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Prof. G. B. Howes read a paper on the peculiar mode of the suspension 

 of the viscera in the Australian Batoid fish, Hypnos subnigrum. A second 

 communication from Prof. Howes contained notes on the pectoral fin- 

 skeleton of the Batoidea and of the extinct genus Squaloraia, which he 

 maintained must be referred to the Chimaeroid group. 



Mr. G. A. Boulenger read a paper on the presence of pterygoid teeth 

 in a tail-less Batrachian, Pelobates cultripes, and added remarks on the 

 localisation of the teeth on the palate in the Batrachians and Reptiles. 



Mr. H. Seebohm read a paper on the Fijian birds of the genus Merula, 

 and gave a description of a new species from Viti-Levu, which he proposed 

 to call Merula layardi. — P. L. Sclater, Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



December 3, 1890.— The Rt. Hon. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. 



Mr. John Gardner, of 6, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool; and Mr. Samuel 

 James Capper, F.L.S., of Huyton Park, near Liverpool, were elected 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. D. Sharp exhibited specimens of Papilio polites, P. erithonius, and 

 Euplcea asela, received from Mr. J. J. Lister, who had caught them on 

 board ship when near Colombo, in November, 1888. Dr. Sharp read a 

 letter from Mr. Lister, in which it was stated that from the ship hundreds 

 of these butterflies were seen flying out to sea against a slight breeze. 

 Many of them, apparently exhausted by a long flight, alighted on the deck 

 of the ship, and large numbers perished in the sea. 



Lord Walsingham exhibited a coloured drawing of a variety of 

 Acherontia atropos, which had been sent to him by Mons. Henri de la 

 Cuisine, of Dijon. He also exhibited specimens of an entomogenous 

 fungus, apparently belonging to the genus Torrubia, growing on pupae, 

 received from Sir Charles Forbes, aud which had been collected in Mexico 

 by Mr. H. B. James. Mr. M'Lachlan expressed an opinion, in which 

 Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse and Mr. G. C. Champion concurred, that the pupae 

 were those of a species of Cicada. Mr. F. D. Godraan said that at the 

 meeting of the Society on the 3rd October, 1888, he had exhibited a larva 

 of a Cicada with a similar fungoid growth. The specimen was subse- 

 quently produced, and the fungus proved to be identical with that on the 

 pupae shown by Lord Walsingham. 



Mr. R. Adkin exhibited male specimens of Spilosoma meudica, Clk., 

 bred from ova obtained from a female of the Irish form which had been 

 impregnated by a male of the English form. These specimens were of a 

 dusky white colour, and were intermediate between the English and Irish 

 forms. 



