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Expedition, but this is an error. C. gibbosa is not a Colossendeis at all, 

 the second coxa, the tarsus and the auxiliary claws prohibit its being 

 included in the genus. The proboscis too, though large is of unusual 

 form and not that usually associated with Colossendeis. 



I think I am right in saying that the ova of Colossendeis have not 

 been seen outside the body of the female and that nothing is known 

 concerning the development of the genus ; the same remark applies, but 

 with greater weight to Decalopoda. In both these genera it is extremely 

 probable that the ovigerous legs are not strictly ovigerous. They appear 

 to be of greater importance as feeding organs and, as general rule, bear 

 only too obvious traces of being used for raking the sea-bottom, more- 

 over the four terminal joints make a very efficient grasping organ. The 

 animals move about on the tips of their claws and the large proboscis 

 with its mobility on the body, the great length of the ovigerous legs 

 together with their condition just alluded to, clearly indicate subser- 

 vience to some such function as this. Among the "Scotia" specimens of 

 Decalopoda one specimen was put apart from the others and labelled as 

 bearing ova. A second specimen was found to be in a similar condition. 

 Close inspection revealed the fact that one of these specimens was a 

 male, the other a female, that the so called ova were contracted masses 

 of hydroid polyps, and that they were held by the mandibles close against 

 the base of the ovigerous legs. 



From the foregoing it will be readily seen that Decalopoda and 

 Colossendeis are two distinct genera, more conspicuously so than many 

 modern ones. Though distinct, they are unquestionably closely allied 

 and present many features in common, the details of which are set forth in 

 my contribution to the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh already cited. 



II. Mitteilungen aus Museen, Instituten usw. 



Deutsche Zoologische Geseilschaft. 



Da bis zu dem durch die Publikationsordnung der Gesellschaft für 

 die Ablieferung der Manuskripte bestimmten Endtermin (spätestens 

 14 Tage nach Schluß der Versammlung) diesmal noch nicht die Hälfte 

 der Manuskripte der gehaltenen Vorträge eingeliefert wurde, so ist 

 dadurch das geplante Erscheinen der »Verhandlungen« vor Beginn der 

 Universitätsferien von vornherein unmöglich gemacht. 



Marburg, den 2. Juli 1905. Der Schriftführer. 



E. Korscheit. 



III. Personal-Notizen. 



Dr. S. Prowazek, früher Rovigiio zoologische Station, wohnt jetzt 

 Berliii-Halensee Karlsruherstr. 3. 



Berichtigung. 



In dem Aufsatze von Woltersdorf f »Über Triton vidyaris subsp. 

 gmeca*, Zool. Anz. 29. Bd. No. 5, S. 138, Zeile 10 bzw. 11, Spalte 2 

 und 4, ist statt Flettenreihe Fleckenreihe zu lesen. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



