In the latter park of the paper he gave an acconnt of some 

 observations upon the use of the mouth-parts during feeding, 

 in which he found the second maxillipeds, maxilhiles, and 

 mandibles to play more important parts than the first maxilli- 

 peds and the maxillis. 



Prof. H. G. Plimmer, F.R.S., F.Z.S., Pathologist to tlie 

 Society, read his Report on the Deaths Avhich occurred in tlie 

 Society's Gardens during 1916, and on the Blood-parasites found 

 daring the same period, and exhibited a. series of lantern -slides 

 showing the degenerative changes due to old age (sometimes 

 premature) of animals that had lived under the conditions of 

 captivity. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, l^'ebruary 2Utb, 1917, at 6.30 p.m., when the 

 following communications will be made : — 



_C. J._(1^00L._ 



1. Notes fj'om the Caii-d Insect House, with exhibition of 

 specimens and lantern-slides. 



2. The Coleoptera of the Family Cissidce found in Britain, 

 with Desci'iptions of two new Species. A new Species of the 

 Coleopteran genus Crypicrrhynckus Illiger. 



A. BE C. S OWERBY, F.Z.S. 



On Heude's Collection of Pigs, Sika, Serows, and Gorals in 

 the Sikawei Museum, Shanghai. 



G. A. BouLENGER, F.R. S., F.Z.S. 



On the Lizards of the genus riiilockorius Matschie. 



