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Dr. Gemmill also gave an account of several examples of the 

 phanerozonate Starfish, Porania pulvillus, with actinally placed 

 gills. The abnormality is of interest as confirming various other 

 lines of evidence, which show that the division of Asteroids into 

 Phanerozonia and Cryptozonia is not an entirely natural one. 



Mr. R. E. Turner, F.Z.S., F.E.S., presented a paper containing 

 descriptions of a large number of new Fossorial Wasps, mostly 

 collected by him while on a recent expedition to Australia, but 

 including a few received from the Queensland and West 

 Australian Museums. 



Lt.-Col. J. M. Fawcett contributed a paper on a collection of 

 Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa. 

 The bulk of the species was taken at light during damp evenings, 

 and perhaps the most interesting capture is that of a specimen 

 of the celebrated Actias besanti Rebel, a large and most beautiful 

 Saturnid moth distinguished by its extremely long tails. This 

 is a well-known rarity of the " first water," and only four speci- 

 mens were previously known to have been taken, two of which 

 are in the British Museum and two in Germany. Besides the 

 forms described as new species, there are a good many previously- 

 described forms not as yet repi*esented in the National Collection, 

 which of itself is evidence of their rarity. Mr. Feather is to be 

 especially congratulated upon the very perfect condition of his 

 specimens and the very accurate record he has kept of the dates 

 of their capture and the localities. 



Many of the forms dealt with in this memoir were only 

 previously known to science through specimens brought from 

 Tropical West Africa, and were previously unrecorded from 

 British East Africa. But this region still remains to be properly 

 worked out, and a great field of research is in store for anyone 

 who can find time to take the matter in hand. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, March 9th, 1915, at half-past Five o'clock p.m., 

 when the following communications will be made : — 



F. F. Laidlaw, M.A., F.Z.S. 



Contributions to a Study of the Dragonfly Fauna of Borneo. 

 — Part III. A Collection made on Mount Kina Balu by 

 Mr. Moulton in September and October 1913. 



