February -26, 1833. 

 Richard 0\ven, Esq., in the Chair. 



A specimen \vas exhibited of a Seal, presented to the Society by 

 Mr. Heary Reynolds. It was obtained by that gentleman from a 

 native of Nevv Holland, \vIio stated that he brought it from the in- 

 terior of the country adjoining the settlement of Nevv South Wales. 

 The marine habits of the animal (a species oi Arctocephalus, and most 

 probably the Otaria Perunii, Desm.) render this statement problema- 

 tical. Should it be correct, it would seem to indicate the existence of 

 salt water in large meisses at a distance remote from the coast. 



A specimen was exhibited of the Carolina Cuckoo, Coccyzus Caroli- 

 nensis, Bon., which was killed in the lašt autumn in the preserves of 

 Lord Cawdor in Wales : it was communicated for exhibition by His 

 Lordship. Two instances of the occurrence of a bird of the šame 

 species in Ireland have been recorded. 



Dr. Grant called the attention of the Society to a specimen of a 

 Cephalopod, forming part of his own coUection, which he exhibited in 

 illustration of a paper " On the Zoological Characters of the Genus 

 Loligopsis, Lam., and Account of a New Species from the Indian 

 Ocean." 



In his introductory remarks Dr. Grant refers to the history of the 

 genus Loligopsis, of vvhich no specimen appears to have been hitherto 

 submitted to the inspection of European naturalists. It \vas founded 

 by Lamarck on a drawing, made by Pėron and Le Sueur, of a specimen 

 obtained by them in the South Sea. A drawing of another specimen 

 from the South Pacific Ocean, forms the type of the genus Leachia 

 of M. C. A. Le Sueur, a genus evidently, as it has been considered by 

 M. Sander Rang, synonj'mous with Loligopsis. But in neither of 

 these instances had the specimen been brought home, and in the ab- 

 sence of subjects for observation the genus has been regarded as of 

 doubtful existence by Cuvier, by the Baron de Ferussac, and by 

 M. Blainville, \vho givcs little credence to the combiuation on the 

 šame animal of the eight arms of an Octopus, and the caudal fin of a 

 Loligo. 



Dr. Grant's specimen presents this combiuation of characters, 

 and may therefore be regarded as establishing the existence of the 

 genus Loligopsis. It has, moreover, two very small cylindrical pe- 

 duncles between the outer pair of arms, vvhich have not been noticed 

 by previous observers : it constitutes a third species of Loligopsis, di- 

 stinguishable from the others by the comparative length of its arms. 

 In the Lol. Pcronii, Lam., the arms are all of equal length ; the LoL 

 cy^lma, {Leachia cyvlura, Le S.), has the superior pair of arms equal 



