No. 129. 
ABSTRACT OF THE PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.* 
March 3rd, 1914. 
Prof. E. W. MacBripz, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., Vice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Scientific Meeting were confirmed. 
Mr. C. Tare Recay, M.A., F.Z.S., reported on the fresh- 
water fishes from Dutch New Guinea collected by the British 
Ornithologists’ Union and Wollaston Expeditions. Symbranchus 
bengalensis was obtained for the first time in New Guinea. 
The collections included examples of two species of Melanoteeniine 
Atherinids, and Mr. Regan had revised this group of fishes. 
This paper will be published in the ‘Transactions.’ 
Mr. H. Watuis Kew, F.Z.S., contributed a paper ‘On the 
Nests of Pseudoscorpiones: with Historical Notes on the Spinning- 
Organs and Observations on the Building and Spinning of the 
Nests.” The paper described the nests in which these animals 
enclose themselves for moulting, for brood-purposes, and in some 
cases for hibernation. ‘They are closed cells of spun tissue, with 
or without a covering of earthy or vegetable matters. ‘The tissue 
is of innumerable threads crossed and coalesced irregularly, 
without interspaces, and almost like silk-paper. With regard to 
the spinning-apparatus, confusion has existed ; but the Author’s 
observations on living animals place it beyond doubt that the 
cephalothoracic glands, whose ducts traverse the chelicerz to near 
the apex of the movable finger and open in the galea, or in the 
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