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Three Reptiles from West Africa ; presented by Mr. Lewis Hughes. 

 Two Bottles of Insects from Lower Egypt ; collected and presented 

 by Mr. F. L. James. 



Specimens of four species of Shells (Helix) from Setubal, Portugal ; 

 a Female specimen, with pupa case and pensile nest, of a Wingless 

 Moth (Oiketicas) ; and other specimens of Insects and Insect Architecture 

 from Sao Paulo, Brazil ; collected and presented, with notes and drawings, 

 by Mr. E. Dukinfield Jones. 



A living Electric Fish {Malapterurus Beninensis) from Bonny River ; 

 presented by Capt. W. L. Keene. 



A Caudal Spine of a Sting Ray (Trygon) from Port Adelaide; a 

 tubular, horny Sponge ; a Type specimen of a new encrusting calcareous 

 Zoophyte (Hydractinia calcarea, Carter) from West Africa ; presented by 

 Mr. R. J. Keen. 



Two Heteropterous Insects, allied to Catacanthus, from the Amazons ; 

 collected and presented by Mr. Joseph Leyland. 



The Skin and Horns of a Caribou {Tarandus rangifer), and a Rock 

 Ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris), from Newfoundland ; collected and pre- 

 sented by Mr. St. George Littledale. 



A specimen of Hydractinia calcarea, Carter, on a Turritella Shell, from 

 Kabenda, West Africa ; presented by Mr. F. P. Marrat. 



A Mole Cricket (Gryllotalpa) from Bagueres de Luchon, Pyrenees; 

 collected and presented by Mrs. Mason. 



Sixty specimens of Silurian Fossils (chiefly from the Miami Valley, 

 Ohio) and two Stone Celts ; ninety bottles of small Marine Invertebrates 

 from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans ; specimens of Phyllosoma, Velella, 

 Porpita, Salpai ; two rare compound Calycophorida ; and a fine dried 

 specimen of the Physalia or Portuguese Man-of-War from the North 

 Atlantic, with Photographs by Dr. John Habirshaw, F.R.M.S.L., showing 

 the thread cells, &c., highly magnified; presented by Capt. J. H. Mortimer, 

 Associate of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool. 



Three Snakes from South . America ; presented by Mr, G. H. Morton. 



Two Freshwater Terrapins {Emys Amazonica, Spis) from the River 

 Ucayali, Peru ; presented by Mr. L. Nash. 



A Japanese Silk Moth [Bomhyx Yamamai), bred in England; presented 

 by Messrs. Leo Negri and Co. 



