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LONDON. Zoological Society, May 19.—Mr. R. H. Burne, vice-president, in the chair.—Dr. C. H. O'Donoghue: The venous system of the dogfish. The general disposition of the main trunks in Scyllium is similar to that described in other Elasmobranchs, but the details differ considerably.—B. F. Cummings: Scent-organs in Trichoptera. An account of the remarkable development of the palpi of the first maxilla in a male caddis-fly, Sericostoma personatum. Instead of being 5-segmented, the palpus consists of a single swollen segment carrying an enormous tuft of long, silky hairs, at the bases of which unicellular scent-glands are situated.—H. A. Baylis: A new species of Cestode collected from an albatross (Diomedea irrorata) by Dr. H. O. Forbes in Peru.—D. M. S. Watson; The Deinocephalia, an order of mammal-like reptiles. The skull of a Tapinocephaloid is almost completely described. The fact that whilst in the skull Deinocephalia agree with the American Pelycosaurs, but in the post-cranial skeleton they resemble South African Therapsids, shows that the American forms must be included in the same great group, super-order, as the South African mammal-like reptiles.—Dr. R. C. L. Perkins: Species of the genus Paralastor and some other Hymenoptera of the family Eumenidae. All the described species are enumerated therein, together with the descriptions of many new forms.—G. Jennison: Notes on colour-development in the Indian wood-stork (Pseudotantalus leucocephalus). —Dr. Ph. Lehrs: A new lizard from the Canary Islands, recently discovered by Dr. Cæsar Boettger on Hierro.
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Societies and Academies . Nature 93, 367–369 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093367a0
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