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at Gomera, Canaries, and the third at Estubal, Fayal, the Azores, and 
Prince Edward Island. Their geographical distribution is doubly inte- 
resting when taken in connexion with antiquity of the species, Dr. Gwyn 
Jeffreys (following Herr Hornes) carryiug it back to the Miocene age. It 
appears from a study of D. acutissimum that, with reference to the form 
of the apex of the shell, separation of the Dentalia by the absence (in 
Dentalium) or preseuce (in Entalis) of the cleft process cannot be main- 
tained. D. subterfussum, Jeff., was got in globigerina coze at the Azores, 
in volcanic sand at the Canaries, and in mud at Pernambuco. The animal 
is unknown. Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys dredged it, in 1869, off the west coast of 
Ireland. D. dentalis, Linn., now living in the Mediterraneav, South-West 
of France, and the Canaries, the ‘Challenger’ Expedition met with at Fayal, 
Azores, and Simon’s Bay, Cape of Good Hope. ‘Ihe species of Sipho- 
dentalium, seven in number, are all new to Science; these are, S. plata- 
modes, 8. tytthum, S. pusillum, S. tetraschistum, 8. dichelum, 8. prionotum, 
and 8. eboracense. Amovg the species of the genus Cadulus nine are new 
and ove a variety: the list-runs, C. colubridens, C. vulpidens, C. rastridens, 
C. sauridens, C. gracilis, Jeff., C. simillimus, C. curtis, aud the var. congruens, 
C. obesus, CO. tumidosus, Jeff., C. exiguus, and C. ampullaceus. Of the 
entire series of the three genera of Solenoconchia, as above mentioned, 
thirty-six species and four varieties are herewith recorded, whereof twenty 
may be regarded as hitherto unknown. 
Three botanical papers were read:—“ On Branch-tubers and 'Tendrils 
of Vitis'gonyylodes,” by Mr. R. Irwin Lynch; “On the Symplocacee,” by 
Mr. John Miers; and “On Aly@ of Lake Nyassa,” by Prof. G. Dickie. 
December 5, 1878.—Prof. Attman, F'.R.S., President, in the chair. 
The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society:—G. F. 
Dowdeswell, Wimbledon; Arthur Hammond, Sheerness; Thomas Han- 
bury, Addiscombe, Croydon; Joseph Sidebotham, F'.R.A.S., Bowdon, 
Cheshire; William Thomson, South Yarra, Melbourne; and Charles A, 
Wright, C.M.Z.S., Kew. 
The first zoological paper read was “ On some Coleoptera (collected by 
Charles Darwin) of Geographical Interest,” by Frederick H. Waterhouse. 
The insects in question have lain undetermined for a great many years, 
and all prove new to science. Phytosus Darwinii, from ihe Falklands, has 
unusually long slender claws; Choleva Falklandica is elliptical shaped 
and strongly punctated; Elmis brunnea and Anthicus Wollastonit, from 
St. Helena, are noteworthy, for even the late Mr. Wollaston (‘ Coleopt. 
St. Helena’) does not record either genus as existent there: Scaphisome 
elongatum, from Rio Janeiro, is the first species of the genus known to 
inhabit South America ; and the Prosthetops (P. capensis) is a novel genus, 
with two ocelli, from South Africa. 
