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IL Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



May 6th, 1902. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie in April 1902, and called special 

 attention to two pairs of Grey Teal [Querquedula versicolor] from Argentina, 

 which were the first examples of this handsome Duck that had been received 

 by the Society. — A note was read by Mr. Roland Trimen, F.R.S., upon 

 a Moth of the genus Cossus , which had been reared in the Society's Insect- 

 house from a chrysalis sent home from South Africa. The specimen was 

 apparently referable to the Common Goat-Moth of Europe [Cossus ligniperda)^ 

 which had probably been introduced in logs of wood into South Africa. — 

 Mr. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S., read a paper on the Mammals obtained 

 during the Whitaker Expedition to Tripoli, At Mr. J. I. S. Whitaker's 

 expense Mr. E. Dodson had made a successful collecting expedition into 

 Tripoli, and the specimens of Mammals obtained had been presented to the 

 National Museum. Twenty-one species were referred to, and, among others, 

 ^a Hare [Lepus Whitaheri) , allied to L. aethiopicus^ but of a bright pinkish 

 buffy colour, and a Gundi [Ctenodactylus Vali] like C. Gundi^ but with much 

 larger bullae, were described as new. — A communication from Mr. G. A. 

 Boulenger, F.R.S., contained lists of 4 species of Fishes, 8 species of 

 Batrachians, and 35 species of Reptiles, of which specimens had been col- 

 lected by Mr. J. ffolliott Darling in Mashonaland. Amongst these were de- 

 scribed as new two species of Fishes [Labeo Darlingi and Barbus r/iodesianus), 

 one of Batrachians [Rana Darlingi)^ and two of Reptiles [Hornopus Darlingi 

 and Ichnotropis longipes). — A communication was read from Hans Graf von 

 Berlepsch and M. Jean Stolzmann containing a second part of their 

 memoir "on the Ornithological Researches of M. Jean Kalinowski in 

 Central Peru." It gave an account of 188 species and subspecies, of which 

 12 were described as new. — A paper contributed by Sir Charles Eliot 

 contained notes on the Nudibranchs of the Eastern and Western Coasts of 

 Zanzibar. Zatteria Brownii, Dunga nodulosa^ and Crosslandia viridis were 

 described as new genera and species, and remarks were made upon the 

 little-known species Melibe fimbriata and Madrella ferruginosa. — Prof. G. 

 B. Howes, D.Sc, F.R.S., communicated a paper by Prof. G. Elliot Smith 

 on a case of abnormal dentition in a Lemur. The author recorded the occur- 

 rence in an individual of Lemur ftdvus of a fourth lower molar, present on 

 both sides, in its characters a diminutive counterpart of normal third molar 

 as regards its postero-external cusp. Reverting to the fact that certain fossil 

 Lemurs, Marsupial-like, possess four molar teeth, and to the presence in 

 Otocyon of four molars, and in the Insectivore Centetes of a fourth upper 

 molar, the author asserted a belief in a four-molared ancestry for the Pri- 

 mates. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Deutsche Zoologische Gesellschaft. 



Die 12. Jahresversammlung fand unter Leitung ihres Vorsitzen- 

 den, Herrn Prof. Chun, und unter Betheiligung von 58 Mitgliedern 

 und 18 Gästen in Gießen vom 20. — 22. Mai statt. 



Erste Sitzung am 20. Mai Vorm. Nach Eröffnung der Ver- 



