il Minutes of Proceedings. 
Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou, 
1890, Nos. 1—4. 
Boletin de la Academia Nacional de Ciencias en Cordoba, Vol. X., 
part 3. 
Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria, Decade XX. 
Jabrbiicher der K. K. Central Anstalt fiir Meteorologie und 
Erdmagnetismus, 1888. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 238, 239. 
Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Catalogue de la Bibliotheque, 
part 9. 
California State Mining Bureau—Ninth Annual Report of the 
State Mineralogist for year ending 1889, Dec. 1. 
Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and 
Philosophical Society, Fourth Series, Vol. ILI. 
A circular from the British Association was read asking for 
co-operation in photographing meteorological phenomena. Thesecretary 
was directed to communicate the circular to the Photographic Club. 
The Rev. G. H. R. Fisk read a letter from Dr. Giinther reporting 
the safe arrival at the Zoological Gardens, London, of two fine 
specimens of the Robben Island snake. Dr. Giinther also requested 
to be supplied, for the purposes of identification, with (1) a brown 
snake with thirty-one scales from Robben Island, and (2) two young 
black snakes. Mr. Fisk requested members to assist him in obtaining 
these specimens. 
Mr. Trimen exhibited seventeen specimens of the larva of a 
-coleopterous insect, all of which bore a conspicuous parasitic fungus 
of the genus Torrubia, Tulasne, belonging to the group Spheriacei, 
and made the following remarks in connection with them. ‘ These 
had been collected near Klerksdorp, Transvaal, by Mr. E. G. 
Alston, jun., whose attention to the subject had been awakened by 
a notice in the “Scientific American” of September last, on the 
well-known and striking species, Spheria (Torrubia) Robertsii, 
which is parasitic on the caterpillars of a very large moth (Charagia 
virescens (Doubl.) in New Zealand. Mr. Alston, who has for long 
been a most assiduous collector and observer of South-African forms 
of life, set to work to look for some similar parasitic fungus in the 
Transvaal veldt, and, strange to say, was soon rewarded by the 
discovery of a single specimen (one of those which I exhibit this 
evening) which he forwarded to me. On my notifying its safe 
