346 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Mr. P. Herbert Carpenter, B.A., orally demonstrated from diagrams the 
gist of a well-illustrated memoir by him, “On the Genus Actinometra 
(Mull.), with a Morphological Account of a new Species from the Philippine 
Islands.” In his MS. the author shows the impossibility of adhering to 
Miiller’s classification of the Comatule, according to the number of the 
ambulacra which radiaté from the peristone, and the necessity of extending 
the limits of Miiller’s genus Actinometra, so as to include all those forms of 
Alecto, in which the mouth is eccentric, and which have no place in the 
genus Antedon as defined by Mr. Norman. Another feature of many 
Actinometra is the complete closure of the ambulacral grooves on more 
or fewer of the posterior or aboral arms, and the entire absence from 
such arms of a ventral ciliated epithelium, and of the so-called am- 
bulacral nerve beneath it. The rosette of Actinometra presents a more 
embryonic condition than that of Antedon, the primitive basals under- 
going a less complete metamorphosis; but it is closely anchylosed to 
fine prismatic pieces, which result from more or less complete ossification 
round the connective tissue-fibres of the synostosis between the centro-dorsal 
piece and radial pentagon. These pieces, traces of which also occur in 
Antedon Eschrichtii are closely similar to the fine basals of Solanocrinus 
costatus of the Wurtemburg Jurakalk, except in the fact that they do not 
as in Solanocrinus appear on the exterior of the calyx. 
In the absence of the author, the Secretary shortly referred to a 
“Description of Genera and Species of Australian Phytophagous Beetles,” 
by Dr. Joseph S. Baly. In this communication fourteen species, in all, of 
the genera T'riocephala, Rhombostromus, Bucharis, Polyachus and Ditiopidus 
are treated of. 
The title only of Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe’s third part of his ‘“ Contri- 
butions to the Ornithology of New Guinea” was announced, the author 
himself not being present. 
This was followed by Dr. W. C. M‘Intosh’s paper, ‘On the Annelida 
obtained during the Cruise of H.M.S. ‘ Valorous’ to Davis Strait in 1875.” 
The specimens were collected by Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, though barely in 
such good condition as those received from the ‘ Poreupine’ and ‘Osprey’ 
Expeditions. Since the days of Fabricius, the Annelids of the Green- 
landic Seas have received unusual attention in comparison with those 
of other parts, Girsted, Malmgren, Otto Zorell, Luthen and others having 
added considerably to the number known. Though, by an unfortunate cir- 
cumstance, the dredging received a check, and limited the species of marine 
Polychaeta to about sixty-eight, yet of this comparatively small number 
thirteen are new to the Greenlandic area, and in addition nine are new to 
science. As far as at present can be judged by the Annelids, Dr. Jeffreys’ 
opinion, that the Greenlandic Invertebrates are more European than 
American, is substantiated. Dr. M‘Intosh describes in detail the various 
