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li. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



April 2ncl, 1901. — Professor F. Jeffrey Bell exhibited two specimens 

 of a Starfish, Astrophyfon claiatam, the many-branched arms of which were 

 closely intertwined, while the bursal slits (by which the genital products are 

 evacuated) were turgid and widely open. Recalling the observations of 

 Prof. Ludwig on Asterma and of Dr. Jickeli on An/edoti, Prof. Bell sug- 

 gested that we had here a third example of sexual congress among Echino- 

 derms. — Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made remarks upon two pairs 

 of malformed antlers of the Japanese Deer [Cervus sika). — Mr. G. P. Mudge, 

 F.Z.S., read a paper on the myology of the tongue of Parrots, and added a 

 tentative classification of this Order of Birds based upon the structure of 

 the tongue. This memoir was the outcome of the examination of the ton- 

 gues of 53 Parrots ranging over the whole Order, the Cyclopsittacidae ex- 

 cepted; and the conclusion arrived at by the author was that the Parrots, by 

 the structural characters of the tongue alone, might be arranged in three 

 families, viz. Loriidae. Nestoridae and Psitfacidae. — A communication was 

 read from Prof. W. Blaxland Benham, F.Z.S., on the larynx of a Rorqual 

 Whale [Balaenoptera rostrata) and of a Cachalot of the genus Cogia. The 

 paper was based upon an examination of the larynxes of specimens of these 

 Cetaceans, which had been washed up on the coast of Dunedin, New Zea- 

 land, and in it the author showed how widely different this organ was in 

 these representatives of the Mystacoceti and the Odontoceti — A communi- 

 cation from Mr. F. F. Laidlaw contained an account of the Lizards collec- 

 ted during the ''Skeat Expedition" to the Malay Peninsula in 1899 — 1900. 

 Twenty-seven species were enumerated in the paper, and notes were given 

 on their geographical distribution and habits, special attention being direc- 

 ted to the curious habit of Tachydromus sexlineatus of running about on the 

 top of the long buffalo-grass. One new species was described, under the 

 name Lyyosoma Fhtveri, — Prof. D'Arcy W. Thompson, C.B., read a 

 paper on the pterylosis of the Giant Humming, bird Paiagova gigas. — P. 

 L. Sciate r. Secretary. 



April 16th, 1901. — The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of March, 

 and called special attention to a male Tasmanian Wolf [Thylacinus cynoce- 

 ])halus)^ received in exchange on March 19; and to a further series of Indian 

 birds , mostly new to the Collection, presented to the Society by Mr. E. W. 

 Harper, F.Z.S., on March ISth. — Mr. Sclater exhibited (on behalf of 

 Mr. Phil. Robinson) an old copperplate engraving (published in 1771) by 

 George Stubbs, Jr., taken from a painting by George Stubbs, Sr., which 

 gave an excellent representation of a specimen of the Mountain Zebra 

 [Equus zebra). — A letter was read from Mr. L. A. Borradaile, F.Z.S., 

 stating that the Crustacean described by him at the Meeting on Nov. 20th, 

 1900, &s Armadillidium pacißcum belonged to the genus Ciiburis and not to 

 Armadillidium. — A communication was read from Mr. W. L. Distant 

 entitled "A Revision of the Insects of the Order Rhynchota belonging to the 

 Family Coreidae in the Hope Collection at Oxford." It was stated to be 

 supplementary to the paper on the same subject already published in the 



