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collection, however, had afforded a much needed opportunity for discussing 

 and clearing up obscure points in some of the earlier descriptions of the 

 Crustacean fauna. — Mr. L. A. Borradaile, F.Z.S., read the fourth 

 instalment of his memoir on Crustaceans from the South Pacific. This part 

 contained an account of the Crabs, of which 77 species were enumerated. 

 Seven new species were described, and a scheme of classification of the 

 swimming Crabs [Portunidae] was put forward. — A communication was 

 read from Dr. R. Bowdler S h arpe, which contained an enumeration of the 

 birds— 56 species in all — collected during the Mackinder Expedition to 

 Mount Kenya, accompanied by field-notes of the collectors. — Mr. F. E. 

 Beddard, F.R.S., read a paper entitled "A Revision of the Earthworm 

 Genus Amyntas." According to the author, this genus comprised 102 spe- 

 cies, which were enumerated and commented upon. — Mr. Beddard also 

 read a paper on the stnicture of a new species of Earthworm, which he 

 proposed to name Benhamia Budgetti, after its discoverer, Mr. J. S. Budgett, 

 who had obtained two specimens of it at M'Carthy's Island during his recent 

 visit to the Gambia. — r- P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



April 25th, 1900. — 1) and 2) Botanical. — 3) Studies on Australian 

 Mollusca. Part i. By C. Hedley, F.L.S. Two genera and several species 

 of marine mollusca are here introduced as new. Some species already de- 

 scribed, but not figured or insufficiently known, are now illustrated and more 

 fully described. — 4) 5) and 6) Botanical. — Mr. Froggatt exhibited, and 

 contributed a Note on, a fine mounted series of twelve species of Australian 

 Ticks, determined by Professor Neumann, of Toulouse, comprising the 

 following: — Ixodes hylocyclus, Neum., the common bush tick about Sydney 

 and elsewhere; I. ornithorynchi ', Lucas, from the Platypus; Rhipicephalus 

 annulatus, Say, var. australis, the Queensland cattle tick; Amblyomma moreliae, 

 L. Koch, from a kangaroo, and also from horses; A. triguttatum i C. L. Koch, 

 from cattle; Aponomma hydrosauri, Denny, from a lizard and from an echidna; 

 A. decorosum, L. Koch, from a snake; A. trimaculatum , Lucas, from 

 cattle; A. cinctum, n. sp. , from beetles; Haemaphysalis Leachi, Aud. , from 

 horses; H. longicornis, n. sp. , from cattle; Argas americanus, Packd., the 

 fowl tick. — Mr. C. W. Darley exhibited a portion of the timbers of a 

 punt, showing the depredations of an Isopod which had been determined by 

 the authorities of the Australian Museum to be the destructive "Gribble,'' 

 Limnoria lignorum, Rathke (= L. terebrans, Leach), not previously recorded 

 from Australian waters, and therefore presumably introduced from Europe 

 or America. — Mr. Stead exhibited an ant [Iridomyrmex purpureas), and a 

 piece of quartz, relatively much bulkier than the animal, which it has been 

 observed to lift bodily. — Mr. Palmer exhibited a very perfect cast skin of 

 a snake from the Blue Mountains. — Mr. Trebeck showed a good specimen 

 of the rattle of Crotalus horridus, from British Columbia. — Mr. Fletcher 

 exhibited five specimens (q* 2; Q 3) of a Peripatus with fourteen pairs of 

 walking legs, the males with white papillae on the legs of the posterior nine 

 pairs, from the North Island of New Zealand. The specimens were obtained 

 by Mr. C. T. Musson near Te Aroha in the early part of last January. They 

 will probably prove to be referable to the species for which Professor Dendy 



