On Erpetoichtbys Calabaricus from Old Calabar. 331 
The following Gentlemen were elected Foreign Members of the 
Society : — 
Sr. Durchlaucht Fiirst CoUoredo-Mannsfeld, the President, Dr Theo- 
dor Kotschy, the Vice-President, and Dr Georg Ritter von Frauenfeld, 
the Secretary, of the Zoological and Botanical Society of Vienna. 
The following Donations to the Library were laid on the Table, and 
thanks voted to the Donors : — 
1. Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical S.ociety of Liverpool, 
Session 1863-64, No. 18.— From the Society. 2. On the Food of 
Man in relation to his Useful Work, by Professor Lyon Playfair, C.B. 
— From the Author. 3. Journal of Linnean Society, vol. ix. No. 35. — 
From the Society. 4. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Nos. 72, 73, 
and 77, Vol. XIV. — From the Society. 5. Canadian Journal, Nos. 54, 
56, 57, 58, and 59. — From the Canadian Institute, Toronto. 6. Pro- 
ceedings of the Geologists' Association, 1864-65. — From the Associa- 
tion. 7. Declaration of Students of the Natural and Physical Sci- 
ences. — From the Authors. 8. Transactions of the Botanical Society 
of Edinburgh, Vol. VIII., Part 2.— From the Society. 9. Notes 
on Spa, &c., by Thomas Cutler, M.D. — From the Author. 10. Trans- 
actions of the Geological Society of Glasgow, Part 1, Vol. II. — From 
the Society. 
The following Communications were read : — 
I William Turner, M.B., exhibited two specimens of the Lerneopoda 
elongata attached to the eyes of the Greenland Shark [Scymnus 
borealis). 
The specimens of this curious parasitic animal had been 
recently procured for him in Greenland by his pupil, 
Mr E.Smith. 
11. [1.) Dr John Alex. Smith exhibited perfect specimens of the new 
Ganoid Fish, Erpetoichthys Calabaricus, from Old Calabar. 
At the meeting of the Society in March last Dr Smith 
exhibited two specimens of a new ganoid fish which had 
been sent to him from Old Calabar by the Eev. Alexander 
Eobb. They were allied to the genus Folypterus. 
From the difference in shape of these Calabar fish — their 
bodies being more cylindrical and elongated in proportion 
to their breadth (having, indeed, quite a serpent-like 
aspect), the fins being small in size, and the ventral fins 
apparently absent, and as they also wanted one of the 
opercular plates that existed in Polypterus — Dr Smith 
