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 II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



7th. April, 1S91. — 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 young example of the Ounce or Snow-Leopard 

 [Felis imcia), new to the Collection, and to a Smallclawed Otter [Lutra lep- 

 (uìujx) from India, being the second specimen of this Otter acquired by the 

 Society ; also to a specimen of a Lhuys' Impeyan {Lop hop /tor us Lhuysi) from 

 Szechuen, Western China, obtained by Mr. A. G. Pratt during his recent 

 visit to that country, being the first example of the species that has reached 

 Europe. — The Secretary exhibited the drawing of a female Antelope (Tra- 

 gelaphus gratits), with a young one, now living in the Zoological Garden, 

 Amsterdam, which had been obligingly sent to him by Heer C. Kerbert, the 

 Director of that Garden. — The Secretary exhibited (on behalf of Mr. W. 

 L. Sclater, Deputy Superintendent of the Indian Museum, Calcutta) a 

 specimen of a Duck, apparently a hybrid between the Mallard [Anas bosehas) 

 and the Gadwall [A. streperà) , which had been lately obtained in the vici- 

 nity of Calcutta. — Mr. T. D. A. Cocker ell read a paper on the geogra- 

 phical distribution of Slugs. The author divided the known Slugs into six 

 families: — Succineidae, Vaginulidae, Arionidae, Limacidae. Testacellidae, 

 and Selenitidae, under which he grouped fifteen subfamilies. The Janellidae 

 were reduced to a subfamily of Succineidae , and the generic nomenclature 

 of the whole group was revised, two new genera and one new subgenus being 

 named. The Philomycidae were made a subfamily of the Arionidae. The 

 distribution of each subfamily , and of all the recognizable genera, was dis- 

 cussed in some detail. Under the Veronicellinae a new subgenus Imerinia, 

 from Madagascar , was indicated. — A communication was read from Dr. 

 Aclcok, Surgeon-Naturalist to H.M. Indian Survey steamer »Investigator«, 

 containing a description of Saccogastcr maculatus, a viviparous Bathybial Fish 

 from the Bay of Bengal. — Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read some observations 

 on Bathybiaster vexillifer , a Star-fish originally described by Sir Wyville- 

 Thomson, of which the typical specimen had lately been received by the 

 British Museum. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger gave an account of the Silu- 

 roid fishes obtained by Dr. H. von Ihering and Herr Sebastian "Wolff in the 

 Province of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. — Mr. F. E. Beddard read a paper 

 giving some account of the anatomy of the Patagonian Cavy [Dolichotis pata- 

 gonica) from specimens recently living in the Society's Gardens. — P. L. 

 Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



February 25th, 1S91. — 1) On the Anatomy of some Tasmanian Land 

 Snails. By C. Hedley, F.L.S., Corr. Mem. This paper is a contribution to 

 a knowledge of the soft parts of Bulimus Dujresni, Leach, B. tasmanicus, Pfr., 

 Anoglypta laitnceslonensis, Reeve, Rhytida lampra, Pfr., Helicarion Verreauxi, 

 Pfr., and Cystopelta Petterdi, Tate. — 2) Notes on a small Collection of 

 Hymenoptera from Narrabri, N. S.W. By W. W. Fr ogg att. The writer gives 

 a list of the species comprised in the collection exhibited by Mr. Musson at 

 the December Meeting. The occurrence of Thynnus Brenchleyi, Smith, a 

 species rare in collections, previously only recorded from Champion Bay, W. 



