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whether these animals perceive a colour different from any of those known 

 to us, and of which, indeed, we can form no idea. 



Mr. M'Lachlan communicated a paper " On the Neuroptera of Madeira 

 and the Canary Islands," prompted by the researches of the Rev. A. E. Eaton 

 in November and December, 1880. The author gives a resume of all that 

 had been published on the subject, and a tabular statement of the species 

 found in the islands, indicating those known also to exist in Europe. In 

 all about fifty-three species had been noticed from the islands, of which 

 nineteen are known inhabitants of the European Continent, and four 

 African : thirty-seven species had been found in Madeira, thirty-one in the 

 Canaries, sixteen being common to both. The paper concluded with a 

 detailed account of the species, including descriptions of several new ones. 



December 15, 1881. — George Busk, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the 

 chair. 



Messrs. W. H. Coffin, E. Milner, and S. H. Parkes were balloted for 

 and elected Fellows of the Society. 



Prof T. S. Cobbold exhibited a large Guinea-worm {Dracunculus), taken 

 from a pony, and forwarded by Vet.-Surg. Frederick Smith from Madras. 

 Only one previous instance of the occurrence of this parasite in the horse 

 has been mentioned, and its authenticity was doubted by Fedschenko and 

 other helminthologists. 



Prof. Duncan gave the gist of a paper " On the Morphology of the Test 

 of the Temnopleuridce," for a notice of which see p. '25. 



A communication was read from Dr. Geo. Edw. Dobson " On the 

 Digastric Muscle, its modifications and functions;" and part xi. of the 

 " Mollusca of the ' Challenger' Expedition," by the Rev. R. Boog Watson, 

 was read in abstract. — J. Murie. 



Zoological Society of London. 



November 15, 1881.— Prof. W. H. Flower, F.R.S., President, in the 

 chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie duriug the months of June, July, August, September 

 and October, 1881, and called attention to certain interesting accessions 

 which had been received during that period. 



Prof. Newton exhibited a specimen of Emberiza rustica, recently shot on 

 the coast of Yorkshire. [See ' Zoologist,' 1881, p. 465.] 



The Rev. Canon Tristram exhibited and made remarks upon skins of a 

 Darter and Pigmy Cormorant procured in June of this year on the Lake 

 of Anlioch. 



