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at Fort Johnston, Uganda. The skull and carcase had been 

 extracted through the mouth, thus leaving the skin intact. 



A communication from Mr. J. N. Halbeet contained descrip- 

 tions of the two species of Water- Mites {Hydrachnidce) collected 

 by Mr. W. A. Cunnington in Lake Nyasa during the Third 

 Tanganyika Expedition 1904-05. 



Mr. Olofield Thomas, F.R.S., read a paper on a collection of 

 Mammals made by Mr. W. Stalker in the Northern Territory 

 of South Australia, and presented to the National Museum by 

 Sir William Ingram, Bart., and the Hon. John Forrest. The 

 collection included 16 species, of which the two following were of 

 special interest : — 



MUS FORRESTI, Sp. n. 



Size medium. Colour drab-grey above, white below. Teeth 

 with their laminse peculiarly twisted, the first molars with lai-ge 

 lingular ledges. 



Head and'body 104 mm. ; tail 72 ; hind foot 19. 



Type. B.M. No. 6.3.9.39. 



Phascogale ingrami, sp. n. 



Size minute; the teeth and feet smaller than in any known 

 Australian Marsupial. Head peculiarly flattened. 

 Head and body 80 mm. ; tail 60 ; hind foot 10. 

 Type. B.M. No. 6.3.9.77. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, F.R.S., communicated a paper by Prof. 

 W. B. Bei^ham and Mr. W. J. Dunbar dealing with the skull of 

 a young Ribbon-Fish [Regalecus). 



A communication from Dr. von Linstow contained descriptions 

 of two species — one of them new— of Hair- Worms of the family 

 Gordiidce. The specimens had been obtained in Korea by 

 Mr. Malcolm Anderson, who was making collections of the fauna 

 of Eastern Asia for the Duke of Bedford. 



A communication from Mr. G. A. Boulenger contained de- 

 scriptions of a new Lizard, a new Snake, and a new Toad collected 

 in Uganda by Mr. E. Degen, F.Z.S. 



Mr. R. I. PococK read a paper on the gestation and parturition 



of certain Monkeys that had bred in the Society's Menagerie in 

 the spring of the present year. 



