232 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, Vol. XII. 



The Irish Naturalist, Vol, VII, Nos, 3, 4, and 5, from Mr. W. F. Sinclair ; The 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society of London for 1897, in exchange ; 

 The Indian Forester, Vol. XXIV, Nos. 3, 4, and 5 ; The Canadian Entomo- 

 logist, Vol. XXX, Nos. 3, 4, and 5 ; Fauna of British India, Vol. IV, Birds 

 (Blanford), from the Author ; Journal of the Marine Biological Association, 

 Vol, V, No. 2, from Mr. W, F. Sinclair ; The Embryology of Crepidula ; The 

 Avicultural Magazine, Vol. IV, No. 42 ; Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de 

 France, Tome XXII, Nos. 1 to 9 ; Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de 

 France, Annee X, Nos, 1 to 4 ; Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale 

 di Geneva, Vol. XVIII ; The Agricultural Ledger, Nos. 18 to 20 ; Proceed- 

 ings of the California Academy of Science, Third Series, Zoology, Vol. I, No. 4; 

 Proceedings of the California Academy of Science, Third Series, Geology, 

 Vol. I, No. 2 ; Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia, Part II, 1897 ; The Reptiles of the Pacific Coast and Great Basin (I 

 Van Denbourgh) ; Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, Vol, VIII, 

 Parts 1 to 4 ; Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. LXVI, Part II. 

 No, 4 ; Report of the Provincial Museum of the N,-W.P. and Oudh for 

 1894-96 ; Perak Museum Notes, Vol, II, Part 2 ; Proceedings of the Nova 

 Scotian Institute of Science, Vol, IX, Part 3 ; Report of the Entomological 

 Society of Ontario for 1897, 



PAPERS READ. 



The following papers were then read and discussed : — 



1. Description of six new species of scorpions from India, by R, I. Pocock 



(British Museum of Natural History), 



2. A Monograph of the Pill-Millipedes inhabiting India, Ceylon, and 



Burma, by R,I, Pocock, 



3. On the zoological division of Sikkim, by H, J. Elwes, F.R.S, 



4. Species of Western Peninsular trees, shrubs, &c,, from North Kanara, 



by W. A, Talbot. 

 6. Some cases of caudal abnormality in Mabuia carinata and other lizards 

 by H, H. Brindley, M.A. 



6. On new and little known Butterflies from the Indo-Malayan, Austro- 



Malayan and Australian regions, by L. de Niceville, F,E.S, 



7. Description of a new species of Mus from S. India, by J, L. Bonhote 



(British Museum of Natural Uistory), 



8. On A/ridia, a new genus of Labiatse from the N,-W, Frontier of India, 



by J, F, Duthie, F.L.S. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 



(a) The Baira Antelope, by Captain P, Z, Cox. 



(b) Bahmeen fishing in Bombay Harbour, by E. L. Barton. 



(c) A Panther with twenty toes, by S. Eardley-Wilmot. 



