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of Nephthyirlc^ as enunciated by Prof. W. Kiikentlial in his 

 « Revision of the Alcyonaria.' Among the illustrations were 

 reproductions of some of Savigny's figures of his genera Ammothee 

 and Nephthee. 



Sir George H. Kenrick, F.Z.S., presented a paper entitled 

 " A List of Moths of the Family Pyralidoe collected by Felix B. 

 Pratt and Charles B. Pratt in Dutch New Guinea in 1909-10, 

 with Descriptions of neAv Species." 



Mr. T H. Withers, F.G.S., read a paper, communicated by 

 Dr. W. T. Caiman, F.Z.S., on "Some early Fossil Cirripedes of 

 the Genus Scalpellam." , 



Attention was diuwn to the form of the carnia ot the 

 geologically older species of ScalpeUum, and it was shown that 

 the earliest forms known resembled more closely the carina of 

 Pollicipes, from which Sccdpellum is considered to be derived. 

 An almost complete capitulum of the Albian Scalpellum arcuaium 

 was described, together with some scales of the peduncle, and a 

 restoration was given. This specimen was important because, 

 with the exception of a few detached valves found in the Aptian 

 (Lower Greensand), it was the oldest-known fossil Cirripede that 

 could with certainty be referred to the genus Sccdpellum, sensic 

 lato. S. arcuaium was considered to be an ancestral form of the 

 group of almost exclusively deep-sea species, which Dr. P. P. C. 

 Hoek had separated as a subgenus under the name Arcoscalpellum, 

 and its relationship to other 'species was discussed. S. trilineatum 

 was also re-desciibed. 



The next Meetino- of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, April 2nd, 1912, at half-past Eight 

 o'clock P.M., when the following communications will be made : — 



1. Exhibitions and ISTottces. 



2. D. Seth-Smit h, F.Z.S. 



LanteiiTExhibition of Nestling Cariama, and the display of 

 the Peacock Pheasant. 



3. R. I. PococK, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



On a rare Stag {Cerviis rvcdliddi) from Nepal, presented to 

 the Society by H.M. The King. (With lantern illustrations.) 



