fr8 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



of Science and Art, Dublin, where are also specimens from Portrush and 

 Dingle. This species is said to be occasionally taken on all sides of Ireland. 

 Thompson (Nat. Hist. Ireland, vol. iv. pp. 240, 241) records its occurrence 

 on the corn coasts of Counties Cork, Antrim, Down, Galway, and Dublin. 

 Waterville, therefore, would appear to be a new locality for this species. — 

 <j. E. H. Barkett- Hamilton. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 



Linnean Society of London. 



December 17, 1891. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Sir Walter Sendall, K.C.M.G., was admitted, and Mr. L. Rodway was 

 elected a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. G. C. Druce exhibited specimens of Sagina maritima, Don MS. 

 var. alpina, Syme, gathered on steep rocky places'on the Cairngorms, and 

 of Illecebrum verticillatum, Linn., found near Wellington College, Berks. 



Dr. R. C. A. Prior exhibited some fruits of the Baobab (Adansonia), 

 and an undetermined species of palm, which had been sent from Matabele 

 Land as good to eat, under the misleading names of " cream of tartar fruit " 

 and " wild orange." He read an extract from Oates's • Matabele Land,' 

 describing the natural growth and appearance of the Baobab as observed in 

 that country. 



The Hon. W. B. Espeut exhibited some nests of Humming-birds from 

 Jamaica, and pointed out the variety of materials used by the same species, 

 though placed in the same tree (a mangrove), the coloration in some cases 

 being protective, in others not. 



A paper was then read on the occurrence of two species of Crustacea 

 belonging to the suborder Cumacea in New Zealand, whence none had been 

 previously described. The author gave the result of his dredging in the 

 Bay of Islands in the north, and in the inlets of Stewart Island in the 

 south, and furnished drawings and descriptions of the species referred to. 



A paper on the development of the head of the imago of Chironomus, 

 by Prof. L. C. Miall and A. R. Hammond, was read by Mr. Hammond, 

 accompanied by a series of illustrations with the oxyhydrogen lantern. The 

 subject was introduced by a brief sketch of the life-history of the insect in 

 its three stages, followed by detailed descriptions of the head both of the 

 larva and of the imago. The history of the epidermic invaginations by 

 which the imaginal head is formed within the larval head and prothorax 

 was then followed out to its consummation in the development of the fly. 

 The lantern arrangements were successfully carried out by Mr. Frederick 

 Enock, 



