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occurrence of this bird in Great Britain. — Dr. Forsyth Major gave an 

 account of the general results of his Zoological Expedition to Madagascar 

 1894 — 96. Amongst the more important results attained by Dr. Major was 

 the discovery of remains of a new fossil Monkey [Nesopiê/iecus], forming the 

 type of a new family of Quadrumana, and of about twenty new species of 

 living Mam.mals, several of these belonging to new genera. A very fine 

 series of bones of the extinct Aepyornithes obtained by Dr. Major would 

 enable some nearly complete skeletons of this group to be put together for 

 the first time. — A communication was read from Mr. Stanley S. Flo wer , 

 containing an annotated list of all the Reptiles and Batrachians known to 

 occur in the Malay Peninsula and on the adjacent islands. It was based 

 upon Cantor's Catalogue, published in 1847, containing the names of 106 

 species, and on subsequent additions by Stoliczka and others, including 

 those made by the author, which had raised the number to 210. A new 

 species of Gecko [Gonatodes penangensis) was described, and original obser- 

 vations relating to the distribution, variation, and habits of known species 

 were added, especially with regard to the tadpoles of various Batrachians. 

 The paper was illustrated by drawings taken from life of several species pre- 

 viously either not figured, or figured inaccurately. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, 

 F.R.S., read descriptions of some new fishes from the Upper Shire River, 

 British Central Africa, based on specimens collected by Dr. Percy Rendali, and 

 presented to the British Museum by Sir Harry Johnston, K.C.B. The pre- 

 sent collection contained examples of fourteen species, of which five were 

 now described as new to science. — A second communication from Mr. 

 Boulenger contained remarks on the Lizards of the Genus Eremias^ section 

 Boulengeria. — Mr. R. Lydekker, F.R.S., gave an account of an appa- 

 rently new Deer from North China, living in the Menagerie of the Duke of 

 Bedford at Woburn Abbey, to which he proposed to assign the name Cerviis 

 hedfordianus. — The Secretary read a communication from Mr. A. J. North, 

 C.M.Z.S., of the Australian Museum, Sydney, containing an account of a 

 Cuckoo in the Ellice Islands {Eudynamys êaùem'ss), which appears to lay its 

 eggs in the nest of a Tern [Anous stolidus). — The Rev. T. R. R. St ebbing 

 communicated a paper by Dr. H. J. Hansen, of the Copenhagen Museum, 

 on the development and the species of the Crustaceans of the genus Sergestes. 

 In this paper Dr. Hansen reviewed the rather voluminous literature of the 

 genus, and had succeeded in reducing a group of sixty nominal species to 

 about twenty valid ones. In certain cases he had had to disentangle a plu- 

 rality of species that had been confounded under a single name ; but more 

 often he had found that two or three names had been given to a single 

 species. His researches seemed to make it clear that there are trustworthy 

 characters by which adult forms can be distinguished from the immature, so 

 that the confusion which has arisen in the past will be dispelled, and need 

 not be reproduced in any future extension of the genus. — P. L. Sciate r, 

 Secretary. 



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Von W. Wolterstorff, Gustos des naturwissenschaftlichen Museums Magdeburg. 



eingeg. 18. December 1896. 



Angeregt durch zahlreiche interessante Funde und Beobachtungen an 

 meinem reichhaltigen Material lebender und conservierter Urodelen habe ich 



