599 



Von einheimischen Arten habe ich bis jetzt auf endoplasmatische 

 Myoneme hin Balanticlium coli, B. entozoon und B. elong atum unter- 

 sucht und dieselben dort auch feststellen können. 



Weitere Mittheilungen werden an anderer Stelle folgen. 



Königsberg i. Pr., 4. Mai 190?. 



II. Mitteilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



1. Zoological Society of London. 



March 3rd, 1903. — The Secretary read a report on the additions that 

 had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of February 

 1903, and called special attention to a Cuvier's Gazelle [Gazella Cuvieri) de- 

 posited by the Hon. Walter Rothschild, M.P.; to a Tamandua Anteater 

 [Tamandua tetradactyla) received on approval; to a young male Chimpanzee 

 [Anthropopithecus troglodytes) deposited by Mr. J. C. Lamprey; and to a 

 Frilled Lizard [CJdamydosaurus Kingi) presented by Mr. H. W. Fawdon. — 

 The Secretary exhibited the skins of a Monkey [Cercocebus aterrimus) and an 

 Otter [Lutra cap (mis) from Uganda, and read extracts from a letter from 

 Major C. Delmé-Radcliff e, addressed to Mr. P. L. Sclater, concerning 

 them. — Mr. Beddard exhibited and made some remarks on the Greater 

 Bird of Paradise Paradisea apoda) recently living in the Gardens, mounted 

 by Mr. Thomson. — Mr. J. L. Bonhote, F.Z.S., exhibited a photograph 

 of two adult Elephants and a young one. The latter was clothed with a con- 

 siderable amount of hair, especially on the forehead. One of the old Ele- 

 phants, presumably the mother, was also clothed with a certain amount of 

 hair. Mr. Bonhote also stated that he had ascertained that there was a 

 Sanskrit word for Tiger, upon which question a discussion took place at the 

 reading of Col. Stewart's paper on February 3rd. — Prof. F. Jefferey 

 Bell, F.Z.S., exhibited and made remarks upon a Holothurian of the genus 

 Actinopyga from Zanzibar, showing fission or budding, a very rare phenomenon 

 in this group. — Mr. W. E. de Winton exhibited the skin of a pigmy 

 Antelope, sent from the Cameroons by Mr. G. L. Bates, which he described 

 as new under the name Neotragus Batesi. — A communication was read from 

 Mr. E. K-. Sykes, F.Z.S., on the Operculate Land-Mollusca collected during 

 the "Skeat Expedition" to the Malay Peninsula in 1899 — 1900. Fourteen 

 genera were represented in the collection by examples of 23 species, 8 of 

 which were described as new. — Mr. R. Lydekker communicated a paper 

 on the callosities of the limbs of the Equidae, in which it was urged that the 

 view of the callosities being vestigial food-pads was untenable. The Author 

 maintained that they were probably decadent glands, and that possibly the 

 one on the hind limb might correspond to the tarsal gland of Deer. — Mr. 

 Rudolf Martin read a paper on some remains of the Ostrich, Struthio Jtara- 

 theodoris, found in the Upper Miocene deposits of Samos. The author stated 

 that the existence of an Ostrich in Samos was of interest because a comparison 

 of the fauna of Samos and that of the Siwalik Hills showed that the latter 

 was younger, and consequently S. karatheodoris was of a greater geological 

 age than S. asiaticus. The hypothesis, therefore, that the family of Ostriches 

 had been developed in Southern Eurasia and emigrated at a later period to 



