DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. I2l 



Myriopoda. — Seven hundred and sixty-two specimens have 

 been added to the collection. The following are specially 

 worthy of notice : — 



Sixty-one Millipedes from Selangor and thirteen from 

 Singapore, including examples of new species of Doratodesmus 

 and Acanthodesmus ; presented by H. N. Ridley, Esq. 



Three hundred and twenty- seven Centipedes and Millipedes 

 from Siam and the Malay Peninsula, including new but 

 undescribed species and genera of Polydesinidce, collected by 

 S. S. Flower, Esq. ; received in exchange. 



Seventeen Millipedes, including examples of new but 

 undescribed species of Platyrrhachus from Ecuador ; pur- 

 chased. 



Thirty- six Centipedes and Millipedes, chiefly from New 

 Britain, including the types of thirteen new species, including 

 that of Gonibregmatus anguinus, Ethmostigmus granulosus, 

 Parazodesmus verrucosus, etc. ; presented by Dr. Arthur 

 Willey. 



Prototracheata.— The three specimens of Peripatus 

 obtained during the year are of interest as affording proof 

 of a more extensive geographical distribution of the genus 

 than was till lately supposed. 



Echinoderma. — Among the fifteen hundred and twenty- 

 seven Echinoderms obtained during the year especial 

 attention should be called to,— 



Eighteen deep-sea Ophiuroids from the neighbourhood of 

 the Bay of Bengal ; presented by the trustees of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, and determined by Prof. Koehler. 



Fifteen Echinoderms from Rockall ; presented by the Dublin 

 Science and Art Museum, of interest as coming from an 

 almost inaccessible locality. 



Twenty Echinoderms, including Lcetmogone Wyvillethoin- 

 soni, dredged in the Bay of Biscay ; obtained by exchange 

 from Prof. Koehler. 



A selection of one hundred and ten Echinoderms from the 

 extensive collections made by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner at 

 Funafuti and in the Fijis, and one hundred and ten specimens 

 obtained by Dr. Willey at the Loyalty Islands and New Britain. 



Six specimens of the rare flexible Sea-Urchin, Asthenosoma 

 urens, from Trincomalee Harbour ; collected and presented by 

 Staff-Surgeon P. W. Bassett-Smith. 



Annulata. — Two hundred and sixty-five specimens were 

 added. The most important accessions consist of a number 

 of earthworms from various localities which were submitted 

 for determination to Dr. Rosa of Turin, and of Mr. Andrews' 

 collection of Gephyrea from Christmas Island, which have 

 been determined by Mr. A. E. Shipley. 



