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surface is paler and the light streak on the side of the face and 

 over the eye broader and more rufous. 



Hob. Northern Rhodesia. 



Type, cS , from Itambe, between Lakes Mweru and Tanganyika ; 

 also cJ and $ , Kaf ue River near border of Barotse Land, obtained 

 by Mr, Louis de Fries, after whom it was named. 



The Secretary gave an account of a paper, contributed by 

 Mr. Martin Jacoby, F.E.S., which dealt with the Phyto- 

 phagous Ooleoptera he had la,tely received in collections from 

 South and West Africa. Seventy-three species — most of them 

 new — were enumerated and described in the paper. 



The Secretary read a communication from Mr. Cyril Cross- 

 EAND, F.Z.S., which contained a further account of the collection 

 of Polychfete Worms he had made in Zanzibar and Biitish East 

 Africa in the years 1901 and 1902, and also an account of part of 

 a collection of Polychsetes made by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner in 

 the Maldive Archipelago in 1899. Two new species were described 

 as follows : — 



Eunice tubifex. 



Inhabiting, in adult state, tubes like those of E. floridana, 

 tihiana, &c. (Ehlers's ' Blake ' Collections.) 



Compound setse with end parts knife-like anteriorly, hooked 

 posteriorly. The gills commence far back and extend to near 

 anus. Young forms found free-living, or in loose tube, differ in 

 form of jaws and distribution of knife-sette and gills. The species 

 becomes sexually mature while quite small, as does E. indica Kbg. 

 from East Africa, ? Ceylon (^Herdman), 1 Funafuti ( W/iitelegge). 



NlCIDION gracilis, 



A small form, near to Eunice brevis Elders. Differing markedly 

 in propoi'tions of body (as names imply). 



A second communication from Mr, Cyril Crossland contained 

 a continuation of the account of the Polychtetes collected in the 

 Maldive Ai'chipelago by Mr, J, Stanley Gardiner, Four new 

 species were desciibed as follows : — 



GHiETOPTERUS LONGIMANUS. 



First parapodia longer than the succeeding. 



CHiETOPTERUS LONGIPES, 



Parapodia of 1st region as in C. variojjedatus, but rudiment of 9th 

 neuropodium absent, Notopodia of oid region long and clavate. 



In both species the cii-ri of the neuropodia as found in C. vario- 

 pedatus are absent, and there ai'e small differences in the seta?. 



