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was shown that thirty-six species of Mammals were now known to occur in 

 the Aden District. — A communication was read from Mr. Edwyn C. Reed, 

 C.M.Z.S,, containing a list of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Chili. — Mr. 

 H. H. Druce, F.Z.S. , read a paper on Bornean Butterflies of the family 

 Lycaenidae, in which he had catalogued all the species already recorded from 

 that island, and gave descriptions of a considerable number of new Species, 

 principally from Mount Kina-Balu. Mr. Druce stated that the number of 

 Butterflies of this family previously recorded from Borneo was about 75, 

 and that his paper contained references to about 220. — A communication 

 was read from Dr. A. G. Butler, F.Z.S. , containing an account of a small 

 collection of Butterflies , sent by Mr. R. Crawshay from the country west of 

 Lake Nyasa. Five species were described as new to science. — Mr. J. An- 

 derson, F.R.S., read a paper describing a collection of Reptiles and Ba- 

 trachians made by Col, Yerbury at Aden and its neighbourhood during the 

 past winter, — Mr. Boulenger, F.R.S., gave an account of the Reptiles and 

 Batrachians collected by Dr. A.Donaldson Smith during his recent expedition 

 in Western Somaliland and the Galla country. — P. L. S dater, Secretary. 



2. Linnean Society of New South Wales. 



April 24th, 1895. — 1) Description of a Fly-catcher, presumably new. 

 By C. W, De Vis, M.A., Corr. Mem, The name Arses lorealis is proposed 

 for a fly-catcher from Cape York , with the lower surface entirely white in 

 the male , ochreous in a band on the lower throat in the female , and with 

 white lores in both sexes. — 2) On the specific Identity of the Feripatus, 

 hitherto supposed to be P. Leuckarti , Sänger. By J. J. Fletcher. During 

 his recent visit to England Professor Baldwin Spencer was successful in ob- 

 taining a translation of the portion of Sanger's paper (in Russian) descrip- 

 tive of the Australian Feripatus. From this it appears that the type speci- 

 men was found N, W. of Sydney, and that it was possessed of fifteen pairs 

 of legs, one without claws, and fourteen with them, like P. irej;/*, Blanchard. 

 Hence the expression »fünfzehn Paar Fußstummel« of Leuckart's notice, which 

 has hitherto been incorrectly interpreted as excluding the oral papillae. 

 Since then P. insignis^ Dendy, must become a synonym of P. Leuckarti, 

 Sang., the question arises, how is the common Feripatus of New South 

 Wales and Queensland , with fifteen pairs of claw-bearing legs , to be desi- 

 gnated? Important light is shed on this point by the recent acquisition of 

 specimens of a Feripatus with fifteen pairs of walking legs, but without an 

 accessory tooth at the base of the fang of the outer jaw blades, from West 

 Australia. Under the old régime this might equally well have been called 

 P.instffnis, var., with 15 pairs of walking legs, or P. Leuckar ti, \a.r., without 

 an accessory tooth; or in the absence of males , even P. novae-zelandiae. If 

 specific rank is accorded to the Eastern form, so must it be also to the 

 Western form. As four species of Australian Feripatus would in the wri- 

 ters opinion be an over-supply, he would prefer the following classification, 

 more especially as Dr. Dendy has recently recognised as a var. of P. novae- 

 zelandiae a New Zealand Peripatus with 16 pairs of walking legs: 



Peripatus Leuckar ti, Sang. Australian Peripatus with 14 or 15 pairs of 



walking legs. Without or with an accessory tooth at the base of the fang 



f the outer jaw blade, or with several (three in one case, indications of 



ven more in another). Males with a pair of (accessory genital) pores be- 



ween the genital papilla and the anus; with a white tubercle on each leg of 



