138 THE NATUEAL HISTOEY EEVIEW. 



relative, Sir Daniel Cooper. — A Paper was read by Mr. C. Spence 

 Bate and Mr. J. K. Lord, containing descriptions of new species o-f 

 crustaceans discovered by the latter gentleman on the coasts of Yan- 

 couver's Island. — A Communication was read fron Mr. "W. Harpur 

 Pease, containing remarks on the species of genus Succinea, inhabit- 

 ing the Tahitian Archipelago, with description of a new species. — A 

 second Communication was likewise read from Mr, Harpur Pease, 

 entitled " Descriptions of new species of Land Shells from the islands 

 of the Central Pacific."— A Paper was read by Dr. J. E. Grray, 

 entitled ** A revision of the genera and species of Ursine animals, 

 {Ursidcs) founded on the specimens contained in the collection of the 

 British Museum." This family, as arranged by Dr. Grray, was stated 

 to embrace ten genera and twenty-two species — nine of which were 

 inhabitants of the Old, and twelve of the New World, while one was 

 common to the arctic portions of both hemispheres. — Dr. John Kirk 

 communicated a list of mammalia met with in the Zambezi region of 

 Eastern Tropical Africa. The total number of mammals enumerated 

 by Dr. Kirk was sixty-seven. Amongst these were a bat and an 

 antelope considered to be new to science, and proposed to be called 

 respectively Nycticejus nidicola and ITesot7'agus Living stonianus. — 

 Mr. P. L. Sclater read a list of the collection of monkeys living in 

 the Society's menagerie. The series now exhibited in the lately 

 erected monkey-house was stated to consist of seventy-four indi<- 

 viduals, belonging to forty-three different species, amongst which 

 were several of great rarity. — Mr. Bartlett exhibited a curious variety 

 of the common partridge, Ferdix cinerea, from the collection of Mr. 

 J. Gatcombe. The specimen was stated to be one of three similar 

 individuals lately obtained, in a wild state, in the neighbourhood of 

 Paris. 



XV. — Miscellanea. 



1. DlMOKPHISM 1^ THE GeNUS CyNIPS. 



The Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia, for 

 March last, contain an interesting paper by Mr. B. D. Walsh, on Di- 

 morphism in the genus Cynips. His observations relate principally 

 to C. q. spongifica and C. q. aciculake, which have hitherto been 



