82 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 



Linnean Society of London. 



December 1, 1892. — Prof. Stewart, President, in the chair. 



Messrs. A. P. Green, A. B. Morris, A. F. Kent, H. W. Monckton, and 

 F. G. Parsons were elected Fellows. 



A letter was read from the Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A., F.L.S., 

 expressing his high appreciation of the compliment paid him by the 

 presentation of the illuminated address which had been signed by the 

 Fellows present at the last meeting of the Society, and forwarded 

 to him. 



Messrs. H. and J. Groves exhibited specimens of several Irish Characece 

 collected during the past summer. Nitella tenuissima, from Westmeath 

 and Galway, had not been previously recorded from Ireland, and a large 

 form of N. gracilis, from two lakes in Wicklow, had been only once 

 previously met with. Referring to the former, Mr. H. Groves remarked 

 that, although it might be expected to occur in all the peat districts, it had 

 only been found in two widely-separated localities in England — namely, in 

 the Cambridgeshire Fens and in Anglesea. 



Mr. A. Lister made some remarks on the Nuclei oiMycetozoa, exhibiting 

 some preparations under the microscope. 



Mr. E. Cambridge Phillips forwarded for exhibition a hybrid between 

 Bed and Black Grouse which had been shot in August near Brecon. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited and made remarks on some coleopterous 

 larvae which had been vomited by a child at Tintern, and had been forwarded 

 by the medical attendant, Dr. J. Taylor Brown, for identification. The 

 precise species had not been determined, but was considered to be allied to 

 Blaps mortisaga. Mr. Harting drew attention to the fact that cases of 

 voiding coleopterous larva? were mentioned by Kirby and Spence (7th ed. 

 p. 71), and by the late Dr. Spencer Cobbold, in his work on Parasites 

 (1879, p. 269). 



Mr. D. Morris exhibited some tubers of Calathia allonia, eaten as 

 potatoes in Trinidad, where it is known as Tapa Nambour, 



A communication was read from Mr. J. H. Hart, of the Botanic Gardens, 

 Trinidad, on (Ecodoma cephalotes and the Fungi it cultivates. 



Prof F. Jeffery Bell contributed a short paper on a small collection of 

 Crinoids from the Sahul Bauk, North Australia, some of which were new ; 

 and Mr. Edgar Smith communicated descriptions of some new Land Shells 

 from Borneo. 



The meeting adjourned to December 15th. 



