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tained some fine examples of the true Bohor of Rüppell [Carvicapra bohor) 

 and of the Bush-buck described by Heuglin as Tragelaphus bor, which pro- 

 ved to be a tenable subspecies of T. scriptus. — Mr. W. L. Distant read a 

 paper on the Rhynchota belonging to the family Pentatomidae in the Hope 

 Collection at Oxford. It constituted a revison of the Catalogue of the Hope 

 Collection written by the late Prof. Westwood in 1837. All the specimens 

 had been examined by the author, and the species relegated to modern ge- 

 nera and much synonymy removed, while several new genera were described 

 in the paper. — A communication was read from Mr. R. C. Punnett, con- 

 taining an account of the Nemerteans collected by Prof. Haddon in Torres 

 Straits. They comprised examples of seven species, four of which had been 

 previously described, i. e. Eupolia melanogramma (= quinquelineata Bürger), 

 E. delineata, Lineus aïbovittatus, and L. coloratus\ whilst the remaining three 

 were new, viz. Cerebratulus Haddoni, C. queenslandicus, and C. torresianus. In 

 C. queenslandicus there were two longitudinal patches laterally situated, where 

 the cutis glands are more highly developed, and are crowded with small bodies 

 closely resembling the rhabdites of Turbellaria. The single specimen of 

 Eupolia melanogramma obtained was remarkable for its great size. Measuring 

 roughly two yards in length and % inch in breadth when preserved, it was 

 with a single exception [Cerebratulus lacteus Verrill) probably the most mas- 

 sive Nemertean which had been observed. The paper gave morphological de- 

 tails of the structure of the three new species. — P. L. Sclater , Secretary. 



III. Personal -Notizen. 



Dr. Filippo Silvestri ist von seiner Heise zurückgekommen. 

 Seine Adresse ist Bevagna (Umbrien). 



Wien. An Stelle des Dr. Th. Adensamer wurde Dr. Arnold Penther 

 zum Assistenten an der zoologischen Abtheilung des k. k. Naturhistorischen 

 Hofmuseums ernannt. 



Necrolog. 



Am 13. October starb in Wien Josef Mik, k. k. Schulrath i. R., im 

 62. Lebensjahre. Die Wissenschaft verliert in ihm einen vortrefflichen 

 Dipterologen. 



Am 13. October starb in Luzern Dr. Otto Staudinger, der bekannte 

 ausgezeichnete Lepidopterolog. Er war am 2. Mai 1830 in Groß-Mühlenfelde 

 geboren, studierte in Berlin, wo er 1854 mit seiner Dissertation "De Sesiis 

 agri berolinensis" promovierte. Nach vielen Reisen ließ er sich in Dresden- 

 Blasewitz nieder (1857), gründete dort seine allmählich große Berühmtheit 

 erhaltende Sammlung und wurde damit der Mittelpunct der deutschen Lepi- 

 dopterologie. 



Am 16. November starb in Baden bei Wien Dr. Theodor Adensamer, 

 ein Schüler Haeckel's, Leuckart's und Claus', im 34. Lebensjahre. 



Am 20. November starb in Bremen Dr. Gustav H arti aub, im 87. Lebens- 

 jahre, der ausgezeichnete Ornitholog. 



Am 1 1. December starb in Lüttich der Baron Michel-Edmond de Selys- 

 Longchamps, der bekannte vortreffliche Entomolog, im 87. Lebensjahre. 



Druck von Breitkopf & Härtel in Leipzig. 



