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zable subspecies of the Urial and proposed to call it Ovis lignei arkal. — 

 Staff-Surgeon P. W. Basse tt- Smith, R.N., F.Z.S., communicated a paper 

 on three new Parasitic Copepoda obtained by Mr. Cyril Crossland in East 

 Africa. Two of these belonged to the family Chondracanthidae, for which it 

 was necessary to create a new genus Sarcinula, peculiar in having no articu- 

 late thoracic limbs and a curious reticulate network of tubes in the body. 

 These were found in the kidney of Pleurobranchid Molluscs. The other 

 form, taken from the body of a Sipunculid Worm, was referred to the family 

 Dichelesthiidae and to a new genus Ventriculina allied to Entrrocola of Van 

 Beneden, but differing in having very minute articulate limbs and in the ova 

 being placed uniserially in long spiral external ovaries, as in the Caligidae. — 

 A short paper was read by Col. C. E. Stewart, C.S.I., d.E., in which he 

 contended that the Tiger was a recent intruder into the Peninsula of India. 

 His reason for believing this was the absence of any Sanscrit word for tiger 

 and also the absence of any allusion to tigers among many of the older 

 writers. — A communication was read from Mr. H. S la de, Conservator of 

 Forests of Maymyo, in Burma, on the mode of copulation of the Indian 

 Elephant as witnessed by him among captive animals in his camp in Burma. — 

 A communication was read from Prof. Sydney J. Hickson, F.R.S., con- 

 taining a description of a new Hydrozoan obtained by Mr. Cyril Crossland 

 in Zanzibar, for which the name Ceratella minima was proposed. — Dr. G. 

 Herbert Fowler, F.Z.S., presented an eighth Contribution to our Know- 

 ledge of the Plankton of the Faeroe Channel, which dealt mainly with the 

 Ostracoda, Copepoda, Amphipoda, and Schizopoda captured during a cruise 

 of H.M.S. 'Research,' and their horizontal and vertical distribution. Short 

 diagnoses by Dr. "Wolfenden of three new species of Copepoda were given. — 

 February 17th, 1903. — Mr. R. E. Holding exhibited and made 

 remarks upon the skulls of a Colley Dog and two Rabits showing abnormal 

 dentition. — A communication was read from Mr. F. Pickard-Cambridge, 

 F.Z.S., containing descriptions of one new genus and eight new species of 

 Spiders of the Families Pisauridae and Senoculidae, the material for which 

 was contained in the British Museum and which was, to a great extent, ob- 

 tained by the Author in the Lower Amazons. An interesting account of the 

 aquatic and ichthyophagous habits of some of the members of the former 

 family was added to the descriptions. — A communication from Mr. Cyril 

 Crossland contained descriptions of two new species of Marine Polychaete 

 Worms obtained on the shores of the Island of Zanzibar in East Africa. 

 One of these was named Phyllochoetopterus Elioti, after Sir Charles Eliot, K.C. 

 M.G., H.M. Consul-General at Zanzibar, through whose kindness and genero- 

 sity the opportunity of visiting East Africa was afforded to the Author. — 

 A communication was read from Dr. Robert Bro om, C.M.Z.S., ontheaxis, 

 atlas, and proatlas of the higher Theriodonts. A description of these bones 

 in the type specimens of Gomphognathus and Trirachodon, now preserved in 

 the Grahamstown Museum, was given and suggestions thrown out as to the 

 relationship of these forms and Procolophon to the modern Sphenodon and 

 Crocodiles. — Mr. C. Tate Regan contributed a paper entitled "A Revision 

 of the Fishes of the Genus Triacanthus" in which seven species were de- 

 scribed, one of them, T. indiens, being new to science. — Mr. G. A. Bou- 

 lenger, F.R.S., read a paper on the geographical variations of the Sand- 

 Viper ( Vipera ammodytes\ in which he distinguished a geographical race 



