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genera, due probably to the large quantity of mineral matter 
suspended in the lake. Dr. G. Horvath deals with a collection 
f semi-aquatic and aquatic Rhynchota. Twenty-one species 
are represented, of which three are described as new. The 
general characters are those of the fauna of Southern Europe. 
R. H. Whitehouse describes three new species of Planarians : 
Planaria tiberiensis, Pl. salina and Planaria barroisi, all the 
specimens, however, being non-sexual, and their identification 
The following papers on the fauna of Galilee were read, 
but have not yet been published in the Society’s Journal :— 
1. Hydrophilidae from the Lake of Tiberias. By A. 
D‘Orchymont. 
2. Amphipoda and Isopoda from the Lake of Tiberias. By 
Walter M. Tattersall. 
3. Chironomides du Lac de Tiberiade. By J. J. Kieffer. 
A paper of zoological as well as philological interest is Dr. 
N. Annandale’s and Mahamahopadh yaya Haraprasad Shastri’s 
paper on the Relics of the Worship of Mud-Turtles (Trionychidae) 
in India and Burma. Of the mud-turtles living in shrines as 
sacred animals T'rionyx gangeticus mahanaddicus is kept in 
tanks in Puri and Sambalpur, Trionyx formosus is the turtle 
kept in the pool of the Arrakan Pagoda in Mandalay, and 
Trionyx nigricans, the Chittagong Mud-turtle, has its abode in 
a pond attached to the shrine of Sultan Bayazid of Bastam in 
Chittagong and is there represented by the only living speci- 
mens seen of recent years. “ 
number of papers dealing with zoological subjects were 
read at the First Indian Science Congress, held in Calcutta in 
January 1914. The following have been published during the 
year 1914 in the Journal of the Society :— 
1. On the reproductive system of Atopos; Simroth. By 
Ekendranath Ghosh. 
The ** Shous’?’ or Big-horned Deer of Tibet. By J. Man- 
ners-Smith 
3. A short account of our present knowledge of the Cestode 
Fauna of British India and Ceylon. By T. South- 
well. 
4. The Evolution and Distribution of certain Indo-Austra- 
tian Passalid Coleoptera. By F. H. Gravely. 
5. Presence and Absence of the Gall-bladder in certain 
Rodents. By R. E. Lloyd. 
Botany 
In “a Synopsis of the Dioscoreas of the Old World, Africa 
6xcluded, with descriptions of new species and varieties,’’ 
Sir David Prain and Mr. I. H. Burkill publish diognoses of new 
Species and varieties of Dioscorea and a key to this difficult 
