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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



Zoological Society of Tokyo.— The monthly meetings of the Society 

 for October — March were held in the lceture room of the Zoological Institute 

 of the Imperial University. The following papers were read: 



October 16 — Prof. Iwakawa on the " Fresh-water and Land Mollusca of 

 South-Central Japan." He pointed out the difference of the prevailing forms of 

 this part and those of the northern part with reference to the fresh-water forms. 

 Thus, Paludiim < xylropis, the common form in the north, does not occur in the 

 south-central pari, while / al. ingaUsiana, the prevailing funi of the latter is not 

 i' und in the north; so also, the genus Ihj>?a.< which is very common in the north 

 is rather uncommon in south-central Japan, wher«j it is mostly replaced by 

 A nod oii tu. 



November 20. — Prof. Isiiikawa On the " Spawning and Larva of Megal- 

 batrachus Sieboldii." 



December 18. — Mr. Yosiiiwaija on "Japanese Echinoidea." 

 January 29. — Mr. Tata reported on his collecting tour in Formosa. 



Mr. Aida on the "Fauna of the Western Coast of Jzu." 

 February 19. — Mr. YoSHIwARA on " a Fossil Astriclypeus from Kûshû." 

 Mr. ElZUKA on " the Annelids of the Northern Shore of the Lay of 

 Su ruga." 



March 19.— Mr. Miya.iima on " Veretillum rloridum, n. Bp." 



Mr. Aida on the " Structure and Habit of the Mams from Formosa." 



