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florida; Angled Crab, Gonoplax Angulata; Velvet Fiddler Crab, 
Portunus depressa; Hermit Crab, Pagurus bernhardus; Pea Crab, 
Pinnotheres pisum; Spider Crab, Cancer pagurus; Stenorhynchus tenui- 
rostris; Porcellanus longicornis; Olive Squat Lobster, Galathea 
squamifera ; Stenorhynchus phalanguom ; Eurynome aspersa ; Xantho 
riolosa.—F RANK GosDEN, in ‘ Land and Water.’ 
Tue Fauna or Brtrast Loueu.—Mr. David Bogue has now at press 
and will shortly publish a work on the ‘ Birds, Fishes, and Cetacea of 
Belfast Lough,’ by Mr. R. Lloyd Patterson, Vice-President of Belfast 
Natural History Society and President of Belfast Chamber of Commerce. 
PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
ZooLoGicaL Soctrety or Lonpon. 
June 1, 1880.—Professor W. H. Frower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the chair. 
Mr. Sclater made some remarks on the principal objects he had noticed 
during a recent inspection of the Zoological Gardens of Berlin, Hamburg, 
Amsterdam, the Hague, and Antwerp. 
The Secretary exhibited a spider of the genus Tegenaria, which had 
been forwarded to him from Cape Town, by Mr. J. H. Payne, of that place. 
It had been taken within three miles of Cape Town, on the back of a horse 
which had subsequently died, as it was said, from the effects of the bite. 
Mr. G. E. Dobson exhibited some new and rare species of Bats, amongst 
which was an example of a new species of the genus Megaderma, from 
Australia, proposed to be called Megaderma gigas, and remarkable for its 
large size. 
Mr. Dobson made some further remarks as to the date of the receipt of 
the Dodo bones exhibited by him at a former meeting. 
Lord Lilford exhibited and made remarks on some nests and eggs of 
the Flamingo, which had been taken in the marshes of the Guadalquivir, 
below Seville, in April, 1879. 
‘ Lord Lilford also exhibited some fine Hybrid Pheasants, between males 
of Reeves’ Pheasant and hens of the Common Pheasant. 
Mr. E. W. H. Holdsworth read a uote on the distribution of the Cray- 
fish (Astacus) in Spain. io 
Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell read a paper on some species and genera of the 
Temnopleuride, in the course of which he described the method he had adopted 
in comparing different species, and species at different stages in growth. 
He also directed special attention to the differences in the size of the 
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