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Dale, on " Variation in the floral symmetry of Potentilla tormentilla, 

 Necker." This paper, of which Mr. Tansley gave an abstract, was mainly 

 a record of variations tending to alter the normal tetramerous actinomorphic 

 symmetry of this flower. 



Zoological Society of London. 



Jan. 15th, 1895. — Dr. St. George Mivart, F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



The Secretary read a report on the additions that had been made to the 

 Society's Menagerie during December, 1894, and called attention to two 

 Tapirs recently deposited in the Society's Gardens, which he believed to be 

 referable to Dow's Tapir, Tapirus dowi, of Central America. 



Mr. P. Chalmers Mitchell exhibited and gave an account of a tibia and 

 other bones of an extinct bird of the genus Mpyomis from Central Mada- 

 gascar, 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 exhibited and made remarks on the photograph of an 

 embryo Ornithorhynchus. 



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

 drawing of Idlurus zenkeri, a new and remarkably small form of Flying 

 Squirrel from West Africa, recently described at Berlin. 



Lord Lilford sent for exhibition the skin of a Duck, believed to be a 

 hybrid between the Mallard, Anas boschas, aud the Teal, Querquedula 

 crecca, that had been caught in his decoy in Northamptonshire. (See p. 55). 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing exhibited a specimen of a species of 

 Peripatus from Antigua. 



Mr. Frederick Chapman gave an account of some Foraminifera obtained 

 by the Royal Indian Marine Survey's SS. ' Investigator' from the Arabian 

 Sea near the Laccadive Islands. The author described the forms found 

 in the samples sent him. As many as 277 species and varieties were 

 enumerated, some of which were new to science. Several of the species, 

 which were here recorded for the first time from recent soundings, had 

 been previously known from the Pliocene deposits of Kar Nicobar. 



A communication was read from Mr. P. 11. Uhler, containing an enume- 

 ration of the Hemiptera-Homoptera of the island of St. Vincent, W. Indies. 



A communication from Mr. T. D. A. Cockerell contained a description 

 of a new species of the family Coccida belonging to Lichtensia, a genus new 

 to the fauua of the Nearctic Region. The species was named L. lycii. 



Mr. Sclater read some notes on the recent occurrence of the Barbary 

 Sheep in Egypt. A flock had visited the eastern bank of the Nile above 

 Wady Haifa in the summer of 1890. A second paper by Mr. Sclater 

 contained some notes on the recent breeding of the Surinam Water-Toad, 

 Pipa americana, in the Society's Reptile House. — P. L. Sclater, Sec, 



