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the apex with two subequal spines. The inner rami of the fifth feet 

 of the male are both I -jointed, acute and minutely ciliated. The 

 apical claw of the right foot is long and slightly curved. The acces- 

 sory spine is weak and inserted one-third the length of the second 



Fig. 27. 



Fig. 28. 



Fig. 29. 



Fig. 27. Diaptomus notomexicanus. 

 Fig. 28. Fifth feet of male. 



End of right male antenna. 



Fig. 29. 



Fifth foot of female. 



joint from its end. The apical joint of the outer ramus of the left 

 foot is armed with a cushion of short spines and two longer ones and 

 also bears a ciliated lamina internally. Length of female, 11 — 

 1-2 mm. 



II. Mittheilungen aus Museen, Instituten etc. 



Zoological Society of London. 



15th January, 1895. — - The Secretary read a report on the additions 

 that had been made to the Society's Menagerie during the month of Decem- 

 ber 1894, and called attention to two Tapirs recently deposited in the So- 

 ciety's Gardens, which he believed to be referable to Dow's Tapir [Taptrus 

 Dowi] of Central America. — Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell, F.Z.S., exhibited 

 and gave an account of a tibia and other bones of an extinct bird of the ge- 

 nus Aepyornis from Central Madagascar , which had been lent to him for 

 exhibition by Mr. Joseph H. Fenn. With these bones was associated a 

 skull of a species of Hippopotamus. — Prof. G. B. Howes, F.Z.S., exhi- 

 bited and made remarks on the photograph of an embryo of Omithorhynchus. 

 — The Secretary exhibited, on behalf of Mr. R. Lydekker, a life-sized 

 drawing of Idiurus Zenkert, a new and remarkably small form of Flying 

 Squirrel from West Africa, recently described at Berlin. — Lord Lilford, 

 F.Z.S., sent fort exhibition the skin of a Duck, believed to be a hybrid be- 

 tween the Mallard [Anas hoschas) and the Teal (Querquedula crecca]^ that had 

 been caught in a decoy in Northamptonshire. — The Rev. T. R. R. St ebb- 



