224 ME. p. CAMEEoif OK [Mar. 19, 



Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. (at the request of Mr. Eowland 

 Ward, F.Z.S.), exhibited the mounted head and horns of a Sable 

 Antelope {Hippotragus niger), the largest on record, the length of 

 the horns on the outer curve being 50g inches, the girth at the 

 base 9| inches, and the width between the tips 18| inches. They 

 had been obtained by Mr. E. V. Worthington in Barotselaud, 

 South Africa. 



A communication was read from Dr. Gr. Stewardson Brady, 

 C.M.Z.S., which contained descriptions of a collection of Ostracoda 

 belonging to the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, most of the 

 species represented in it being new to science. The collection was 

 very varied in character, embracing examples of both marine and 

 freshwater species from widely different localities. A new species 

 belonging to the group HaloGy])ridce,homa'Novth Atlantic Plankton 

 collection, made by Dr. George Murray, F.E.S., was also described 

 in this paper. 



This memoir will be printed in full in the Society's ' Transactions.' 



The following papers were read : — 



1. On the Hymenoptera collected in New Britain by 

 Dr. Arthur Willey. By P. Camekon '. 



[Received March 4, 1901.] 



The Hymenoptera brought back from New Britain by Dr. 

 Arthur Willey are, vfith the exception of the Melipona, all large or 

 medium-sized species. Judging from them, I should say that the 

 islands are likely to prove rich in species. The collection is not 

 extensive enough to enable me to form a definite opinion on the 

 geographiciil relationship of the Hymenopterous fauna of the 

 island. If it were not for the presence of a species of Tliynnus ^, 

 a typical AustraUan form, I should have said that the affinities of 

 these insects were certainly with the Oriental Zoological Eegion 

 rather than with the AustraUan, and, in the main, this is probably 

 the case. 



In view of the somewhat fragmentary character of the collection, 

 I have not thought it worth while to draw up, at present, a list 

 of the previously recorded species of New Britain, but have 

 enumerated all those represented in the collection submitted to me. 



The specimens were mostly collected in the Gazelle Peninsula, 

 which is the part now known, I believe, as New Pomerania. 

 New Britain itself is now included in the Bismarck Archipelago 

 by German geographers. 



^ Communicated by Dr. D. Sharp, J'.Z.S. 



^ Thynnus serriger. Sharp, Wiliey's ' Zoological Results,' part iv. p. 388. 



