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Mr. Srantry Hirst, F.Z.S., reported on the Arachnida (other 
than Spiders) and Myriopoda obtained by the British Ornitho- 
logists’ Union and Wollaston Expeditions to Dutch New Guinea. 
The collection is only a small one, but contains two new species 
of Acari parasitic on mammals and three new species of 
millipedes. A new species of parasitic mite collected by Prof. 
F. Forster en various mammals in German New Guinea is also 
described. 
This paper will be published in the TRANsAcTions. 
Major J. Stevenson Hamitron, C.M.Z.S., sent a short paper 
on the coloration of the African Hunting-Dog (Lycaon pictus). 
Mr. C. Tare Recan, M.A., F.Z.S., contributed a note on 
Aristeus goldies Macleay, and on some other Fishes from New 
Guinea. 
Miss A. CaRLSson’s paper, communicated by Mr. OLprienp 
Tuomas, F.R.S., F.Z4.5., dealt with two species of fossil Car- 
nivora, from the Phosphorites of Quercy, contained in the 
collections of the Zootomical Institute at Stockholm. 
The next Meeting of the Society for Scientifie Business will 
be held on Tuesday, May 5th, 1914, at half-past Hight 
o’clock p.m., when the following communications will be made :— 
HWXHIBITIONS AND NOTICES. 
Surgeon G. Murray Levicr, R.N. 
Lecture on the Manners and Customs of Adélie Penguins, 
illustrated with lantern-slides from the author’s photographs. 
R. C. Lewis, M.A. 
On Two new Species of Tapeworms from the Stomach and 
Small Intestine of a Wallaby, Lagorchestes conspicillatus, from 
Hermite Island, Monte Bello Islands. 
