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Show 224 MR. P. C A M E R O N O N [Mar. 19, Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. (at the request of Mr. Eowland Ward, F.Z.S.), exhibited the mounted head and horns of a Sable Antelope (Hippotragus niger), the largest on record, the length of the horns on the outer curve being 50g inches, the girth at the base 9^ inches, and the width between the tips 18| inches. They had been obtained by Mr. F. V. Worthington in Barotseland, South Africa. A communication was read from Dr. G. Stewardson Brady, C.M.Z.S., which contained descriptions of a collection of Ostracoda belonging to the Zoological Museum of Copenhagen, most of the species represented in it being new to science. The collection was very varied in character, embracing examples of both marine and freshwater species from widely different localities. A new species belonging to the group Halocypridaz, from a North Atlantic Plankton collection, made by Dr. George Murray, F.E.S., was also described in this paper. This memoir will be printed in full in the Society's ' Transactions.' The following papers were read :- 1. On the Hymenoptera collected in New Britain by Dr. Arthur Willey. By P. C A M E R O N \ [Received March 4, 1901.] The Hymenoptera brought back from New Britain by Dr. Arthur Willey are, with the exception of the Melipona, all large or medium-sized species. Judging from them, I should say that the islands are likely to prove rich in species. The collection is not extensive enough to enable me to form a definite opinion on the geographical relationship of the Hymenopterous fauna of the island. If it were not for the presence of a species of Thynnus 2, a typical Australian form, I should have said that the affinities of these insects were certainly with the Oriental Zoological Eegion rather than with the Australian, and, in the main, this is probably the case. In view of the somewhat fragmentary character of the collection, I have not thought it worth while to draw up, at present, a list of the previously recorded species of New Britain, but have enumerated all those represented in the collection submitted to me. The specimens were mostly collected in the Gazelle Peninsula, which is the part now known, I believe, as New Pomerania. New Britain itself is now included in the Bismarck Archipelago by German geographers. i Communicated by Dr. D. SIIAKP, F.Z.S. 2 Thynnus serrigcr, Sharp, Willey's ' Zoological Results, part iv. p. 388. |