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The Prince of Canino contributed, through the Secretary, an essay " On the 

 Synonymy of the Genus Eos," including descriptions of two new species, E. cyano- 

 genia and semilarvata. This paper was illustrated by two drawings, from the pencil 

 of Dr. H. Schlegel. 



Mr. A. Adams, R.N., communicated a " Monograph of the Genus Anatinella, 

 Sow.," including the descriptions of two new species, viz. A. dilatata and ventricosa. 



Mr. Adams also communicated an "Arrangement of the Stomatellidae," including 

 the characters of a new genus (Microtis) and of several new species, viz. Stomatella 

 castellata, articulata, monilifera, molluccana, orbiculata, japonica, fulgurans, san- 

 guinea, speciosa, coccinea and tigrina, Stomatia australis, angulata, decussata, acu- 

 minata, lirata and notata, Microtis tuberculata, Gerra plumbea, strigosa, striatula, 

 varia, pulchella, lintricula, asperulata, nebulosa, omata and lineata. 



Mr. Bartlett exhibited the head and horns of a deer, which he believed to be an 

 adult Cervus leucurus. They are remarkably fine in form, and much larger than 

 those described in the ' Fauna Boreali-Americana,' which were brought to England 

 by Mr. Douglas. 



Mr. Gould exhibited specimens of a new species of Menura, which he had pre- 

 viously described at a meeting of the Linnean Society, under the name of M. Alberti. 



February 26. — W. Spence, Esq., in the chair. 



Prof. Owen communicated a memoir (No. IV.) " On the Gigantic Wingless Birds 

 of New Zealand." Having in the previous memoirs determined and referred to their 

 genera and species the different bones of the leg, he made those of the foot the sub- 

 ject of the present communication, which was illustrated by the exhibition of an ex- 

 tensive series of remains from both the north and south (or middle) islands of New 

 Zealand, — comprising the entire -series of phalanges of one and the same foot of the 

 Palapteryx robustus, a gigantic species from Waikawaite, — a similarly complete 

 series of the Dinornis rheides, — and series more or less incomplete of the phalanges 

 of the Dinornis giganteus, Palapteryx ingens, and other genera and species of the 

 singular extinct wingless birds of New Zealand. The characteristics of the different 

 phalanges were minutely detailed, and the different proportions of the toes character- 

 istic of different species, especially of. the two most gigantic, viz., the Dinornis gigan- 

 teus of North Island and the Palapteryx robustus of the turbary deposits of the 

 Middle Island. The adaptation of the claw-bones for scratching up the soil was ob- 

 vious from their shape and strength. The generic distinction of Palapteryx had 

 previously been indicated by a slight depression on the metatarsus, supposed by the 

 author to be for the articulation of a small back toe, as in the Apteryx ; and he had 

 since received a specimen of the principal bone of that toe, which was exhibited and 

 described. A nearly entire sternum, a portion of a minute humerus, a cranium of 

 one of the smaller species of Palapteryx, and a cranium of one of the smaller species 

 of Dinornis, were also exhibited and described. This magnificent series of remains 

 of the great New Zealand birds had been collected chiefly by the late Col. Wakefield, 

 and had been transmitted to the author through the kind interest of J. R. Gowen, 

 Esq., a director of the New Zealand Company. 



A paper was read by Mr. Adams " On New Species of Cyclostrema and Separa- 

 tista, from the collection of Mr. Cuming." 



