318 tUe zoologist. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited some marine Algae new to Britain, 

 including Ascocyclus reptans, Halothrix lumbricalis, Harveyella mirabilis, 

 Sorocarpus uvqformis, and Vaucheria litorea. Also specimens of Rhody- 

 menia palmata with antheridia, and Punctaria tenuissima in fructification, 

 the last two not having been previously recorded to occur in this state in 

 Great Britain. 



The following papers were then read :— " Observations on the protection 

 of Buds in the Tropics," by M. C. Potter; "On the distribution of the 

 South American Bell-birds belonging to the genus Chasmorhynchus" by 

 J. E. Harting ; " On the vertical distribution of Plants in the Caucasus," 

 by Dr. Gustav Badde ; and " Notes on the Forjiculid®, with descriptions 

 of new genera and species," by W. F. Kirby. 



This meeting terminated the Session of 1889-90. 



Zoological Society of London. 



June 17, 1890.— W. T. Blanfoed, F.R.S., in the chair. 



Mr. Sclater exhibited and made remarks on a mounted head of a Pallah 

 Antelope, • obtained by Capt. F. Cookson, on the Cunene River, in South- 

 western Africa, which was distinguished by its black face from the ordinary 

 form of the Cape Colony. 



Mr. Sclater also exhibited a large photograph of Grevy's Zebra, Equus 

 grevyi, taken from the specimen in the Natural-History Museum at Paris 

 by Mr. Gambier Bolton. 



A specimen of Pallas's Plover, /Egialitis asiatica, obtained in May last 

 near Great Yarmouth, and now in the Norwich Museum, was exhibited ; 

 and a note upon its occurrence by Mr. T. Southwell was read to the 

 meeting. 



A communication was read from Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, containing some 

 notes received from Mr. Edgar Thurston, of the Madras Museum, on the 

 habits of the Pennatulids of the genus Virgularia. 



A communication was read from Mons. P. A. Pichot, containing exact 

 particulars of the locality on the Lower Rhone in which the Beaver is still 

 found in its native state. 



Mr. W. Bateson read a paper on some cases of repetition of parts in 

 animals, and exhibited a series of specimens illustrative of this subject. 



Mr. Henley Grose Smith gave an account of the Diurnal Lepidoptera 

 collected by Mr. W. Bonny, of the Emin Relief Expedition, on the River 

 Aruwimi, Central Africa. 



A communication was read from Mr. W. L. Distant, containing 

 descriptions of some Hemiptera collected by Mr. W. Bonny during the same 

 expedition. 



