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from the Cape, Lophotes fiski, based on a specimen sent to the British 

 Museum by the Rev. G. H. R. Fisk. 



Mr. Edgar A. Smith read a report on the Marine Molluscan Fauna of 

 the Island of St. Helena, based principally on a large series of specimens 

 collected by Capt. Turton, R.E., and presented to the British Museum. 



A second paper by Mr. Edgar A. Smith contained a report on the 

 Marine Mollusca of Ascension Island/ 



April 15. — Mr. G. A. Boulenger, F.Z.S., in the chair. 



Mr. A. Smith- Woodward read a paper on some new fishes from the 

 English Wealden and Purbeck Beds, referable to the genera Oligopleurus, 

 Strobilodus, and Mesodon. Detailed descriptions of several fossils of these 

 genera, now in the British Museum, were given. Oligopleurus was stated 

 to be represented by a single species in the Wealden of the Isle of Wight, 

 occurring also in the Purbeck of Dorsetshire ; and the latter formation had 

 yielded at least one species both of Strobilodus and Mesodon. Previous 

 researches had already indicated a close connexion between the fish-fauna of 

 the English Purbeck Beds and that of the Upper Jurassic Lithographic 

 Stones of France, Bavaria, and Wiirtemberg ; and the new forms now 

 described tended to demonstrate that alliance even more clearly. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read the second of a series of reports on the 

 additions to the Batrachian Collection in the Natural-History Museum. 

 Since 1886, when the first report was made on this subject, examples of 

 seventy-four additional species of Batrachians had been acquired. Amongst 

 these was a remarkable new form allied to the family Engystomatidce 

 proposed to be called Genyophryne thomsoni, based on a single specimen 

 obtained by Mr. Basil Thomson on Sudest Island, near South-east New 

 Guinea. The form was stated to be unique in having teeth in the lower, 

 but none in the upper jaw. 



Mr. Frank E. Beddard read a paper on the structure of Psophia, 

 and on its relations to other birds. The author was inclined to consider 

 Psophia most nearly allied to Cariama and Chunga, and more distinctly to 

 Rhinochetus, but entitled to stand as a distinct family in the group of Cranes 

 and their allies. 



Mr. Henry Seebohm gave an account of a collection of birds from the 

 northern part of the province of Fokien, South-eastern China. Several 

 interesting species were represented in the series, amongst which was a new 

 Hemixos, proposed to be called H. canipennis. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



April 2,1890.— Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, M.A., F.R.S., Vice- 

 President, in the chair. 



Messrs. G. Bryant, of Chelsea, S.W.; A. E. Hall, of Sheffield; 



