1866.] 89 [Bryant. 



omera femorata had hatched out, and the young insect lay 

 dead at a short distance. 



Mr. L. Trouvelot stated that the eggs of this insect almost 

 invariably hatched only after the interval of two years, 

 though sometimes in a single year when placed under favor- 

 ing circumstances, and sometimes not for three years. He also 

 stated that he had made some experiments upon the rejaara- 

 tion of legs in this insect by breaking or cutting off the legs 

 from the young insect, as it leaves the Qgg., and had discov- 

 ered that in such cases a new \e^ appeared after the second 

 moult, but it was very small and perfectly useless, while after 

 the third moult, it was perfectly formed, and made use of by 

 the insect, although diminutive in size ; he had observed 

 many specimens, and the intervals of moulting were always 

 seventeen days. 



December 5, 1866. 



The President in the chair. Forty-three members present. 



The Secretary read a paper entitled 



A List of the Birds of St. Domingo, with Descriptions of 

 SOME New Species or Varieties. By Henry Bryant, M. D. 



Very little more is known at present of the birds inhabiting St. 

 Domingo, than in the time of Butfon. The first considerable collec- 

 tion for many years, was made at the eastern or Spanish end of the 

 Island, by Mr. Salle, and a list of it published in the Proceedmgs of 

 the Zoological Society of London, for 1857. Since that time, a collec- 

 tion was made near Port au Prince, by Mr. A. E. Younglove of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, and presented to the Smithsonian Listitution, and 

 another in the neighborhood of Jeremie, by Mr. Uhler, which is 

 the property of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge. 

 The following list contains all the birds of the three collections, as far 

 as I have been able to identify them ; those collected by Mr. Salle 

 being taken from his list published under the superintendence of 

 Mr. Sclater. Though Jeremie is at the extreme west end of the 



