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EXPLANATION OF PLATE XV. 



1. Ornithoscatoides decipiens, sp. n., J, p. 199. 



a, Full figure of Spider, magnified ; b, caput and eyes, from in 

 front; c, underside of eephalothorax, showing maxillae, labium, and 

 sternum ; d, spinners ; e, natural length of Spider. 



2. Ornithoscatoides tubcrosa, Bl., J, p. 200. 



a, Spider, slightly magnified ; b, natural length. 



3. Ornithoscatoides ceylonica, sp. n., J, p. 201. 



a, Spider, magnified ; b, caput and eyes, from in front ; c, natural 

 length of Spider. 



4. Ornithoscatoides nigra, sp. n., rj", p. 202. 



a, Spider, magnified ; b, caput and eyes, from in front ; c, left 

 palpus, from above; d, natural length of Spider. 



5. Regillus asper, sp. n , § , p. 204. 



a, Spider, magnified ; b, eyes, from above and behind ; c, Spider in 

 profile, without legs or palpi ; d, natural length of Spider ; e, under- 

 side, showing maxill;B, labium, and sternum. 



April 1st, 1884. 

 Prof. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



This being the first occasion of a meeting of the Society in tlie 

 house No. 3 Hanover Square, to which it had lately removed, the 

 President took the opportunity of congratulating the Fellows present 

 on the very great improvement in the meeting-room, the library, and 

 the offices effected by the change. The Society had occupied the 

 old house No. 1 1 Hanover Square for forty-one years, and had long 

 since quite outgrown the accommodation afforded by it in all the 

 three departments just mentioned. 



The income of the Society had increased from ,£9137 in 1843 to 

 3628,966 in 1883, with a corresponding increase of clerical work. The 

 Library had been almost entirely formed since the former date, and 

 was rapidly increasing, and the attendance of Fellows at the evening 

 meetings had been such that the old rooms were quite inadequate 

 for the purpose. The President trusted that the increased facilities 

 now afforded would be taken advantage of by the Fellows in 

 promoting, with even greater zeal than hitherto, the work for which 

 the Society was founded, and in maintaining and extending the high 

 reputation it had acquired in the scientific world. 



The President also referred to the ceremony in which many of 

 the Fellows had taken part that day, of the re-interment at West 

 Wickham of the remains of the late Prosector, Mr. W. A. Forbes, 

 whose life had been so prematurely cut off while engaged in a 

 zoological exploration of the River Niger ; and spoke of him as one 

 deserving of all the honour the Society could show, not only on 

 account of his official connexion with it, but also for the personal 

 regard in which he was held by all who knew him, and for the 

 distinguished position he had already acquired as an original 

 investigator in Zoological Science. 



