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February, 1918. ] Annual Report. xiii 
The anthropometric apparatus recently obtained by the 
Society from Switzerland has been in constant use in the Indian 
Museum, and it is hoped that the first instalment of the results 
obtained with its assistance may be ready for communication 
to the Society before long. 
Biology. 
ZOOLOGY. 
he second and third parts of Dr. Annandale’s “* Zoological 
Results of a Tour in the Far East” have appeared in the Me- 
moirs of the Society. 
Part If contains :— 
Aquatic Hemiptera from the Talé Sap 
in Peninsular Siam iy... .. ©. A, Paiva. 
Aquatic Oligochaeta from Japan and 
China wie s% .. J. Stephenson. 
Hydrozoa and Ctenophora .. N. Annandale. 
Batrachia 4 Do. 
-Part III contains :— 
Hirudinea .. ei .. Dr. R. Oka. 
Mollusca Nudibranchiata (Ascoglossa) Sir C. Eliot. 
Lack of space forbids the mention of particular points of 
this work which abounds with morphological facts, and fascinat- 
ing biological speculations. 
Mr. Phelps published an interesting paper on the Habits 
of Cyrtophora citricola. He describes how this spider weaves 
its web and repairs rents in it. 
Dr. G. A. Boulenger has published in the Memoirs a Revi- 
sion of the Lizards of the Genus T'achydromus. Tachydromus 
is a genus of Lacertidae characteristic of the Far East, and the 
only one of the family that extends east of the Bay of Bengal. 
consequence badly needed. 
even species are recognized in the genus and a key pro- 
vided for their ready determination. Two forms hitherto placed 
in Tachydromus have been transferred to the new genera Platy- 
placopus and A peltonotus. 
Botany. 
