592 THE NATUKAL HISTOEY EEYIEW. 



note on the Fin- Whale described by Dr. Gray in 1847, as Pliijsalus 

 sihhaldii, to which species he was now inclined to believe that the 

 Whale lately described by himself as Fhysalus latirostris must be 

 referred. — Mr. Sclater read a report on a small collection of animals 

 transmitted from Madagascar to the Society by Mr. J. Caldwell, 

 Corr. Memb., amongst which were a new species of Bat, described 

 by Dr. Peters as Nyctinomus (Mormopiei^us) jugularis, and a new 

 Crustacean, proposed by Mr. Spence Bate, to be called Astacus 

 Caldwelli, after its discoverer.— Dr. J. E. Gray communicated a 

 revision of the mammals of the order Insectivora, founded on the 

 specimens in the collection of the British Museum. — Mr. Wallace 

 exhibited and pointed out the characters of twenty-one new species 

 of birds discovered by him during his explorations in the Malay 

 Archipelago. Eight of these were from Celebes, and the rest of them 

 from Sumatra, Borneo, the Moluccas, and the New Guinea group. — 

 A paper was read by Mr. A. Butler, describing six new species of 

 Diurnal Lepidoptera in the collection of the British Museum.— Mr. 

 E. Moore communicated a list of the Diurnal Lepidoptem collected 

 by Captain A. L. Lang in the North- Western Himalayas, together 

 with Notes by Captain Lang of the habits and localities of each 

 species. Captain Lang's series was stated to contain 119 species, 

 thirty of which were new to science. 



June Titli, 1865. 



An extract was read from a letter addressed to the Secretary by 

 Mr. K. Swinhoe respecting some Chinese Deer, destined for the 

 Society's menagerie. — The Secretary announced the safe arrival in 

 the Society's Gardens on the previous evening of a young male 

 African Elephant, received in exchange from the Jardin des Plantes. 

 — Mr. Busk communicated a memoir upon the fossil Elephants of 

 Malta, based upon collections formed in that island by Captain 

 Spratt, E.N., which had been originally placed in the hands of the 

 late Dr. Ealconer for examination. Upon Dr. Ealconer's decease, 

 Mr. Busk had undertaken the task of identifying these remains, 

 which he was induced to refer to three species of the genus Elephas. 

 One of these, not much inferior in bulk to the existing Lidian 

 Elephant, was, as Mr. Busk believed, probably Elephas antiquus. 

 The two others were both of diminutive stature as compared 

 with the existing species of Elephant, neither of them having ex- 

 ceeded fiA e feet in height. To the first of these, slightly the larger of 



