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weder an einem der Teiche des südlichen Böhmens, oder an einem 

 Böhmerwaldsee aufgestellt werden. Mit den Arbeiten wird der Mu- 

 seumsassistent Herr Vavra binnen 14 Tagen beginnen. 



2. Zoological Society of London. 



19*^ June, 1888. — A letter was read addressed to the President by 

 Dr. Emin Pasha, dated Tunguru Island (Lake Albert), October SP*, 1887, 

 announcing the despatch of further collections of natural-history objects, 

 and promising for the Society some notes on European migratory birds ob- 

 served in that country. — An extract was read from a letter addressed by 

 Mr. E. L. Layard, F.Z.S., to Mr. .John Ponsonby, F.Z.S., concerning the 

 occurrence of a West-Indian Land-Shell [Stenogyra octona) in New Caledonia. 

 — Mr. Tegetmeier exhibited and made remarks on the feet of an Austra- 

 lian Rabbit, supposed to have acquired arboreal habits. — Prof. Bell ex- 

 hibited and made remarks on a specimen of a tubeforming Actinian [Ceri- 

 anthus memhranaceus) in its tube ; obtained by Mr. John Murray at a depth 

 of 70 fathoms in Loch Etive. — A communication was read from Prof. W. 

 Newton Parker, F.Z.S., on the poison-glands of the fishes of the genus 

 Trachimis. This paper showed the existence of glands in connexion with the 

 grooved dorsal and opercular spines of the two British species of Weever. 

 The glands were stated to be composed of large granular nucleated cells, 

 which are continuous with those of the epidermis. An account of the ob- 

 servations of previous authors, both as regards the structure and physiology 

 of the poison-organs of these fishes, was also given. — A communication 

 was read from Mr. H. W. Bates, F.R.S., containing the description of a 

 collection of Coleoptera made by Mr. J. H. Leech, during a recent visit to 

 the eastern side of the Corean Peninsula. — A second communication from 

 Mr. Bates treated of some new species of Coleoptera of the families Cicin- 

 delidae and Carabidae from the valley of the Yang-tsze-Kiang, China. — 

 Mr. J. B. Sutton read a paper on some abnormalities occurring among 

 animals recently living in the Society's Gardens. — Prof. Bell read an ac- 

 count of a collection of Echinoderms made at Tuticorin , Madras, by Mr. 

 Edgar Thurston, C.M.Z.S., Superintendent of the Government Central 

 Museum, Madras. — A communication was read from Mr. F. Moore, F.Z.S., 

 containing the second portion of a list of the Lepidoptera collected by the 

 Rev. J, H. Hocking, chiefly in the Kangra District of the northwestern 

 Himalayas. The present paper contained the descriptions of seven new genera 

 and of forty-eight new species. An account of the transformations of a 

 number of these species was also given from Mr. Hocking's notes. — P. L. 

 S c 1 a t e r , Secretary. 



3. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



30*^ May, 1888. — 1) Geographical. — 2) The Insects of the West 

 Kimberley District, N.W. Australia. By William Macie ay, F.L.S., &c. 

 The Cicindelidae and Carabidae contained in Mr. Froggatt's collections made 

 last year in the neighbourhood of Kings Sound, are here recorded, num- 

 bering considerably over one hundred species , quite eight-tenths of them 

 new. Mr. Macleay explained that though the species were mostly now de- 



