186 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
antennal joint well developed and constituting the greater portion of the 
inferior wall of orbit; this joint is usually very considerably enlarged. 
Fam. IV. Parraenopips. Eyes usually retractile within the small 
circular and well-defined orbits. The inferior wall of the orbit is continued 
to within a very short distance of the front. The antenne are very slender, 
the basal joint does not, as in the Pericerida, constitute a great part of the 
inferior orbital margin, but is very small and usually does not reach to 
the front, and with the next joint occupies the narrow hiatus intervening 
between the front and inner orbital angle. 
March 20, 1879:—Win11aM Carruraerrs, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
The Rev. G. E. Commerford Casey was elected a Fellow of the Society. 
A paper by Mr. Frederick Smith, ‘On new Aculeate Hymenoptera from 
the Sandwich Islands, collected by the Rev. T. Blackburn,” was read by the 
Secretary. The author considered the general aspect of the series to be 
North American, with admixture of a few South-American-like forms. The 
ants are most diverse in character, some being cosmopolitan in range. The 
house ant of Madeira is common, and the little European ant (Ponera 
contracta) unexpectedly turns up here. 
Mr. R Bowdler Sharpe read the fifth of his series of contributions to 
the Ornithology of New Guinea, namely, “ On recent Collections from the 
Neighbourhood of Port Moresby.” This interesting collection was obtained 
by Mr. Kendal Broadbent, and usefully compares with those previously got 
by Signor Albertis from the neighbourhood of the Fly River. A Parrot of 
the genus Aprosmictus closely resembles one from the Fly River, but 
nevertheless is specifically distinct, offering thus a parallel case to the 
Crowned Pigeons, Goura Albertisi, inhabiting Port Moresby, and, on the 
other hand, G. Selateri, found on the Fly River. So far as is at present 
known, it appears that the affinities of the South Eastern New Guinea 
species seem to be with those of Australia, a few only veering to those of the 
Aru Islands.—J Mounrig. 
ZootoaicaL Society or Lonpon. 
March 4, 1879.—Professor W. H. Frower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, 
in the chair. 
The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 
Society's Menagerie during the preceding month, and called special attention 
to a Purple-crested Touracou, Corythaix porphyreolopha, presented by the 
Rev. J. A. Gould; and toa very beautiful Lizard, Crotophytus Wislizeni, 
from New Mexico, presented by Lieut.-Colonel R. Vivian. 
Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on examples of two rare Fruit 
Pigeons, of the genus Carpophaga. 
