species having contracted the habit 

 (well known in other genera, such as Hemipimelodus, Chromis, &c.) of hatch- 

 ing out the ova in the pharynx ; on the other hand, possibly the fish, having 

 been placed suddenly in spirits, may have attempted to eject the contents of 



