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showing no trace of a dark median line dividing it into a right 

 and left portion. Nevertheless, with respect to the size of the 

 rump-patch and the distinctness and width of this divisional line, 

 the Sliou {C. affinis) seemed to be intermediate between the 

 Hangul {C. hangla) and Wallich's Stag (C. wallichii). In certain 

 other respects, such as the colour of the lips, the length of the 

 head, and the coarseness of the hair, C. afflnis and G. vmlUchii 

 were more like one another than either was like C. havglu, and the 

 evidence tended to shoAv that the two former were subspecies of 

 a species for which loallichlt was the oldest available name. 



Mr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., Prosector to the 

 Society, read a paper on species of Tapeworms of the genus 

 Inermicapsifer obtained from the Hyrax, Avith notes on the 

 genera ZschoJckeellcc and Thysanotcenia. An account of the 

 structure and characters of the species was given, together with 

 the description of a new genus and two new species. 



Dr. Bashford Dean contributed an account of the living 

 specimens of the Australian Lung-fish {Ceratod^is forsteri) in the 

 Society's Collection. This paper contained some further observa- 

 tions made by the author in June 1911, supplementary to his 

 previous communication published in 1906, and dealt with the 

 coloration, size, and age of the specimens. Details of the rate of 

 growth of this species were also given, with notes on their method 

 of breathing, their food, and an accoxmt of the regeneration of a 

 portion of the left ventral fin which had suffered an iiiiury. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will 

 be held on Tuesday, April 23rd, 1912, at half-past Eight 

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



1. Exhibitions and Notices. 



2, Julian S. HuxLE^^ 



A First Account of the Courtship of the Redshank {Totanus 

 calidris). 



3. Mrs. E. W. Sexton. 



Amphipoda from Bremerhaven, 



