Zoological Society. 283 



as Quinqueloculina agglutinans, Polystomella striato-punctata, No- 

 nionina depressula, Rotafia Beccarii, Trochammina inflata (abun- 

 dant), and Globigerina bulloides (one specimen). These often pre- 

 sent modified shell-structure, and are evidently the remnants of sea- 

 born families, left to struggle with the adverse influence of fresh 

 water, herein reminding us of the marine Crustacea found in fresh- 

 water lakes in Norway, and of other like instances. 



Mr. G. S. Brady supplies a suggestive paper on Naturalists' Field- 

 Clubs and their objects, giving some statistics as to half-a-dozen of 

 the best, comparing some of the different methods of research 

 adopted, and concluding with a well-urged plea against the destruc- 

 tion of small birds by the farmer, even for his own sake, and against 

 the extermination of rare plants by curiosity-hunting botanists, for 

 science-sake. Very valuable papers and notes on meteorology (Mr. 

 Atkinson), flowering-time of plants (Mr. G. S. Brady), entomology 

 (Mr. Bold), &c, complete this rich volume of natural-history facts 

 collected by the men of Northumberland and Durham. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 9, 1865.— Dr. J. E. Gray, F.R.S., in the Chair. 



Description of a New Genus of Trichiuroid Fishes ob- 

 tained at Madeira, with Remarks on the Genus Di- 



CROTUS, GiJNTHER, AND ON SOME ALLIED GeNERA OF TrI- 



chiurid^e. By James Yate Johnson, Corr. Mem. Z. S. 

 Order ACANTHOPTERYGI1. 

 Fam. Trichiurid.e. 

 Nealotus, gen. nov. 



Body elongate, compressed, incompletely clothed with delicate 

 scales. Cleft of the mouth deep. Small teeth in the jaws and on 

 the palatine bones ; none on the vomer. First dorsal fin continuous, 

 extending to the second ; finlets behind the second dorsal and anal 

 fins. Each ventral fin represented by a single small spine. A 

 dagger-shaped spine behind the vent. No keel on the tail. Caudal 

 fin well developed. Seven branchiostegal rays. 



This genus may be entered in the synopsis of Trichiuroid genera 

 in the 'Catalogue of the Collection of Fishes in the British Museum' 

 thus : — 



Each ventral represented by a single spine ; a dagger-shaped spine 

 behind the vent. 



Neaeotus tripes, sp. n. 



First D. 21. Second D. 19. P. 13. A. 18. C. 16. 



The compressed body is very elongate, and has a few large deci- 

 duous simple scales of delicate structure scattered here and there on 



