The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, the 1st February, 1910, at half-past Eight 

 o'clock p.m., when the following communications will be 

 made : — 



1. The Hon, Paul A. Methuen. 



On a Collection of Freshwater Crustacea from the Transvaal. 



2. Dr. Joseph Pearson, F.L.S. 



(a) Littoral Marine Fauna : Kerimba Archipelago, 'Portu- 

 guese East Africa, collected by Jas. J. Simpson, M.A., B.Sc. 

 University of Aberdeen. Sept, 1907 to May 1908. Holo- 



THURIOIDEA. 



(b) Marine Fauna : Mergui Archipelago, Lower Burma, 

 collected by Jas. J. Simpson, M.A., B.Sc, and R. N. Rudmose- 

 Brown, B.Sc, University of Aberdeen. Holothurioibea. 



3. Dr. G. Stewardsqn Brady, LL.D., D.Sc. F.R.S., C.M.Z.S. 



A Revision of the British Species of Ostracoda belonging to 

 the Subfamilies Candonin^e and Herpetocyphridin.e. 



The following communications have been received : — 



1. Rowland E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



Additions to our Knowledge of the Fossorial Wasps of 

 Australia. 



2. Hamilton H. Druce, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Descriptions of new Lyc^enid^e and Hesperiid^e from Tro- 

 pical West Africa. 



3. J. Lewis Bqnhqte, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S . 



On the Varieties of Mus rattus in Egypt, with General Notes 

 on the Species having reference to Variation and Heredity. 



4. C. L. Bqulenger, M.A., F.Z.S. 



On certain Subcutaneous Fat -Bodies in Toads of the Genus 

 Bufo. 



5. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



A Contribution to the Anatomy of Hippopotamus amphibius. 



