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When Eutlieria took to arboreal life the chance of reviving the 

 lost marsupiuni was gone, nor did their higher mental and 

 placental organization i-equire it. 



Dr. F. E. Bedbard, M.A., F.R.S., F.Z.S., gave an account 

 of an asexual Tapeworm, obtained from the Musquash {Fiber 

 zibethicus), showing a new form of asexual propagation, and also 

 described a sexual worm which he believed to be the mature form 

 of the same Tapewoim. 



Dr. William Nicoll, F.Z.S., described two new Trematode 

 parasites from the Indian Cobra {JVaja tripudians). The first 

 was found in the gall-bladder and was made the type of a new 

 genus of the family Dicrocoeliidje. The second was found in the 

 ureters and represented a new species of the genus Styphlodora. 

 Dr. Nicoll also gave statistics of the Worm Parasites collected from 

 the animals which had died in the Society's Gardens during the 

 period from December 1910 till April 1912. 



Dr. R. Broom, O.M.Z.S., presented a paper based on some new 

 Fossil Reptiles from the Permian and Triassic Beds of South 

 Africa. 



Prof. S. J. HiCKSON, F.R.S., F.Z.S., communicated a paper on 

 the Hydrocoralline genus jErrina. This genus was founded by 

 Gray in 1835, and since that date two other genera {LahiojJora 

 and Spinipora) closely related to Errina had been described. An 

 analysis of the characters of these three genera was given. 

 An examination of Gray's type of Errina proved that it was 

 inoie closely related to the species referred by Moseley and othei's 

 to the genus Lahiopora, than to the species referred by them to 

 the genus Errina. The author proposed, therefore, to merge the 

 three genera into one with the common generic name Errina, 

 dividing the species into three subgeneric groups. Two new- 

 species were described, one from New Zealand waters and the 

 other from the Cape of Good Hope. 



